Holy is the Word! So holy that I would like to withdraw It once more from mankind on earth, because
they have no conception, not even the faintest idea of Its magnitude! I feel urged to protect the Word, to
veil It, so that It would never come into contact with the wanton conceit and indifference of these human
souls, who in their spiritual indolence have become so incredibly narrow-minded and therefore devoid of
knowledge.
What do they still know about holiness! Of the holiness of God and also of His Word! It is pitiful!
One could despair and lose heart at this realization. I feel urged to choose from all mankind only a few to
whom I would continue to proclaim the Word, ten or twenty only, yet, even these few would not arrive at
a concept of true Holiness, nor therefore the right attitude towards the greatness and value of my Word!
To give this Holy Word to mankind is the hardest thing for me to fulfill.
What that means and what is contained in these Words is something you are not capable of
comprehending! Thus I stand before you in the awareness, that even the best among you here on earth
will never really understand me; will not grasp a tenth part of what comes to them with my Word. You
hear It, you hold It in your hands, but you do not make use of Its value for yourselves! I see how Its high
values, Its immense powers remain unheeded, while instead you reach out for things that are no more than
the most insignificant speck of dust, in comparison with the Word that you have.
I stand before you with this knowledge. Every time it is with a reluctant spirit that I permit you access
to the High Grail Festivals, whose meaning, whose seriousness and purest power you will never come to
understand anyhow. So many do not even make a genuine effort to at least think of the meaning in the
right way! Furthermore, the acts of sealing and Holy Meal! The sealing! Trembling, you would throw
yourselves into the dust if you could recognize and consciously see even the smallest part of the infinite
life activity in these acts!
Although many a human soul will be gripped by an unfamiliar, blissful sense of the Power of the
Light from the proximity of God. However, all this is quickly obliterated again by the intrusion of trivial
everyday worries, everyday joys and pleasures.
It is only when a human soul enters the Ethereal Realm, that it does then, gradually come to a new
understanding of all that it was permitted personally to experience, here on earth.
Although this too, is but a shadow of the mightiness of the real happening, it is nevertheless enough
to shake every human soul to its very depths! So great is the Grace of God that is revealed to it in these
happenings, that it can hardly believe that it has been permitted to experience all this. So filled, it would
like to shake and jolt the human beings on earth, to make them break through their superficiality and exert
themselves here and now to perceive these blessings more fully than in the past.
But a quite useless effort! It is through his own doing that man on earth has become far too obtuse.
He has rendered himself incapable of it, through the most zealous efforts on his wrong paths. Therefore,
every soul that has awakened in the Ethereal Realm will turn away with bleeding heart, realizing with
deep remorse, that while here on earth it was no different itself, and that it can hardly expect anything
better from those who are still on earth.
Thus when I think that I must now allow this Holy Message to be spread abroad by my disciples,
everything in me opposes it; for I know that not a single one among mankind will ever really know what
he receives with It, or what an immeasurably high Grace of God lies in being permitted to hear It! In face
of this ignorance, indifference and pretended knowledge of such men, I am to allow something to be
offered that comes in purity from the steps of God’s Throne! It is an inner struggle which requires a great
effort! Every hour anew!
However there is one consolation for me! In every case of scorn, of derision, in every dismissive
comment or sign of indolent indifference by men there is this satisfaction: my knowledge that in his
thoughts and deeds each one of them judges himself in the Word, the greatness of which he will not see
and will carelessly pass by. It is consolation to me to know that with every word man speaks about my
Message he pronounces his own judgment, bringing him destruction or life!
This knowledge allows me to endure everything, overcome everything! Not one soul can escape. As
this Sword of Judgment now I hurl the Word at you in fulfillment of the Final Judgment! This lifts the
sorrow from me! No matter how much people strain against it, they only injure themselves, they can scoff
at it, mock it or shake their heads... everything will strike only them in very quick reciprocal action!
Years have passed since I first became horrified as I observed the human spirits, and began to realize
from this, the fate awaiting them in accordance with the Primordial Law of Creation.
I was appalled, because I saw that it would be impossible to help men other than by showing them
the way that they must travel in order to escape destruction.
This made me inexpressibly sad, for with men as they are today, there can be but one end: the
certainty that the greater part of the entire humanity must inevitably be lost, as long as they remain free to
make all their own decisions!
In accordance with the Law in Creation, however, the human spirit can never be deprived of the free
will to make decisions! It is an intrinsic part of the spirit! And through this, that is, through themselves,
the great mass of mankind will now fall during the present Judgment!
Every single decision made by mankind determines the roads he must journey along in Creation, as
also here on earth. The little things connected with his profession and the needs of everyday life are only
of minor importance, and often still the conclusion of voluntary decisions made a long time ago. Yet only
the decision is free for a human spirit! With the decision, the automatic lever that permits the Laws of
God in Creation to work according to the nature of the decision, is set in motion! Such is the free will that
the human spirit possesses! It lies solely in the absolute freedom of decision. The spiritual decision,
however, immediately releases and sets in motion a hitherto mysterious automatic activity in Creation,
which, without the human spirit’s knowledge, continues to develop the kind of volition contained in the
decision, bringing it to maturity and so to redemption, which will one day suddenly appear in accordance
with the strength of the original decision and the degree to which it has been increased and strengthened
by other decisions of a like nature on its way through Creation.
Every man must then patiently bear the final effects of every one of his decisions. He cannot and
must not feel this to be unjust; for in the final manifestation, it is always only what lay in his decision. It
makes no difference if this decision was intended for someone else; the final effect will strike only its
originator. Very often, when the final effect strikes, the original decision has long since been forgotten by
the author, whose present volition and decisions may then be entirely different from or even contrary to
what they formerly were; but the consequences of his earlier decision are quietly running their lawful
automatic course to the end, even without his knowledge.
Man always stands amid the consequences of all his decisions, many of which he no longer knows or
thinks of, and he then often regards it as unjust when this or that final effect strikes him unexpectedly.
However he may rest assured in this regard. Nothing will strike him which he has not, at some former
time, caused to come into existence, or which he has not literally once brought to life through one of his
decisions, that is, “placed” into Creation to take effect under the laws! Be it through his thoughts, words,
or actions! He has moved the lever for it. For all this, his original volition is required, and every volition
brings a decision!
Men continually lament about injustice and ask where is the much-vaunted free will of man, because
they do not recognize the Laws of Creation! Scholars write and speak about it, while in reality it is quite
simple! After all, a free will can only rest in the capacity to make free decisions, and in nothing else. And
this is, and always will be, maintained for the path of the human spirit in Creation. In this connection,
man always forgets or overlooks just one important fact: that despite all this, he is and remains only a
creature, a fruit of this Subsequent Creation, which has come into being out of its eternal and
unchangeable laws, and he can therefore never circumvent or disregard these laws! They will take effect,
whether he wishes it or not, whether it suits him or not. He is nothing therein; like a child wandering off
alone he can choose any road at will, but remains subject to that particular path, no matter whether it is
smooth or rough, or whether it leads to a beautiful goal or to an abyss.
With every new decision, man produces a new path and with it, a new thread in his carpet of fate. But
the old still unresolved paths continue to stretch ahead of the newer ones, until they have been completely
passed through. These are not yet cut off when a new one is formed, but must be lived through and
traveled to the end. Thus, old and new roads sometimes cross each other, thereby producing new turning points.
All this, man has to work out in the experiences of his life, and then he often wonders how this or that
can happen to him; for he is no longer conscious of his former decisions, whereas he remains subject to
their consequences until these have been lived through and thereby “lived off!” They cannot be removed,
except by the originator himself. He cannot turn away from them, because they remain firmly bound to
him until they are completely settled.
Thus, all the consequences of every single decision must be carried through and settled to the end,
before they fall away from their originator and cease to exist. If the threads of new good decisions
intersect with the still existing tracks of old evil decisions, then the effects of these old bad consequences
will be correspondingly weakened, through being crossed by what is new and good; they may even be
completely dissolved if these new and good decisions are very strong, so that their evil consequences in
the World of Gross Matter need only be redeemed symbolically. This too is perfectly lawful, and in
accordance with the Will of God in Creation.
All this is living activity in Creation, without man’s ever being able to alter any of it; for it is an
activity around and above him. Thus man stands in and under the Law of Creation.
In my Message, you will find the way that leads you safely through the maze formed by the
consequences of your decisions, to the Luminous Heights!
However, one serious obstacle lies in your path! It is this obstacle that horrified me: because you
must do all this yourselves, each one for himself alone.
This condition lies in the inherent lawfulness of your free will to make decisions, and in the ensuing
automatic activity that takes place in Creation and within you!
The volition within the decision forms a path, which leads either upwards or downwards, according
to the nature of the volition. However, at the present time men’s volition is leading you for the most part
only downwards, and this downward trend, which you are quite unable to perceive, simultaneously
narrows and lessens the power of your ability to understand. Therefore the range of your comprehension,
thus of your horizon, is diminished, and for that reason you always imagine that you are nevertheless still
on the same high level as before; because for you this limit really is the actual highest level! You are
unable to conceive of a wider boundary, nor to understand what lies beyond your own, and therefore you
reject it all with skepticism, and are quick to call it false or even non-existent.
This is also why you do not readily cast aside your faults! You see them in others, but not in
yourselves. No matter how plainly I try to make you understand this, you do not apply it to yourselves.
You believe everything I say, as long as it concerns others. However, the faults I find in you, which often
drive me to despair, you cannot grasp, because all the walls around your dear “ego” have become too
narrow! This is the point at which so much fails, and where I cannot help you; for you yourselves have to
burst these walls from within with absolute faith in the mission which I must fulfill.
But that is not as easy as you think. Often you stand before me with troubled faces, and with love in
your hearts for the great task, therefore feeling sorry for all those, who either refuse to or who are unable
to recognize their faults, and I know that many of these faults, which you criticize so severely in others,
and over whose actions you despair, are anchored to a far greater degree in you. That is the worst thing of
all! That, too, is anchored in the freedom of decision, and is something that must be left to you, because it
is anchored in the spiritual. Although I can condemn you or approve of you, can lift you up or strike you
down through the power of the Light, depending on your honest volition, I can never force anyone to take
the path that leads to the Luminous Heights! That lies solely in the hands of each individual.
Therefore I admonish you, and show you once more what actually happens: With every step
downwards, your ability to comprehend becomes ever more limited, without you yourselves becoming
conscious of it! Therefore, you would never believe me when I tell you this, because you cannot grasp it,
and so I cannot help you there, unless a new, great and voluntary decision arises out of an intense longing
or through faith.
Only there can I mediate power for the victory! the victory over yourselves, whereby the walls and
the narrow confines will quickly be broken through by the awakening spirit, wishing to swing itself
upward towards the Heights. I show you the way and, if you have the right volition, give you the
necessary power for it. Thus I can help wherever there is a genuine volition and genuine request for it. But another obstacle then bars man’s path. It is the fact that this power can only benefit him if he not
merely absorbs it, but uses it aright! He himself must use it in the right way and not let it rest within him;
otherwise it will strive away from him to return to its source. Thus, obstacle after obstacle arises, if a man
does not exercise an honest volition with all his strength! Only a very few people can overcome these
obstacles. Humanity has already grown too spiritually indolent, whereas ascent is only possible through
continuous movement and alertness!
This happening is natural, simple and great. A wonderful, perfect justice lies anchored in it which
now releases the Judgment.
It is impossible for a human spirit to be saved without humility! Its conceit about its knowledge
stands in the way and hinders true humility. Conceit about a knowledge that is no knowledge; for in
comparison with his abilities man can really be described as the most stupid of all creatures of this
Subsequent Creation, because he is too conceited to receive anything in humility.
There is no point in arguing about this, for it is so. But man does not perceive it, does not want to
believe it, which is also a result of his boundless conceit, which is always the inevitable outcome of
stupidity. Only stupidity begets conceit, for where there is real knowledge there is not room for conceit. It
can only arise within the narrow confines of an inferior imagination, nowhere else.
Where knowledge begins, conceit ends. And since today, the greater part of mankind is living only in
conceit, there is no knowledge.
Man has altogether lost the concept of genuine knowledge! He no longer knows what knowledge is!
Not without reason does the old adage say: “Only in the highest knowledge of a man there arises the
wisdom of the conviction of the fact that he knows nothing!”
Therein lies the truth! When man has attained to this conviction, conceit will die in him and he can
begin to receive true knowledge.
All learning through studying has nothing to do with knowledge! An eager student can become a
scholar, yet be a long way from being called a knowing one. Therefore, the expression knowledge in the
sense in which it is used today, is wrong. Even man of today can speak of erudition, but not of
knowledge! What he acquires in universities is merely erudition, as the climax and crowning point of
learning! It is something acquired, and not his own! Only what is one’s own is knowledge! Knowledge
can come only from experience, not from learning!
Thus, in my Message I only show the way, so that the one who follows it may go through the
experiences, which will bring him the knowledge. Man must first “experience” Creation, if he really
wants to know of it. Through my knowledge, I make it possible for him to experience it, since I myself
continually experience Creation!
In the future, therefore, we shall have learned ones and knowing ones. The scholars can and must
learn from the knowing ones!
There will be no more conceit in the new Kingdom, in the coming generation! Conceit is the greatest
impediment to ascent plunging millions of people who will not or cannot let go of it into annihilation! But
this is as it should be; for Creation will thus be cleansed of all useless creatures who only take food and
space from others and spread their weight around without offering the slightest benefit. Then there will be
fresh air for useful human spirits!

Holy is the Word! So holy that I would like to withdraw It once more from mankind on earth, because
they have no conception, not even the faintest idea of Its magnitude! I feel urged to protect the Word, to
veil It, so that It would never come into contact with the wanton conceit and indifference of these human
souls, who in their spiritual indolence have become so incredibly narrow-minded and therefore devoid of
knowledge.
What do they still know about holiness! Of the holiness of God and also of His Word! It is pitiful!
One could despair and lose heart at this realization. I feel urged to choose from all mankind only a few to
whom I would continue to proclaim the Word, ten or twenty only, yet, even these few would not arrive at
a concept of true Holiness, nor therefore the right attitude towards the greatness and value of my Word!
To give this Holy Word to mankind is the hardest thing for me to fulfill.
What that means and what is contained in these Words is something you are not capable of
comprehending! Thus I stand before you in the awareness, that even the best among you here on earth
will never really understand me; will not grasp a tenth part of what comes to them with my Word. You
hear It, you hold It in your hands, but you do not make use of Its value for yourselves! I see how Its high
values, Its immense powers remain unheeded, while instead you reach out for things that are no more than
the most insignificant speck of dust, in comparison with the Word that you have.
I stand before you with this knowledge. Every time it is with a reluctant spirit that I permit you access
to the High Grail Festivals, whose meaning, whose seriousness and purest power you will never come to
understand anyhow. So many do not even make a genuine effort to at least think of the meaning in the
right way! Furthermore, the acts of sealing and Holy Meal! The sealing! Trembling, you would throw
yourselves into the dust if you could recognize and consciously see even the smallest part of the infinite
life activity in these acts!
Although many a human soul will be gripped by an unfamiliar, blissful sense of the Power of the
Light from the proximity of God. However, all this is quickly obliterated again by the intrusion of trivial
everyday worries, everyday joys and pleasures.
It is only when a human soul enters the Ethereal Realm, that it does then, gradually come to a new
understanding of all that it was permitted personally to experience, here on earth.
Although this too, is but a shadow of the mightiness of the real happening, it is nevertheless enough
to shake every human soul to its very depths! So great is the Grace of God that is revealed to it in these
happenings, that it can hardly believe that it has been permitted to experience all this. So filled, it would
like to shake and jolt the human beings on earth, to make them break through their superficiality and exert
themselves here and now to perceive these blessings more fully than in the past.
But a quite useless effort! It is through his own doing that man on earth has become far too obtuse.
He has rendered himself incapable of it, through the most zealous efforts on his wrong paths. Therefore,
every soul that has awakened in the Ethereal Realm will turn away with bleeding heart, realizing with
deep remorse, that while here on earth it was no different itself, and that it can hardly expect anything
better from those who are still on earth.
Thus when I think that I must now allow this Holy Message to be spread abroad by my disciples,
everything in me opposes it; for I know that not a single one among mankind will ever really know what
he receives with It, or what an immeasurably high Grace of God lies in being permitted to hear It! In face
of this ignorance, indifference and pretended knowledge of such men, I am to allow something to be
offered that comes in purity from the steps of God’s Throne! It is an inner struggle which requires a great
effort! Every hour anew!
However there is one consolation for me! In every case of scorn, of derision, in every dismissive
comment or sign of indolent indifference by men there is this satisfaction: my knowledge that in his
thoughts and deeds each one of them judges himself in the Word, the greatness of which he will not see
and will carelessly pass by. It is consolation to me to know that with every word man speaks about my
Message he pronounces his own judgment, bringing him destruction or life!
This knowledge allows me to endure everything, overcome everything! Not one soul can escape. As

The so-called “inner voice,” the spiritual part of man, to which he can listen, is the intuitive perception!
Itisnotwithoutreasonthatpeoplesay:“Thefirstimpressionisalwaysright.”Asallsuch
expressions and proverbs harbor profound truths, so also here. By the word impression is meant intuitive
perception. For example, what a man intuitively senses at a first meeting with a stranger is either a kind of
warning to be careful, which may even go as far as absolute repugnance, or something pleasant up to
complete affinity, in some cases it may also be indifference. If now, in the course of conversation or
further intercourse, this impression shifts or is entirely effaced through the judgment of the intellect, so
that the thought arises that the original intuition was wrong, it almost invariably turns out at the end of
such an acquaintance that the very first intuition was the right one. And this often occurs to the bitter pain
of those who allowed their intellect to mislead them through the deceptive nature of the other person.
The intuition, which is not bound to space and time but connected with its homogeneous kind, with
the spiritual, the eternal, immediately recognized the true nature of the other person and did not allow
itself to be deceived by the cleverness of the intellect.
It is absolutely impossible for the intuition to err.
Whenever man is led astray there are two reasons for his errors: either the intellect or the feeling!
How often one hears it said: “In this or that matter I allowed myself to be guided by my feelings and
got into trouble. One should only rely on one’s intellect!” Such persons have mistaken their feelings for
their inner voice. They praise their intellect and have no idea that it is just the intellect which plays such
an important part in their feelings.
Therefore be on your guard! Feeling is not intuition! Feeling emanates from the physical body. It
generates instincts, which guided by the intellect, produce feeling. This is very different from intuition.
The combined working of feeling and intellect, however, gives birth to imagination.
Thus on the spiritual side we have only the intuitive perception which is far above space and time
*(Lecture No. 86: The inner voice). On the earthly side we have primarily the physical body, which is bound to
space and time. From this body emanate instincts which, in co-operation with the intellect, arouse feeling.
The intellect, being a product of the brain bound to space and time and consisting of the finest and
highest element in matter, is able with the co-operation of feeling to produce imagination. Imagination,
therefore, is the result of the working together of feeling and intellect. It is ethereal, but without spiritual
power. For this reason imagination has only a retroactive effect. It can only influence the feelings of its
creator, but never of itself send out a wave of power to others. Thus imagination only works backwards
upon the feeling of its originator, can only inflame his enthusiasm, but never influence his surroundings.
This clearly stamps it as belonging to an inferior order. It is different with the intuitive perception. This
bears within itself a spiritual power, creative and animating, and sending forth radiations which fire and
convince others.
Thus we have on the one side the intuitive perception, and on the other side the body, instincts,
intellect, feeling and imagination.
The intuitive perception is Pure-spiritual and stands above space and time. Feeling belongs to fine
gross matter, depending on instincts and intellect, and is therefore of a lower order.
Although feeling consists of fine gross matter, it cannever coalesce with, and thus cannot dim
spiritual intuition. The intuition will always remain pure and clear because it is spiritual. And it will
always be clearly sensed or “heard” by men if... it really is the intuition speaking! But the greatest number
of people have closed themselves off from this intuition by placing their feelings like a dense veil or wall
in front of it, thus they mistake feeling for their inner voice, which is why they experiencemany
disappointments, leaving them to rely even more on their intellect, never suspecting that they were
deceived through this very co-operation of the intellect. As a result of this error they are quick to reject
everything spiritual, with which their experiences had absolutely nothing to do however, and attach
themselves more and more to things inferior.
The fundamental evil here, as in many other matters, lies in man’s voluntary subjection to his intellect, which is bound to space and time!
The man who completely subjects himself to his intellect also subjects himself completely to the
limitations of the intellect which, as a product of the gross material brain, is fast bound to space and time.
In this way man chains himself exclusively to gross matter.
All that a man does issues from himself and his own free will. Thus he is not being fettered, but he
fetters himself! He permits himself to be dominated by the intellect (this could never happen unless he
desiredit himself),whichby itsvery naturebindshimto space andtimeand preventshim from
recognizing or understanding anything which lies beyond. A covering firmly bound to space and time is
placed over the intuition which knows no limitation of space and time, thus drawing a line, and man no
longer can hear anything whatever, his pure “inner voice” having been stifled, or he can only “hear” his
feeling, which is closely connected to the intellect, instead of his intuition.
It would create a false idea to say: feeling suppresses the pure intuitive perception, for nothing is
more powerful than the intuition, it is man’s highest power and can never be suppressed or diminished by
anything. It is more correct to say: man makes himself incapable of recognizing his intuition.
If man fails it is always through his own fault, never because of the strength or weakness of his
specific gifts; for the very fundamental gift, the actual power, the strongest part of man, which is the
bearer of all life and immortal, is given to all alike! In this respect no man has an advantage over another.
All differences are due only to the way in which it is used!
Neither can this fundamental gift, the immortal spark, ever be dimmed or tarnished! It remains pure,
even amid the greatest filth. You need only tear the veil which you have wrapped around you through the
voluntary limitation to which you have subjected your perceptive ability. Then, without any transition
whatever, it will flare up again as pure and clear as it was at the beginning, unfolding itself fresh and
strong to unite with the Light, the spiritual! Rejoice that this treasure lies within you inviolably! It is of no
importance whether you are esteemed by your neighbors or not! Every bit of dirt that has gathered like a
dam around this spirit-spark can be cast aside through honest goodwill. If you have achieved this and
again uncovered the treasure, you are worth just as much as he who never buried it!
But woe unto him who through indolence continually and strictly closes himself off from good
volition! In the hour of Judgment this treasure will be taken from him, and he will then cease to be.
Therefore awake, you who keep yourselves closed off, you who have covered your intuition with the
blanket of your intellect, with its limited ability to understand! Take heed and listen to the calls that reach
you! Whether in the form of a terrible grief, a great emotional upheaval, severe suffering, or a supreme
pure joy capable of bursting through the dark layer of base feeling, do not let any such call pass you by in
vain. They are aids which show you the way! It is better if you do not wait for them, but set out with the
earnest volition for all that is good and for spiritual ascent. In so doing the separating layer will soon
become thinner and lighter again, till finally it disintegrates altogether, and the still pure and untarnished
spark bursts forth into a blazing flame. But this first step must and can only be taken by the individual
himself otherwise he cannot be helped.
In all this you must distinguish clearly between wishing and volition. Nothing is achieved by mere
wishing, it does not suffice to bring about progress. It must be volition which impels and even contains
the deed. The deed already begins with serious volition.
Even if many a man must travel on various byways, because in the past he had entirely enslaved
himself to the intellect, he should not let himself be deterred. He too will win! For him it is a matter of
clarifying his intellect and of gradually peeling off and resolving all hindrances through experiencing
every single byway.
Therefore, onward without trepidation. With an earnest volition every path will finally lead to the
goal!

This word is often used. However, who really understands what it means? “Earthbound” sounds as if it
were some terrible punishment. Most people have a mild sense of horror about those who are still
earthbound and fear them. While in fact the significance of the word is not that bad. Certainly there is
much that is dark to make this or that soul earthbound. However, mostly they are quite simple matters
which have to lead to this condition.
Let us, for instance, take the case of: The sins of the fathers revenge themselves unto the third and
fourth generation!
A child puts some question or other to the family concerning the beyond, or about God, something it
has heard in school or church. The father curtly dismisses it with the remark: “Stop such stupid nonsense!
When I am dead it is all over.” The child is startled and begins to doubt. The dismissive remarks of father
or mother are repeated. The child also hears the same from others, and finally accepts their opinion.
The hour now arrives when the father must pass on. To his dismay he realizes that that he has not
ceased to exist. The ardent wish will now awaken within him to impart this knowledge to his child. This
wish binds him to the child. But the child neither hears him nor feels his nearness; for it now lives in the
conviction that its father has ceased to exist, and this stands like a firm, impenetrable wall between it and
the father’s efforts. The father’s anguish however, at having to watch that the child follows the wrong
path through his influence, leading further and further away from the truth, and the fear that on this wrong
path the child will not be able to avoid the danger of sinking lower and mainly that it is much more easily
exposed now serve, at the same time, as his socalled punishment for having led the child onto this path.
Very seldom will he be able to lead it to this recognition in one way or another. He must witness how his
wrong idea is conveyed from his child to the children of his child and so on, all as a result of his own
failing. He cannot be released until one of his descendants recognizes and follows the right way and helps
influence the others, whereby he will gradually be freed and can begin to think about his own ascent.
Here is another case: A habitual smoker takes over with him the strong craving to smoke, which is
intuitive, thus spiritual. This craving turns into a burning desire and the thought of satisfying his desire
becomes a burning desire and holds him where he can obtain gratification... i.e. on earth. He finds this by
pursuing smokers and enjoying their intuitive sensing with them. If no heavy karma binds such persons to
any other place, they feel quite well pleasant and very seldom become conscious of the fact that this is
really a punishment. Only he who can survey the whole of existence recognizes the punishment in the
inevitable reciprocal action, which prevents the person in question from rising higher as long as the
perpetual desire for gratification by “experiencing” binds him to people still living on earth in the flesh,
through whose sensations alone he can find co-satisfaction.
So it is also with sexual gratification, with drinking, yes, even with a propensity for eating. Here, too,
many are bound by this propensity to rummage through kitchens and cellars, and to be present when food
is being enjoyed by others so as to at least share a small part of their enjoyment. Strictly speaking, this, of
course, is “punishment.”But the cravingof these “earthbound” souls, which overshadowsall else,
prevents them from perceiving it as such,and therefore, the yearning for something nobler and higher
cannot grow so strong as to become their principal experience, which would free them from the baser
desireandupliftthem.Theyneverrealizetheopportunitytheyaremissinguntilthisdesirefor
gratification, which at best can only be a minor partial gratification, enjoyed through others, on this
account slowly wanes and dies out. Then other sensations accompanied by lesser craving, which he still
carries with him, come forward and rise to first place, as a result of which they immediately become
experience and with that attain to the power of reality. The nature of the sensations which have come to
life bring him to the place where there are similar types, either higher or lower, until this, too, like the first
one, is gradually released through weaning, only to be followed by the next one to be dealt with. This
purification of all the dross he took over with him will be achieved in due course. Will he then not come
to a standstill somewhere at a last intuitive sensation? Or will the power of his intuition be diminished?
No! For when at last base sensations are gradually outlived or discarded, and ascent begins, then the
constant yearning for what is higher and purer awakens and steadily drives him upwards. This is the
normal course! But there are a thousand incidents. The danger of a fall or of remaining stationary is much
greater than when in the flesh on earth. If you have already attained to a certain height and yield but for a moment to a base intuition, then this intuition will immediately become an experience and thereby reality.
You become denser and heavier and you will sink down into homogeneous regions. Thus your horizon
narrows and you will gradually have to work yourself upwards again, if it does not happen that you sink
lower and lower. “Watch and pray!” is therefore no empty phrase. At the present moment the ethereal part
in you is still protected by your body as if held with a firm anchor. But when so-called death brings
severance and decomposition of the body, you are then without this protection and, being ethereal, you
will be irresistibly attracted by homogeneous species, whether high or low. You cannot escape. Only one
great driving power can help you upwards, your strong volition towards that which is good and sublime.
This will develop into a yearning and an intuitive perception, becoming also an experience and a reality,
in accordance with the law of the Ethereal World, which knows only intuitive perception. Therefore,
prepare yourself and start already now with this volition so that when you are called away, which can
happen at any hour, it is not overshadowed by too powerful an earthly desire! Beware, man, and keep
watch!

Hereditary sin was a consequence of the original Fall of Man.
The sin or wrong-doing lay in the over-cultivation of the intellect, associated with which was the
voluntary chaining of man to space and time, and the then resulting additional effectsfrom purely
intellectual activity, such as love of gain, imposing upon others, oppression, etc., which again brought
many other, in fact all, evils in their train.
This process naturally had an ever-increasing influence on the forming of the physical body of those
people who developed themselves in a purely intellectual way. Through being continually exerted, the
frontal brain which produces the intellect became disproportionately enlarged. It was therefore quite
natural that this change in structure expressed itself in the procreation of the physical body, and that at
birth children entered the world with an increasingly developed and stronger frontal brain.
This contained, and still today contains, a predisposition or tendency towards an intellectual power
dominating all else, which harbors the danger that the bearer of such a brain, on awakening it fully, not
only chains himself to space and time, but also to everything that is earthly and gross material. He then
becomesincapableof grasping anythingthat is ethereal or Purespiritual,and in additionentangles
himself in all sorts of evil, which is inevitable where the intellect dominates.
It is the coming into the world with this voluntarily over-cultivated frontal brain, containing the
danger of a mere intellectual domination with its inevitable evil manifestations, which is the hereditary
sin!
It is the physical inheritance of this part, called on account of its excessive artificial cultivation the
cerebrum, which exposes man from birth to the danger of too easily entangling himself in evil.
This, however, does not free him from responsibility. He retains it, for he inherits only the danger not
the sin itself. He is in no wise compelled to allow his intellect to rule unconditionally and thus submit
himself to it. On the contrary, he can wield the great power of his intellect like a sharp sword to clear his
path in the daily bustle of life, as directed by his intuitive perception, which is also called the Inner Voice.
But if through education and training a child’s intellect is brought to the point where it completely
dominates, then the child is absolved of part of the guilt, or better, of part of the reactions brought about
by the Law of Reciprocal Action, because that part will then fall upon the educator or teacher who caused
it. From this moment onward he is tied to the child till the latter is freed from this mistake and its
consequences, even if this takes hundreds or thousands of years.
What a child so educated does after it has had a serious opportunity to consider and retrace its steps,
would then react upon it alone. Such opportunities arise through the spoken or written word, through
emotional shocks in life or similar happenings, which forcibly bring about a moment of deep intuitive
feeling. Such opportunities are bound to come.
It would be useless to say more on this subject or to multiply examples, which would only be a
repetition and lead to the same conclusion. He who reflects upon the matter will soon find a veil lifted
from before his eyes. He will then have solved many questions within himself.

You who are striving for recognition, do not entangle yourselves in a web, but become seeing!
Through an Eternal Law you are burdened with an irrevocable obligation to make atonement, which
you can never cast upon others. What you burden yourselves with through your thoughts, words or deeds
can be redeemed by no one but yourselves! Consider, were it otherwise Divine Justice would be but an
empty sound, in which case everything else would also crumble into ruins.
Therefore free yourselves! Do not delay a single hour in setting a limit to this enforced atonement!
The honest volition for what is good, for something better, reinforced by a truly heartfelt prayer,will
bring redemption!
Withoutthehonest,steadfastvolitionforgoodtherecanneverbeatonement.Evilwillthen
perpetuallyfindeverfreshnourishmenttokeepitalive,andthusrequireevernewatonement,
unceasingly,so that through constant renewal it only appears to you as asingle vice or affliction!
Whereas it is a whole chain without end, continually binding anew even before the old could be severed.
Then there will never be redemption because of the demand for constant atonement. It is like a chain that
keeps you fettered to the ground. In this there is a very great danger of being dragged still further down.
Therefore, you who are still in this world or already in what you regard as the beyond, pull yourselves
together at last and concentrate your volition on what is good! With steadfast good volition the end of all
atonements must come, since he who wills what is good and acts accordingly will incur no fresh debts
demanding further atonement. This will then bring deliverance, redemption, which alone permit ascent to
the Light. Listen to the warning! There is no other way for you! For no one!
But thereby everyone also receives the certainty that it can never be too late. For the individual deed,
that you will have to redeem and settle, certainly, however in the moment when you earnestly begin to
strive for the good you mark the end of your atonement, have certainty that this end must come one day,
and your ascent will therewith begin! You can then joyfully start working off all your karmic burden.
Whatever you then still encounter is for your own good and brings you nearer to the hour of redemption,
of liberation.
Do you now understand the value of my counsel to start exerting yourselves with all your strength for
what is good, and to keep your thoughts pure? Not giving up, but pursuing this course with all your
longing, all your energy? It will uplift you! It will change you and your environment! Bear in mind that
every life on earth is a short time of schooling, and that you yourselves do not cease to exist when you lay
asideyourphysicalbody.Youwillcontinuallyliveorcontinuallydie!Continuallyenjoy blissor
continually suffer! Whoever imagines that with earthly burial everything is also ended and balanced for
him, may turn and go his own way; for he is only trying to delude himself thereby. Horrified, he will
come face to face with the Truth and... will have to begin his path of suffering! His true self, deprived of
the protection of his body, whose density surrounded him like a wall, will then be attracted, enveloped
and held fast by what is homogeneous.
It will be more difficult for him, and for a long time impossible, to arouse the earnest volition for
what is better, which could liberate and help him to ascend, because he is entirely subject to the influence
of the surroundings, which does not carry the kind of light-thought that might awaken and support him.
He must suffer doubly under everything he has created for himself.
For this reason ascent is much harder than when he was in the flesh, where good and evil dwell side
by side, which only the protection of the physical body makes possible because... this earth-life is a
school in which every “ego” is given the opportunity of further development according to its free will.
Therefore rouse yourselves at last! The fruit of every thought will return to you, here or there, and you
have to taste of it! No one can escape this fact! Of what use is it to try and bury your head timidly in the
sand like an ostrich, to evade this reality? Face the facts boldly! You thereby make it easy for yourselves;
for here progress is quicker. Make a start! But realize that all old debts must be settled. Do not expect
blessings to rain down upon you immediately, as many fools do. Perhaps some of you still have a long
chain to expiate. But he who despairs on that account only harms himself, because it cannot be spared and
remitted him. Through hesitation he only makes everything more difficult for himself, perhaps for a long
time impossible. This should spur him on not to delay another hour; for he only begins to live when he takes the first step! Happy is he who plucks up the courage to do so, for link by link he will be released.
He can rush ahead with giant strides, jubilantly and gratefully overcoming also the last obstacles; for he
becomes free!
The stones that his previous wrong-doing had heaped up before him like a wall, inevitably barring his
advance, will indeed not be cleared away, but on the contrary will be carefully laid out before him so that
he may recognizeand surmountthem,because he mustbring about the balancefor all his errors.
However, filled with astonishment and admiration, he will soon see the love that surrounds him as soon
as he only evidences his goodwill. With tender forbearance the way will be made as easy for him as a
child’s first steps, aided by its mother. Should there be things in his former life that were a silent source of
apprehension to him, and which he would rather let sleep forever... quite unexpectedly he will be placed
directly before them! He must decide, must act. In a striking way he is urged to do so through the
enchainment. If he then ventures to take the first step, trusting in the victory of the good volition, the
fateful knot is severed, he passes through and is freed from it.
But hardly is this debt settled than already the next one in some form or other presents itself to him,
requesting as it were also to be settled. Thus one by one the fetters that restricted and were bound to
weigh him down are burst. He feels so light! and the feeling of lightness which some of you have surely
experienced at one time or another is no illusion, but the effect of reality. The spirit thus freed from
pressure becomes light and, in accordance with the Law of Spiritual Gravity, leaps upwards, to that region
to which in accordance with its lightness it now belongs. And so it must rise steadily upwards towards the
longed-for Light. An evil volition presses the spirit down and makes it heavy, whereas a good volition
uplifts it.
For this, too, the great Master Jesus has already shown you the simple way leading unerringly to the
goal; for deep truth lies in the simple words: “Love thy neighbor as thyself!”
With these words He gave the key to freedom and ascent! How so? Because it is an irrefutable fact:
What youdo for your neighbor you do in reality only for yourselves! Solely for yourselves, since
according to the Eternal Laws everything returns to you without fail, good or evil, either already here or
there. It will surely come! Thus you are shown the simplest of ways in which this step to the good
volitionis to be understood. You should give to yourneighbor with yourbeing, your nature! Not
necessarily with money and goods. For then those without means would be excluded from the possibility
ofgiving.Andinthisbeing,inthis“givingyourself”intherelationwithyourneighbor,inthe
consideration and respect you voluntarily offer him, lies the “love” of which Jesus speaks; lies also the
help you give to your neighbor, because it enables him to change himself or ascend further, and because
he gains strength from it.
The returning radiations of this, however, will quickly uplift you in their reciprocal action. You will
receive continually new strength through them. With a soaring flight you will then be able to strive
towards the Light...
Poor fools are they who can still ask: “What do I gain by giving up so many old habits and changing
myself?” Is it a question of a business deal? And were they only to gain as human beings, to become
ennobled as such, that alone would be reward enough. But there is infinitely more to it! I repeat: The
momenta man beginsto exert his good volition he also marksthe end of his obligation to make
atonement, which he must fulfill and can never escape. In this respect no one else can take his place. Thus
with this resolution the end of the enforced atonement is in sight. Of such great value is this that all the
treasures of this world cannot outweigh it. He thus struggles free from the chains that fetter him, which he
isconstantlyforgingforhimself.Thereforerouseyourselvesfromyourenervatingsleep.Letthe
awakening come at last!
Away with the intoxication that brings the paralyzing delusion that redemption through the Savior
has become a letter of safe conduct, enabling you to spend your whole life in careless “egoism” provided
that in the end you embrace the faith, turn back, and depart this earth believing in the Savior and His
Work! Fools to expect such miserable, defective piecework from the Godhead! That indeed would mean
cultivating evil! Remember this, and free yourselves!

To have the will to do what is right according to earthly conceptions or to have the will to do what is good
rise up in spiritual knowledge he will be lost without fail. Old age forms no obstacle, but is an incentive,
want to hear, because it is more comfortable for them not to. In the end, however, their laziness will
Today itno longer suffices for someone simply to have intended to do what is right! At hisfirst
concentration of all the senses, thus spiritualvitality andfull alertness! Onlythen is it possible to
in their hearts, it will hardly be possible any longer to awaken them in the beyond, since they will not be
their own will. No one will force them to move on, but neither will they be able to leave this World of
any halfway acceptable pretext. They belong to the chaff which will not be strengthened by the coming
Even if men have buried within themselves all but one small grain of Truth which they brought with
The time of spiritual vagrancy and of laziness and smug expectation has passed. With enormous
They would always demand more time for consideration from their Creator, without ever beginning
penetrate deeply into my words and truly grasp them.
an obstacle! It is a call from Eternity which strikes them from out of the Word, but which they do not
terribleness and severity the sleepers and sluggards will be struck so that even the deafest one will
destroy them, unless they wish to come alive in time. The question, however, reveals this love of laziness
awaken.
because in old age his hour of passing over comes visibly closer! It is simply lethargy and laziness which
very clearly. It is the way of so many people who constantly wish to deceive themselves on the basis of
However, from the very beginning the study of my lectures requires strict self-exertion, a forceful
perish.
And that is how it is intended! I reject all spiritual sluggards.
World, and they will conduct themselves no differently there than they did here. How could old age form
to expend much time on this. They are forever intending but never fulfilling their intentions themselves.
are often very different things! What is right according to earthly conception is not always what is good!
them from their home in the Spiritual Sphere, the Word must strike them like a summons, provided they
storms of purification, but which will be blown away as being useless for the seriousness of real life.
an ascent, which would require them to bestir themselves spiritually. For this reason it serves no purpose
incarnation he could do that. Now more is asked of him! If he does not forcefully bestir himself finally to
They will naturally take their “refusal to listen” over with them from this earth into the Ethereal
I have often named as the worst enemy with which such procrastinators burden themselves and thereby
take the trouble to read it uninfluenced and in all earnestness. If they then perceive nothing that resonates
Matter in time to escape from the disintegration, which is eternal damnation.
able to receive anything else there either. They come to a standstill where they place themselves through
They, too, are therefore lost.

Many people on earth are sorely troubled by the question of interaction between the two sexes, male and
principal desire urges it.
degree of consciousness, the human forms known to us, which are replicas of the images of God, of the
it.
Thus the nature of the activity in Creation shapes the form of the actual body, male or female, of
others, no matter how different they may be, do seek for a solution either openly or quietly within
According to its origin it can do both, because a spirit germ contains within itself all capabilities, one
forms. Each is in its form the expression of the nature of the activity which it chooses or desires.
the Laws of Creation. In such grave matters it is necessary to delve deeply into Creation in order to grasp
the basic concept.
Creation, the gross material step which lies far removed from the Spiritual Sphere.
theendofthislecture.Fundamentallyaspirit-germalwaysremainsself-contained.Inbecoming
satisfactory basic idea has yet been arrived at, for here as elsewhere the main point is merely that man
worry very much about this problem, and many are oppressed by the realization of their ignorance about
must know what he is dealing with! Otherwise, he can never come to terms with it. Uneasiness will
such a spirit-germ,in becoming conscious, mainly strives to develop the abilitiesresting within it,
to man, that these forms develop the procreative organs which we designate as male and female. Only the
conscious during its wanderings through Subsequent Creation, i.e., through the self-acting replica of
If we wish to obtain a correct picture, we must not be so onesided as to compress it into definitions
increase to an urge, the form shapes itself. That which is positive shapes the male form, and that which is
First Created Ones.
Nor does any division occur, as is often assumed. Divisions are special exceptions which I will discuss at
in this activity of the spirit-germ, even if it consists at the start of no more than strong desires which
automatically connect the word sex with procreation. And this is wrong. In the great conception of
which merely serve a purely mundane social order, and which are in many ways absolutely contrary to
What is a gender-sex? When the spirit-germ issues from the Spiritual Sphere it is genderless/sexless.
Hence sexual intercourse is placed on the step where it belongs, that is, on the lowest step in
a general sense, whereas it actually has a far deeper meaning.
gross material part. Not in the principal happenings.
which the gross material earthly body is again but a coarsely constructed copy.
We call the concept of female and male simply two different genders or sexes. To the majority of
Feminine and masculine therefore have nothing to do with the usual conception of gender-sex but
It is all the more sad, therefore, if a human spirit submits to the yoke of this activity, which is a
female. The only exceptions are those frivolous persons who will not be disturbed by anything at all. All
remain.
Whether they would then heed these guidelines however, remains to be seen. But the fact is that they
merely indicate the nature of the activity in Creation. It is only in the World of Gross Matter, so familiar
original Creation, as I have mentioned several times already, the spirit-germ takes on, according to its
Creation, the separation of female and male in that sense plays a role only in the outermost and densest
physical body, i.e., the earthly body, needs these organs for its procreation.
people, however, the word sex is drastically misleading from the beginning since in their thoughts they
From the outset, many people quite frequently confuse the concept of the word “sex”. They take it in
Some have attempted to resolve this issue or to tie it to the question of marriage; however, no
whether in a positive, vigorously driving manner, or in a negative, quietly sustaining way. Wherever its
themselves. Fortunately there are many people who are longing for valid guidelinesin this matter.
negative the female form. Here masculine and feminine are recognizable already outwardly through their
Here it is the nature of the spirit-germ’s activity which is decisive. Meaning the direction in which
like the other, unabridged. It is complete within itself. It only matters which one of these it develops. And
function of his outermost covering, to such an extent that he becomes a slave to it! And unfortunately this has become so prevalent today that it illustrates how the inestimable and high-ranking spirituality will
this in my lecture “Marriage.”*(Lecture Nr. 25) The dual soul is merely one that is compatible with another
It is understandable that such unnatural activity must end badly. It is unnatural because in the natural
andisthereforeonlyintendedtolastforaveryshorttime.Herethechangemanifestsitselfin
off, resulting in a division. Those parts of a different nature thus cast off are then forced to awaken onto
process cannot be assumed.
Thus the conditions for a life of happiness are not nearly so difficult to fulfill as it appears at first
strong an effect on the negative, undeveloped capabilities, that they may bepushed out and thereby a cast
must lose it again upon being casting the cloak aside; a tool in the hand of the spirit which must be cared
there is no such thing as communism! Wherever such threatens to creep in collapse will absolutely be the
Creation as long as spirituality, as the highest, holds the dominant position, with all else remaining
must become happy! At the present time, however, they are far removed from this and therefore, for the
soul. Which means, a soul which has developed just those capabilities which the other soul left dormant.
Mankind simply needs first to know the laws which rest in Creation. If they live accordingly then they
The spiritual, animistic and ethereal form of the body changes as soon as the spirit-germ changes its
control of the coarsest material covering. Of a cloak which gains its sensitivity only through the spirit and
both positive and negative. However, such complementation exists not only once but many times, so that
divided germs that have to find each other again in order to become a whole. Generally, however, such a
of a division having preceded it. A dual soul is something altogether different. I have already emphasized
a person seeking a complementation is not limited to merely one other particular human being. He may
for to keep it usable but which must always remain only a controlled tool; for in the order of Creation
transformation of the physical shell, however, cannot follow so quickly. It is not so readily changeable,
If however it happens that a spirit germ does developall the positive parts then this will have so
change into a male one, and vice versa, for the predominant nature of the activity shapes the form. The
glance to those who have only part-knowledge. Happiness is much easier to achieve than many think.
capabilities of a spirit germ are developed gradually.
I have already pointed out that theprevalence of the desired activity determineshow the form
male and female bodies, depending on its changing inner attitude. And this is necessary so that all the
Hence it happens that a human spirit quite frequently wanders through its lives on earth alternately in
time being, those who come closer to the Truth in Creation will have to feel lonely most of the time,
order of things, that which is spiritual is the highest in the entire Creation, and harmony can only exist in
access. Through this kind of a collapse reciprocal action repairs such defective parts in Creation.
activity. If it changes from a negative to a predominantly positive activity, then the female form must
consequence, since such a part has to be expelled as being diseased so that disharmony can find no further
voluntarily allow itself to be trampled and suppressed under the cover of the coarsest form of matter.
develops,since aspiritgermwill notnecessarily be activeineitheran exclusivelypositiveor an
I do not especially need to point out what a sad role a man takes who places his spirit under the
The capabilities that are not made use of remain dormant but can be awakened at any time.
themselves and will naturally, in their wholeness develop the opposite, i.e., the female form. These are
meet with many during his life on earth, as long as he keeps his intuitive capacity pure and alert.
Man’s view of a complementing soul existing for each person is correct as such, but not in the sense
exclusively negative way.
subordinate to it, even in connection with gross matter here on earth.
reincarnations, of which in most cases there are many.
This then results in full complementation, in a united working together of all the capabilities of the spirit,
which, however, does not make them unhappy, but bears great peace.

The outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples of the Son of God, which is described in the Bible, is
experiences but not the actual happening, which they themselves knew nothing about.
stupendous.
And for this reason the miraculous happened, which could not otherwise have been possible on earth,
lose its inexplicability, and it will become understandable to the seriously seeking readers of the Grail
Castle, that is, the day of the renewal of power for Creation by the Holy Spirit! Naturally this does not
the experiencingof which is related in the Bible. The evangelistswere able to describe their own
their ever suspecting that at this approximate time each year the Day of the Holy Dove occurs in the Grail
thanksgiving to God the Father!
Since, on this day, the disciples were gathered in remembrance of their ascended Lord Who had
having occurred only that one time, and therefore as having been an arbitrary act.
It will be celebrated by those human beings who at last stand consciously in this Creation, which they
For some moments the “Holy Dove” appears above the Grail. This is the spiritually visible form of
The festival of Pentecost has been instituted by Christians to commemorate this occurrence, without
still more explicitly, the outpouring of energy by the Holy Spirit, for it is not the Holy Spirit that is poured
Creation, as the “Day of the Holy Dove,” that is, the Day of the Holy Spirit, as a great prayer of
degree, a direct effect upon the disciples who were gathered on earth and attuned in worship! All the more
However, it is just this erroneous view that is the cause for the apparent “inexplicability.”
event taking place at this time in the PureSpiritual Sphere to have, into a certain and commensurate
approximate time.
the presence of the Holy Spirit, which directly belongs to the “form” of the Holy Spirit, and is therefore a
still an inexplicable happening to many people, and it is mostly regarded as being extraordinary, as
Holy Grail, the only point of connection of the Creation with the Creator, and it is therefore called the
the Holy Spirit. This actually is the form; it is not meant merely as an imaginary conception! Since I have
Grail Castle.
Message without forfeiting any of its greatness; on the contrary, this recognition makes it even more
have now got to know aright in all its manifestations. Through their devout attitude at the exact time it
He who has attentively studied my Grail Message will already have found the solution in this
At that time the meeting of the disciples coincided exactly with the actual happening! Later, it will
Just as the Cross is the spiritually visible form of Divine Truth, so is the “Dove” the visible form of
also be celebrated here on earth, regularly and at the correct time, as the highest and holiest of all Holy
Days for mankind, as the day on which the Creator perennially renews His gift of sustaining energy to
every year at a certain definite time in the Holy of Holies of the highest castle or temple harboring the
out, but the Holy Spirit pours out energy!
part of this “form.”
always correspond exactly with the Pentecost festival as calculated for that purpose on earth, but at its
Message; for he has also read the explanation given in the lecture “The Holy Grail.” There I mentioned
the regularly recurring yearly renewal of energy for the entire Creation. It is the moment in which new
has recurred regularly ever since Creation came into existence! With this recognition it will immediately
so as the way to these disciples had been more easily opened up and smoothed by the life of the Son of
This renewal of energy by the Holy Spirit, thus the Living Will of God which is this energy, recurs
promised to send the Spirit, i.e., the living Power, this remembrance provided an anchorage point for the
God on earth.
The happening was not an isolated one, not one specially brought about for the disciples, but one that
Divine energy streams into the Holy Grail for the maintenance of Creation!
This renewal may also be called the outpouring of energy, thus the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit or,
already spoken to this at length I refer to the lecture.*(Lecture Nr. 44: The Holy Grail)
will be possible, due to the reciprocal effect of opening themselves up, for the living blessing again to lead down to the earth and pour into the thirsting souls in the same way that it once did for the disciples.
Peace and Joy will then reign in that not so distant time as long as men do not fail and do not want to
be lost for all eternity.

Fools who are continually asking whether strife in Creation is right, perceiving it only as cruel, do you not
are provided in Creation.
for into a “sport” aone-sided exaggeration, and thereby into frivolous and ambitious excesses utterly
the greatest part of his thoughts, his time and his life on earth!
But what men today mean and have always meant by “caring for” is not the right thing. By “caring
men divert this great motive power in Creation only into wrong channels, thereby frittering it away in
fight and thus to defend, to be cautious, to be alert and alive! It protects all creatures from the deadly
be some kind of compulsion present!
Otherwise he would long ago have arrogantly presumed that God must care for him through His Creation,
considerately a dog is treated the more slack and sluggish it will become. If a dog is in the study of its
Such is man, and in reality not otherwise!
Look around you, see and recognize, and you must bless the great motivating power which urges to
strict activity!
realize that you thereby brand yourselves as weaklings, who are harmful for any present day possibility of
reached by high jumping, swimming, running, riding or by senseless driving. Mankind and the entire
criticize.
just as in the dream of a fool’s paradise. And if in return he offers his thanks in a spiritless prayer, then
In the fighting among animals there lies only blessing, not cruelty.
for” they either mean indulging in sweet idleness, which as such already holds a weakening and paralysis,
Creation derive no benefit from such individual accomplishments, for which many a man often sacrifices
Rouse yourselves at last out of this outrageous weakness, which only allows both body and spirit
unworthy of serious human beings. True humanity must have the finalgoal in view, which cannot be
He would long since have fallen into the lazy sleep of idleness which must lead to decay, had it not
Can an artist ever reach the peak of his skill and maintain it unless he continually practices and
gradually to sink, but never to rise!
practice and learn afresh.
If you wish to be healthy, then take care of your body and your spirit. In other words, keep them in
into the depth.
struggles for it? This holds true regardless of the nature of his activity, or how great his abilities are. The
An arm can only grow strong with constant exercise. Any slackening must lead to weakening. And so
to provide support for ascent, that instead of the intended support congestions occur, which act as
that is more than enough reward for his God, considering that there are many who never thank Him at all!
himself. A troublemaker in any Creation-harmony!
The fact that such excesses could develop at all shows how wrong the path of mankind is and how
ascent?
In their human conceit men so distort the course of the strong currents of the spirit, which are meant
He talks of cruelty in Nature! But it never occurs to him to examine himself first. He only wants to
been for the fighting instinct that fortunately rests in Creation, forcing him to bestir himself in any case!
voice of a singer would soon diminish in power and sureness, if he did not force himself constantly to
or they practice this “caring for” only one-sidedly, as with any sport; in other words, they make the caring
it is with every body and every spirit! However, no man can be induced to do this voluntarily. There must
One only needs to observe someanimalclosely.Asan exampleletustake a dog. Themore
embrace of lethargy!
obstructions that in turn increase the fighting instinct, eventually bursting and pulling everything along
useless play, or even using it to their detriment by hindering their healthy progress, for which all means
It is with such hollow wouldbe scientific games and ambitions that man of today primarily occupies
master and the latter always carefully refrains from stepping upon or pushing the animal, even if it lies down in places where it is in constant danger of being hurt unintentionally, as for instance near a door,
apparent cruelty! This Paradise-like condition, by no means consists of idleness, but is equivalent to most
Already man has gambled away and lost even the ability to recognize his mistake! Thus I would only
to the decisive fall of man, which I describe in detail in the lecture “Once upon a time..!”*(Lecture Nr. 80)
The fighting instinct would be ennobled, spiritualized by the aspiring will of man. Its original coarse
of Matter would already long since have been in a state of decay and disintegration. This instinct has a
through his false actions. Everything lies therein! Therefore do not, out of false sentimentality, disdain
not surprise a keen observer, for man has maladapted himself completely towardseverything, towards
about the present flawed outgrowths!
on the surface. Otherwise there would no longer be anything left to maintain movement, restoration and
himself and towards the entire Creation, doing spiritual harm everywhere instead of bringing benefit.
flippant superficiality, and is the same as the grossest narrow-mindedness. And those who are still today
then this is to the detriment of the animal.
worthless! It is here that Christ’s words are applicable: “Let the dead bury their dead!” For he who is
spiritually deaf and blind is spiritually dead!
be preaching to deaf ears if I wanted to say more about it. He who really wishes to “listen” and is able to
vigilant,” a marked regression in the activity of his soul.
Within a very short period of time the dog will lose its alertness. “Kind-hearted” people will say with
impressed in any way by the idiotic laugh of such spiritually limited human beings are themselves
as the most violent fight. The difference is that a fight is followed by exhaustion, while mutual support is
every way. It remains alive in all respects. And that means progress! It is the same with every creature!
preservative effect for the body and for the soul. It is by no means destructive; although it may appear so,
to disease.
If, on the other hand, an animal needs to be constantly on the alert and ready to defend itself, not only
The fact that men’s attitude towards the animal is in many ways completely wrong here as well will
experienced the paradisiacal state of the original Creation where there is no longer any need for fight and
understanding, a laugh that is meant tosimulate knowledge, but which in reality merely indicates a
followed, in reciprocalaction,by a greatincreasein energy.Consequently,in the end and forall
Otherwise it will perish, because its body gradually weakens and becomes less resistant, more susceptible
look different today! The so-called “fight” would not manifest in that form in which it shows itself at
cannot act in the way it really should! (See earlier lectures)
The fact that this could not happen is to be blamed on the human spirit! Again and again I must refer
Through his abilities, the human spirit could have made the earth, which is a replica of Creation, into
however,whoisspirituallydeaf, assomanyare,hasonlythemeaninglesslaughoflackof
will its soul become and remain awake, but its intelligence will steadily grow keener and it will gain in
entrusted to it by diverting its effects downwards instead of upwards to Luminous Heights, has brought
creatures, the replica of Creation wherein the spiritual will of man is the strongest influence, would have
If man had not failed so miserably to carry out his intended purpose, then much, everything would
the quickening effects of the all-pervading spiritual power actually intended for this purpose, so that it
present.
vigor for this sluggish World of Gross Matter, since man, through his errors, has so shamefully diverted
effect, instead of intensifying as it does now, would gradually have changed under theright spiritual
nobody will hurt him! In reality, however, this is nothing but a gross decline in its capacity to “be
energetically bestirring oneself to true, fully personally conscious life!
Only the complete failure of the human spirit in Creation through the misuse of the spiritual power
influence and become a united, joyful incentive for mutual support, which would require the same energy
loving euphemism, perhaps even touched by the wonderful “trust” the dog shows by this! He knows
paradise! He has not done so, and therefore he now sees the world before himas he has distorted it
If today the fighting instinct which so many people call cruel no longer existed in Creation, the World
seek earnestly will find all he needs in my Message. And everywhere will he find explanations about the
great failure which has wrought such unspeakably grave consequences in so many and varied forms. He,
such an important matter as the strife in Nature, for it restores the necessary balance which man neglected to carry out! Do not be so presumptuous as to call your sultry-sweet sentimentality “love,” with which
different and much more sublime things!
spiritual in Creation, the power of which became your own!
Men have want only cut themselves off from the greatness which is born only of a free spirit, and
These are the fruits which men, as spiritual beings, have to offer in contrast to the activity of the
When now, because of the lack of ability you showed, everything collapses upon you, then cover
creative instincts mankind try lifelessly to imitate existing forms of the lowest kind, whereas with a free
You who are seeking, however, examineyourselvesseriously and unsparingly,and then try to
All earth-bound, on a lowly plane, hollow and lifeless: just like themselves!
Then seek out the fruits of your work, you who are spiritual and thereby call many more capabilities
besides childish imitations they can therefore produce nothing but... machines, constructions, technology.
Therefore, woe unto you, man, you rotten product of your conceit! You caricature of what you
but no progress towards ideal heights in all that is alive and thus in Creation! With nothing but withered
readjust yourwholethinkingandintuitiveperception,indeedyourwholebeing,uponaspiritual
them for that purpose!
How do they expect to pass when the reckoning comes? Is it any wonder if the sublime Paradise must
pleasure and enjoyment is the fruit of the working of allanimistic substantiality, which isbelow the
which precedes you.
man likes to label his weaknesses! Such falseness and hypocrisy must be paid for dearly!
Try to observe calmly what you call Nature: the mountains, lakes, woods, and the meadows! At all
not again try to accuse your Creator, or call Him cruel and unjust!
should be!
elemental beings. This is how they have fulfilled the spiritual task in the Subsequent Creation given to
seasons: The eye is drunk with the beauty it beholds. And now reflect: That which gives you so much
foundation, which will no longer waver like the intellectual and thus very limited foundation of the past!
and conscious spirit, and their eyes uplifted to the Divine, they would be capable of producing very
remain closed to men with such base proclivities? And is it any surprise if now in the end the elementals,
And what do you find? Only feeble imitations of what animistic substantiality has already achieved,
your own, which is why you should also have to accomplish higher things than animistic substantiality
in reciprocal action, will completely destroy the work so wrongly led by the human spirit?
your face and acknowledge with shame the terrible guilt with which you have burdened yourselves! Do
He who is not capable of doing so will be cast away for all eternity! —

.Thou beholdest the mote that is in thy brother’s eye and considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye



Everyone believes that he has fully understood these simple words, and yet there will be but few who
either that he is far from being able to make the words of the Son of God come to life or that he under
over for either party.
their usual and customary delusion that by reading the words they must also have truly grasped their
exception, since you found proof in all the others. Then at last your eyes will be opened about yourselves.
same way.
way that is annoying to others.
mistake. The fact remains that a man who gets upset about this or that fault in another person is sure to
He offered with His plain statements. But man did not honestly seek for their real meaning. Pretentiously
And so it is in a thousand and more different ways. Learning this and recognizing it will be easy for
remained dead for those who were supposed to have called it to life within themselves in order to derive
that he forgets to be indignant about it.
these words, like everything else, are placed into the same category as the weakness and slackness of the
glance, however justified it may be. This strikes a serious observer as so unspeakably ridiculous, yet sad,
the faults which most irritate him in others are present in himself to a particularly high degree and in a
cut through a knot that today holds down all mankind! Free yourselves, then joyfully help others in the
meaning. They convince themselves of this entirely as they see fit. That is not honest seeking. For that
However, man can and must use these words of the Son of God only as a measure for his own faults.
evident in all his past interpretations. It was transplanted in the identical manner into Christendom. For
even those who call themselves seekers have taken, and still take, everything much too superficially under
away, because you yourselves are not directly involved, and will therefore not attempt to gloss anything
meant to teach man to be lenient toward his neighbor. Leniency toward one’s neighbor will follow by
If he looks around with open eyes, and also observes himself at the same time, he will soon recognize that
kind of love which the Church likes to present as Christian love.
have these same faults to a far greater extent within himself.
values from it which would uplift them.
Approach such examinations calmly. You will be able to do so, and will recognize the truth right
This is what the Son of God meant to say with His simple words. Such was the value of the teaching
person one would like to avoid. These are the very people who expect to be treated with special kindness,
indignant about the faults of others, under close scrutiny. Before long you will be surprised to discover
itself as a natural consequence of experiencing this statement, albeit only as a secondary consequence. He
you. Once you have reached that stage, also have the courage to assume that you yourselves are no
as always, he merely wanted to look down upon others leniently. This flattered his disgusting arrogance.
estimates the wisdom of His statements from the outset. And in the interpretations of many preachers
and who become enraged, girls and women to the point of tears, if they meet with but a single reproachful
covertly expresses it. As soon as this happens, you should place this person, who is so critical or even
When judging people in the future you may safely assume this to be factual without fear of making a
This means a great step forward towards your development, perhaps even the greatest one! You thereby
This is a fact that will astound you at first, but which willalways reveal itself without exception.
In order to learn to observe properly it is perhaps best if you first closely observe your fellow-men
that the very faults he so sharply censures in others are present in him to a far greater degree!
have grasped their actual meaning. It is one-sided and wrong to interpret this saying as if it were only
who searches in the words of Christ in this fashion does not search deeply enough, and thereby shows
Take a person who is habitually sullen and discourteous and who seldom shows a friendly face, a
reason they cannot find the realtreasure, and therefore progress hasnot been possible. The Word
only. There will hardly be anyone who doesn't find this or that fault in another, and who openly or
The whole wretchedness of his false thinking, the unconcealed hypocritical pharisaism, becomes clearly
And every sentence the Son of God gave to mankind contains such values, which man does not find, but only because he has never sought for them diligently!

Healing by magnetism is taking one of the leading positions in the further development of the human
Justlookaroundyou:wheredoyounot findimpostorsandswindlers!Youwillfindthem
and mysterious gestures, imagine that they are accomplishing great things.
from the Ethereal World, the beyond.
It demands serious and, above all, robust and healthy human beings!
mind, much less at heart. He thereby burdens himself with a guilt which must become his downfall.
this art of healing cannot be acquired at beer and wine drinking orgies.
The little troop of courageous pioneers need have no fear. They too are forerunners of the new age.
illness through the so-called magnetism of their bodies, or through the transmission of similar currents
thus gifted is ordained as a called one.
Today anxiety permeates the ranks of those courageous pioneers who for years and in numerous
gift did not even exist in the first place.
cases have brought to their fellow-men the best earthly gift they could bring: recovery from many an
with an honest volition. Not, however, the group of those who, with a low average radiation, many words
When I speak of magnetopaths I only mean serious practitioners who are prepared to help mankind
everywhere!Evenmoresoinothervocations.Forthisreasoneveryonecanseeclearlytheoften
allproportiontheindividualexceptionswhereabasedesireformoney-makingcreateddishonest
such conditions are not so easily fulfilled. And what has once been neglected in this respect cannot be
The obstacles are only apparent, meaningless, and temporary. In reality they are a sure sign of an early,
Besides, genuine, strong healing power cannot be acquired by learning. It is a gift, whereby the one
But envy, or even more so fear, causes the number of opponents and enemies to increase. Naturally
This is perhaps the deepest root of all of the envy, from which follow the major attacks, for today
inferior, if not worse, to hinder and to suppress them. With much clamor their opponents magnify out of
He who wishes to suppress such people proves that he doesnot have the welfare of humanity in
deliberately unjust nature of such vilifications.
characters, or where fraudulent intentions were the basis from the beginning, in which cases this beautiful
made up for.
race.
Unfortunately there are continual new attempts to represent the whole class of magnetopaths as
joyful and proud ascent.

For years now, knowing ones have been speaking of the coming of this especially significant Star. The
It is thought that it brings upheavals of an incisive nature. But this Star portends more.
does not realize how ridiculous it is to pretend that all the extraordinary events that have already occurred
Since the event in Bethlehem there has been nothing like it. Like the Star of Bethlehem, this Star also
The first direct effects have already begun in recent years. He who wishes neither to see nor hear
by its rays.
detached itself from the Eternal Pure-Spiritual realm at such a time as to take effect on this earth exactly
filled with high spiritual power; it envelops itself in material substance, and will thereby also become
It can be called the Star of Bethlehem, because it is of exactly the same nature as that one was. Its
when the years of spiritual enlightenment are to come to all mankind.
fear, or he is burdened with an extremely limited understanding. Both types must be allowed simply to
earth, there is no use in giving more details. It will take years to come to this point, and years before the
much so that in fact it is to be expected soon. But what it really signifies, what it brings, and from where
told where the firstpowerful rays are striking. But since the rays will gradually encompass the whole
pursue their way; one can only smile at their easily refutable assertions. Knowing ones though could be
The Star takes its course in a straight line from the Eternal Realm to this part of the world. Its core is
anything that may happen in the coming years. If he can look up with confidence to God no harm will
respect for the blessing and joy of its inhabitants. It will be more beautiful than it has ever been, which is
number of those who await it is continually increasing; the indications become more and more definite, so
visible to men on earth. Unerringly and unswervingly the Comet pursues its course, and will appear on
the scene at the appointed time as predetermined already thousands of years ago.
it comes, has not yet been rightly explained.
Comet again releases the earth from its influence. The earth will then be purified and refreshed in every
power draws waters up high, brings weather catastrophes and more. The earth quakes when it is encircled
are every day occurrences. For him there is naturally no help. He either wishes to act like an ostrich out of
why every believer shall look forward to the future with tranquil confidence, and not be alarmed at
come to him.

Bluezy13:
Nothing.
Because there is no kingdom.

Can you buttress this?

It would be wrong to answer this often asked question with a very definitive rule and to say: Do this and
“see.” And yet he must see the “way” clearly before him, otherwise the crutches are of no use to him.
to be "yes" or "no" for him, whether day or night, ascent to the Luminous Heights or descent, finally and
will find in It that which they must know in Creation, and they will see those rungs of the ladder which
must do the walking, it does not come to him. The Spiritual Realm lies at the summit of Creation; indeed
The human spirit, however, is still in the nether regions of the World of Gross Matter. Therefore it
their spirit must use in order to ascend and enter into the Spiritual Realm, Paradise.
in it. If he adjusts himself to it in the right manner, then Creation, thus the way, will serve him only for a
through it, otherwise he will not reach his goal.
do that! That would not be showing a way! It would be completely devoid of life, and therefore nothing
living could arise from it, such as is absolutely necessary for soaring upwards; for life alone contains the
the longed-for height in order to reach the goal.
the Spiritual Realm, wherein alone pure worship exists. This is not only meant allegorically, but it exists
of his own, suppresses all independent development, and thereby not only hinders ascent but completely
become absolutelyfamiliar beforehand with the Creation which leads him there. For he needs to pass
Now if I say: “Do this and that, and don’t do the other,” I am only giving weak, external crutches on
necessary for ascent. In other words, there was no one who could make the way to the Grail Castle, the
summit of Creation, clearly visible. The way to that Castle which stands as the Temple of the Almighty in
show how clever he was It was frequentlyapplied wrongly, thereby misleading the human spirit and
in all reality.
irrevocably, without any possibility to reconsider. For this reason another Message from the Luminous
individual, as opposed to the uniform yoke of a fixed dogma, which makes him into a slave without a will
Castle is now being given. This Message resets the misplaced signposts correctly, so that the right road
destroys it for many.
it is the highest point itself.
is not the right thing, and would only lead once more to another dogma, which would hinder and delay
joyful ascent; for then he stands correctly in the Will of God. His way and his life must therewith be
which no one can walk properly and independently, for these crutches do not at the same time help him to
Up till now no man has been able to describe Creation in such a way as to convey the knowledge
may be recognized by all serious seekers. It is the Grail Message, the Gospel of the Grail!
will probably be clear to everyone that he must first finish walking the path from these nether regions to
preventing it from ascending. —
key which is needed for ascent.
distance he has to traverse. Not only the way itself, but also everything he may still encounter along the
entirely within Creation, in fact is Creation, the wanderer who journeys towards the Spiritual Realm must
Each individual will find in it whathe needs for his climb towards the Light with the abilitieshe
Let man consider: Naturally, if he wishes to enter the Realm of the Spirit he must do the walking. He
possesses.
way, the dangers which threaten him, and the help he can count on finding there. Since the road lies
The Message of the Son of God pointed out the way once before. However, in man’s eagerness to
Now, however, the hour has arrived in which every human spirit must decide for itself; whether it is
Happy are all those who adjust themselves to this Message with an open mind and a free heart! They
The man who knows Creation in all its lawful activity will soon comprehend the sublime Will of God
Such a person would only hobble about aimlessly, like a blind man on a road he does not know. No, that
In order not to lose his way it is imperative that he should have a thorough knowledge of the whole
every ascent.
Thatalonebringslife, freedomforascent,anddevelopmentoftherequisiteabilitiesofeach
pleasing to God! It is not a matter of feigning a sanctimonious look, squirming contritely, kneeling, praying; but it is a
cheerfully.
Thus, life that can be described as pleasing to God is quite different from what has hitherto been
then you yourselves will become real instead of the lifeless shadows you now are! Get to know Creation
Creator through His Creation! In which, metaphorically speaking, one grasps the hand of God which He
whining and begging for a way, but recognizing it with a thankful upward glance and traveling upon it
matter of prayer actualized, of making it a living reality in fresh, joyful and pure-minded activity. It is not
imagined. Much more beautiful and free! It meansstanding aright in Creation as is willed by your
aright in its laws!
Therefore I call out once more: Take everything factually, as real, and no longer metaphorically, for
thereby offers to mankind.
Therein lies the way upward to the Light!

For years now, knowing ones have been speaking of the coming of this especially significant Star. The
It is thought that it brings upheavals of an incisive nature. But this Star portends more.
does not realize how ridiculous it is to pretend that all the extraordinary events that have already occurred
Since the event in Bethlehem there has been nothing like it. Like the Star of Bethlehem, this Star also
The first direct effects have already begun in recent years. He who wishes neither to see nor hear
by its rays.
detached itself from the Eternal Pure-Spiritual realm at such a time as to take effect on this earth exactly
filled with high spiritual power; it envelops itself in material substance, and will thereby also become
It can be called the Star of Bethlehem, because it is of exactly the same nature as that one was. Its
when the years of spiritual enlightenment are to come to all mankind.
fear, or he is burdened with an extremely limited understanding. Both types must be allowed simply to
earth, there is no use in giving more details. It will take years to come to this point, and years before the
much so that in fact it is to be expected soon. But what it really signifies, what it brings, and from where
told where the firstpowerful rays are striking. But since the rays will gradually encompass the whole
pursue their way; one can only smile at their easily refutable assertions. Knowing ones though could be
The Star takes its course in a straight line from the Eternal Realm to this part of the world. Its core is
anything that may happen in the coming years. If he can look up with confidence to God no harm will
respect for the blessing and joy of its inhabitants. It will be more beautiful than it has ever been, which is
number of those who await it is continually increasing; the indications become more and more definite, so
visible to men on earth. Unerringly and unswervingly the Comet pursues its course, and will appear on
the scene at the appointed time as predetermined already thousands of years ago.
it comes, has not yet been rightly explained.
Comet again releases the earth from its influence. The earth will then be purified and refreshed in every
power draws waters up high, brings weather catastrophes and more. The earth quakes when it is encircled
are every day occurrences. For him there is naturally no help. He either wishes to act like an ostrich out of
why every believer shall look forward to the future with tranquil confidence, and not be alarmed at
come to him.

The efforts aiming at occult training as well as those aiming at so-called lifestyle-reform have set a high
The right way must lead upwards from the very beginning, and must not first lose itself in a lower
must therefore inevitably sink back exhausted, and in the natural course of events, will have to repeat a
Such clear objectivity is to be found in these events, such naturalness and simplicity, that it simply
condition, in ordercompletely to fulfill the purpose of its existence. If the condition of the body is
harmony brings about a healthy and strong development of the Spirit which prevents morbid excesses.
While the leaders of occult endeavors, even with the best of intentions, have taken an entirely wrong
these valuable goals will be fulfilled will surely come. The presently burgeoning efforts in this direction
road in this field unknown to them, thereby accomplishing nothing but giving free rein to the Darkness
this gap.
consequently cannot achieve normal development either. At some later point in its efforts to ascend it
directed radiations is drawn into another direction, and thus weakened for its real purpose. This hinders or
are totally entwined and dragged down by the Darkness.
becomes more and more ill through the other. This produces one-sidedness which is always detrimental to
higher level than so far. An entirely different road must be taken in order to reach the summit. The
much less with one that is lower; for this is not necessary, as normally there should only be a striving
A healthy and unsuppressed body will in its normal condition always quite naturally harmonize with
and exposing mankind to increased dangers from the beyond, the efforts of so-called lifestyle reformers
During its life on earth the spirit absolutely needs a strong and healthy body in a normal physical
that they can survey for themselves everything that happens within It, backward and forwards in its most
This diversion of the sexual power necessary for the spirit in the World of Matter can occur in many
Also through occult training or wrong psychic exercises in which the spirit forcibly appropriates this
Each body creates certain definite radiations which are absolutely essential to the spirit for its work in
must be approached in a different way. Fundamentally, psychic exercises need to be conducted on a
from the very beginning, without first making contact with the ethereal environment on its own level,
and varied ways. Through over-indulgence in sexual activity, or even by mere stimulation to this end.
power of the mature body, only to dissipate it in this false and unnecessary activity. In both cases it is a
natural consequences, in the incomparable glorious lawfulness.
wrong use, which will gradually also entrain a weakening of the physical body. In turn the weakened
changed, this shift upsets the absolutely necessary harmony between body and spirit. Only such complete
the right goal and therefore harmful. I do not wish to deal with other wrong paths on which the spirit also
are merely a part of the fermentation process of this new time.
paralyzes the fulfillment of the purpose of the spirit during its existence in the World of Matter, which
Ethereal World, because there it lacks the radiations of its physical body. It must go back in order to fill
cannot be otherwise. Any child will understand this and take it for granted once it has grasped the basic
the sex drive. If the harmony between body and spirit is disturbed this power of inward and outward
development, along with the simultaneous advancement of Creation.
reach far beyond their commendable goal with regard to the present time! The activities of both groups
great part of its development. For what it misses in the World of Gross Matter it cannot make up in the
present road only leads into the base undergrowth of the beyond, in which the majority of the followers
stand without a purpose, and thus offering the spirit the best help completely to fulfill this purpose of self
goal, the attainment of which will mean a further epoch in the development of humanity. The time when
body can no longer produce such strong radiations as are really needed by the spirit, and thus each
their basic nature entirely different. The right way immediately uplifts the inner man, thus goes upward
the World of Matter. Foremost among these is the mysterious sexual power, which is quite independent of
laws aright. It will require a whole series of lectures for me to bring the vast Creation so close to mankind
the spirit, thereby providing it with a firm foundation in the World of Matter in which the spirit does not
environment or one that is at best on the same level. The two paths are in no way similar, and are even in
upwards from the earth. Therefore let me again warn you seriously against all spiritual acrobatics.
uses too much of the sexual power for wrong purposes, not leaving enough for the main purpose, such as through the foolish reading of books which conjure up a false world in the imagination, and so on.
the result of the change, just as every change is refreshing, refreshing for the spirit as well.
weaker. At least it is much more similar to this sort of weakness than to the weakness resulting from
produce the sexual power which the spirit needs for the full accomplishment of its purpose in the World
depressing impression, because it does not stem from a disease.
even for several years in the case of sick people; indeed, it may even be necessary in order to cure some
only an apparent strength. In this case the spirit is actually not strong, rather it is like a hot-house plant
well as strengthening and great restoration of health. The spirit, too, is further uplifted thereby. But all
diet, only that their sexual power has been diminished, which must subsequently diminish the upswing of
necessary one.
transition. Decades do not suffice for this! As it is practiced today and because the transition is too fast,
condition resembles that of an artificially produced fever. Periodically the patient sick with fever may
earth cling to a man, hinder him and become ever heavier until, as already mentioned, at some point in his
of Matter. —
illness. Suddenly deprived of what it has been accustomed to for thousands of years, the body cannot
future generations, and for this reason they are at present no less dangerous in their ultimate consequences
tranquility are not a sign of strength, but of a certain kind of weakness. It gives a pleasant, rather than a
diet for a time. They will doubtlessly feel well and experience an upswing of their spirit. This, however, is
The way all occult training has been carried out so far is wrong, even though the goal is a high and
ethereal body. The consequences of such earthly sins are so decisive for his entire existence that every
when a bitter price has to be paid for all this. Therefore I issue one more warning!
The case is quite different with the leaders and adherents of the so-called lifestyle reform movement.
The strength of a spirit, which through occult training was cultivated at the expense of the body, is
In all of these cases the spirit arrives in the Ethereal World still immature and also takes along a weak
Seconds or minutes to the one sick with fever are decades and centuries to the spirit. The moment arrives
Although they are on the right road, they wish to do already today that which will only be appropriate for
for most human beings. The necessary transition is lacking. The time for the new beginning has come!
circumstances adequate for the human body of today. It is quite good when used temporarily, perhaps
things. Beauty and power of harmony are celebrated so much. Why do we not accept it here, but try to
destroy it at all cost?
andstruggles.Asuddentransitiontoavegetariandiet,whichissooftenattempted,isunderno
appearance of well-being is deceptive. Certainly it is very beneficial for healthy people to eat a vegetarian
have extraordinary strength at his command, only to relapse even further into a state of weakness.
This equanimity resembles the equanimity of healthyold age where only the body is becoming
their spirit in the World of Matter.
Harmony is the only right thing everywhere. And harmony is found only in the middle way in all
will never be able to regain its vigor!
If, however, they suddenly stick to this one-sided diet on a permanent basis, they will not notice that
ascent he can continue no further and sinks back to the place where his wrong activity began. This is the
point at which he still possessed his harmony.
Vegetarian diet! It is quite true that it brings about a refinement of the human body, ennoblement as
ailment, or as a supportive, restorative measure,however, this is not for the long term. The patient must
the body is weakened even while having the appearance of wellbeing. And a body weakened in this way
this is not immediately for mankind of the present day. Prudent leadership is lacking in all these efforts
man must atone for them heavily in manifold severity. Such neglect and false activity during his time on
which can hardly withstand any wind, much less a storm. Such a spirit issick, not advanced. This
they are actually becoming weaker and much more sensitive to many things. In most cases the calm and
But one must not jump into it with both feet at once, rather one must gradually lead humanity through the
Many confirmed vegetarians notice this in a slight abatement of their sex drive, which they joyfully
welcome as progress. But this is by no means a sign that their spirit has been ennobled through vegetarian
gradually return to the diet to which he is accustomed today if his body is to maintain its full vigor. The
Here, errors over errors abound, because man almost invariably sees only what is closest to him. Certainly it is to be welcomed, and it is a measure of progress, if by ennobling the spirit, the baser sex
old and restricted.However, such pioneers have to become leaders first! A leader must not carelessly
finally,in a smooth transition, the body has been changed such that it retains its full vitality on a
the spirit.
The first step in this transition is the restriction to white meat only. That is: poultry, veal, lamb and
The bridge to enable the bodies of today’s mankind to follow along without detriment to the activity of
overlook the realities of what is. He must at the same time look further into the future, even beyond all
“Do not neglect your body.” I would call out as a warning to some! And to others the opposite:
the baser sex drive, but in these matters we must not use mankind of today as the standard; for in their
coarse drive, which is so pronounced today. In fact, sexual power is the best means to accomplish this. —
pioneers of the next great evolutionary epoch of mankind, which will come about under any circumstance
gross-materiality. Then he will realize that the method employed now will always leave a gap that will
even plants have a soul. This only shows regressive thinking, as well as a failure to have penetrated into
The moderation of the sex drive is by no means dependent on the lessening of sexual power. On the
such, together with a diet higher in vegetables. Only in this way can one step slowly follow another. Until
At this point I will not address those viewpoints according to which no animal should be killed; for
drive is greatly moderated in comparison with what it is today. It is also true that eating meat increases
case the sex drive has beencultivated one-sidedly and abnormally; it is altogether unnatural today.
vegetarian diet.
and press forward unstoppably, victoriously, even if it is opposed and desperately attacked by all that is
In theireffortstheleadersof today’slifestylereform movementsare already to be considered
forever be felt and even in the best of structures will eventually force a collapse. The bridge is missing!
However, this cannot be attributed to a meat diet alone.
contrary, the latter is able to help the human spirit advance, and liberate it from its dependence upon the
“Think of your spirit”! The right way will then develop from out of the present-day chaos.
what have so far been the mysteries of Creation.

If you study mankind you will find that they fall into different categories. There is one group which lives
entirelywrong,thinkingperhapsthatIwouldencouragethemtorelishandsavoreverymoment,
earth back to the Light as it rises upwards in steps, he must realize that he cannot reach the next step
And so it continues on from one step to another. If he keeps his eyes fixed only on the high goal,
does he receive the power to recognize and ascend to the next higher step.
Both groups, to which the majority of men belong, haven't really lived on earth at all. They just fritter
stagger through life mindlessly indulging the moment in this fashion.
Then there will be men who, on hearing the call to: “live in the present” will imagine something
disappointed, and he will also be in harmony with his environment.
present events. It is only after something has become old, bygone, that they begin to value it.
In doing so he will also not lack earthly benefit, for the first advantage he will gain is that he will not
If, on the other hand, he lives only in the past or dreams only of the future, his expectations may well
encouraging them to live a certain frivolous lifestyle. There are more than enough of such people who
Sorrow as well as joy. With mind, thoughts and intuitive perception, he must be open wholeheartedly to
If he does not live in the present he cannot mature, for maturing depends upon experiencing alone.
If during his life on earth he has not always experienced thepresent within himself, then he will
strong enough to impress a stamp on his spirit which he can take with him into the beyond as his gain.
experiencing, which alone can serve him to mature, then the new step will not become visible to him,
strongly: only through the complete and absolute fulfillment of each step to be experienced can the next
at any attempt to climb them.
Then there is another group which lives in the future. They set all their wishes and hopes on the
Life on earth is like one step in the entire existence of a man, one so great that he cannot skip over it.
future, and thereby forget that the present has so much to offer them; and they also forget to bestir
earth. Neither in his thoughts about the past, nor in his dreams of the future can he find real experiences
exclusively in the past. That is to say, they begin to understand only after something has passed. As a
can only develop after the complete fulfillment of the present step. Thus he who does not wish to spend
half his existence standing upon one and the same step, nor to return there again and again, should force
higher one develop. If a man does not fulfill the step on which he currently finds himself through
because he needs the experiencing of the previous step. Only when he is equipped with these experiences
of a matter. Only afterwards do they begin to talk about it, to enthuse about it, or to feel regret. And while
which he must build for his own ascent would then be far too insubstantial and flimsy and would collapse
only outwardly. Every single hour of the present must become a real experience for a human being!
With this call I do indeed demand full enjoyment of every minute, but inwardly, not superficially or
themselves sufficiently for many of their dreams about the future to become reality.
did not make anything his own through experiencing.
himself always to belong completely to the present, to grasp it aright within himself, and to experience it
so as to gain spiritual benefit from it.
the present moment and thus be awake. Only in this way can he gain the intended benefit from his life on
away their time.
expect either from people or from the time more than they can really give him! Thus he will never be
Unless he sets his foot firmly and securely on this step, it will be quite impossible for him to ascend to the
without paying careful attention to the individual steps leading him there, he will never reach it. The steps
constantly speaking of the past, either feeling happy or regretful about it, they continually overlook
return emptyhanded and must once more wander through the time he lost, because he was not awake and
result they can neither truly rejoice in something that is happening, nor intuitively perceive the full gravity
But there is a safeguard against this danger in the natural course of events, inasmuch as the next step
next one, for he needs the preceding one as a foundation. If a man envisages his whole existence from this
unless he has properly fulfilled the previous one and stands firmly upon it. It may be expressed even more
let him reach beyond the framework of the present, which must bring him into disharmony with the present time and cause suffering not only to him but also to his immediate environment. Although one
should think of the past in order to learn its lessons, and also dream of the future in order to receive
motivation, one should live fully and consciously only in the present!

Clairvoyance! How much glamour has been woven around it, what ridicule can be heard from one side,
twentieth step, just to gain an approximate picture of the difference. People, however, who are really able
unreliable up till now.
physical death. But no further; for the moment he would step over the boundary prescribed for him in the
long as it occurs of its own accord, and is calmly left to develop without being helped along by the
much more the habitual expression of their helplessness when confronted with questions which require
awestruck by, because in reality it should be something quite natural. However it remains natural only as
about proudly like peacocks in a chicken yard. They imagine themselves to be endowed with Divine
However, if after leaving his body his soul were to be carried along by someone belonging to the next
attitude and the right goal. However, the lack of knowledge in the majority of clairvoyants is immediately
Whatever he imagines he saw beyond that line, be it landscapes or persons, is never truly or actually
them. They hide their actual ignorance behind bland smiles, meant to feign knowledge, while in fact it is
the unhealthy state of affairs that is to be found everywhere today. The “seeing” is real enough in most
to see to the second step, imagine they have achieved something stupendous, while those who can see
while the other side shows timid curiosity; the rest is respectful silence. Those who are clairvoyant strut
pass on to others. They alone are responsible for this whole field being dragged into the mud as false and
to him. That is, only that which is within the region in which he could move about freely after his
own inner maturity will permit. He is thereby bound by his own inner condition! Because of the nature of
In reality they know no more than the hammer and the chisel which a sculptor uses to form a work of
Knowledge alone can provide a sound foundation for this natural ability, and thereby also theright
obvious in the over-ambitious zeal accompanied by arrogance, as well as in the openly displayed and
aware of it. The best thing that can happen to these people is that here and there their clairvoyant or
Now it must be realized that a person utilizing his highest gifts can in reality see only as far as his
It is just this imagined knowledge that not only prevents such people from advancing further, but
clairvoyance, into something other than what they really are, and thereby doing them great harm. This is
there are several kinds. This is salvation!
cases, but it is by no means anything special; it is nothing worthy of being marveled at, much less being
What these people see is, at best and in the most advanced cases, the second step of the so-called
lead downwards instead of upwards. This occurs without the one who imagines that he knows more being
which indeed literally leads them to perdition, because it directs their efforts on to wrong paths which
beyond by his own state of maturity he would immediately lose all consciousness of his environment. In
gifts. Thus no benefit would be derived; his ethereal body however would be harmed.
as far as his own maturity permitted him to look about while in a wakeful state, despite his clairvoyant
for something which, in reality, is just as strange to them as it is to the many curious enquirers around
hastening of physical death.
expressed pretense of possessing knowledge.
art. Once again, however, it is a case of men insisting on making their fellow men, who have the gift of
any case he would not be able to cross this boundary of his own accord.
higher step, then he would at once lose consciousness in the arms of that entity upon crossing the border
clairvoyant himself or by someone else. To provide this kind of help is just as damnable as assisting in the
clairaudient abilities gradually diminish and disappear through some favorable circumstance, of which
things it is simply impossible for him to see, really to see, anything other than that which is homogeneous
beyond. If one were to divide the beyond into steps (not spheres), the step of the Light is about the
Clairvoyance,however,onlybecomesofvaluewhenitisaccompaniedbyrealknowledge.
them to have their own knowledge about this process.
only to the first step are in most cases even more conceited.
Grace, and in their conceited form of humility feel far superior to others. They love to receive admiration
Let us now take a closer look at these clairvoyant people and their erroneous conviction which they
to the higher step; that is, he would fall asleep. On being brought back he would be able to remember only
experienced or personally seen by him. These are merelypictures being shown to him, and he even imagines that he hears the language. These pictures are never reality. They appear so lifelike that he
unveiled, and maybe even to simply rush up the steps. It is not quite as simple as that despite all its
Also, when many think that they see or hear Christ, this is a great delusion; for due to the great gulf
Every step in a man's existence demands to be really experienced in full earnestness, with the full
further and remains bound at a certain point, and he must go back to make up for what he missed before
the unhealthy habit of always reaching beyond himself, because he imagines himself to be more than
the beyond, he will take with him a gap which he canonly fillon earth. Thus he cannot ascend any
he can think about any further serious ascent. Here too everything is quite simple and natural, merely a
finally to collapse, unless one returns in time in order to mend the faulty spot through further experience,
and to make it firm and secure. This applies to all happenings. Unfortunately, however, man has acquired
the beyond, he loses more than he gains. As soon as the time arrives for him to continue his maturing in
capacity always to grasp the present moment. Neglecting to do this causes a slackening which makes
And if a clairvoyant or clairaudient person neglects his earthly task in his eagerness to penetrate into
Will! The Son of God cannot come to afternoon tea in a spiritist circle in order to favor and please the
itself felt ever more acutely further along on the path, until eventually it will lead to a breakdown and
caused by the lack of homogeneity, this would be utterly impossible in the Creation Laws of the Divine
move about in the beyond with such assurance and confidence as to see and hear everything there
himself cannot distinguish between what is only shown to him and what he really experiences, because an
is actually the case, and this leads to many an error.
visitors there anymore than great prophets or higher spirits can.
clairaudient people imagine they are on a much higher plane during their excursions into the beyond than
necessary consequence of what lies behind, which can never, ever be turned aside.
It is not granted to any human spirit during his earth-life, who is still bound up in flesh and blood, to
naturalness. Everything remains subject to the immutable laws.
act of will of a stronger spirit can create such lifelike pictures. Thus it happens that many clairvoyant and
what he actually is.

There have been many enquiries about the meaning of my expressions gross matter and ethereal matter.
order to play a part in the development of the inner core in thecoarsest sense; for in reality there are
The different species of matter lie on top of each other as the lowest part or as the very end of
together these form a halo of radiations which is already recognized today and simply called Od or aura.
according to the condition of the body, i.e., the cloak or form, is quite entirely different. Therefore it is
strongly represented will naturally always predominate. And that which predominates will in turn exert
the greatest influence upon the inside as well as upon the outside.
inventions will enable him to see. As for example everything he can see through a microscope. Gross
physically. This includes what he can see with the help of material aids, and with whatever further
into this combination animated by animistic substantiality, this combination quite naturally becomes
gradually in order to make it easy for serious seekers to penetrate the Laws of Creation.
benefit and ascent, not to its detriment and downfall.
bondedandcombinedthroughanimisticsubstantialityinmultipleways.Theresultantbondsand
As I have already mentioned, the different species of mattercannot be blended, but they can be
kinds which are fundamentally different from each other, and which thereforenever blend with each
species of matter. And it is only this, in turn, which provides the fertilesoil for thespirit! Animistic
animisticsubstantialitybeforethespiritdescendsintoit.Thecoveringsautomaticallyenvelopit
Gross matter comprises everything that man can see with his physical eyes, and what he can feel and hear
means of development for everything that is spiritual, which as a germ, immerses itself as into a fertile
animistic substantiality. As soon as the spirit, i.e., that which is spiritual, descends for its development
field. Just as a seed of grain needs the soil in which to germinate and grow.
spirit must be decisive for the combination of radiations; for in it the radiation of the kind of matter most
combinationsproduce heat and radiations.Each individualspeciesof matter thus producesits own
up to now. Not even a tenth of its real purpose has been suspected as yet!
The World of Matter is as nothing unless it is permeated by animistic substantiality. What we have
specific radiation which blends with the radiations of the other species with which it is combined, and
Thus every stone, every plant and every animal has its own radiation which one can observe and which,
The combination of radiations is of much greater significance than mankind has been able to discover
Creation. As with every sphere in Creation, it begins with the lightest species at the top and continues
been looking at now, however, was only the combination of animistic substantiality with the various
substantiality binds, combines and animates the World of Matter, while the spirit controls all matter with
The quality of the halo of radiations is decisive for the wave strength which has to receive vibrations
Matter with its various strata remains inactive and helpless in and of itself. Not until it is penetrated
Dominion is therefore bestowed upon the spirit in the most natural way. It is sad if it misuses or
and bound together by the animistic substantiality which lies above it, does it receive warmth and vitality
many more things which contribute to the overall activity in Creation which I may only explain very
It is not difficult to understand that that kind of matter which predominates in the covering of the
other.
also possible to observe disturbances in this aura and recognize points of disease in the cloak.
abuses it!The actual tools of the spirit for itsdevelopment in the World of Matterconsist of the
radiations just mentioned. The soil needed for its development has already been carefully prepared by the
protectively, and it is the spirit’s task to make proper use of this equipment, which it is given to use for its
downwards ending with what is heaviest and densest. All of these kinds of matter serve merely as a
and serve as the coverings or bodies of a great variety of forms and species.
but at the same time forms a connecting bridge to its broader environment. It also affects the inside in
This aura gives each form or body a special environment which constitutes protection and defense,
subordinated to it thus also including the animistic substantiality.
matter is only a specific kind of Matter. The great field of all that is Matter, however, comprises several
from the system of radiations of the entire universe. The hearer and reader should not superficially pass over this concept, but penetrate deeply into it, then he will suddenly see all the nerve-strands of Creation
When I speak of gross matter and ethereal matter it must not be assumed that ethereal matter is to
species determines the colors. Herein lies the lost key to thetrue royal art of astrology, the key to
Absolute harmony must also prevail in the composition of the radiations of the human body in order
through ignorance.
deepened knowledge of healing with herbs as well as to the controversial art of physical and spiritual
However, the body as well as the spirit must become strong as soon as one begins to pay attention to
varieties of radiant colors. These colors in turn entail ringing sounds that blend into harmonious chords. It
is not the sounds that have colors, but colors have sounds. This refers to the colors of radiations, not to the
before you can stand upright and free.
and thereby normal, for only what is favorable is the normal condition.
dead colors applied by human hands. Dead in comparison to the colors of radiations.
Man can imagine what effect the choice of foods alone has upon this system of radiations. Through
presumption of knowledge. The false burden must first be cast from your shoulders, from your spirit,
radiations derived from the various cloaks given to it. Until the sexual power awakens the process is the
spread out before him, which he should learn to tap into and make use of.
healing magnetism, the key to the art of living and also to the step-ladder of spiritual ascent. For the
unfavorable or hampering in their effect, so that that radiation predominates which is favorable to him
to provide the spirit with fully adequate means for its protection, development and ascent, such as are
species thereof will transmit it in a modified form. Thus the different nature and compositions of the
You who are seeking reach into the meshes of this network of radiations! Consciously, but with good
everything, all knowledge and the last secrets in Creation.
volition, and humbly acknowledging your God Who provided this wonderful Creation which you may
All this, however, cannot of itself bring about ascent nor lead to it, rather it only provides a healthy
He may form an image of the primordial power being poured over the Work of Creation in the form
soil for the full activity of the spirit, to the volition of which it is reserved to determine whether the road is
everything is diseased in this respect. Nothing can be called healthy.
changed one-sidedly, which calls for a readjustment if there is to be any possibility of ascent at all. Today
of radiation! It streams through Creation, through every part and every species. And every part and every
strengthening or perhaps weakening certain radiations or by shifting the predominant ones, if they are
whole of Creation thus presents a wonderful picture of the most glorious color-radiations such as no
thrown open, and an immediate connection is established. It now comes into contact in many and varied
ways with the powers of the radiations in the great Universe!
As the human being, i.e., the spirit develops and controls the colors of his own radiations so, as with
absorption may also be called attraction, or the Power of Attraction of Homogeneous Species. Regardless
to lead upwards, sideways, or downwards.
same as with a baby. Through their radiations the material cloaks absorb only what they need in order to
of what it is called the process as such remains the same. The colors merely indicate the species, and the
physical activity, and in general through lifestyle choices in many ways, these radiations have been
a radio, he attunes his own vibrations to these same colors and absorbs those from the Universe. The
painter could reproduce. And every part of Creation itself, every star, indeed every single object, be it
use. And the meshes of this network of radiations in Creation constitute the rungs of this ladder. In it lies
ever so small and tiny, resembles a finely-cut prism which transmits every ray it receives in multiple
these things. At present, however, grievoussins are committed almosteverywherein these matters
mature. When the sexual power sets in, however, the spirit stands fully equipped, the gates are then
master as a child at play, providing you at last have anhonest volition and throw off your arrogant
different parts of Creation produce changes in the Primordial Radiation which also alter its color. The
meaning of this step-ladder, the so-called Stairway to Heaven, is nothing but a simple tool which one is to
Confronting this magnificent realm of radiations there stands the human spirit with its equipment of
meant for it in the normal course of development in Creation. In particular through choices in foods, in
thechoiceoffoodsforhisnourishmentmanmayhelphisbodytoacquiretherightbalanceby
mean a refinement of gross matter. Ethereal matter is a completelydifferent species and of different consistency. It can never become gross matter, but it forms a transitional step in the upward direction.
then next to it a living man in the fullness of his vigor and activity. If he had no conception of man he
on earth would hardly suffice for more if I were to give broader explanations. Others will come who will
involves a concept of space.
I permit, as I have done hitherto, one thing to issue steadily from the other in the course of coming
Every hearer can then have access to the entire Creation for himself.
ethereal conditions. Indeed, the conception of time and space is to be found in the whole of Creation, but
Furthermore, both ethereal matter and gross matter represent coverings only, which must be combined by
Since, as I have mentioned before, ethereal matter is of adifferent nature from gross matter, this
fact absolutely guarantees a complete solution and a clear overview. In my lectures I now offer the key!
exhaustive. Therefore I wish to state here and now that, besides conscious and unconscious spirituality
be able to write one or even several books about each one of my lectures. I cannot spend my time on it
Ethereal Matter there is also a conception of time and space, but it is of a different nature and adjusted to
“beyond time and space!”
Creation, which has led to great misunderstandings, to contradictions and doubts in the uniformity of the
I would be proceeding too fast. Moreover I have often been told that I offer only the gist of a subject,
I want to explain the basic foundations of Creation.
animistic substantiality so that they can be animated by it.
Since so far I have had to speak in broad outline, I shall now slowly turn to the new things. Otherwise
which is not so easily understandable to the general public. However, I cannot act differently if I am to
bring everything I still have to say. We would have to end with only one fourth completed, for a lifetime
now.
Moving on to address these laws I must point out that the above gradationsare by no means
would not recognize the skeleton in the living man and might even claim that the two do not belong
The hearer and reader will probably feel like a creature to whom I first show a human skeleton and
attempt to follow only step by step. —
distinct nature. These currents of energy are again only the immediate environment adjoining the activity
One thing follows the other in order to combine with what already existed before and create ever new
beginning will not be able to grasp the entire Creationwhen I come to the last explanations. He must
Laws of Creation and of the Divine Will, and also to the belief in arbitrary acts by the Creator. Basically,
they are alwaysinfluenced by the particularCreationspeciesand are subject to itscharacteristics!
This always referred to the transcendental. But in moving forward we must from today on say: Life
It is the same with all the basic laws which uniformly permeate the entire Creation; in their effects
Therefore the effects of a particular law must manifest themselves differently in the various sections of
in the World of Ethereal Matter “stands above earthly conceptions of time and space” for in the World of
I shall postpone going into these subjects in detail until much later, as it would, at present, only divert
activity. There is more, much more, the further we analyze and go into details.
Given all at once it would result in a work the many-sidedness of which might confuse people. But if
instances used popular terms, which I must now expand. This, for instance, includes the expression:
decades, it will be easy to follow and finally to survey everything calmly, consciously and quite clearly. It
however, everything was only a result of man’s ignorance about Creation itself.
different species of matter and contributing to their development and progress, each according to its own
together, or at least are not the same. And so it will be with those who do not calmly follow my
which followed from and was consistent with logic could come into being. There is nothing else. And this
gradations. Everything, however, can be explained logically, because after the First Creation only that
implies something I have not touched upon so far. In order not to cause confusion I have hitherto in many
explanationsto theend. He who doesnotearnestly and persistently striveto understandfrom the
will be easy for him who wishes to follow me this far. To start with, before I touch on all the finer points,
it is always bound up with the nature of the species concerned! Creation itself has its limits and thus
andanimisticsubstantiality,currentsofenergy ofvariouskindspenetrateCreation,animatingthe
of spiritual and animistic substantiality or, better put, which, in preceding them, prepare their field of
the attention of the hearer and reader and confuse them. I will give this information as soon as it becomes necessary for a further understanding. No gaps will remain.

Let us take a closer look at all those people who today are seeking a spiritual leader with special
The former veneration and preservation of a natural gulf and sharp demarcation towards their God
many people in a strange way. They formed a false picture of it. As usual, this was due to their wrong
without effort. His words must be so chosen that their rightness will immediately convince one and all.
they can find no entrance into the Light, because they cannot free themselves in time from the sphere of
shaken down from his precarious perch, perhaps man will then once again come to his senses. But for him
men. It is his duty to convince men, to awaken them! After all, Christ even gave His life.
Wherever one turns there is nothing but presumption to be found in all things, but no humility. Proper
Many now think that life can continue in the same old way, as it has done for thousands of years.
being, and as such to begin his ascent.
tree, and upon whom he looked down so haughtily, have probably arrived at the summit.
As soon as man must exert himself and think for himself, then the leader is not a proper leader. For if
But how do they imagine this leader to be! It is really pathetic.
There are also many people who only demand and expect God to run after them. Inasmuch as He had
On calm observation we notice a great many factions. Christ’s Mission, for instance, affected so
everything themselves, and with a little effort even become Divine.
But events will come to his aid; for in the very near future the tree will tumble. When he is so roughly
The leader will surely not awaken them, but will let them sleep quietly on until the gate is closed and
Today, spiritually puffed up, he is sitting in a tree at the foot of the mountain, instead of standing
eagerness, and who, inwardly uplifted, are awaiting him. In their opinion they themselves are already
Meanwhile, however, all those who went their way calmly and sensibly on the ground beneath his
Light for each individual! He must exert himself to build bridges to the path of the Truth for the adherents
self-assessment, their hubris.
God!
acknowledge the “and work”, “work on yourself” part.
contributing any kind of effort of their own. Although they accepted the “pray” part, they refused to
near to Him, indeed that He probably even needs them!
with both feet firmly and securely on the ground. Therefore he will never be able to climb the mountain
ofevery religious faith!He must make it so easily comprehensible that everyone can understand it
have been replaced on the one hand by plaintive begging, and always wanting only to receive without
Those who think in this way today, and there are many who do, need not begin to trouble themselves,
Ontheotherhand,peopleimaginetheyaresoself-reliant,soindependent,thattheycando
self-assessment is lacking.
already once sent His Son, He proved thereby how greatly concerned He is that mankind should draw
it will then be high time; he has not a single hour left to waste.
unless he first climbs down or falls from the tree.
thoroughly spiritually prepared to recognize him and to hear his word!
For man is not as valuable as he has imagined himself to be. God does not need him, but he needs his
for they are like the foolish virgins, they face the “too late!”
matter, for which the word of the leader showed them the way.
he is called to lead and to show the right way through his word, he must naturally also exert himself for
Since in their so-called progress mankind today no longer know what they really want, they will at
It is first of all necessary for man to descend from his artificial height in order to really be a human
Stretched out comfortably in their armchairs, they are awaiting a strong leader.
In the first place they expect or, correctly put, demand that he should prepare the way upward to the
last have to experience what they shall do! These types of people will pass by seeking or arrogantly criticizing, just as at that time so many
He who is capable of serious reflection, however, will immediately recognize that just this strict and
entangled in spiritual indolence, need for their salvation! By demanding spiritual alertness right from the
things which are on the same level as they are?
never lay claim to any height, and are therefore almost worthless.
For example to these, a basic requirement for proof of leadership is that a leader must possess...
themselvesincreasinglyandbecameacrobatsincircusesandvarietyshows.Theirskillgrew
give!
immunity from catching cold! Someone who catches cold is per se disqualified; for in their opinion this
Poor, ignorant men! He who trains his body so one-sidedly that it is rendered temporarily insensitive
uncompromising demand for careful thinking contains what is best and what mankind, already so deeply
in the Divine Laws. Here, too, men receive exactly according to their actual volition.
indicate great progress, which in reality they do not. Such learned and cultivated skills, or even such a
under the power of the spirit is by no means great or outstanding. Those who admire him are like the
children of former times, who watched with open mouth and shining eyes the antics of traveling clowns,
mundane trifles with his spirit.
Yet they are perfectly serious about it.
And a great many so-called spiritual seekers or God-seekers of today are no further advanced in the
Yet people now look forsuch acrobatic feats in thespiritual field as the standard by which to
happenings! They are spiritual stunts, nothing more, interesting to the individual, but utterly useless to
Yet there are a great many that carry matters much further in this respect, to the point of absurdity.
does not befit an ideal leader. A strong leader must definitely and first of all be completely above such
There are thousands who assume at any rate that clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, etc.,
mankind as a whole!
easily separates the grain from the chaff already at the outset. An automatic working lies in this, as it does
Is that the way to help man to ascend, by showing them, or teaching them to see and hear ethereal
during his performances, what do they take away from such hours? Nothing whatever. For even at the
Let us consider a little further: The vagrants of olden times, of whom I have just spoken, developed
Naturally these have formed an entirely different picture of a leader, as can be gleaned from reports.
ever renewed amazement, inwardly thrilled.
passed Him by for whose coming everything had already been prepared through the revelations.
spiritual field than the children of bygone days were in this quite earthly field!
How can one possibly envisage a spiritual leader thus!
It is no less grotesque, however, for they expect him to be... a spiritual acrobat!
This may sound contrived and ridiculous; but it is only based on facts, and suggests a faint repetition
of the former cry: “If Thou be the Son of God, save Thyself and come down from the cross.” — — They
tremendously, and even now thousands of sophisticated people watch such performances every day with
It is easy to understand that all such people wish for a leader who is like them, only more skilled.
natural gift, can never rise above this terrestrial globe, and thus they operate only within low limits, can
This has nothing to do with the actual ascent of the spirit. And just as little to do with earthly
Yet, do theygain anythingfor themselves from it? Although many an acrobat even risks his life
and were filled with a burning desire to emulate them.
He will concede not one inch of concession to mankind, and will demand wherever he is expected to
beginning, together with an earnest volition and self-exertion for the understanding of his words, a leader
circuses. They will always serve only to amuse, but never lead to any advantage for mankind.
are already calling out the same today, before such a leader is even in sight!
peak of perfection all these things will always remain strictly limited to the scope of variety shows and
But there is yet another class of people who fancy themselves particularly alert!
measure the great leader!Let such people keep their spiritual clowns! They will soon enough experience where this leads!
All such training is one-sided, and one-sidedness produces only what is unhealthy and diseased!
part of the development of the spirit. But if it is weakened and suppressed it cannot be of much use to the
earthly experiencing. But the spirit then lacks this experience, and enters the beyond while still immature.
Every false leader, however, will have to undergo bitter experiences! His ascent in the beyond can
They have in reality no ideawhat they are actually pursuing thereby. They imagine: only he is great
And if this is what a leader does or advises to do, he is not worthy of being a leader; for he is thereby
to him, and he must strive to achieve a healthy harmony between spirit and body. To disturb this through
doesn’t have even the faintest idea of what actually takes place in the beyond, still less of the complete
suffering serious damage.
body, as in a similar way, fear of the dentist can suppress pain. The body may be able to withstand
transgressing the Natural Laws in Creation. Man on earth is to cherish his body as a possession entrusted
They will come soon enough to the painful recognition of their folly.
unharmed such intense stimulation once, perhaps even several times, but not in the long run without
effectiveness in the World of Matter is thereby lost, since he definitely needs the strength of a physical
its development! He is even a detriment to the spirit.
body which is not suppressed but in harmony with the spirit! He who is called master on such grounds is
of his task on earth, asin the World of Matter in general. The full power of the spirit as regards its
sooner from the maltreated body, which can no longer provide the strong healthy resonance needed for
It will have to live its earth-life once again. These are spiritual stunts, nothing more, performed at the
only begin when the very last of all those whom he has held back or even led astray by spiritual trifling
These things do not strengthen the spirit, but only weaken the body! The balance necessary for healthy
If a man wishes to suppress an illness he must spiritually produce the pressure of an ecstasy on the
one-sided suppression is neither progress nor ascent, but an absolutely incisive obstacle to the fulfillment
expense of the earthly body, which should in reality help the spirit. For a time the body is a necessary
whose spirit so controls his body that it no longer suffers illness!
harmony between body and spirit is disturbed, and as a result such a spirit finally severs itself much
has come to recognition. As long as his books and writings continue to influence men on earth, he will be
held fast in the next world, even if in the meantime he has come to a better understanding there.
Matter.
He who recommends occult training gives men stones instead of bread, thereby proving that he
spirit; for its radiations are too feeble to provide the full power that the spirit needs in the World of
less than a pupil who knows nothing whatever of the tasks of the human spirit, or of what is required for
world mechanism!

MaxInDHouse:


Just joking.
What do you mean by LIGHT?

Showing the way to live aright in a world filled with darkness

Continued from last week.
Check previous lecture!

Do we not often hear today the horrified question: How could God allow such years of tribulation?
even than God Himself? What all is contained in this human presumption.
Nowadays, many a person often thinks: If tribulation and destruction are to be expected in order to
Word came! Mankind had its free will, and the majority then decided to reject and repudiate this Word!
But He was, and is, and remains perfect, regardless of man’s opinion.
which is borne by Love. And these Laws take effect according to how man comports himself therein.
tolerating everything, and ultimately even offering generous forgiveness. It must produce a pathetic
Love concern the human spirit. Material substance has nothing whatever to do with this. It is only formed
destroyed unless man at last adapts himself to them, which means obeying them, through which alone he
They can connect him with the proximity of his God, or they form a dividing wall that can never be
merely conceal an utterly hollow presumption. They would only scourge him and throw him into prison!
Already two thousand years ago a preacher of repentance led the way and was followed on his heels
by the human spirit itself, and has no life without spirit.
but which really are not.
the magnetic power of Its radiance should gradually become extinct. —
Where does love, where does justice come in? The question is asked by mankind, by nations, often by
theway through to theendin the way maninsistson portrayingIt!Withoutpersonal atonement,
Why do you so often torment yourselves with mere earthly trifles which you perceive as being sins
Today, however, nothing will occur in the same way as it did at the time of Christ! At that time the
decision as it was made at that time. Thereafter men found all the fruits of their own volition on their self
And all those who wish to disentangle the Word from the clinging vines must soon perceive how
willing, however, is not thought-activity, but the deepest intuitive perception, the actual volition within
warnings? Do the conditions in Russia and in China not speak a serious language? Even lamentations
by the Word Incarnate. But mankind tried hard to efface and obscure the pure luster of the Word, so that
in advance. Man must certainly be forewarned. Where is John the Baptist to proclaim what is to come?
Love which hitherto has been so misunderstood!
On calm reflection you must stumble over a thousand obstacles, and can come to a conclusion only
result! Does man consider himself so precious that his God should suffer under this? Thus more precious
His Forgiveness lies in Justice. In nothing else. And in this unconditional Justice also lies the great
him on earth. Divine Love goes far beyond this, because it governs the entire existence.
desperately messengers from the Darkness try to prevent any joyful awakening!
can find his salvation, his happiness. It is cast in one perfect piece; the great Work shows no flaws, no
enemies! But heedlessly man goes on dancing frivolously and ignoring all the suffering and misery of his
families and the individual human being! Should this not rather prove to him that God’s Love is after all
from Germans in the nearby border regions can be heard often enough under the scourge of their, our
man, which alone can set in motion the Laws of the beyond, and indeed does so automatically.
Rid yourselves of the habit of measuring according to earthly standards. God’s Justice and God’s
Divine Love cannot be degraded by men; for in It lie the inexorable Laws of His Will in Creation,
bring about a great purification, then God must be so just as to send out preachers calling for repentance
different from what many would like to imagine? Just try to visualize the all-forgiving Love of God all
From that time on-wards they were subject to the Laws, which were automatically linked to the free
Do open your eyes and ears! Aren’t the increasing natural phenomena and catastrophes sufficient
Only what the spirit wills in any action is decisive for the Divine Laws in Creation. This spiritual
fellow-men! He does not want to see and hear!
when you belittle God and make Him imperfect.
Divine Love effects only what benefits every human spirit, not what pleases and seems agreeable to
gaps. Any fool or simpleton who would have it otherwise will smash his head thereby. —
These are unfortunate ones who think themselves so great in their empty-mindedness! Such cries
chosen paths. Soon the cycle will close. Things are piling up ever more, rising like a wall which will soon collapse
to those living there, making it possible for them to rise to the earth through the power of attraction of
more convenient form more pleasant. He not only burdens himself with the guilt of falsification and
way.Thusthey suffermutually,whichleadsto maturingbut not tofurther guilt.For through the
Man has now disrupted this normal course in all development through the base use of his free will,
by making it more convenient or acceptable. He will not be helped when his hour of retribution comes.
misleading but in addition he also bears the entire responsibility for those who he was able to pull along
happening. The Divine Laws of which man so much likes to form a wrong picture will then take effect
It is just in the frightfulness of the times, the worst which the earth has ever experienced, that
because ultimately they only recognize themselves for what they really are, and come to abhor their
permitted to see and warn against in his Revelation.
their unclean volition they have built many bridges to dark spheres which are far below this earth-plane.
Since luminous souls must retreat before the Darkness wherever the latter has gained a firm foothold,
But woe unto him who, in order to attract followers, falsifies or alters the Truth, because men find a
This is how it was meant to be. But through men’s wrong volition things developed differently!
baseness, which abhorrence helps towards improvement.
with which he formed ethereal bridges to the region of Darkness, so that those who had sunk there could
And when the great purification begins man will have no time to rebel this time, or even to stem this
it was easy for the darker souls, who had unjustly come to the earth-plane, to sometimes incarnate where
of their rising to this earth-plane.
to an earnest volition to do better.
indulgence strikes only those of a similar nature whose base way of living in turn affects them in the same
All who once rejected the Word at the time of Christ are today reincarnated on this earth to settle
time of fulfillment, they will naturally no longer have the free choice!
otherwise only a luminous soul would have entered. In such a case the dark soul has found an anchorage
presumed to ascribe to It.
More than half of all the men living at the present time do not belong on this earth at all!
Indeed, it is far worse, for a wrong belief keeps one back from grasping the Truth.
For on the earth-plane, where through the medium of gross matter they can live together with those
God and His Creation, and does not exert himself to grasp It more purely, hasnot absorbed Itat all.
accounts. Now they no longer have the right to be forewarned, and to decide again. In the two thousand
humanity will at last learn that God’s Love is far removed from the softness and weakness which man
intended for them in the normal course of world events.
who are more luminous and better, they only do harm and thereby burden themselves with fresh guilt.
In these dark spheres live those who have sunk low, whose ethereal weight never permitted the possibility
Now they must reap what they sowed at that time, as well as on their subsequent wrong paths.
In this was contained a protection both for all those living on earth as well as for these dark ones
suffering, self-loathing may awaken in time and with it the desire to escape from this region. The desire
vent to their passions, and all baseness, without doing harm. On the contrary. There, their unrestrained
years they have had time enough to change their minds! Also he who accepts a wrong interpretation of
and crash down upon mankind, which goes on living unsuspectingly in spiritual apathy. Finally, at the
themselves. They are separated by the natural Law of Ethereal Gravity. Down below they can give full
Through their dark volition men built a bridge to the region of Darkness. Thus they held out a hand
Already for thousands of years men have sunk so low, and live in such dense darkness, that through
This they cannot do in their lower regions; for to their homogeneous kind the depravity is only beneficial,
gradually leads to an agonizing despair, which may finally lead to the most fervent prayers and therewith
similar species. Here they naturally also found the opportunity for a fresh incarnation, which was not yet
inexorably.
be thrown onto the earth-plane like a mob, which now joyfully populates the greater part of it.
He will fall into the abyss from which there can be no return, and rightly so! This too John was
through some person near the expectant mother, enabling it to assert itself and push aside the light soul, even when mother or father belong to the more luminous ones.
Thus one can recognize it only as Love when at last the final effect of the Laws sweeps away from
clarity that in his present degenerated state he does not even represent a shadow of Divinity. The whole
which they belong according to their nature. Thus they can no longer hinder the ascent of the more
having the full strength of defense behind him. That he attracted dangers which in the natural course of
treasure of earthly knowledge that he has laboriously accumulated over these thousands of years will then
Only then can this humanity really think of an ascent. That will also be the time when everything that
and Lord! Do not attempt to sacrilegiously raise yourself to the level of God! — —
degrade Him to the same level as that occupied by man, a level which until now he has never even
up in humble prayer.
This also clears up the puzzle of how so many black sheep could come to good parents. However, if
the earth-plane in full justice those who do not belong here, so that they fall into that realm of Darkness to
doubt will vanish which today prevents the human spirit from recognizing that Divinity is not in him, but
revealed. Then many a self-complacent person will be terrified to realize that he is standing on the brink
luminous ones, nor burden themselves with fresh guilt, but perhaps they can still, after all, mature through
but far worse, making himself a pernicious creature!
reflect upon his own divinity, if he can!
recognize. Thus he heedlessly overlooked all reality, not only making himself quite useless in Creation,
It is not an error, but a sin when a human spirit professes a wish also to be Divine. Such presumption
In the end, brought about through his own wrong attitude, it will be proved to him with incredible
whom she associates, this cannot happen.
high above him. That it can only stand as the purest image on the altar of his inner life, to which he looks
of an abyss and, being misguided, is swiftly gliding downwards when he proudly imagined himself
already to be ascending and nearing the Light! He will realize that he opened protective gates without
of his one-sided earthly aspirations become useless and sometimes even a curse to him.Then let him
organizations formed around them, will collapse upon themselves! Previous wrong paths will thus be
A mighty voice will sound forth and compel him: Down on your knees, creature, before your God
prove before his horrified gaze to be as nothing; helpless, he will experience within himself how the fruits
spiritual arrogance will be eradicated in every human creature with terrible relentlessness. Then every
The time will certainly come when the hearts ofall men will be seized with an iron grip, when
must cause his fall; for it is equivalent to an attempt to tear the scepter from the Hand of his God, and
disgust at their own experiences.
fulfilled, because he wanted to be more, and aspire to heights which he can never possibly reach, nor even
does not stand on a sound foundation will collapse. Sham forms of existence, false prophets and the
an expectant mother pays more attention to herself and her immediate surroundings, and to those with
The self-willed indolence of the human spirit cannot continue.
events he would have passed over. Happy is he who then finds the right way back!

MaxInDHouse:
NEPA turned to PHCN turned to.......

I don't understand

donbachi:
Alot of people don't really know their place spiritually and those that it's made known to are not ready to embrace it.

Such a pathetic state of things

FahBuLous:
Doggy

What do you mean

Like deepest night, ethereal darkness has blanketed this earth! For avery long time already. So dense and
The consequences of the volition of the majority were bound to bring this ending. It is the time which
Night is all around. Yet in the deepest distress, when everything, even that which is better is in
And man does not recognize it. Spiritual indolence blinds him to this fateful happening.
must come to loathe themselves. Those who with sneers and apparent impunity have hitherto been able to
Those who so rebel are simply cowards, who would like nothing better than to hide from themselves,
oxygen, loses its power, quickly fades and collapses in on itself. Dreadful is this ethereal condition, now
In the course of my travels I could see that a firebrand was hurled among indolent human spirits with
is actually taking place continually. And this is the environment that awaits men when they must leave
firm is the suffocating embrace that every ascending light-perception is like a flame which, without
from sheer horror, be deprived of all hope of salvation! —
content.
hinder the upward striving ones will become silent and more pensive, until finally, whimpering, they will
That is the state of affairs on earth today. It is not a picture that I am unfolding, but life! Since all
for a helping hand can not be offered to all those who pursue base ends! They shall fall headlong into
silent, mute, eerie choking.
made to discover God within oneself, thus ultimately to become God!
Not everyone can bear to be exposed to the Light of Truth, which clearly and mercilessly shows up
tenacious swamp, in which everything disappears without a sound. It is no longer a struggling, but only a
Then it will not be so easy for them; they will be relentlessly led through the millstones of the
danger of sinking, at that same time a new dawn will break! But the dawn will first bring on the labor
themselves against It, because they only wish to hear soothing and reassuring words that seem pleasant to
John was once permitted to behold, when God hides His face.
those terrible depths where alone they can still hope for an awakening through such torments that they
are now developing at an amazing speed.
this earth, and cannot be led upwards to the more luminous and beautiful regions.
my Word, which declares that no man can lay claim to Divinity; while just at this time many efforts are
them!
without direct help from the Light, because humanity through their volition forced it upon themselves.
beg for the Truth.
pains of a great purification, which is unavoidable before the salvation of all serious seekers can begin;
Therefore the time draws near when for a while this earth must be left to the reign of the Darkness,
And all this has been brought on through the fault of men themselves. Through the fault of their
manifesting its worst effects. Anyone permitted to glimpse these happenings for even five seconds would,
Hence uneasiness frequently arises through my Word, with mankind rebelliously seeking to defend
only to remain in the darkness, where they can indulge in sweet and peaceful dreams to their heart’s
It is like an entanglement which is followed by inevitably being sucked up. Sucked up into the sultry,
ethereal matter bears forms, created and animated through men’s intuitive perceptions, such a happening
But all the time the swamp is sending forth its poisonous emanations, which slowly weary those who
With smiles, derision or with hostility such people would like to prevent the coming of the day when
the defects and stains on their garment.
propensity for what is base. Here mankind has been its own worst enemy. Now even those few who are
inexorable Laws of Divine Justice, until in experiencing they come to the recognition of their errors.
again earnestly striving upwards are also in danger of being swept into the depths, towards which others
are still strong and alert, so that they too will fall asleep and, lacking strength, perish.
But the Darkness grows ever denser.
the feet of clay supporting that flimsily constructed idol, their “ego” will be clearly revealed. Such fools only play masquerade games with themselves, which will be relentlessly followed by the gray of Ash
jubilant gratitude for the inexpressible mercy he has always shown towards the arrogant creatures.
sentimentally weak and degradingly indulgent as mankind would like It to be! They want to build up a
This is the most supreme happiness for the human spirit, this crown of all Creation. The eternal ones
for a few seconds, thereby setting free the purity of the intuitive perception, thus immediately forming the
who go on condemning a person even after he has atoned for some trivial offense; and by such thoughts
those people who picture the highest ideal of Divine Love as simply enduring silently and also forgiving
However, this time no amount of rebellion will be of any use to them!
bridge to the homogeneous purity that animates Paradise!
And this happiness can already be enjoyed by man on earth. It is quite right to say that in deeply
is despised. Just reflect what a monstrous indignity this implies!
Men would like their sins to go unpunished, and then finally even to please their God by allowing
narrow-mindedness, unpardonable laziness, or the realization of their hopeless weakness in summoning
Then you perceive His nearness in the same way as it is constantly experienced by the eternal Pure
If it returns to the Spiritual Realm after having gone through the mills of the World of Matter, it
fully conscious of the nearness of their great God, in Whose Power they stand, while realizing as a matter
consciousness of God’s nearness as a claim to possessing a spark of divinity becomes sacrilege.
solemn moments earth-man senses the nearness of his God. However, using this wondrous bridge of the
and Love in turn lies only in Justice. In this alone lies Divine Forgiveness.
by the stirring of great joy or of deep sorrow pushes everything earthly and low far into the background
false greatness where theywish for weakness, they give a false picture only to deceive and reassure
The churches are right in saying that God forgives everything! And truly forgives! Contrary to men,
of course that they have reached their greatest height, and will never be able to behold God.
in their indolent placidity!
most blissful trust! —
they burden themselves with twice the guilt, because they do not act according to the Will of God. Here
can fully sense the nearness of your God, as often happens in times of deepest sorrow and greatest joy!
Spirits in Paradise, with whom you are closely connected at such moments. The strong vibration caused
human love lacks justice.
pure it is directly connected with the Spiritual Realm and thus with Paradise! At these moments you too
themselves about their own shortcomings, which make them willing servants of the Darkness. Where is
There is within you an altar for the worship of your God. This altar is your intuitive faculty. If this is
everything! They would recognize Divinity in the fact that It tolerates any misbehavior from far lower
stands pure in the Kingdom of its Creator; it matters not what its guilt may have been! It is just as pure as
by the standard of human love? Moreover, how can It be valued even below this human love? Look at
Imagine Divine Love! Crystal clear, radiant, pure and great! Can you then imagine It to be as
The self-idolatry evident in the assertion that there is Divinity in man is a base attempt to grasp at the
creatures, such as only the greatest weakling or the most cowardly human being would do, for which he
good and be comfortable on earth. From the outset they regard anyone as their enemy who disturbs them
inseparable from the utmost severity of Divine Justice. Indeed It is such severity itself. Justice is Love,
This, however, does not depress them, but in the recognition of His unapproachable Majesty they find
the good volition to strive upwards: The one, however, is as reprehensible as the other.
The effect of the Divine Creative Will is to purify every human spirit of its guilt as soon as it strives
Him to forgive their sins without having to atone for them! Such presumption shows either the height of
Wednesday. With their wrong views they really only want to idolize themselves, make themselves feel
upwards, whether through its own experiences or through its voluntary efforts at improvement.
sublimity and purity of your God, thereby defiling what is most holy to you, to which you look up in the
in Paradise live in it continually. It brings the glorious feeling of being safe and secure. They are then
Hand in hand with such a claim goes debasement of Divine Love. How can God’s Love be measured
the freshness and power that unquestionably belong to the crystal purity of Divine Love? Divine Love is
one who has never sinned. But first its path will take it through the effects of the Divine Laws, and in this fact lies the guarantee of Divine Forgiveness, of His Mercy!



To be continued next week Sunday

I again point out that all life in Creation is of two kinds. That which is self-conscious and that which is
things. We need only observe our own environment. It is here that the physical body automatically throws
On this earth takes place the most intense experiencing due to the merging of all species in Creation
This severance of the maturing unconscious is therefore necessary for the spirit which wishes to
Creator. The taking on of form proceeds evenly, hand in hand with the development of consciousness.
increase in consciousness.
enters the Ethereal World. It is awash in these effects. They attract it while also helping it to awaken to
conscious spirit beings. In this unconsciousness, which has the same qualities as consciousness, there lies
of the created species, not the Divine or of the Holy Spirit, which stands above and outside Creation.
become active nor maintain itself there. Thus it not only has the desire to cover its unclothedness in the
unconscious. Consciousness is advancement for all that is unconscious. It is only in the process of
only spiritual in nature, besides the unconscious spiritual substantiality there also exist the first created
road leading downwards. Here, however, they enter the Realm of Animistic Substantiality which is
There too, an automatic casting off takes place at a certain stage of maturity of the unconscious
Here once again it is covered by a necessary cloak of the same kind as its new material environment.
converge. All threads, all roads converge upon this earth as if to a single gathering place. Here they
expulsion.These spiritually unconscious particles which have thus been ejected now form the spirit
not of the same nature as its own i.e. an alien environment and practically unclothed. Being spiritual it
germs of developing human beings!
In the first actual Creation, which stands closest to the Creative Spirit and which can therefore be
substancestrivingtobecomeconscious;thisisaseverancefromtheunconscious,alsocalledan
unconsciousness, a process similar to an earthly birth takes place in the normal and natural order of
which is facilitated by materiality. But again and again, it can always only be through the merging of all
off every fruit that has ripened. Both in man and in beast. Every tree, too, casts off its fruit. This process
This is the process of the expulsion from Paradise as it is figuratively portrayed in the Bible!
needs to clothe itself in an animistic cloak of the same nature as its surroundings. Otherwise it can neither
ripens in tandem with a growing consciousness.
combine and also create new effects, which flare up strongly and hurl power currents into the Universe!
Thus the spirit germ, urging toward consciousness, suddenly finds itself in an environment which is
becoming conscious that the human form evolves, which we understand to be in the likeness of the
dormant the natural urge for further development. This, however, can only take place when there is an
Since these living germs cannot be ejected upwards, i.e., towards perfection, they can only take the
Now the last vibrations of this experiencing on earth stream towards the spiritgerm as soon as it
Nowwhentheurgetobecomeconscioushasincreasedtoacertaindegreeinthisspiritual
feels naked and bare in the denser animistic substantiality. If it is to stay there or advance it naturally
is the repetition of a development which is based in the first Creation, in the socalled Paradise.
Here species from all sections that are otherwise strictly separated, due to their different characteristics,
Such as from no other part of the World of Matter.
The germ of the developing human spirit is now guided along natural paths into the World of Matter.
pursuit of knowledge, as is depicted in the Bible, but here too it is a necessary step in its evolution.
Now the spirit-germ stands at the outer boundary of the Ethereal World.
The earth, however, is that gross material point at which all that rests in Creation comes together.
This process must take place because unconsciousness is without responsibility while responsibility
follow its natural urge and develop towards consciousness. This is progress, not retrogression!
heavier in weight and contains nothing spiritual.
consciousness and development.
Still standing unfettered, that is without guilt, on the threshold of all matter, the spirit-germ perceives the last effects of the vibrations of the strong experiences which take place during the birth and decay of
The coming of man to this earth is comprised of procreation, incarnation and birth. The incarnation,
desire, and the Law of Gravitation causes it to sink further downwards.
With this little body the human soul, as it has developed thus far, now takes on a cover of gross
Such an inner craving immediately increases the density of its ethereal cloak corresponding to that
both of the expectant mother and of the soul preparing to incarnate, also produces a special more earthly
magnetically attracted to a spot where the main substance of its wish is realized by men on earth. If, for
that is, the entrance of the soul, takes place in the middle of pregnancy. The growing state of maturity,
little body, which show themselves in twitchings which are called the first movements of the child. When
TheLawofthePowerofAttractionofHomogeneousSpeciesnowmanifestsitselfmore
happiness in the right ones. At least it has the opportunity to do so.
True experiencing of what lies within it, however, is finally offered only by the gross-material earth!
through this nibbling, the denser becomes the ethereal cloak it bears. As a result its weight also increases,
way binds the soul and the expectant mother ever more tightly, until finally, at a certain maturity of the
bring important periods of inner experiencing which produce a strong power of attraction.
its wishes. Having arrived on this earth-plane, however, it has thereby also become ripe for an earthly
of his living spirit to his children.
its deficiencies! That would be wrong and a punishable injustice!
developing body in the mother’s womb, the soul is literally absorbed by it.
Therefore an expectant mother ought to be very careful whom she allows around her. It has to be
desire.
There is no such thing as spiritual heredity!
things. No child may thank its parents for any spiritual abilities, any more than it may reproach them for
incarnate on earth. The stronger the desire for earthly enjoyments becomes in the spirit-germ awakening
emanate from the father, from the mother, or from anyone in the vicinity of the expectant mother.
one another as a natural consequence. This radiation becomes stronger and stronger and in a demanding
bond. This comprises radiations created by their mutual state of maturity, which irresistibly strive towards
Law of Attraction of Homogeneous Species it is immediately drawn to a homogeneous species stronger
indulge its wish, but is attracted by a person who has a strong craving for power, that is, to one who feels
all matter. The desire then arises within it to take a closer look. As soon as it forms such a wish, however,
and it sinks slowly downwards to the earth-plane where there exists the only opportunity to substantiate
birth.
From this process it is erroneously concluded that characteristics or spiritual abilities are inherited!
The moment when the soul enters, or is being absorbed, naturally brings about the first tremors of the
example, the spirit has the desire to dominate, it is by no means born into circumstances where it can
oppressive, depending on the kind of soul that has entered.
the spirit-germ voluntarily attunes itself to some of these vibrations, be they good or evil. Through the

than its own. It is driven toward a point where the desired species is indulged in more than was its own
This is wrong! Outwardly it may appear to be so. However, in reality a human being can impart nothing
In this matter an error has been fostered that casts its obstructive and confusing shadow over many
Therefore, as it wishes to proceed from nibbling to enjoying, the spirit-germ is further encouraged to
chance acts as spiritual heredity!
this occurs the expectant mother very often experiences a change in her inner feelings. Either uplifting or
No man is in a position to give away even the least particle of his living spirit!
conspicuously. Each of the undeveloped spirits, exactly according to the wish or propensity within it, is
the same way it does and so on. In this manner it can already atone in part for wrong desires or find
This power of attraction of all homogeneous species, which is so important in the birth of a child, can
The wonderful work of Creation is so complete and perfect that it could never allow such arbitrary or
remembered that inner strength lies primarily in weaknesses, not in the outward character. Weaknesses
materiality which is necessary in order to experience, hear, see and feel everything in earthly gross-materiality, and which is possible only with the aid of a cloak or tool ofhomogeneous substance and
nature. Only now can it proceed from nibbling to actual tasting and thenceto discriminating. It is
understandable that the soul must first learn to make use of and control this new body as if it were a tool.


To be continued

OloyeVIII:
TBH, I didn't read sh*t

Why?

If human opinions or human views, including those connected to the subject of earthly justice, are to be
bound to be in stark contrast to Divine Justice.
Much has changed since then. But inevitably the time will also come when one will look with similar
If we look deeper though, we find that the apparently great progress made between then and now lies
be recalled as a warning when handing down sentences today, particularly since those who practiced such
of judgment, which will refuse to lean blindly on the opinions of others but will only accept, think, speak
sensationalism, or by showing prejudice and slandering, which will lead them into regions of suffering
burnings at the stake, the tortures and murders which have to be charged to the accounts of the religious
spoken of, then one must not expect them to be the same as Divine Justice, or even to come near to it. On
having been asleep for so long.
Blessed is he who reaches this height and weighs every judgment he is confronted with, and then acts
to do so.
Man must never forget that he personally must take full and complete responsibility for everything
from right, because this can rarely be perceived clearly by outward appearances, as it really lies deep
whole existence of many a man without the one wielding it being held responsible here on earth, is still
them out, because in so doing they abused the Name of the Perfect God, committing all these crimes in
evils at the time did so enthusiastically, under the pretext of acting in good faith and of having every right
book learning. It is saddening that for this reason so many sentences passed down by earthly courts are
while others, who have hitherto never taken the time to reflect, would be embittered beyond words at
communities; and their reciprocal actions for such crimes must be doubly terrible upon those who carried
from appearances only, ignoring all real life.
him. Indeed no one has the right to rebuke his neighbor because up till now everyone has wrongly judged
horror upon today’s administration of justice, just as with our present state of enlightenment we now look
as of the so-called witch burnings and other juridical crimes. Nor need we touch upon the numerous
certain kind of progress.
merely in the outward forms. The immense power held by some individuals, which cuts so deeply into the
the same in many respects. Nor have men and the motives which dictate their actions changed very much.
If mankind suddenly becameseeing in these matters the result would be one great cry of despair.
for in one way or another each individual would be bound to feel the same burden of guilt oppressing
and act according to its own intuitions!
in accordance with his own intuitions. By so doing he will not become so deeply implicated as thousands
upon the times mentioned above in which so much injustice was done. That is the way of the world, and a
this connection the popular expression “as far apart as heaven and earth” is appropriate in the literal
His Name as if they were supposed to be agreeable to Him, and thereby stamping Him in the eyes of men
If the first ray of Light could penetrate them without them being prepared for it many would despair,
Therefore it is appropriate now to urge man to reflect calmly and to develop his own impartial power
he perceives, thinks and does, even if he has accepted it from others without question!
the contrary, it must unfortunately be said that in most cases they are as far apart as heaven and earth. In
sense. This difference can often be explained as being due to the human intellect, which is limited to
space and time and because of this limitation it is unable to recognize the actual wrong and distinguish it
within each human being, and cannot be sufficiently interpreted by the rigid paragraphs of the law or by
as answerable for them. These abuses and cruelties should not be so quickly forgotten, but should always
be the same.
Horror would come over all peoples. No one would then raise his hand in reproach against his neighbor,
We need not talk about the time of the Middle Ages, of the sad times of excruciating tortures, as well
ofotherswhooftenburdenthemselveswithheavykarmathroughmerethoughtlessnessand
And where the inner life is still the same the reciprocal actions contained in the Divine Judgment will also
and torment they need never have experienced. Thus they often allow themselves to be deterred from a great deal that is really good here on earth, and thereby they not only miss much for themselves but
of and cultivated by this very narrow-mindedness, is indeed its mark of distinction.
mindedness.
above in mind to find out which side is right and which side is wrong. He will find many examples every
man’spresentworldviewshavedevelopedwithdetermininganddevastating effects,whilemen
day.
examine them objectively, whereby they might have recognized their value after all.
their own terrible doom.
upon itself because, in recognizing all the reciprocal actions, it will absorb the Will of God, stand in It and
Only thus could the insane tragedy develop in which, of all men, the Son of God was being charged
And it is from this soil, which has become more and more fertile in the last two thousand years that
mankind the Truth about God and His Will!
which was known to only a few of the malevolent loudmouths, while all the others, who had never come
Thishappeningissogrotesquethatitrevealswithglaringclarityallofmankind’snarrow
and joined in the general outcry. Just as lost are all those who turned their backs on Him because of the
Until now, it has very rarely become clear to anyone how many have attracted the evil effects of
the learned prejudices of faulty views. Thereby a sense of right and wrong will arise which can depend
themselves, without realizing it, continue to get entangled more and more in their views, thus preparing
proud of it until the day when, to their agonizing horror, they will have to face the Truth, which is so
in a laborious struggle with themselves, often lasting decades.
retrogressed even further, in spite of all their other discoveries and inventions.
on earth, and either willfully or through ignorance even burdened himself with new guilt.
Such was the case with the senseless and blazing hatred against Jesus of Nazareth the real reason for
perhaps gamble away everything, even their whole existence.
Then, however, it is too late. The guilt with which they have burdened themselves must be expiated
false opinions of others, and who did not even listen to His words, much less troubled themselves to
He who feels the urge to distinguish between Divine Justice and earthly views in the process of
Soon his own intuitive capacity will unfold more strongly and actively, until he finally casts off all
through their false views. Their number is large and indeed many, with unsuspecting arrogance, are even
entirely different from the conceptions they formed through their convictions.
Excuses never carry any weight in these matters. Everyone can know if he so wishes!
reciprocal actions should make the effort of taking any example from earth-life and examining it with the
reciprocal currents, that is to say, how many, in good faith, have transgressed against the Divine Laws
The way to recognition is long and arduous for a man who has wasted the good opportunity of being
into personal contact with Him, merely worked themselves up into a completely blind and ignorant frenzy
And mankind has by no means progressed inwardly since then, but expecially in this they have
The only thing that advanced because of their outward successes is mankind’s conceit which, borne
withblasphemy and brought to the cross! He Who alone came directly from God and proclaimed to
work in It.