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Men! When the hour comes in which the purification and winnowing must take place on earth, in
accordance with the Divine Will, then watch for the promised, in part supernatural signs in the sky!
Do not then allow yourselves to be confused by those men and also churches who have already long
ago surrendered to the Antichrist. It is sad that until now not even the churches have known where to look
for this Antichrist, although it has already been active among all of mankind for so long. With only a little
alertness they should have recognized it! Who can possibly act in a more anti-Christian manner than those
who at the time fought against Christ Himself and finally even murdered Him! Who could have revealed
themselves in a worse and more obvious way as being the Antichrist!
They were the leaders and representatives of earthly religion; the true teaching of God, as revealed in
and through the Son of God, did not fit into their own structure. Indeed, the true Message of God could
not be reconciled with it, since the structure set up by the earthly priests and dignitaries was aimed
primarily at earthly influence, earthly power and expansion. They proved quite clearly thereby that they
were servants of the human intellect, which is directed solely towards earthly knowledge and earthly
power, and is hostile and obstructive to anything that is beyond earthly comprehension! Now since God
as well as the spiritual remain completely outside the range of earthly intellectual knowledge, it is actually
the intellect which is clearly the only real obstacle! Thus, by its nature, it is opposed to all that is Divine
and all that is spiritual! And therefore, as a logical consequence, so are all those men who accept their
intellect as being the highest and best thing, seeking to build upon it alone!
The religious leaders of those days were afraid of losing influence among the people through the
enlightenment of the Son of God. As everyone today knows, this was the main reason for the slander they
sought to spread against Christ and ultimately for the execution of the Son of God. They nailed Him to
the cross as a blasphemer of the very God Who had sent Him to bring enlightenment, and Whose servants
they professed to be!
How little did they really know this God and the Will of Him Whom they pretended to serve, in
whose honor and earthly defense they, however... murdered this Son of God, the Divine messenger!
This was clearly the disastrous result of the fact that they were slaves of the earthly intellect, which
only fought to maintain its influence. They gave themselves over to the Antichrist as tools and
executioners, having secretly built a throne to him within themselves. For this satisfied their human
weaknesses, such as their presumption, arrogance and vanity.
Whoever expects clearer proof cannot be helped; for there is nothing more in opposition to Christ, the
Son of God, and His Words! And indeed Antichrist signifies the fighter against Christ, against man’s
redemption in God’s Message. The earthly intellect drove them to it! This very intellect, the poisonous
product of Lucifer, is his instrument which has become the greatest danger to mankind! Thus the
disproportionate over-development of the human intellect grew into the hereditary sin for man! Behind
this, however, stands Lucifer himself as the Antichrist in person! He is the one who was able to raise his
head through men! He, the only real enemy of God! He acquired the name of Antichrist through his
hostile struggle against the Mission of the Son of God. None other would have had the strength and the
power to become the Antichrist.
And in his warfare against the Will of God, Lucifer makes use not merely of one man on earth but of
nearly all of mankind, thus leading them to destruction under the effect of the Divine Wrath! Whoever
cannot grasp this most obvious fact, the fact that only Lucifer himself could be the Antichrist who dares to
oppose God, will never be able to understand anything of all that takes place outside the World of Gross
Matter, that is, outside of what is purely earthly. Such a one must already today give himself up as lost.
And as it was then, so is it still today! Indeed it is far worse. Also today many religious
representatives will wish to fight bitterly to maintain the earthly intellectual ordinances hitherto upheld in
the temples and churches.
It is precisely this human intellect, blunting all nobler intuition, which is one of Lucifer’s most
dangerous cultivated outgrowths which he was able to spread among mankind. All slaves to the intellect,
however, are in truth Lucifer’s servants, who are accomplices in the terrible collapse which must thus befall mankind!
Since no one looked for the Antichrist in the intellect, it’s terribly extensive propagation was made so
much easier! Lucifer triumphed; for he thereby cut mankind off from any way of comprehending
anything lying outside the World of Gross Matter. From real life! From the point of first contact with the
Spiritual, which leads to the proximity of God!
With this he set his foot upon this earth as lord of the earth and of the greater part of mankind!
No wonder, then, that he could penetrate all the way to the altars, and that earthly religious
representatives, even those of the Christian churches, were bound to become his victims. For they too
expect the Antichrist just before the predicted Judgment. In this respect the great Revelation in the Bible,
like many other things, has not yet been understood.
The Book of Revelation says that this Antichrist will raise his head before the Judgment! But not that
he is yet to come! If it is said therein that he raises his head, this clearly indicates that he must be here
already, but not that he is yet to come. It means that he will be at the pinnacle of his dominion shortly
before the Judgment!
Listen to this warning call, you who have not yet become spiritually deaf and blind! Make the effort
of thinking very seriously about it yourselves; for this is what is demanded of you now! If you remain
indolent in this respect you give yourselves up as lost!
If one lifts the protective cover from the lair of a poisonous snake which then suddenly realizes that it
has been exposed, it will naturally try to lunge at the ruthless hand in order to bite it.
It is no different here. Finding himself exposed, the Antichrist will quickly protest through his
servants; on being unmasked he will make a great outcry, and try in every possible way to maintain
himself on the throne which mankind so willingly offered him. But all this he can only do through those
who worship him within themselves. Therefore, keep a sharp watch on your surroundings from now on,
as the conflict begins! By their very outcry you will recognize all the more clearly each and every one
who belongs to him! For once again, as they did before, they will walk in fear of and in opposition to a
pure Truth!
The Antichrist will again try desperately to retain his influence on earth. Observe his lack of
objectivity in defense and in offense; for again he will use only slander and suspicion, since his followers
are incapable of doing anything else. It is impossible to confront the Truth and refute It.
Thus the servants of Lucifer will this time call the Messenger of God the Antichrist, a blasphemer,
just as they once did the Son of God! However, everyone must recognize this as a weak defense, lacking
in any logic. How can He be called the Antichrist, who exposes Lucifer and forces his machinations to the
surface. This is but a new form of what was done when they made the Son of God out to be a blasphemer,
for the sole reason that His explanations did not accord with human opinions. Be on the alert wherever
such an attempt is made; for such men only seek therewith to protect Lucifer in order to uphold his reign
on earth. In that place there is a center of Darkness, even if the people tend to appear in bright earthly
garments, even if they are servants of a church.
Do not forget what happened when the Son of God was on earth, but bear in mind that still today the
same Antichrist, with a far greater human following, is striving to retain dominion over the earth, to
escape destruction and to continue to obscure the true Will of God.
Therefore watch carefully for all the promised signs! Each individual must make his final decision.
Salvation or destruction! For this time it is God’s Will that everything which again dares to oppose Him
shall be lost!
Being negligent in this will now be your Judgment! – The Divine Insignia will not appear above a
church, nor will any earthly church dignitary bear the sign that proves that he is the Messenger of God!
But only He Who is inseparably linked with the Signs, Who therefore also carries them with Him, living
and radiating, as once did the Son of God when He dwelt on this earth. They are the Cross of Truth, living
and radiating within Him, and the Dove above Him! They will become visible to all those who are
blessed to see spiritual things, so that they may give testimony to all people on earth; for there will be
among all peoples those who this time will be permitted to “see”, as the last Grace of God! — — —
These Sublime Signs of the Holy Truth can never be affected. Not even Lucifer, who must retreat before these signs, can achieve this, and much less can a human being. Therefore he who still seeks to set
himself against these Divine insignia henceforth opposes God, he is an enemy of God. He proves thereby
that he neither is nor ever was a servant of God, no matter what he has hitherto pretended to be on earth.
Being a slave of the intellect he is a servant of Lucifer, the Antichrist, and together they will now, through
God’s Will, incur the Judgment!
Be on your guard, lest you should also be among such!

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Be on your guard, spirit of man, for your hour has come! The time which you so ardently desired, which
is granted to you for your development, you have spent it only in wickedness!
Beware of your presumptuous intellectual conceit, which has thrown you into the arms of the
Darkness, the Darkness that today holds you triumphantly in its clutches! Based on your own volition!
Look upwards! Your Lord is near! You are standing in the Divine Judgment!
Mankind, wake up from your stupor, from the frenzy which already surrounds you with the sleep of
death. Wake up and tremble. I say woe onto you! You renegades, you who in your narrow-mindedness
and limited outlook swarm around the golden calf of earthly transience, like moths attracted by a
deceptive brightness. It was because of you that Moses, in his wrath of disappointment, once shattered
those tablets of the Laws of your God that were to help you ascend to the Light. This breaking of the
tablets was the living symbol of the fact that the entire humanity did not deserve to have knowledge of
this Will of God, of the Will which they rejected in their wanton behavior and earthly arrogance, in order
to dance round a self-made idol and thereby to pursue their own desires! Now, however, the end is at
hand in the final reaction, the consequences, the retribution! For you will now be smashed by this Will
you once so frivolously rejected!
Therefore awaken, the Judgment is upon you! Neither lamentations nor pleading will help any more;
for you were given thousands of years to come to your senses! But you never had time for that! You did
not want to, and even today, with incorrigible arrogance, you think yourselves much too wise. You do not
want to see that it is just in this that the greatest stupidity reveals itself. Through this, you have in the end
become troublesome vermin in this world, no longer knowing anything other than willfully to revile all
Light, because with your insistence on burrowing only in the Darkness you have lost every possibility of
seeking with a free upward gaze, of recognizing or of being able to bear Light.
Thus you have branded yourselves!
Therefore, as soon as the Light once more shines forth, you will stagger back dazzled, and sink
irretrievably into the abyss that has even now opened up behind you, waiting to swallow those who have
thus been rejected!
There you shall be bound in an inescapable grip, so that all those who strive to follow the path to the
Light may, in blissful recognition, find this path free from your presumption and your desire to accept
tinsel instead of pure gold! Sink into that death-dealing horror, which you have prepared for yourselves
with the most stubborn striving! In the future you shall no longer be able to obscure the Divine Truth!
How zealously they try, these little human beings, to push their ridiculous pseudo-knowledge well
into the foreground, and how they thereby confuse so many souls who could be saved if they did not fall
into the hands of spiritual highwaymen, who creep around the first stretch of the right path, apparently
following the same road. But what do they really offer? With grand gestures and hackneyed phrases they
proudly take their stand on traditions, the true meaning of which they have never understood.
There is a very apt popular saying: they are threshing empty straw! Empty because they have not
picked up the real kernels, for which they lack understanding. One comes up against such narrow-
mindedness everywhere; with dull obstinacy they ride upon the phrases of others, because they
themselves have nothing to contribute.
There are thousands of these, and again thousands who imagine that they alone possess the true faith!
Wherever they meet with anything beyond their comprehension they humbly, and with inner satisfaction,
warn against arrogance! These belong among the worst! They are the very ones who are rejected even
now, because in their religious stubbornness they can never be helped. No horror, no lamenting and no
petitioning will be of any avail if they ever realize their error. They did not want it otherwise, they missed
their opportunity. There shall be no mourning over them. Each moment is far too precious still to be
wasted on those who think they know everything better; for they will never come to an awakening from
their obstinacy anyway, but will blindly perish in it! with slimy sickening words and assurances of their
faith in God, their purely imaginary recognition of Christ!
No better off are the masses who attend their Church Services with the regularity and dutifulness they apply to other work; because it is necessary and useful, expedient. Partly also out of habit or because it is
the “custom.” Perhaps also out of simple prudence because, after all, “one never knows to what ultimately
it might be good for.” They will vanish like a breath in the wind! —
More to be pitied are those researchers who, with really earnest and inquiring minds, still fail to rise
up from the jungle in which they burrow tirelessly, expecting to discover in it a way to the beginning of
Creation. Nevertheless it is all of no avail, and there is no excuse for it! Besides, there are only a few, a
very few. Most of those who call themselves researchers become lost in meaningless trifling.
The great remainder of mankind, however, has no time for “introspection”. Apparently they are much
harassed human beings, overburdened with work in order to achieve fulfillment of their earthly desires,
their daily needs, but ultimately also of things greatly in excess of that. They do not notice that along with
fulfillment, their wishes also increase, whereby a final goal is never realized, and thus the one striving can
never find peace or the time for inner awakening! Completely lacking a high goal for eternity, he allows
himself to be hurried through his earth-life, enslaved to his earthly desires.
Exhausted by such activities, he must, of course, also care for his body through rest, diversion and
entertainment. So of course he has no time left for anything beyond the earthly, for the spiritual! But
should his intuitive perception announce itself occasionally and very softly regarding what comes “after
death,” then he becomes somewhat pensive for a few moments, but never allows himself to be stirred and
awakened by it; instead, he then represses all such things, brusquely and quickly, complaining that he
cannot occupy himself with them even if he really wanted to! He simply does not have any time for it!
Many would even wish to see opportunities provided by others. Often there are even accusations
against fate and grumbling against God! Naturally every word is wasted on such as these, because they
are never willing to acknowledge that it had been up to them alone to shape their lives differently!
For them there are only earthly needs, which always increase with every success. They have never
seriously wished for anything else. They have always raised all kinds of obstacles against it. They have
frivolously relegated it to the fifth or sixth place, only to be thought of in dire need or at the approach of
death. Until now it has remained for everyone a matter of secondary importance for which there remains
plenty of time!
And if one day there presented itself, plainly recognizable, the opportunity to concern oneself
seriously with this subject, then immediately new and special wishes would arise which are nothing more
than excuses, such as: “First I still want to do this and that, then I am quite ready.” Exactly as Christ once
said!
Nowhere is there to be found the seriousness which is absolutely necessary for this most essential of
all matters! It has always seemed too remote to them. For this reason they are all rejected now, all of
them! Not one of them will be admitted into the Kingdom of God!
Rotten fruit for ascent, who only spread further decay around them. Now reflect for yourselves as to
who can still remain then! A sad picture! but unfortunately only too true. —
And now, when the Judgment wears mankind down, they will very quickly kneel in the dust! But just
imagine already today how they will kneel then: in all wretchedness, but at the same time arrogant once
more; for again they will only complain and beg that help may be given to them!
The heavy burden which they have imposed on themselves, and which finally threatens to crush
them, should be taken from them! That will be what they beg for! Can you not hear it? Their petitions are
for the alleviation of their torment, but without at the same time one thought for their own inner
improvement! Not one honest wish for a voluntary alteration of their hitherto wrong deliberating, of their
purely earthly pursuits! Not one wish to recognize and acknowledge bravely their present errors and
faults.
And then, when in their great distress the Son of Man steps into their midst, no doubt all their hands
will be stretched out to Him; they will whine and beseech Him but once again only in the hope that He
will help them in the way they wish, that is, that he end their suffering and lead them to new life!
But He will push away the majority of these petitioners like poisonous vermin! For after receiving
help, all such supplicants would immediately relapse into their old faults, poisoning their environment at
the same time. He will accept only those who plead to Him for strength finally to pull themselves together for permanent improvement, and who humbly strive to throw off all former stubbornness, and joyfully
greet the Word of Truth from the Light as redemption! —
The Son of Man! Even today mankind wishes him to be only according to their own ideas and
presume that they may measure Him by their intellectual criticism! That they may approach Him with the
time-consuming babble of their own opinions.
Fools, it is this attitude which will inflict terrible wounds on you! Exactly for that reason you will be
rejected forthwith, since it is the same way in which you once approached the Son of God, whom you
have not recognized aright to this day. Now, at the hour of the Judgment, the Son of Man will not bring
explanations about which you can exchange long-winded opinions, but His Word contains
commandments which have to be followed quite unalterably by you, if you do not want to perish! —
This is the last Word for now. From now on experiencing will testify to the truth of my Message!
The human spirits have from the outset placed themselves on the wrong foundation. Therefore, on
average, everything they now think and do is wrong and distorted.
For this reason an understanding of the Grail Message, as well as of the previous Message of the Son
of God, will only become possible when a human spirit casts aside everything that it has built up with its
imagined understanding, and starts from the very beginning! There is no other way! In this they must first
become like children again! Building a bridge from the present errors is impossible. From the ground up
everything must be completely new, growing and becoming strong from out of simplicity and humility.
He who cannot or will not do this will be hopelessly lost along with the others. —
If mankind were helped in the way they ask in the hour of danger and need, then everything would be
quickly forgotten once more, as soon as the terror was lifted from them. With their lack of understanding
they would again begin to criticize unscrupulously instead of reflecting, and this is no longer permitted
with regard to salvation! That time has now passed.
The wasting of time, such as was done until now, is quite impossible in the future, since the existence
of this part of the world must hasten toward its end. Henceforth for every human spirit it is: Either – Or!
Salvation from self-created entanglements or destruction therein! The choice is free, yet it cannot be put
off but must be made immediately. The consequences of the decision are definite and irrevocable!
Hesitation is as good as a decision to perish! Everything will be erased except that which is really good
and is able to come to recognition and which does not include that which today considers itself good!
Those who will be saved will, as if released from a great pressure, breathe a sigh of relief and exult
after the repulsive and unclean Darkness, along with the creatures that like to cling to it, will at last be
forced to sink to where it belongs!
Then the earth, finally purified of all pestilential thoughts, will arise virginal, and peace will blossom
for all mankind!

Continued from last lecture here

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A difference which he will never manage to survey freely.
Beautiful are the words and welcome to many which numerous teachers utter in their efforts to
increase the number of their adherents. Yet even these ignorant teachers are themselves convinced that all
the errors they spread abroad are the truth, and do not realize what great harm they thereby do to
mankind!
Only certainty about the answer to that great question: “What am I” can lead to ascent! If this
question has not been completely and uncompromisingly solved beforehand, ascent will become bitter
and hard; for men do not voluntarily submit themselves to the kind of humility which would help them
attain the right path on which they could actually walk! This has been proved clearly by all of the past
events right up to the present time. Even in their efforts to be humble these men either turned themselves
into slaves, which is just as wrong as being presumptuous, or reached far beyond the actual goal, placing
themselves upon a road the end of which they can never reach, because the nature of their spirits does not
suffice for this. They will fall headlong into a depth which will shatter them since they had presumed
themselves to be too high before. —
Only the Created Ones are images of God. These are the Pure-Spiritual ones in that Original Creation
out of which all else developed. In their hands lies the main guidance of all that is spiritual. They are the
ideals, the eternal prototypes for all humanity. Earth-man, on the other hand, has only been able to
develop by patterning himself after this perfect Creation. Starting out as an unconscious, small spirit
germ, and then developing into a self-conscious personality.
Perfected by keeping to the right path in Creation, he will take on the likeness of the images of God!
He himself is never an actual image of God! There lies a great gulf all the way down to him!
But even from the actual images of God, the next step is still far from being next to God. Therefore
man on earth should at last recognize all that lies between him and the Sublimity of the Godhead, which
he tries so hard to usurp. Man on earth imagines himself, in his state of eventual perfection, to be Divine
or at least to be a part of Divinity, while in reality, at his greatest height, he will only be the likeness of an
image of God! He is permitted to enter the forecourt in the entrance hall of the actual Grail Castle as the
highest distinction which can be bestowed upon a human spirit. —
Cast aside this presumption at last which can only hinder you and make you miss the luminous path.
Dwellers in the beyond who wish to give well-meaning advice in spiritist circles do not have knowledge,
for they themselves lack the necessary recognition. They would rejoice if they were permitted to hear of
it. There will be great lamentation also among these, once they recognize how much time they have
wasted in frivolous play and obstinacy.
What applies to the Spiritual World also holds true for the Animistic Sphere. Here the Lords of all the
Elements are the Primordially Created Animistic Beings. All the animistic beings which gain
consciousness, such as the mermaids, elves, gnomes, salamanders, and so on, are not Created Ones, but
have merely developed out of Creation. Out of the Realm of Animistic Substantiality, starting out as
unconscious animistic seed-germs they have developed into conscious animistic beings. During the
process of and consistent with gaining consciousness, they also assume human forms. There is the same
gradation here in the Animistic Sphere as exists in the higher Spiritual Sphere. According to the nature of
their activity the Primordially Created Elementals in the Animistic have male and female forms, just the
same as the Primordially Created Beings in the Spiritual Sphere. Hence the conception of gods and
goddesses in the olden times, which I have already pointed out in my lecture: “The Gods – Olympus – Valhalla”*(Lecture Nr. 82). —
A great uniformity characterizes all of Creation and the world!
The reader and hearer of my lectures should always work within himself, scrutinizing my lectures
keenly, laying probes and building bridges from one lecture to another, as well as out to the great and
small happenings in the world! Only then will he be able to understand the Grail Message, and he will
find that it gradually shapes itself into one complete whole, leaving no gaps. Again and again in all the
happenings the reader will come back to the basic features. He can explain everything and deduce
everything without having to change one single sentence. He who detects gaps lacks full understanding.
He who does not realize its great depth and all-embracing character is superficial, and has never tried to
penetrate the spirit of the Truth brought here and make it come alive.
He may join the masses who, full of self-complacency and believing they already possess the highest
knowledge, follow the broad road. Presumptive knowledge prevents such lost beings from recognizing, in
other things which have been said, the vitality lacking in their own pseudo-knowledge. Wherever they
look, whatever they hear, everywhere their self-satisfaction with what they imagine they hold firmly in
their hands blocks them. Not until they reach the boundary line, where all untruth and sham are inevitably
rejected, will they recognize that their hand, when they open it, contains nothing which would enable
them to continue on their path and to ultimately enter the Kingdom of the Spirit. Then, however, it will
prove too late to retrace their steps and to accept what they previously rejected and disregarded. There is
no longer sufficient time for that. The gate to the entrance is locked. The last opportunity is missed. —
Only when man actually becomes what he should be and ceases to cling to what he wishes to be can
he speak of a true humanity. He must always remember that he only issued out of Creation, by no means
directly from the Hand of the Creator.
“That is quibbling with words, for basically it is just the same, only expressed differently,” say the
arrogant, rotten, sterile products of this humanity because they will forever remain incapable of
perceiving the great gulf that exists. Once more they are fooled by the simplicity of the words.
Only He who becomes inwardly alive will not carelessly ignore this, but he will try to intuitively
perceive the immeasurable distances and sharp lines of demarcation.
Were I now to show all the divisions of Creation already, then many an “inwardly” great person
would lie shattered on the ground, upon recognizing that such words contain Truth. They would be
crushed by the realization of their own smallness and insignificance. The frequently used expression
“earth-worm” is applied justly to those who today still boast of their cleverness and “spiritual superiority”
but who soon, very soon, must be the lowest in all Creation, if they don't in fact belong to the condemned.
—
The time has now come to comprehend the world as such aright. There is justification in separating
that which is temporal from that which is spiritual, also in earthly life. These terms probably originated
from the proper intuitive sense of some human beings, for they reflect the difference existing right
through the entire Creation. We can also divide Creation into Paradise and the World, i.e., into the
spiritual and the temporal. Here, the spiritual is not excluded from the temporal, but the temporal is
excluded from the spiritual.
We must call the World the World of Matter, which is also animated by the pulse of the spirit. The
Spiritual is the Spiritual Realm of Creation, Paradise, from which everything that is material is excluded.
Thus we have Paradise and the World, the spiritual and the material, Primordial Creation and evolution,
which may also be called self-acting subsequent replication.
Creation proper merely consists of Paradise, the Spiritual Kingdom of today. Everything else is only
developed, i.e., it is no longer created. And what has been developed must be designated as the World.
The World is transient and develops from the emanations of Creation, which it emulates and models itself
after as an image, it is animated and supported by spiritual emanations. It matures and then disintegrates
again when over-ripe. The spiritual, however, does not age, but remains forever young or, in other words:
eternally the same.
Guilt and atonement are only possible in the World! This is due to the imperfection of the subsequent
development. Guilt of any kind is utterly impossible in the Realm of the Spirit. He who has seriously read my lectures will be absolutely clear about this. He knows that nothing of
the Spiritual which flows through the world can return into the Pure-Spiritual Realm as long as even a
speck of a different species from its journey remains attached to the Spiritual. The smallest speck makes
crossing a border into the Spiritual Realm impossible. The spirit will be held back, even if it had
advanced to the very threshold. With this last remnant still attached the spirit cannot enter because the
different and baser consistency of this speck does not allow entrance. Not until the moment when this
speck severs itself and sinks back does the spirit become completely free, thus attaining the same light
consistency as prevails in the lowest plane of the spiritual sphere, thereby constituting the law therein, and
it is not only able, but is compelled to cross over the threshold at which it was previously held back by the
last particle.
This process can be considered and described from many angles, but it remains exactly the same,
regardless of the words used to illustrate it. I can embellish it with the most fantastic stories, can use many
parables to make it understandable, but the fact in itself is quite plain and simple, and is produced by the
effect of the three laws I have so often mentioned.
And ultimately it may rightfully be said that no sin can occur in Paradise, i.e., the Pure-Spiritual,
which remains untouched by any guilt, because it was created by the Holy Spirit Himself. Consequently,
only that which is created is of full value, while subsequently, in that which evolved therefrom as a
replica of Divine Creation and which is left entirely to the human spirit as stomping ground for his
development and strengthening, it is possible for guilt to be incurred through the wrong volition of these
indolent human spirits, and this guilt must be atoned for and redeemed before the Spiritual is able to
return. If in following a self-chosen urge spirit-germs issue from Creation, i.e., from Paradise, in order to
wander through this world, one can naturally say by way of illustration that they are like children who
leave home in order to learn and finally to return fully matured. This expression is justified if taken as an
illustration. However, everything must always remain as an illustration, and must not be converted to
something personal, as men always attempt to do. Since the human spirit only burdens itself with guilt in
the world, such a thing not being possible in the Spiritual Sphere, it is natural that it cannot return to the
Spiritual Realm until it frees itself from this burden of guilt. I could give a thousand different illustrations
of this; they would all have to have the same fundamental meaning which I have so often described in the
working of the three simple basic laws.
It sounds strange to many people when I describe the process objectively, because illustrations flatter
man’s conceit and self-love. He much prefers to live in a dreamland, because everything sounds much
nicer there, and he imagines himself to be much more important than he really is. In so doing he makes
the mistake of refusing to see the objectivity therein, but instead works himself into imaginative fantasy,
thus losing his way and his support and is then horrified, and perhaps even indignant, when I plainly and
in all simplicity show him how Creation is and what part he actually plays in it. For him, the transition is
like that of a small child, who in the tender hands of a mother or grandmother, listened happily and with
sparkling eyes and cheeks flushed with excitement to fairy tales, only later to see the reality of the world
and of people. A reality altogether different from the beautiful tales, and yet, upon a keen, retrospective
look at these fairy tales, it is basically the same. This moment is bitter but necessary, otherwise the child
would be unable to make any progress and would, being “unworldly,” suffer greatly and perish.
It is no different here. He who wishes to ascend further must at last come to understand Creation in
all its reality. He must stride firmly on his feet, and no longer lose himself in sentimentality which may be
alright for an irresponsible child, but not for a mature man, whose power of volition penetrates Creation,
either in a supportive or in a disruptive way, uplifting or destroying him in the process.
Girls who read novels which misrepresent and only veil the reality of life will, through the fanciful
illusions thus awakened, quickly experience bitter disappointments in life, very often even become broken
for their entire time on earth, falling easy prey to unscrupulous deceitfulness, which they had approached
trustingly. It is no different with the development of a human spirit in Creation.
Therefore away with all metaphor, which man never learned to understand, since he was much too
lazy for the seriousness of proper interpretation. It is time for the veils to fall so that man can see clearly
whence he came, what duties his task bestows upon him, and also whereto he must return. He needs to be
shown the right path! And he will find this path clearly marked in my Grail Message, provided he wishes
to see it. The Word of the Grail Message is alive so that only those who carry the genuine desire within
their soul will find in abundance! It automatically repels all else.
To those who are conceited and who only seek superficially, the Message will remain a book with
seven seals!
Only he who willingly opens himself will receive. If from the beginning he approaches reading with
a sincere and undistorted mind, then everything he seeks will be revealed in glorious fulfillment! But
those whose hearts are not completely pure will be repelled by this Word; or the Word will close itself off
to deceitful eyes. They will find nothing therein! Thus each will receive the verdict exactly according to
how he confronts this Word. —
The time for dreaming is over. The Word brings the Judgment. It automatically separates the human
spirits through the difference in the way they grasp it. This process, however, is so simple and natural that
it will seem too simple for the majority of people; therefore once again they are unable to recognize the
great and powerful Judgment which is released thereby.
The Judgment lies in the days of this first separation of all human spirits, which the respective
reception of the new Word of God imposes on each individual! It does not lie only in the later
consequences resulting from that separation, whereby everyone has to complete the path which they had
decided upon and on which they will find their reward or punishment.
In order first to arouse all men one more time, and to give them an opportunity for serious reflection,
during which some may perhaps still reach out for that rescue rope which alone leads out of these
lowlands there will come events of such severity that stubborn mankind would never dream they are so
near at hand. How easily much of this could have been avoided! Now it is too late, however. May the
grueling events still turn to a blessing for many as long as they finally realize the uselessness of false
prophets and leaders upon whom they now rely so heavily; because only the Truth will outlast the coming
time victoriously and permit recognition of the God-appointed leader, to whom alone the power is given
to help in the desperate spiritual as well as earthly distress! —


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Once more Darkness had settled over the earth. Triumphantly it cast its shadow over men, and barred
their way to the Pure-Spiritual Realm. The Light of God had withdrawn from them. The body that had
served It as an earthly vessel hung bleeding and ravaged on the Cross, a victim of the protest of those to
whom It wished to bring happiness and holy peace.
At the summit of the entire Creation, in the radiant vicinity of God, stands the Grail Castle as the
Temple of Light. Great sorrow prevailed there over the human spirits gone astray in the depths who out of
hostility and with their blind know-it-all attitude, closed themselves off from the Truth and allowed
themselves to be driven by the hate-filled Darkness so far as to commit this crime against the Son of God.
The curse thus created by mankind fell heavily on the whole world, pressing them into an ever greater
limitation of understanding. —
In grave wonder, a youth beheld this monstrous happening from the Castle of the Grail... the future
Son of Man. He was already then being prepared for His Mission, a process which took thousands of
years; for He was to descend well-equipped into those lower regions, where Darkness reigned through the
volition of mankind.
A woman’s hand was gently laid on the shoulder of the dreaming youth. The Primordial Queen of
Womanhood stood beside Him, and spoke in a sad and loving voice:
“Take in the full impact of this event, dear Son. Such is the battlefield through which you will have to
pass in the hour of fulfillment; for at the request of the murdered Savior, God the Father grants that before
the Judgment you shall once more proclaim His Word to the faithless, in order to save those who are still
willing to listen to It!”
The youth bowed His head in silence and sent up a fervent prayer for strength, for the echo of such
great Divine Love reverberated mightily within Him!
The tidings of another, final possibility of Grace spread rapidly through all the spheres, and many
souls implored God to grant that they might be permitted to help in the great work of the redemption of
all those who still wish to find the way to God. The Love of God the Father granted this to many a soul,
which was thereby helped in its ascent. In grateful joy the host of these so blessed souls jubilantly gave a
solemn pledge of loyalty for the fulfillment of the opportunity to serve which was granted them.
Thus were prepared those Called ones, who were later to hold themselves at the disposal of the
Envoy of God at His hour of fulfillment on earth. They were carefully developed for these tasks and
incarnated on earth at the right time, so that they might be ready whenever the Call reached them; to
listen for this Call remained the first fulfillment of their duty.
— — —
Meanwhile the legacy of the murdered Son of God, His Living Word, was exploited on earth solely
for selfish purposes. Mankind had no conception of the true Principles of Christ. On the contrary, they
gradually grew into such a wrong and purely earthly servility that eventually they rejected anything else
as not coming from God; they still do so today, rejecting and attacking whatever does not conform to the
loathsome and mushy sentimentality they desire, and whatever does not practice a similar, very
unwholesome and slavish human self-worship. Everything that is not built upon the supremacy of
mankind is simply labeled as false and as not belonging to the Word of God. This behavior, however,
actually only conceals the apprehensive worry that the long-felt hollowness of the false structure might
become apparent.
This is what the sacred legacy of the Son of God was turned into! Upon such degrading assumptions,
His clear words were interpreted and passed on, in ways which were all too human. Adherents were
solicited by wooing human weaknesses, until some earthly power could be gained, which has always been
the ultimate goal. Then, however, their brutal cruelties very soon showed how far removed from the real
understanding of the misconstrued Christ-Principle its bearers were, and how little they lived it.
Continually and ever more clearly there was proof that the very ones who claimed to be the bearers of the
Christ-Principle were shamelessly and unpardonably the worst enemies and greatest offenders against the
true Christ-Principle! After Christ’s life on earth the whole of history, from the beginning of the churches, sets forth these facts so clearly, in letters so indelibly engraved and branded, that they can never be denied
or attenuated. The stigma of conscious hypocrisy was indelibly established throughout the long history of
individual and mass murders under criminal invocations of God. Even today many parts of this structure
are being expanded, only in different forms adapted to the present time.
Thus, thanks to the willingness of all of the human spirits, the Darkness became ever denser as the
time approached when the Son of Man had to be incarnated upon earth.
Joyful activity in the elements heralded the earthly birth. Angels lovingly accompanied Him down to
this earth. Primordial Beings formed a solid rampart around Him and around His earthly childhood. His
earthly youth was allowed to be bright and sunny. In the evenings He saw the Comet, radiant above Him,
like a greeting from God the Father; He regarded it as nothing unusual, as one of the other stars, until the
bandage which He had to wear during His bitter training on earth was put before His eyes.
Then life around Him seemed strange; only a great unquenchable longing filled His soul, and grew to
restlessness, to continual nervous seeking. Nothing of what the earth had to offer could satisfy it.
With the ethereal bandage over His eyes, He now stood on hostile ground facing the Darkness on a
battlefield where everything dark could have a firmer foothold than He Himself had. Therefore it was
only natural that wherever He sought to undertake something He found no response and no success, but
always and only the Darkness erupting in hostility. As long as the time of fulfillment for Him had not
arrived, the Darkness could always remain stronger, and could inflict material damage on Him wherever
He engaged in earthly affairs in some way, whether in private, business or government affairs; for
everything earthly quite naturally had to confront the Envoy of God with nothing but hostility, because all
human volition today is directed against the true Will of God, in spite of the alleged search for Truth,
behind which there always lurks only self-conceit in various forms. The Darkness easily found willing
creatures everywhere to hinder the Envoy from the Light, and to injure Him grievously and painfully.
Thus His time of learning on earth became the path of suffering.
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To be continued next week, please join us!

The World Teacher is the Son of Man. He is called World Teacher not because He is to teach the World,
and will perhaps found a religion that unites the World, or more specifically the earth, or better still
humanity on earth, or that dominates the earth; rather, He is called World Teacher because He explains
the “World” and brings the teaching about the World. That which man really must know! He teaches how
to recognize the “World” in its automatic working, so that earth-man may adjust himself accordingly,
thereby making possible his conscious ascent in the recognition of the actual Laws of the World!
Thus it is a cosmology, a teaching about the world, about Creation.
Behind this true World Teacher, visible to pure clairvoyants, stands radiantly the great Cross of
Redemption, as once it did with Christ! It can also be said that “He bears the Cross”! Which, however,
has nothing to do with suffering or martyrdom.
This will be one of the “living and radiating” signs, which no imposter or magician, however
accomplished, will be able to simulate, and by which the absolute genuineness of His mission can be
recognized!
This otherworldly happening is by no means without a connection, i.e., merely arbitrary, and it is
therefore not unnatural. The connection will immediately be understood as soon as the true meaning of
the actual “Cross of Redemption” is known. The Cross of Redemption does not have the same meaning as
Christ’s Cross of Suffering, through which mankind could indeed not be redeemed, as I have already
explained in detail in the lecture “Crucifixion” (*Lecture No. 55), and have repeated many times. It is
something quite different, again of apparent simplicity, yet of immense greatness!
The Cross was already known before Christ’s time on earth. It is the sign of Divine Truth! Not
merely the symbol, but the living form for It. And since Christ was the Bringer of Divine Truth, the
undistorted Truth from which He came and with which He was in direct connection, bearing a part of It
within Himself, this Truth was alive and living, attached to Him both inwardly and outwardly! It is visible
in the living, thus shining and spontaneously radiating Cross! It may be said that It is the Cross itself.
Wherever this Radiant Cross is, there also is Truth, since this Cross cannot be separated from Truth;
rather they are both one, because this Cross displays the visible form of Truth.
The Cross of Rays, or the radiating Cross, is therefore the Truth in its original-inherent form. And
since man can ascend only through the Truth, and in no other way, the human spirit finds true redemption
only in the recognition or knowledge of Divine Truth!
Now, since redemption lies only in the Truth, it follows that the Cross, that is, the Truth, is the
redeeming Cross, or the Redeemer’s Cross!
It is the Cross of the Redeemer! The Redeemer, however, is the Truth for mankind! Only knowledge
of the Truth, and consequently, the use of the way that lies in or is shown in the Truth, can lead the human
spirit out of its present state of derangement and error upwards to the Light, and can liberate and redeem
it. And since the Son of God Who was sent, and the Son of Man who is now coming, are the sole
Bringers of the undimmed Truth, bearing It within Themselves, They must both naturally also bear the
Cross inseparably within and upon Themselves; that is, They must be Bearers of the Radiant Cross,
Bearers of Truth, Bearers of Redemption, which for humanity lies in the Truth. They bring redemption in
the Truth to those who accept It, i.e. those who walk on the path shown. – What is all the clever talk of
men compared to this? It will fade away in the hour of need.
It was for this reason that the Son of God told men that they should take up the Cross and follow
Him, which means to accept the Truth and to live accordingly! to conform to the Laws of Creation,
learning to understand them fully, and to make use of them, in their automatic activity, only for the best
of purposes.
Yet what has the restricted mind of man once more made of this simple and natural fact! A doctrine
of suffering desired neither by God nor the Son of God, His Messenger! And they have thereby taken a
wrong path, which is not in accordance with the path shown, but which instead leads far away from the
Will of God, which wishes to lead only to joy instead of to suffering.
For mankind, it is naturally a terrible symbolism that at that time, the Son of God was nailed by them to the very representation on earth of the form of the Truth, and tortured to death, thus suffering earthly
death on the symbol of the Truth which He brought! The Cross of Suffering adopted by the churches,
however, is not the Cross of Redemption!
“He who stands in the Power and in the Truth” is what is said of the Son of God. The Power is the
Will of God, the Holy Spirit. Its visible form is the Dove. The visible form of Truth is the spontaneously
radiating Cross. Both were seen living on the Son of God, because He stood in them. Thus with Him it
was a natural and self-evident manifestation.
The same will also be seen on the Son of Man! The Dove above Him, the Cross of Redemption
behind Him; for He again, as the Bringer of Truth, is inseparably linked with them, “Who stands in the
Power and in the Truth!” They are the unmistakable signs of His genuine Mission to fulfill the
prophecies. They are the signs that can never be imitated. They are indestructible, warning, and, despite
the terrible gravity, they are at the same time promising! Before these alone all Darkness must retreat!
Look upwards! As soon as the inexorable harbingers of His coming have appeared, clearing the way
for Him of the obstacles that human conceit heaps upon it, the bandage will fall from the eyes of many
who are granted the grace to recognize Him thus! Then, forced by the power of the Light, they will have
to bear witness openly.
Not one of the many false prophets and leaders of today is able to prevail against this; for in the two
sublime signs, which no one but the Son of God and the Son of Man can bear, God Himself speaks for
His Servant, and all human wisdom must fall silent at once. —
Watch for that hour, it will be nearer than all men think.

Every intuitive perception immediately forms a picture. In the formation of this picture the
cerebellum*(Medical term for small brain) participates as the bridge for the soul to control the body. It is that
part of the brain through which you receive your dreams. It is in turn connected with the frontal brain or
cerebrum, through the activity of which thoughts are generated that are more closely tied to space and
time and which eventually constitute the intellect.
Now pay close attention to the process! You will be able to distinguish clearly whether the intuition
speaks to you through the spirit, or whether it is feeling that speaks to you through the intellect!
The activity of the human spirit evokes the intuitive perception within the solar plexus, thereby
simultaneously impressing the cerebellum. The effect of the spirit. Thus it is a wave of energy issuing
from the spirit. Man naturally perceives this wave in that spot where the spirit within the soul is connected
with the body, in the center of the so-called solar plexus, which passes the wave on to the cerebellum
which is impacted by it. In accordance with the specific nature of the various impressions received, the
cerebellum, like a photographic plate, forms a picture of the process as willed by the spirit or which the
spirit in its strong power formed through its volition. A picture without words! The frontal brain receives
this picture and seeks to describe it in words, thereby generating thoughts which then find expression in
language.
In truth the whole process is very simple. I will repeat it: with the help of the solar plexus the spirit
makes an impression on the bridge provided for it, thus impressing a definite volition in power waves
upon the small brain, the instrument given to it for this purpose, which immediately passes what it
received on to the frontal brain. In the process of transmission a slight change through consolidation has
already occurred, because the small brain adds something of its own nature to it. The instruments within
the human body which are at the disposal of the spirit work like interlocking links of a chain. However
they all serve in a forming capacity only; they cannot do otherwise. They form everything transmitted to
them in accordance with their own special nature. Thus the frontal brain receives the image transmitted to
it by the cerebellum and, in accordance with its somewhat coarser nature compresses it for the first time
into narrower conceptions of space and time, thereby condensing them and bringing them into the more
tangible ethereal world of thought-forms. Next the frontal brain forms words and sentences which,
through the organs of speech, penetrate as formed sound-waves into the World of Fine Gross Matter,
there again to produce a new effect brought about by the movement of these waves. Thus the spoken
word is the result of the images transmitted by the frontal brain. The latter can also direct the course of the
effect towards the organs of locomotion instead of to the organs of speech, whereby words are replaced
by writing or action.
This is the normal course of activity of the human spirit in the World of Gross Matter as willed by the
Creator.
It is the right way, which would have brought about a healthy subsequent development in Creation,
making it utterly impossible for mankind to go astray.
Man, however, voluntarily abandoned the course prescribed for him through the nature of his body.
Self-willed and stubborn, he interfered in the normal working of the chain of his instruments by making
the intellect his idol. Thus he concentrated his whole energy upon the training of the intellect, on this
single point, alone, one-sidedly. As a result, the frontal brain, placed in a position of originator, was put
under disproportionate strain in comparison to all of the other cooperating tools. Naturally, a heavy price
was paid. The uniform and harmonious co-operation of all the individual links was upset and hindered,
and with it every right development. The frontal brain alone was subjected for thousands of years to an
excessive strain, which forced its development far beyond everything else. The result is curtailment of the
activity of all the neglected parts which, being used less, were bound to remain weaker. Foremost among
these is the cerebellum, which is the instrument of the spirit. Thus it follows that the activity of the human
spirit as such was not only severely obstructed, but it is often completely cut off and remains turned off.
The possibility of proper intercourse with the frontal brain over the bridge of the small brain is buried,
while a direct connection between the human spirit and the frontal brain is utterly impossible since the
latter’s nature is not at all suited for it. The frontal brain is absolutely dependent on the full activity of the
cerebellum, which it is to follow according to God’s Will, if it is properly to fulfill the task assigned to it. The nature of the cerebellum is required in order to receive the vibrations of the spirit. There is no way of
bypassing it, for the work of the frontal brain is to prepare the transition to Fine-materiality and Fine
Gross Matter, and therefore it is of a quite different and much coarser nature.
In the one-sided cultivation of the frontal brain lies the hereditary sin of earth-man against his God or,
more precisely, against the Divine Laws, which are laid down in the right allocation of the bodily
instruments, as they are in the entire Creation. Observance of the correct allocation would automatically
have indicated the straight and right road of ascent to the human spirit. As it was, however, man in his
ambitious conceit interfered with this machinery of healthy activity, and he singled out one part and
cultivated it above all while disregarding all the others. This was bound to bring imbalance and stagnation
in its train. If the course of natural events is hampered in this way, disease and failure must ensue, ending
finally in chaos and collapse.
This, however, does not apply only to the body, but first and foremost to the spirit! Through this
violation, the unequal cultivation of the two brains, the cerebellum was suppressed through neglect over
the course of thousands of years, and the spirit was thereby hampered in its activity. This became
hereditary sin, since with time the one-sided over-cultivation of the frontal brain is already passed on to
each child through physical inheritance, since, from the outset, it becomes unbelievably difficult for the
child’s spirit to awaken and grow more powerful, because the necessary bridge, the cerebellum, is no
longer easily passable and very often cut off completely.
Man has not the faintest idea what irony and condemnation lie in the terms “large brain” and “small
brain” which he created! An indictment regarding his transgression against Divine ordinance could not be
stated in a more devastating manner! He thus characterizes precisely the gravest of his earthly sins, for in
his wicked self-will he so mutilated this fine instrument of his physical body, which is meant to help him
on earth, that not only is it unable to serve him any longer in the way ordained by the Creator, but it must
even lead him to the depths of destruction! In this man has sinned much worse than drunkards or those
who destroy their bodies by becoming slaves to their passions!
To this they add the impertinence of expecting God to explain Himself in a manner they can
understand in their willfully distorted physical bodies! They make this demand after having committed
such a sin!
In the natural course of development man could easily and joyfully have ascended the steps to
Luminous Heights if he had not outrageously interfered with the Work of God! Cursed be he who will not
gratefully grasp the last life line! He will be doomed, so that he may no longer brew and spread mischief
and sin and pour suffering over mankind, as he has done until now! There was no other possibility than
that such brain cripples would fall into an insane delusion of grandeur, which in great measure they still
hold to this day! The man of the future will have normal brains which will work uniformly and thus only
support each other harmoniously. The cerebellum, called the small brain because it was stunted in its
growth, will now grow in strength as it attains to its proper activity until it is in the right proportion to the
frontal brain. Then there will be harmony again, and all that is rigid and unhealthy must disappear!
But let us now turn to the further consequences of the hitherto false mode of living: The cerebellum,
which is proportionally much too small, makes it difficult for the truly serious seekers of today to
distinguish between what is genuine intuitive perception within them and what is merely feeling. I have
already said it before: feeling is produced by the frontal brain through its thoughts impacting the body’s
nerves which, in reflection impose upon the frontal brain the impulse for the so-called imagination.
Imagination consists of pictures generated by the frontal brain. They are not comparable to the
pictures the cerebellum forms under the pressure of the spirit! Here we have the difference between the
expression of the intuitive perception as the consequence of an activity of the spirit, and the results of
feeling issuing from physical nerves. Both produce pictures which the uninformed person finds it almost
or entirely impossible to distinguish, although the difference between them is enormous. The images of
the intuitive perception are genuine and full of living power, while the images of feeling, i.e., the
imagination, are illusions, produced with borrowed energy.
But the difference is easily detected by anyone who knows the process of development in all of
Creation and then observes himself attentively.
In the case of intuitive images, which arise through the activity of the cerebellum as a bridge for the spirit, the image appears first, unmediated, and passes only thereafter into thoughts which then influence
the emotional life of the body.
In the case of images produced by the frontal brain the process is reversed. Here, thoughts must come
first in order to form the basis for the pictures. However, all this occurs so rapidly that it almost seems to
be one and the same thing. With a little practice in observation, however, man can very soon learn to
distinguish the nature of the process exactly.
A further consequence of this hereditary sin is the confusion in dreams! For this reason, man can
today no longer assign that value to his dreams which they are really meant to have. The normal
cerebellum, influenced by the spirit, would render dreams clear and unconfused. That is to say, they
would not be dreams at all, but experiences of the spirit, received and transmitted by the cerebellum while
the frontal brain rests in sleep. The dominant power of the frontal or day-brain, however, radiates and
impacts the sensitive cerebellum even during the night. In its present weakened condition the latter
receives the strong radiations of the frontal brain simultaneously with the experiences of the spirit,
creating a mixture much like a double exposure on a photographic plate. This results in the confused
dreams of today.
The best proof is the frequent appearance in dreams of words and sentences which originate only in
the activity of the frontal brain, which alone forms words and sentences, because it is more closely bound
to space and time.
For this reason man is no longer, or at least very inadequately, receptive to spiritual warnings and
instructions through the cerebellum, and is consequently far more exposed to dangers which he could
otherwise escape through spiritual warnings!
Thus, besides the evil consequences already mentioned, there are many others brought about by
man’s interference with Divine Ordinance, for in reality all evil proceeded from this failure alone which
is so clearly visible to everybody today and which was merely a fruit of vanity resulting from the
appearance of woman in Creation.
Therefore, man must at last tear himself away from the consequences of this hereditary sin if he does
not want to be lost.
Like all else, this requires effort. Man must awaken from his comfortable indolence to become at last
what he should have been from the beginning! A Supporter of Creation and transmitter of Light to all
creatures!

Good morning! Trust you all had a wonderful week.

Here is the continuation of the beautiful lecture we all enjoyed last week.


Enjoy!!


A great uniformity characterizes all of Creation and the world!
The reader and hearer of my lectures should always work within himself, scrutinizing my lectures
keenly, laying probes and building bridges from one lecture to another, as well as out to the great and
small happenings in the world! Only then will he be able to understand the Grail Message, and he will
find that it gradually shapes itself into one complete whole, leaving no gaps. Again and again in all the
happenings the reader will come back to the basic features. He can explain everything and deduce
everything without having to change one single sentence. He who detects gaps lacks full understanding.
He who does not realize its great depth and all-embracing character is superficial, and has never tried to
penetrate the spirit of the Truth brought here and make it come alive.
He may join the masses who, full of self-complacency and believing they already possess the highest
knowledge, follow the broad road. Presumptive knowledge prevents such lost beings from recognizing, in
other things which have been said, the vitality lacking in their own pseudo-knowledge. Wherever they
look, whatever they hear, everywhere their self-satisfaction with what they imagine they hold firmly in
their hands blocks them. Not until they reach the boundary line, where all untruth and sham are inevitably
rejected, will they recognize that their hand, when they open it, contains nothing which would enable
them to continue on their path and to ultimately enter the Kingdom of the Spirit. Then, however, it will
prove too late to retrace their steps and to accept what they previously rejected and disregarded. There is
no longer sufficient time for that. The gate to the entrance is locked. The last opportunity is missed. —
Only when man actually becomes what he should be and ceases to cling to what he wishes to be can
he speak of a true humanity. He must always remember that he only issued out of Creation, by no means
directly from the Hand of the Creator.
“That is quibbling with words, for basically it is just the same, only expressed differently,” say the
arrogant, rotten, sterile products of this humanity because they will forever remain incapable of
perceiving the great gulf that exists. Once more they are fooled by the simplicity of the words.
Only He who becomes inwardly alive will not carelessly ignore this, but he will try to intuitively
perceive the immeasurable distances and sharp lines of demarcation.
Were I now to show all the divisions of Creation already, then many an “inwardly” great person
would lie shattered on the ground, upon recognizing that such words contain Truth. They would be
crushed by the realization of their own smallness and insignificance. The frequently used expression
“earth-worm” is applied justly to those who today still boast of their cleverness and “spiritual superiority”
but who soon, very soon, must be the lowest in all Creation, if they don't in fact belong to the condemned.
—
The time has now come to comprehend the world as such aright. There is justification in separating
that which is temporal from that which is spiritual, also in earthly life. These terms probably originated
from the proper intuitive sense of some human beings, for they reflect the difference existing right
through the entire Creation. We can also divide Creation into Paradise and the World, i.e., into the
spiritual and the temporal. Here, the spiritual is not excluded from the temporal, but the temporal is
excluded from the spiritual.
We must call the World the World of Matter, which is also animated by the pulse of the spirit. The
Spiritual is the Spiritual Realm of Creation, Paradise, from which everything that is material is excluded.
Thus we have Paradise and the World, the spiritual and the material, Primordial Creation and evolution,
which may also be called self-acting subsequent replication.
Creation proper merely consists of Paradise, the Spiritual Kingdom of today. Everything else is only
developed, i.e., it is no longer created. And what has been developed must be designated as the World.
The World is transient and develops from the emanations of Creation, which it emulates and models itself
after as an image, it is animated and supported by spiritual emanations. It matures and then disintegrates
again when over-ripe. The spiritual, however, does not age, but remains forever young or, in other words:
eternally the same.
Guilt and atonement are only possible in the World! This is due to the imperfection of the subsequent
development. Guilt of any kind is utterly impossible in the Realm of the Spirit.

He who has seriously read my lectures will be absolutely clear about this. He knows that nothing of
the Spiritual which flows through the world can return into the Pure-Spiritual Realm as long as even a
speck of a different species from its journey remains attached to the Spiritual. The smallest speck makes
crossing a border into the Spiritual Realm impossible. The spirit will be held back, even if it had
advanced to the very threshold. With this last remnant still attached the spirit cannot enter because the
different and baser consistency of this speck does not allow entrance. Not until the moment when this
speck severs itself and sinks back does the spirit become completely free, thus attaining the same light
consistency as prevails in the lowest plane of the spiritual sphere, thereby constituting the law therein, and
it is not only able, but is compelled to cross over the threshold at which it was previously held back by the
last particle.
This process can be considered and described from many angles, but it remains exactly the same,
regardless of the words used to illustrate it. I can embellish it with the most fantastic stories, can use many
parables to make it understandable, but the fact in itself is quite plain and simple, and is produced by the
effect of the three laws I have so often mentioned.
And ultimately it may rightfully be said that no sin can occur in Paradise, i.e., the Pure-Spiritual,
which remains untouched by any guilt, because it was created by the Holy Spirit Himself. Consequently,
only that which is created is of full value, while subsequently, in that which evolved therefrom as a
replica of Divine Creation and which is left entirely to the human spirit as stomping ground for his
development and strengthening, it is possible for guilt to be incurred through the wrong volition of these
indolent human spirits, and this guilt must be atoned for and redeemed before the Spiritual is able to
return. If in following a self-chosen urge spirit-germs issue from Creation, i.e., from Paradise, in order to
wander through this world, one can naturally say by way of illustration that they are like children who
leave home in order to learn and finally to return fully matured. This expression is justified if taken as an
illustration. However, everything must always remain as an illustration, and must not be converted to
something personal, as men always attempt to do. Since the human spirit only burdens itself with guilt in
the world, such a thing not being possible in the Spiritual Sphere, it is natural that it cannot return to the
Spiritual Realm until it frees itself from this burden of guilt. I could give a thousand different illustrations
of this; they would all have to have the same fundamental meaning which I have so often described in the
working of the three simple basic laws.
It sounds strange to many people when I describe the process objectively, because illustrations flatter
man’s conceit and self-love. He much prefers to live in a dreamland, because everything sounds much
nicer there, and he imagines himself to be much more important than he really is. In so doing he makes
the mistake of refusing to see the objectivity therein, but instead works himself into imaginative fantasy,
thus losing his way and his support and is then horrified, and perhaps even indignant, when I plainly and
in all simplicity show him how Creation is and what part he actually plays in it. For him, the transition is
like that of a small child, who in the tender hands of a mother or grandmother, listened happily and with
sparkling eyes and cheeks flushed with excitement to fairy tales, only later to see the reality of the world
and of people. A reality altogether different from the beautiful tales, and yet, upon a keen, retrospective
look at these fairy tales, it is basically the same. This moment is bitter but necessary, otherwise the child
would be unable to make any progress and would, being “unworldly,” suffer greatly and perish.
It is no different here. He who wishes to ascend further must at last come to understand Creation in
all its reality. He must stride firmly on his feet, and no longer lose himself in sentimentality which may be
alright for an irresponsible child, but not for a mature man, whose power of volition penetrates Creation,
either in a supportive or in a disruptive way, uplifting or destroying him in the process.
Girls who read novels which misrepresent and only veil the reality of life will, through the fanciful
illusions thus awakened, quickly experience bitter disappointments in life, very often even become broken
for their entire time on earth, falling easy prey to unscrupulous deceitfulness, which they had approached
trustingly. It is no different with the development of a human spirit in Creation.
Therefore away with all metaphor, which man never learned to understand, since he was much too
lazy for the seriousness of proper interpretation. It is time for the veils to fall so that man can see clearly
whence he came, what duties his task bestows upon him, and also whereto he must return. He needs to be
shown the right path! And he will find this path clearly marked in my Grail Message, provided he wishes
to see it. The Word of the Grail Message is alive so that only those who carry the genuine desire within
their soul will find in abundance! It automatically repels all else.



To those who are conceited and who only seek superficially, the Message will remain a book with
seven seals!
Only he who willingly opens himself will receive. If from the beginning he approaches reading with
a sincere and undistorted mind, then everything he seeks will be revealed in glorious fulfillment! But
those whose hearts are not completely pure will be repelled by this Word; or the Word will close itself off
to deceitful eyes. They will find nothing therein! Thus each will receive the verdict exactly according to
how he confronts this Word. —
The time for dreaming is over. The Word brings the Judgment. It automatically separates the human
spirits through the difference in the way they grasp it. This process, however, is so simple and natural that
it will seem too simple for the majority of people; therefore once again they are unable to recognize the
great and powerful Judgment which is released thereby.
The Judgment lies in the days of this first separation of all human spirits, which the respective
reception of the new Word of God imposes on each individual! It does not lie only in the later
consequences resulting from that separation, whereby everyone has to complete the path which they had
decided upon and on which they will find their reward or punishment.
In order first to arouse all men one more time, and to give them an opportunity for serious reflection,
during which some may perhaps still reach out for that rescue rope which alone leads out of these
lowlands there will come events of such severity that stubborn mankind would never dream they are so
near at hand. How easily much of this could have been avoided! Now it is too late, however. May the
grueling events still turn to a blessing for many as long as they finally realize the uselessness of false
prophets and leaders upon whom they now rely so heavily; because only the Truth will outlast the coming
time victoriously and permit recognition of the God-appointed leader, to whom alone the power is given
to help in the desperate spiritual as well as earthly distress! —

PointZerom:
You no longer air your program on RayPower fm every Sunday 10pm, what happened?
Which radio station airs your program now and time. My regards to Dr Agboola.

Good morning sir, I will try and find out what happened to the program

[quote author=PointZerom post=114829000]Good morning sir, I don't know what happened but I will find out and get back to you!

[quote author=PointZerom post=114829000]You no longer air your program on RayPower fm every Sunday 10pm, what happened?
Which radio station airs your program now and time. My regards to Dr Agboola.[/quote
Good morning sir, I don't know what happened but I will find out and get back to you!

Wave upon wave of indignation floods over countries and nations caused by my statement that man bears
nothing of the Divine within himself. This shows how deeply conceit has taken root in the souls of men,
and how much they dislike separating themselves from it, even though their intuitive perception surfaces
now and then, warning them and allowing them to recognize that my statement must be true after all.
Their resistance, however, does not alter this fact. The human spirits are still smaller, still more
insignificant than they had imagined, even when they have finally managed to come to the conviction that
they are lacking anything Divine.
Therefore I wish to go still further than I have done so far, and expand the picture of Creation in
order to show to which level man belongs. For it is hardly possible for him to begin his ascent without
knowing beforehand exactly what he is and what he is capable of. Once this becomes clear to him he will
also finally realize what he is meant to do!
That, however, is very different from everything he wills today! What a difference indeed!
This no longer awakens compassion in the person who is privileged to see clearly. By “seeing” I do
not mean the seeing of a clairvoyant, but that of a man who possesses true knowledge. Instead of
compassion and pity today only anger must arise. Anger and contempt at the stupendous arrogance
shown towards God by hundreds of thousands daily and hourly ever anew. There is not a grain of
knowledge in their conceit! It is not worth wasting even a single word on this.
What I will say from now on-wards is meant for the few who, in pure humility, can still attain to a
certain degree of recognition without first having to be so crushed, as will soon happen in accordance
with the Divine Laws, in order finally to provide admission for His true Word and to till the fertile soil
for It!
All of the empty and wordy concoctions of the earthmen who presume to have knowledge will
crumble away, along with the currently quite infertile soil!
It is indeed high time for this empty flood of words, which acts like a poison upon all that strives
upwards, to collapse in all its hollowness. —
Hardly have I established the fact that the Son of God and the Son of Man are two separate
personalities than there appear treatises intended to clarify in theological-philosophical complexities that
this is not so. Without addressing my arguments impartially, attempts are made to maintain the old error
at all costs, even at the cost of all logical objectiveness, in the unclear manner of existing dogma. They
stubbornly rely upon single sentences out of ancient writings to the exclusion of all independent thought,
making it the unexpressed requirement that hearers and readers must not think, much less sense
intuitively; for otherwise it would be quickly recognized that nothing is explained by this flood of words,
for from front to back it remains impossible to draw a proper conclusion. But it is still more obvious that
all the many words lack a connection with actual events.
He who finally succeeds in opening his eyes and ears in these matters must without difficulty
recognize the emptiness of such “teachings.” They are but a last desperate clawing which can no longer
be called clinging to what has hitherto been their support, a support which in the coming events will soon
prove to be nothing.
The explanation is based on phrases, the correct transmission of which cannot be proved; on the
contrary, it is impossible to fit them logically into the course of world events, thereby clearly showing that
their meaning has been distorted by human brains in the course of transmission. Not one of these
sentences can be integrated in the events that happened and in the intuitive perception without leaving a
gap. Yet only when everything comes to a conclusion through the completion of its cycle, without any
fantasy or words of blind faith, only therein is every happening explained in the right manner! —
But why make the effort if man does not wish to be freed from such obstinacy! Therefore, may that
come to pass which in the circumstances must now come to pass. Only a few years will finally and
absolutely change all that. —
In horror I turn away from the believers and from all those who in their false humility think they know better, who therefore do not recognize a simple truth but even smile at it indulgently or
benevolently wish to improve upon it. How quickly will just these persons become small, so very small,
and lose all support, since neither their faith nor their knowledge offers them any such support. They will
gain the path which they so persistently desire and upon which they can no longer return to life. The right
to choose has never been denied them.—
Those who have followed me so far know that man originates in the highest sphere of Creation: the
Spiritual Sphere. But there are still many differences to be noted in the Realm of the Spiritual. Man on
earth, who presumes himself great, who often does not shrink from dragging his God down by regarding
Him merely as being the highest on that level to which he himself belongs, who sometimes even dares to
deny or disdain Him, is in reality not even that which many a soul with true humility imagines itself to be.
Earth-man is not a created being, but merely a developed being. That is a difference too great for man to
imagine.

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Hello beautiful people of Nairaland, it's been long time and we are really sorry, here is another beautiful writing from the grail message to further stimulate you spiritually.


Germans, it is said, are called to become the leading people, spiritually and in the world! Numerous
books point to it and many good prophecies and visions which cannot simply be dismissed as figments of
the imagination very explicitly repeat the same idea over and over again. While many of the books are
only written to raise the morale of the Germans in their great distress, and to prevent the good from
becoming totally overgrown by the despair at the evil new forms of such distress, whoever seeks to
concern himself seriously with the future of this people, which is to emerge only out of the wreckage of
the present conditions, will find that a kernel of wisdom and truth must nevertheless lie in these allusions
to a great future.
Yet I say very purposely: “Out of the wreckage of the present conditions!”; because out of the present
conditions themselves there is but one way: further decline and downfall!
Take a calm look at the people as they currently are! Look carefully among the more mature young
adults for the coming race, the next German generation. It is fundamentally poisoned in body and soul.
The few noticeable exceptions stand out as eccentrics; however, for an entire people, they are
insignificant.
The few exceptions to the ever further declining environment seem so starkly exaggerated that they
begin to look grotesque and are close to being the object of general ridicule, of being considered
abnormal, morbid, useless dreamers and fools!
The grotesque contrast, however is not due to the few laudable exceptions but to the sinking
environment, which in its hopeless fall becomes ever further removed from the more or less normal
condition of the soul. People no longer perceive that it is their own fall that removes them from the sound
and solid ground where the few are still standing; instead they have the false impression that these few are
abnormal and have their heads in the clouds of childish fantasies from where they will soon fall,
disenchanted, only to become everyone’s laughing stock.
However, it will not be too much longer and their eyes will lose all derision, only to make room for
the horror of finally having to realize that the ones they have mocked until now are holding the correct
and solid position, while they themselves are sinking into the worst excrement and will gradually
suffocate. They themselves prepared this excrement and will now be inexorably engulfed by it!
The worst part is that this disgraceful state of affairs cannot be imputed to Germany’s enemies but to
the Germans themselves.
This great time of fermentation is similar to the process of boiling, in which all dirt rises to the top.
Now that everything is moving toward a momentous purification process, what is seen from the outside is
only the upward-swirling froth or scum of the real German people, which prevents recognition of its
sound base and makes it appear as though everything is already irretrievably lost. This however is not the
case! The more densely the unclean scum coalesces to form a blanket at the top, the more clarified and
pure the main part below will become; then, when the sobering effect of terrible events brings on a
cooling off from the seething caused by current conditions and the resulting distress, one fissure after
another will tear into the rigid scum from below. This will suddenly show the purity and clarity which
had formed beneath the dirty, worn-out blanket, confusing the senses.
Then the clarified part will break through victoriously, with tremendous force, and it will tear away
the withering scum which will no longer be able to stand between events and the true core of the people!
The victor, however, will not be a new generation yet to come, or today’s German youth growing up
with their souls in such a pathetic, diseased state, which let itself be poisoned and which must be swept
away like chaff before the first breath of fresh air because, prematurely ripened, it followed wrong paths
with unrestrained self-indulgence to the point of the destruction of any actual foundation. The victor will
be the old; that which has been, which will suddenly emerge purified, like refined steel, from the
senseless chaos as the unshakable bedrock on which alone the new up-building can take place!
Look inside yourselves, mature German men, mature German women, do not look to the coming
generation which can and must only learn from you. You hold the future in yourselves, you alone who
have still experienced the past as your foundation! Up till now, you have faced the senseless goings-on without comprehension, and for that reason, you
have not yet intervened! At last give help to the enervated youth with the old German strength which
does not know weak indulgence and in which strictness towards self as well as others blazes up
powerfully, feared by falseness, mushiness and weakness!
The only reason for the temporary paralysis of your invincible, sound volition was amazement
beyond measure at how the current events are even possible, not agreement with or joy over the depravity
of the body, and no less of the soul.
And now you, who have allowed yourselves as well as the generations that will follow you to be
bound in chains in this way; you have the duty to break these chains yourselves, rather than expecting a
solution to come from your successors!
You, however, who are leisurely waiting for and counting on the fulfillment of high prophecies, do
not fool yourselves! Without action even the best of prophecies cannot be fulfilled! The “waiting” itself
puts a stop to that possibility.
And your arguing over interpretations and times of possible fulfillments is as dangerous and
corrupting to Germany’s future as is the German plague of endless divisions in internal politics, which
shows clearly that until now no truly German national-spirit has existed. It could always be found only in
individuals! Only in times of greatest danger did the masses sometimes stand together; but even then, not
always. Where has there ever been a truly German people, animated by a free, proud spirit? Any rabble-
rouser found easy access, his wicked game always finding fertile ground.
Dancing without a care, and with a shrug of the shoulders they hear the wails of despair of entire
segments of the German people who suffer daily under the hatred of the enemy.
Promises and prophecies however speak of a chosen people! Can the German people as they present
themselves today, even be eligible? Do they look chosen? The answer to this question is self-evident.
A calling is a peculiar thing. Christ already cautioned us: “Many are called but only few are chosen!”
This means that of the called ones only a few achieve actual fulfillment. The reason for this is that they
themselves have to bring about this fulfillment through unflagging striving, extraordinary activity and
diligence. And as it is with individuals, so is it also with nations! To be called simply means to bear the
capacity for fulfillment within; it does not mean that this fulfillment will fall into the lap of the called one.
Only if the called one, i.e., the one empowered, applies himself completely and makes use of all of his
abilities with iron, unswerving diligence, in hard striving and tenacious struggle, will the help from above
come to him in extraordinary ways which will lead him to victory, in other words to the fulfillment of his
calling. However, this should also not be misunderstood; for the approach of strong help from above is
not to be taken figuratively. The power for the final victory is always available. Only through his striving
does the called one have to develop the talents he was given to that point where he encounters this power,
which can then unite with him!
Thus, it is quite different from what many called ones often have thought. To be called is an
obligation! A called one has the sword of victory placed into his hand in order to do battle through his
capabilities. It is always up to him to use it for delivering the blow. Therefore, do not dream away the
time in which you are already ordained to accomplish great things, which alone will make you victorious
provided you bestir yourselves. For this too, there may come a “too late” in which case victory will be ten
or a hundred times more difficult to achieve.
Since anyone can see that the German people, as it shows itself today, cannot be considered as the
“chosen” one. Yet prophecies always bear the possibility of fulfillment. It is therefore clear that many
changes will have to occur within the German people. They will not change voluntarily, as has been
shown in the last few years, during which the German spirit, to which each German has to contribute his
part, has been on a downward rather than an upward trend. As a consequence they will be forced to
provide the field and soil so that the needed German spirit can finally grow out of the great distress. What
cannot be achieved in peace and joy will finally have to be accomplished through suffering. If the
suffering up until now did not suffice, the blows will have to fall harder and with greater severity,
eventually a point will be reached where all stubborn resistance will either break or submit. The
individual still has the free choice between breaking and submitting since he has to reap the rewards for
either, depending upon the decision he then makes. Therefore, the closer the fulfillment, the greater the suffering to be expected. Blessed is he whose
decision leads to his happiness.
Of course in the world happening the chosen people cannot be limited to one nation. Thus it is not a
matter of the German people in the narrowest sense, just as it is never a matter of one nation per se in any
world event, however one nation can play a role in effecting many of the happenings. The nature and
extent of its role is shaped by each nation alone.
Decisive for the coming world epoch is only the race, not a nation. At the time of decision the white
race is the highest of them all in their development. The fact that Asia and other parts of the world were at
one time more advanced than Europe is no longer of any significance in the present time, the time of the
final reckoning not only for humanity on this earth, but for the entire part of the world to which this earth
belongs. The respective condition in the hour of decision alone matters; and in this respect the white race
now stands at the top. For this reason Europe could likely be battleground in the earthly sense. As I have
clearly pointed out in my Lecture “Gods, Olympus, Valhalla”*(Lecture Nr. 82), every reincarnation takes
place in an environment matching the condition of the soul to be incarnated. It is therefore possible for a
white person on a severely regressed spiritual level to incarnate in a low Negro tribe. Of course, the
opposite is true too. Now, among the white race the true German spirit is to be considered the highest!
That is the German spirit in all its purity and greatness. Several times in the past, the beginnings of an
upswing were made, without ever reaching the real height, with the exception of a few individuals, who
must always go forth and lead the way. These few individuals manifested the capabilities of their race.
The German spirit shall become an example and a leader in the final ascent of humanity. Not the spirit as
it is now, but as it shall become, as it is capable of becoming and as it definitely will become in the future
experiencing!
Now this is not meant to refer exclusively to that nation which is called German. Every concept in a
world event reaches much further and is not defined so narrowly. The potential for this German Spirit as
it is intended can also be carried in any member of any other nations. It is meant objectively in its
capabilities, and by no means in a national sense. However, it is primarily members of the German people
who carry all of the necessary basic traits within themselves for this future Spirit; to which victory and
leadership among humanity are reserved.
Beware therefore, you Germans, and apply all of your energies so that you, who because of your
potential are called, will also be chosen. The chosen people will be made up of chosen individuals, and all
of you are candidates for this. That is why the chosen people will not be made up exclusively of Germans,
but also of parts of other nations which, from a spiritual perspective belong to it. This is not confined to
the borders of the German nation.
Do not fritter away the high assignment which is awaiting you! Tear yourselves away from the
superficiality of current thought about all of contemporary life and become what you can and should be:
one Spirit, one people, which is to lead others by example. If you miss the precisely allotted time for this,
during which the entire cosmos works to support you, then instead of ascending, you will fall with such
terrible force that you will be irretrievably condemned, never to be resurrected again. Being called
requires the highest commitment of all of one’s energies! Hold this warning in your mind, always!


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For a long time now attempts have been made to find the right interpretation of the known gods of past
ages, and to find a proper connection with the present time. Called ones and scholars alike are seeking for
a solution which will bring complete clarification.
However this will only be possible if the solution provides a comprehensive and unbroken survey
over all the ages, from the beginning of the human race to the present day! Otherwise it will again remain
incomplete. It is of no value simply to pick out the period in which the well-known cults of the Greeks,
Romans and Germanic peoples who worshipped their gods flourished. As long as the explanations do not
simultaneously include all processes of formation and disintegration as being quite natural within
themselves, they are wrong. So far, in spite of all the cleverness employed, the attempts which have been
initiated have always resulted in eventual failure, they could not hold up before the deeper intuitive
perception. Without connection with preceding and subsequent eras they hung in the air.
Upon close examination of the evolution of man, nothing else can be expected. —
The hearers and readers of my Grail Message should be able to figure out the actual facts in these
matters, which have in part even been relegated to the realm of sagas and legends, or else one assumed
them to be merely the fantastic constructs of religious beliefs, formed and conceived from observations of
nature and put in the context of daily life.
It should not be hard for the thinker and investigator to find more in the old lore of gods than mere
myths. He must even see the actual happening clearly! Follow me if you wish. I will lead you to
understanding.
Here I refer back to my lecture: “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do” *(Lecture Nr.
81). In that lecture I gave a brief description of the history of mankind on earth from the very beginning
until now. I also gave a glimpse into the further development, and in so doing I showed you how, in the
middle of a cycle of Creation, the Animistic, which stands lower than the Spiritual, had achieved, in the
even lower-lying World of Matter, its own highest level of ability. And how, in the course of this
fulfillment, it opened the way for the higher Spiritual to penetrate, a process which repeats itself
continually in Creation. I also explained how in the highest animal body developed by the animistic,
called primeval man, there was created the possibility which only then, that is, during the climax of its
development, permitted a spirit-germ to enter. This event did occur and will always be provided anew at
this point of development in Creation. Thus, into the most highly developed animal of that time there
entered something new, the Spiritual, which had not been in it before.
It must not be hastily concluded from this process that such happenings will continuously repeat itself
in the same part of the World; for this is not the case! It happens only once in the same part.
During further development the law of the Attraction of Homogenous Species irrevocably blocks a
repetition in the same part of the World. Attraction of similar species is in this case the equivalent of
admittance during a very specific period of development, in which, through a certain state of semi-
maturity of materiality, spirit germs floating near the border can hurl themselves like shooting stars into
this receptive materiality, in order to be absorbed there, to be enveloped, i.e., encapsulated and held fast at
points which are ready to receive them, in this case the most highly developed animal bodies of that time.
It is exactly the same as on a small scale as a simple reflection in a chemical process of amalgamation, the
bonding of a foreign substance is only possible at a very specific temperature of the absorbing mass, after
this particular temperature or heat again caused a very special state of the mass which can be reached only
at this particular degree. The slightest divergence from these exact conditions prevents an amalgamation,
and the substances repel and reject each other.
In this case homogeneity consists in a specific state of their respective maturity, which only appears
to indicate great contrasts, since it is kept in balance through the higher and lower levels of the two parts
to be amalgamated. The maturity of the lowest point of the spiritual is similar to that of the highest point
of the animistic lying below it. Only at this exact point of meeting is an amalgamation possible. And since
the World of Matter in its development always moves in a gigantic cycle emerging, blossoming, ripening,
and decaying through over-ripeness, while the spiritual lies above it, this process of sparking
amalgamation can occur only at a very definite point in time while the World of Matter passes by. It is a spiritual impregnation of the World of Matter, which, through the working of the animistic, has been
swelling toward it, fertile and ready to receive.
Once a particular part of the World has passed this point in its forward movement, the possibility of
spiritual impregnation by spirit-germs ceases for this part, and the part following it takes its place. For the
first part, however, a new stage commences in which maturing spirits can find access, and so it continues.
In this lecture I do not have room to unfold the whole world picture, but a serious investigator may well
form an idea of the further progression. —
Due to its higher nature, the spiritual, though still in its unconscious state, exercised its vital influence
in a tangible manner upon everything as soon as it entered the World of Matter and began to dominate.
How the spiritual then gradually raised the animal body to the level of the present human body should no
longer be incomprehensible to any of my readers*(Lecture Nr. 7: The Creation of man).
However, the development of the animal bodies of the most highly developed species of that time,
into which no spirit-germs incarnated, came to a standstill, since the animistic element within them had
already attained its highest state, and the power of the Spiritual needed in order to advance further was
lacking, and with this standstill, over-ripeness quickly set in, to be followed by retrogression and
disintegration. For these species there were only two possibilities, either development into a human body
through the power of the spirit, or decay and extinction. Thus these mature animal species became
completely extinct. —
Let us now trace this initially unconscious spirit-germ in its slow development of consciousness as a
human spirit, and let us accompany it spiritually as it penetrates step by step its surrounding cloaks and
environments.
This is not so difficult because the process of development is quite plainly visible externally. One
need only observe the human races still in existence on earth today.
For instance the spirit of the most primitive men, which include the so-called savage tribes, and also
the Bushmen, Hottentots, and so on, has been in the World of Matter for just as long a time, but they have
not kept pace in development, or, after ascent had already taken place, either in this world or in the
beyond, they have retrogressed so far that they could only be incarnated in such low surroundings!
Through their own guilt and in the natural course of events they either remain on, or are once again on, a
very low level, as a result of which their outlook upon the non-gross material environment is far from
being of an uplifting nature.
The spiritual urge to see more than that which is on its own level rests within the spirit-germ as a part
of its essential nature, and therefore has a strong effect even in the lowest stages of development. This is
the living motive power within the spirit, the special element which is lacking in other kinds or species in
Creation. The possibility for this desire to see or perceive is always given for only one step above the one
it stands upon at the time, and no further. It is for this reason that these human souls standing on a low
level, who have been negligent or sinful in their development to such an extent, can sense or perceive
through clairvoyance only similarly base entities.
There are mediums and clairvoyants among all races, regardless of what level they belong to!
Here I must once more especially mention that when I speak of “seeing” or “sensing” I mean only
that which is “personally seen” by the clairvoyant, according to my explanation. However, what is truly
and personally seen by “seers” of all times, is at most only a fourth of what they see. And this again can
be but one step above their own inner maturity, and no more. There is no other possibility. At the same
time, though, this constitutes a great natural protection for every clairvoyant, as I have repeatedly stated.
For this reason, it must not be assumed that mediums and clairvoyants are necessarily as matured and
inwardly advanced as are those things which they describe as having “seen” since the purer and more
luminous heights, happenings, and spirits are only shown to them in living pictures by spirit guides and
higher entities! Clairvoyants, however, self-deceptively and erroneously, imagine that they actually
experience all of this. Thus there is often great surprise at the baseness of character of many mediums,
who describe things as though they had occurred and been experienced by them, things which do not
seem to fit their own characters at all, or only very little. —
Therefore I speak here only of the narrow scope of actual personal seeing by mediums and
clairvoyants. The rest is not considered.

Continued from last week



This situation also drew the veil over the great simplicity of Divine Truth for the founders of
churches and religions, preventing any possibility of proper understanding.
Mankind could not have burdened themselves with anything more terrible than this voluntary
limitation, this incapacity to perceive anything that lies beyond the earth, which is by far the greater part
of all happenings. However, as a consequence, these happenings literally lie above their so limited
horizon.
Now let anyone try to fight against the impenetrability of this wall. He would very soon have to
realize the truth of the poet’s words that the gods themselves fight in vain against stupidity!
This tough wall can only be penetrated by the individual himself from within, for it was built up from
within. But they do not wish to do so!
Therefore there is failure everywhere today. A picture of desolate confusion and much distress
wherever one looks!
And on top of this pile of ruins there stands, hollow and puffed up with pride, the author of all this
wild confusion... “modern man” as he likes best to describe himself. The “progressive” who in reality has
constantly retrogressed! Expecting to be admired he even calls himself a “sober materialist.” —
One’s head aches and disgust wells up when one experiences all this, when one sees so much that is
good also go down, which, in the right environment, would have flourished. And when one sees so many
others suffer under all of this, then a fervent prayer forms: “Lord. You put an end to it! We cannot do it!”
Added to this are the many schisms and the ever-increasing hatred toward one another, despite the
uniformity of their voluntary enslavement! Neither employer nor employee, neither capital nor lack of it
are to blame,nor church or state or the different nations, but the wrong attitude of the individual alone has
brought about the present state of affairs!
Even so-called seekers for the Truth are now seldom on the right road. Nine-tenths of them turn into
nothing but Pharisees who look arrogantly down upon their fellow-men and criticize them, while at the
same time quarrelling among themselves. Everything is wrong! First of all there must come the inevitable
fulfillment of a dreadful end before some few can awaken out of their sleep.
As yet reversal is still possible. For everyone! But soon there will come a final “too late” for all time,
contrary to the hopes of so many believers who favor the erroneous view that depending on the individual
a more or less extended process of purification is necessary, but that in the end his path must lead back to
the Light again, to eternal joy and to the bliss of the nearness of God!
This thought is an agreeable consolation, but it is not correct and does not correspond to the Truth. —
Let us once again calmly and clearly, but in broad outline, survey the great development of Creation
and of man who belongs to it. In so doing bear in mind the Primordial Law of Homogeneous Species
which I have often explained, with all it embraces in the way of immutable and necessary consequences
in every happening:
Being heaviest, the World of Matter moves along like a large field in a gigantic cycle at the lowest
edge of the entire Creation. There, beginning with the primordial seed, all is in constant motion,
perpetually developing, increasingly combining and forming, right up to the globes visible to us, to which
the earth belongs. In this way maturing towards full blossom and towards the fruit to which our present
time corresponds, then automatically decaying in the subsequent stage of over ripeness, according to the
Laws of Creation, and to dissolve again back into primordial seed, which will continually receive the
opportunity of entering into fresh combinations and new forms. —
Such is the overall picture viewed calmly from On High.
Matter as such is nothing but the substance used to create forms or coverings, and comes to life only
when it is penetrated by the non-material animistic substantiality in the sphere above it and set aglow by
this bonding.
This bonding of matter with non-material animistic substantiality provides the basis for further
development. All animal souls are formed out of animistic substantiality.
Above the two basic segments, that of matter and that of animistic substantiality, there also lies, as the highest segment of Creation, the spiritual one. This is a Creation substance by itself, as my readers
already know. From this spiritual substantiality issue the seed-germs which are intent on developing into
self-conscious human spirits.
Only in the field of matter can such a seed-germ of the spirit develop into a self-conscious human
spirit, much the same as a corn seed in the soil of a field will grow into a ripe ear of corn.
Its entry into the field of material substance, however, is not possible until the latter has reached a
certain stage of development suitable to the condition of the spiritual which ranks highest in the entire
Creation.
That is the time in which Creation produces the most highly developed animal body, after which
further enhancement through an animal soul issuing from animistic substantiality is no longer possible.
A likeness, a repetition of this great cosmic happening, is continually provided later on for example
by the earthly birth of the human soul. Indeed, the entire cosmic happening is reflected in man who is the
crown of Creation, and thus the highest created being. The human soul, too, can enter the child’s body
developing in its mother's womb only when this body has reached a certain stage of maturity, not before.
In fact it is only the requisite stage of development as such which opens the way for the soul to enter. This
moment lies in the middle of pregnancy.
Thus in the great cycle of cosmic events the time of the highest development of the animal body also
falls in the middle, i.e., midway in the cycle of all matter! Let the reader mark this closely.
Because at that point the animistic substantiality of the animal soul had reached the highest point in
the development of the physical, this condition automatically opened the way for the entrance of the
spiritual standing above it!
Being the lowest of its spiritual species, the spirit germ could only enter into the highest masterwork
of the lower animistic substantiality, i.e., into the animal body it had developed most highly.
Due to its higher nature the spirit naturally takes over all control immediately upon entering, and can
henceforth lead the body it inhabits, as well as its entire earthly environment further along the road of
development, something which animistic substantiality would have been unable to accomplish. In this
process the spirit itself naturally develops simultaneously.
This is a cursory sketch of the activity within Creation, the exact details of which I shall give in later
lectures, right down to the most minute parts.
We belong to the very first part of this ring of materiality; stand first in the foreground at the top of its
cycle. There was nothing of a similar nature before us, but after us it will continue into eternity.
Thus, the part to which we belong experiences all happenings for the first time, ahead of all others.
The reason why the earth plays such an exceptionally important role is because, being the most mature of
the gross-material bodies in the universe, all of the decisive world events have to take place upon it.
Thus what we are experiencing now and what lies ahead for us is not a repetition. It is by no means
something that has ever happened in world events before! —
Let us return to the first entry of the human spirit-germs into this World of Matter, i.e., the midway
point in the cycle of the World of Matter. The most highly developed animals of that time, which are
today erroneously described as Primeval Men, became extinct. Only those bodies among them were
developed towards ennoblement into which spirit-germs had entered instead of animistic animal souls.
The spirit-germs in them matured through varied experiences, raised the animal body to the human body
as we know it, and separated themselves into races and nations. – The great Fall of Man lay behind them.
It was the first act involving a voluntary decision after the spirit-germs had become self-conscious, and
was caused by their placing the intellect above the spirit, which in turn caused hereditary sin and very
soon had the grave consequences of making the hollow fruits of the dominating intellect become clearly
and easily recognizable. Hereditary sin is the one-sided development of the brain through the exaggerated
activity of the intellect, which as such is continually passed on as inheritance. I have often mentioned this
fact *(Lecture Nr. 9: Hereditary Sin) and shall in due course speak about it in much greater detail. Hopefully,
men will come forward who, following the direction shown them, will be able to help joyfully with the
great work of enlightenment.
Inexorably the great cosmic cycle continued on its course. But erring mankind brought standstill and
confusion into the necessary progress. In the midst of this turmoil the Jewish people came under the well-
known cruel scourge of the Egyptians. Their tribulation and great longing for liberation hastened the
maturing of their souls. Thus they surpassed all others spiritually, because this strong, non-sexual
emotional upheaval enabled them to first of all look into themselves, and also look into the souls of their
oppressors! After they had clearly perceived that neither anything earthly nor the keenest cleverness of
the intellect could help any longer, whereby they also recognized the emptiness of their own souls, their
spiritual eye learned to see more keenly, and gradually there arose at last a conception of the actual
Godhead, truer and higher than any they had had before. And their anguished prayers rose up again with
much greater fervor.
Through this the Jewish people became the chosen people who preceded all other peoples spiritually,
because for their time they possessed the purest conception of Divinity. As far as it was possible at that
time considering the existing maturity of the human soul.
Please do not confuse maturity of the spirit with knowledge acquired by learning, but you must
always bear in mind that being spiritual is the same as being soulful!
It was the advanced spiritual maturity of the Jews at that time which enabled them to receive through
Moses the Will of God clearly expressed in the form of laws, which constituted the greatest treasure and
the best and most powerful support for further development.
Just as world happenings will quite naturally always concentrate only on the point of highest
maturity, so they gradually came to focus at that time upon the spiritually more and more maturing human
race of the Jews. —
Here again though, world events must not be confused with earthly world history, which is far
removed from actual world events and most often only reflects the effects of the so often wrongly applied
free will of the human spirit which always casts many stones into the actual happening, thereby often
producing temporary distortions and earthly confusion.
The Jewish people of that time were ahead of the others in their religious cult and their world view
therefore stood closest to the Truth.
The natural consequence was that in accordance with the Law of Reciprocal Action the annunciation
of an incarnation out of the Light had to come only upon this road which, being the most correct one,
could lead to the closest proximity of Truth. Through their greater distance from the Truth all the other
roads were closed to such a possibility, because they were lost in errors.
Again, in conformity with the Law of Attraction of Homogeneous Species, so absolutely necessary
for any activity, it was not possible for a Bringer of Truth from the Light to incarnate using any road other
than that road which lies closest to the Truth, and most closely resembles it. Only this provides the
necessary support and attraction, whereas erroneous views repel and directly close the road upon which
the Light might come and enter.
Here too The Law of Reciprocal Action and the Law of Attraction of Homogeneous Species must
inevitably become fully effective. The Primordial Laws either open or close a road in their constant and
consistent effects.
At the same time this circumstance automatically offers proof that the people among whom Christ, as
the great bringer of Truth was incarnated, had to have the purest conception about the Divine and its
activity, that all the other religions of that time did not come as close to the Truth. Thus Buddhism for
example did not and does not stand as close to the Truth, but goes astray in many ways. For the laws in
Creation do not mislead. On calm reflection anyone will come onto the right track and will no longer need
to waver. —
When in the course of time the Jews again allowed the intellect to dominate in their religion, breeding
dishonest ambitiousness, the heavy hand of the Romans helped to keep a small group in the right
recognition, so that the Word could be fulfilled.

Who does not know these momentous words which Jesus of Nazareth uttered when He hung on the cross.
They are one of the greatest prayers of intercession ever spoken. Clear and explicit. And yet in spite of
this, for the past two thousand years these words have been met with a complete lack of comprehension.
They were interpreted one-sidedly. Only in that way which appeared to be agreeable to men. There was
not one person to raise his voice and call out their proper meaning in all its explicitness to mankind,
especially to Christians!
But not only that. Every soul-stirring event in the earth-life of the Son of God was put into a false
light by the one-sidedness of the transmission. These faults, however, are not only present in Christianity;
they are to be found in every religion.
If disciples place the purely personal things about their teacher and master into the foreground, then
this is understandable, especially when this master was so abruptly and brutally torn from their midst,
and, although utterly innocent, was exposed to the most terrible suffering and coarsest mockery, and
finally put to a most agonizing death.
Such events would be deeply engraved on the souls of those who had come to know their teacher in
the most ideal way while they lived together, and would quite naturally cause them to place the personal
element foremost in everything they remembered. But the sacred Mission of the Son of God lay in His
Word, in bringing the Truth from Luminous Heights, in order to show mankind their way to the Light.
This way had been closed to them up till then, because the state of their spiritual development had
previously made it impossible for them to walk on that road!
The suffering thereby wrought by mankind upon this great Bringer of Truth stands entirely alone!
However, what was quite understandable and natural to the disciples resulted in many great errors in
the later religion. The essence of the Divine Message receded far into the background before the personal
cult of the Bringer of Truth, a cult which Christ never intended.
For this reason mistakes are now evident in Christianity which will lead to the danger of a breakdown
unless the errors are recognized in time, and are openly and courageously confessed and corrected.
It can only be expected that the smallest amount of serious progress must make all of these gaps
visible. So it is decidedly better not to avoid them, but to tackle them boldly! Why should the purification
not be initiated by the leadership itself, cheerfully and frankly, with a free upward gaze towards the
Supreme Godhead! As if freed from a pressure, which although perceived was never really recognized as
such, great numbers of men would gratefully follow the call that would lead them into the light of joyful
conviction! —
In following the habit of those who blindly subject themselves to the unlimited rule of their intellect,
and who thereby severely diminish their ability to comprehend, they placed the same value on Christ’s
earth life as on His Mission. His family relationships and all the earthly events received even greater
attention than the main purpose of His Coming, which consisted of bringing enlightenment to the matured
human spirits about all the real happenings in Creation, wherein alone they will find the Will of God,
which is woven into it and thus guaranteed for them.
The bringing of this yet unknown Truth alone made it necessary for Christ to come to the earth.
Nothing else. For without truly recognizing the Will of God in Creation no man can find the road of
ascent to the Luminous Realm, much less walk upon it.
Instead of simply accepting these facts as such, immersing themselves in the Message and living
accordingly, as the Bringer of Truth repeatedly and emphatically demanded, the founders of the Christian
religions and churches created a personal cult as the principal foundation, which forced them to make the
suffering of Christ into something entirely different from what it really was.
They needed it for this cult! Finally, in the course of further development, this quite naturally
produced one great error after another, preventing them from even recognizing the right way at all.
This false structure alone, which was founded in a lack of objectivity, brought about the distortion in
all of the happenings. Unbiased naturalness was bound to be lost as soon as the main cult became purely personal! With this arose the desire to anchor the Mission of the Son of God mainly in His life on earth.
Indeed this became a necessity.
However, Christ Himself proved by His whole attitude that it was the wrong course to take. More
than once He clearly and sharply rejected the attention given to his person. With every word and every
action He always pointed to God the Father, Whose Will He fulfilled and in Whose Power He stood and
acted. He explained how mankind should henceforth learn to look up to God the Father, but He never
spoke of Himself in this connection.
But since His words in this regard were not heeded, it became inevitable in the end that Christ's
suffering on earth was presented as necessary, and as ordained by God, even branded as the main task of
His coming to earth! According to the resulting view, He came from the Luminous Heights only in order
to suffer here on earth!
As He had not burdened Himself with any guilt, there remained only one explanation: He must have
taken the sins of others upon Himself in order to redeem these sins for them!
What was left but to continue to build in that manner on the foundation thus established.
And the well-known overestimation of self-worth, from which all mankind suffer, provided the
nourishing power and fertile soil for this. It is the result of the great Fall of Man, which was directed
against the spirit, and which I have often explained in detail. In valuating his intellect too highly man is
concerned only with himself and not with his God, all of the bridges to Whom he has thus destroyed.
Only a few here and there still have a very weak pathway to the Spiritual Sphere which, however, allows
them to gain but a small sense, never real knowledge.
For this reason, the proper and natural thought, completely to disassociate the earthly suffering of
Christ from the Divine Message as being a separate happening, occurred to no one. Nor did anyone
recognize all the hostility, persecution and torture as the serious and most brutal crimes that they really
were. It is a new and great wrong to euphemize them by depicting them as a necessity!
His sufferings and agonizing death on the cross certainly deserve the radiant light of highest glory
since the Son of God did not shrink from such evil reception among the arrogant and vengeful people, a
reception which was to be expected after the Fall of Man, but in spite of all this, He brought His so
urgently needed Message of Truth to the earth for the sake of the few who were good.
The act is to be valued all the more highly, because it is really only a small proportion of mankind
who wish to save themselves thereby.
But it is a new sacrilege against God when the crimes mankind committed at that time are supposed
to be so mitigated through false assumptions as to make it appear that men had only been the tools of a
necessary fulfillment.
It is because of these errors that many thinking men are so uncertain about the consequences of the
action of Judas Iscariot! With full justification. For if the death on the cross was necessary for mankind,
then Judas and his betrayal provided the necessary tool, and in the spiritual sense he should not really
have been punishable. The truth about the actual happening, however, removes all such conflicts, the
justified emergence of which only confirms the fact that the assumption accepted in the past must really
be false. Where the right view prevails there is no room for such unresolved questions, and the quite
natural happening can be considered from every point of view without running into an obstacle.
Man should at last have the courage to recognize the diminishment of the true nature of this crime,
i.e. the euphemizing of it, as cowardice, which is only kept concealed by the cleverness of his earthbound
intellect, the greatest enemy of everything that is able to rise above it, just as this fact always shows itself
with every base fellow. Or it may show as veiled self-aggrandizement which springs from the same
source! Isn’t it nice to be able to imagine being valued so highly as to have a deity take on suffering and
fight only to be able to offer a place of honor in the Divine Realm of Bliss to this small human being!
In reality such is man’s basic view, plainly and bluntly expressed! This is the way it looks as soon as
a firm hand tears away the glitter from its forms!
I need hardly point out that such a view can only be the result of a most seriously restricted capacity
to comprehend all non-earthly happenings. Ever and again it is one of the grave consequences of the
glorification of the earthly intellect which prevents any free, broad outlook. Worship of this idol, the intellect has naturally grown steadily since the Fall of Man, until it has now developed into the earthly
powerful Antichrist or, more explicitly, into all that is anti-spiritual! This is clearly evident today
wherever one looks. This no longer requires a keen eye.
And since the spiritual alone can provide the bridge to approach and to understand all that is Divine,
the granting of supreme power to the earthly intellect, to which all the sciences proudly confess today, is
nothing but an open declaration of war against God!
Not only the sciences, but all mankind today moves under this banner! Even anyone calling himself a
serious seeker carries this poison about with him.
It is therefore not unnatural for the Church also to contain much of it. In the rendering and
interpreting of all the words of the Savior, therefore, much has crept in which has its origin only in the
earthly intellectual cleverness!
This also is the serpent which seduces man ever again and of which the Bible story warns! This
serpent of intellectual cleverness alone, confronts every man with the misleading decision: “Yea, that
God said..?”
As long as every decision is left to the serpent, i.e., to the intellect alone, it will always, as has been
rightly indicated in the Bible, choose what is hostile to or what leads away from God, that which is purely
earthly and much lower, to which the intellect belongs as its highest manifestation. Thus it cannot grasp
what is higher.
Man has been endowed with intellect so that in every life on earth he has a counterbalance pulling
downwards to balance the upward-striving pure spirituality. It was given to him for the purpose of
preventing him from floating in spiritual heights only, and thereby forgetting his task on earth. The
intellect is also meant to facilitate and make his whole life on earth easier and more comfortable. But,
above all, it is intended to transmit the strong upward drive toward what is sublime, pure and perfect,
which is an absolutely inherent quality of the spirit, to that which is small and earthly, and to make its
effect visible in the material world. It should act as the handyman of the living spirit, as its servant, not as
the one to make decisions and take the lead! It is to help create the earthly or material opportunities for
the carrying out of spiritual urges. The intellect is to be the tool and the servant of the spirit.
If, however, all decisions are left to the intellect alone, as is done now, then it ceases to be only a
counterbalance and helper, but puts only its own weight into the scales of every decision with the only
possible result being a sinking lower, on account of its downward pull. No other course is possible
because the intellect belongs to the World of Matter and is firmly bound to it, whereas that which is
spiritual comes from above. Instead of extending a helping hand to the spiritual, and becoming strong and
great in doing so, the intellect, as soon as everything is left up to it, rejects and repudiates the stronger
hand proffered by the spiritual. It cannot do otherwise and acts only in accordance with the laws of its
own nature.
It must be remembered, however, that the earthly intellect becomes the enemy of the spirit only when
it is elevated above the latter! Not before. For if it stands under the dominion of the spirit, as it is set up
by nature in accordance with the Creative Will, it remains a faithful servant which can be appreciated as
such. But if, contrary to the Laws of Nature, the intellect is given a position of authority, where it does not
belong, the consequence is that it will suppress anything that might interfere with its remaining on the
usurped throne. It automatically closes the doors which, if kept open, would throw light upon its
deficiencies and narrow limitations.
This is strictly analogous to the actions of those people, who in well-ordered circumstances and under
good leadership feel their abilities grow, and who then over-estimate these abilities and overthrow the old
order, and who then, because of their inability to achieve what is higher, plunge a nation into poverty and
distress. Just as such people can never realize their error and, both to themselves and before others,
always seek only to blame past circumstances for their own incapacity, so will it be equally hard for the
human intellect to recognize that it can never work in the place of the superior spirit without causing
gravest harm and finally bringing about destruction. It is always the same picture, the same happening,
repeated endlessly.
Men should for once think themselves calmly and deeply into this process. Everything would then
quickly become understandable to them, and it would also appear most useful.

Conclusion from the previous two lectures


He who acts against God’s Will, and thus commits a sin in Creation, is subject to the consequences of
this transgression. It matters not who he may be and on what pretext he acted. Be it an individual under
the cloak of the church or of the law... a crime committed against the body or against the soul is and
remains a crime! Nothing can alter it, not even the semblance of justice which is by no means always
what is right; for of course the laws, too, were made only by intellectual men, and therefore must bear
earthly limitations within.
Just consider the law in so many countries, namely in Central and South America. A man who today
holds power, and enjoys all of the honors associated with it, may even tomorrow be thrown into prison or
be executed as a criminal, if his opponent succeeds in seizing the reins of this government through an act
of violence. Should he not be successful, then it is he who, instead of being recognized as the ruler, will
be looked upon as a criminal and be persecuted. And all the public institutions serve the one as willingly
as they do the other. Even a world traveler will often have to change his conscience as he would his
clothes when passing from one country to another, in order to remain in good standing everywhere.
Something which may be considered a crime in one country will often be permitted or perhaps even
welcomed in another.
This is naturally only possible in the achievements of the earthly intellect, but never where the
intellect must occupy its natural place as a tool of the living spirit; for he who listens to the spirit will
never neglect the Laws of God. And where these laws are used as the foundation there can be no flaws,
no gaps, but only a uniformity that brings in its wake happiness and peace. In their basic features the
expressions of the spirit can always and only be exactly the same everywhere. They will never stand in
opposition to each other.
Also jurisprudence, the healing arts and statesmanship are bound to remain merely imperfect crafts
wherever the intellect alone forms the foundation, and the spiritual is lacking. It simply cannot be
otherwise. While naturally always assuming the true conception of “spirit”. —
Knowledge is a product, but spirit is life, the value and power of which can only be measured
according to its connection with the origin of the spiritual. The closer this connection the more valuable
and powerful will be the part which emanated from the origin. But the looser this connection becomes,
the more distant, alien, isolated and weak must be the emanated part, i.e. the human being concerned.
All of these facts are so simple and self-evident that it is impossible to comprehend how the
intellectual man, so gone astray, can pass them by over and over again as if he were blind. For what the
root provides, that also sustains the trunk, the blossom and the fruit! But in this as well, the hopeless self-
limitation in understanding reveals itself. They have toiled to erect a wall before themselves which they
can now no longer see over, much less see through.
However, with their conceited, superior and mocking smile, with their arrogance and looking down
upon others less deeply enslaved, they must sometimes appear to all spiritually alive people like poor,
sick fools who, in spite of all pity, must be left to their delusion, because their limited understanding even
allows facts that prove the contrary to slip by without making any impressions. Every effort to bring
about an improvement must simply prove as fruitless as trying to heal a sick person by hanging a new and
resplendent cloak around his shoulders.
Today materialism is already past its climax, and now, failing everywhere, it must soon collapse. Not
without also tearing down much that is good. Its devotees are already at the end of their ability, and will
soon become confused about their work and then about themselves, without perceiving the abyss that has
opened up before them. They will soon be like a flock without shepherds, one not trusting the other, each
pursuing his own way, and yet still proudly looking down upon others. Not thinking matters out carefully,
but merely following old habits.
With all signs of the outward semblance of their hollowness, they will end by blindly falling into the
abyss. They still regard as spirit what are but the products of their own brains. However, how can lifeless
matter produce living spirit? They are proud of their meticulous thinking in many things, but quite
unscrupulously and most irresponsibly leave gaps in the most important.
Every new step, every attempt at improvement, will ever again have to carry within it all the
barrenness of the intellectual work, and thus the germ of inevitable doom.
All that I am saying here is neither prophecy nor baseless prediction, but the unalterable consequence of the all-animating Creative Will, Whose Laws I have already explained in previous lectures . He who
follows me in spirit along the paths that are clearly indicated therein must also survey and recognize the
necessary end. And all the signs for it are already here.
People cry and moan, they see with disgust how the excrescences of materialism take on scarcely
believable forms today. They beg and pray for deliverance from the affliction, for improvement and
recovery from the unlimited downfall. The few who have managed to save some stirring of their inner life
from the tidal wave of the incredible happenings, who have not suffocated spiritually in the general
downfall that deceptively bears the name of “progress” proudly on its brow, feel like outcasts and
backward people, and are also regarded and ridiculed as such by the soulless followers of modern life.
A laurel wreath to all those who had the courage to refrain from joining the masses! Who have
proudly stayed behind on the steeply sloping path!
He who today, for this reason, still considers himself unfortunate must be a sleepwalker! Open your
eyes! Do you not see that everything that oppresses you is already the beginning of the sudden end of
materialism, which at the moment only appears still to rule? The whole structure is already collapsing,
without any assistance from those who have suffered and must still suffer under it. Intellectual mankind
must now reap what for thousands of years they have produced, nourished, reared and acclaimed.
In human reckoning it is a long time, but for God’s self-acting mills in Creation only a brief span.
Wherever one looks, everywhere, there is failure. It surges back and heaps itself up menacingly like a
heavy rampart that will soon topple over and crash down upon its admirers, burying them beneath the
ruins. It is the inexorable Law of Reciprocal Action which during this manifestation must have a terrible
effect, because in spite of the many kinds of experiences gained, there has never in thousands of years
been any change towards higher things; on the contrary, the same wrong road has been trampled wider
and wider.
Despondent ones, the time is at hand! Hold up your heads, which you have so often had to hang in
shame when injustice and stupidity were able to cause you such deep suffering. Just look calmly today at
the opponent who thus sought to oppress you!
Already the fine raiment worn until now is very badly tattered. The figure in its true form is at last
visible through all the tears. The exhausted product of the human brain, the intellect, which allowed itself
to be enthroned as spirit, less confident but no less conceited... looks forth uncomprehendingly!
Take the bandage confidently from your eyes and look about you more keenly. Even the perusal of
newspapers which are otherwise quite good reveals all sorts of things to the clear-sighted. There are
desperate efforts to continue clinging to all of the old illusions. With arrogance, and often very coarse
jokes, people seek to cover up the lack of comprehension that becomes more and more evident. A person
will frequently use absurd language to judge something of which in reality he has quite obviously no
shred of understanding. Today even people with quite good abilities helplessly take refuge in questionable
courses rather than confess that so many things are beyond the grasp of their own intellect, on which
alone they have hitherto sought to rely. They do not sense the absurdity of their behavior, and they do not
see the weaknesses which they only help to increase thereby. Confused and dazzled, they will soon stand
face to face with the Truth, and mournfully look back over their bankrupt life, at last recognizing with
shame that stupidity lay just where they thought themselves wise.
What have things already come to today? Muscleman is hero! Has a serious scientist, who after
decades of struggle found a serum providing annual protection and help against fatal diseases to hundreds
of thousands of people, young and old, ever celebrated triumphs as does a boxer who with purely
physical, crude brutality overpowers his fellow-man? Or like a pilot, who with only a little courage, no
more than any soldier in the field had to muster, completes a great flight only thanks to his excellent
machine? They practically throw a victory parade over that. Yet does this in any way benefit even one
human soul? It is only earthly, all earthly, meaning low in the whole Work of Creation! Entirely
corresponding to the golden calf of intellectual activity. As triumph over narrow-minded mankind by this
earthbound sham prince made of clay! — —
And no one sees this mad rush downwards into the gruesome abyss!
He who perceives this intuitively will, for the time being, remain silent in the embarrassing
realization that he will be ridiculed should he speak. It is already a wild frenzy in which, however, there is a dawning recognition of powerlessness. And with the growing awareness of that recognition people
become even more rebellious, out of sheer obstinacy, out of vanity, and last but not least from fear and
horror of the impending events. They simply do not yet want, under any circumstances, to consider the
end of this colossal error! Convulsively they cling to the proud structure built up over past millennia,
which closely resembles the Tower of Babel, and which will end in the same way!
This hitherto uncurbed materialism carries within it a foreboding of death, which becomes more
evident every month. —
Yet in many human souls, everywhere on the entire earth, something is astir! The radiance of the
Truth is still covered by only a thin layer of old, false conceptions, which the first gust of a purification
will sweep away, thus setting free the core, whose light will unite with that of so many others to unfold its
cone of rays, rising like a fire of gratitude to the Realm of Pure Joy, to the Feet of the Creator.
That will be the time of the much-longed-for Millennium, which lies before us in brilliant promise as
the great Star of Hope!
And with this, the grievous sin of all mankind against the spirit, which has kept the spirit bound on
earth through the intellect, is redeemed at last! Only that then is the right way back to what is natural, to
the way of the Will of the Creator, Who desires men’s works to be great, and suffused with living
intuitive perceptions! The victory of the spirit, however, will at the same time also be the victory of purest
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obstructs any broader view, instead of beingable to look down from above through the spirit.
If he wishes to awaken he is compelled first to “transpose the signals”. Place what is now above, the
intellect, into the place given to it by nature, and restore the spirit to the highest position. This necessary
transposition is no longer quite so easy for the man of today. —
This act of reversal by man, carried out in the past, which was so incisively directed against the Will
of the Creator and thus against the Laws of Nature, constitutes the actual “fall of man” the consequences
of which could not be more terrible; for it consequently developed into “hereditary sin”, for the
consequence of elevating the intellect to the position of sole ruler was, that in the course of time, such
one-sided cultivation and activity also strengthened the brain one-sidedly, so that only that part which has
to do with the work of the intellect, grew bigger, and the other part had to atrophy. Thereby the part that
has become atrophied through neglect can operate today only as an unreliable dream-brain, which even
then is still under the powerful influence of the so-called day-brain, which activates the intellect.
Thus the part of the brain which should form the bridge to the spirit, or rather the bridge from the
spirit to everything earthly is thereby paralyzed; a connection is broken, or at least very much loosened,
whereby man has cut off all spiritual activity for himself and with it also the possibility of “animating,”
spiritualising and inspiring his intellect. Both parts of the brain should have been developed absolutely
equally for joint harmonious activity, like everything in the body. The spirit having the leading role, the
intellect having the executive function here on earth. It is self-evident that because of this, all of the
activity of the body, and even the body itself, can never be what it should be. This development naturally
pervades everything! For it means that now the most essential factor for all earthly things is missing!
It is easy to understand that the event of cutting off was simultaneously linked with the withdrawal
and estrangement from the Divine. Indeed, there was no longer any way to It.
Ultimately, this led to the disadvantage that for thousands of years already, due to the ever more
extensive hereditary transmission, the body of every newborn child comes to the earth equipped with a
frontal, intellectual brain so large that because of this condition, he is from the outset subject to the
intellect from the moment this brain develops its full activity. The gulf between the two parts of the brain
has now grown so wide, and their functions so unequal, that for the majority of all men an improvement
can no longer be achieved without catastrophe.
The intellectual man of today is no longer a normal human being, for he lacks any development in
the principal part of his brain which is associated with being a complete human being, since he has
allowed it to become atrophied for thousands of years. Without exception, every intellectual man has only
a crippled normal brain! Therefore brain-cripples have been ruling the earth for thousands of years; they
regard the normal human being as an enemy and seek to suppress him. In their crippled condition they
imagine that they accomplish a great deal, and do not know that the normal human being is capable of
achieving ten times as much, producing works of a permanent nature which are more perfect than the
present efforts! The way is open to every really serious seeker to acquire this ability!
An intellectual man, however, will no longer be able to grasp easily something that belongs to the
activity of this atrophied part of his brain! He is simply incapable of it, even if he should desire it; and
solely because of his voluntary restriction he ridicules everything that he is unable to attain, and which,
owing to his actually retarded, abnormal brain, will never at any time be understood by him either. Just
therein lies the most terrible part of the curse of this unnatural aberration. The harmonious co-operation of
both parts of the human brain which absolutely belongs to a normal human being is definitely impossible
for the present-day intellectual men, who are called materialists. —
To be a materialist is by no means a compliment, but evidence of an atrophied brain.
So far it has been the unnatural brain that has ruled this earth, and whose activity must in the end
bring about the inevitable collapse of all things, for due to its atrophy, everything it may wish to produce
will naturally bear within it disharmony and disease from the very start.
Nothing of this can now be changed any more, but one must calmly let the naturally developing
collapse come about. Then, however, will be the day of resurrection for the spirit, and of a new life! The
slave of the intellect, who has held the reins for thousands of years, will thus be done away with forever!
Never again will he be able to arise, because the evidence and his own experience will finally force him,
ill and spiritually impoverished, at last to submit voluntarily to that which he was unable to grasp. Never again will he be given the opportunity to oppose the spirit; either by scoffing or through a semblance of
righteousness by imposing force, such as was also used towards the Son of God, Who had to fight against
it. At that time there still would have been time to prevent much of the disaster. But now it is too late; for
in the meantime the loosened connection between the two parts of the brain can no longer be bridged.
Many intellectual men will again try to ridicule the explanations in this lecture, but, as always, except
for empty catchphrases, they will be unable to present even one really objective counter-argument. Yet
any serious seeker and thinker will have to take such blind zealotry simply as fresh proof of what I have
set forth herein. However hard they try, it is impossible for these people. Let us therefore regard them
from now on as sick persons, who will soon be in need of help, and... let us calmly await the time. No
struggle and no acts of violence are needed to force the necessary progress; for the end will come of itself.
Here too, through the immutable Laws of all reciprocal actions, the natural course of events will take
effect quite inexorably, and also punctually. — —
Then, according to various prophecies, a “new generation” shall arise. This generation, however, will
not only be made up of new births, such as are already observed now in California and also in Australia as
being endowed with a “new sense” but mainly of people already living, who in the near future will
become “seeing” through the many coming events. They will then possess the same “sense” as those
newborn ones do now; for this sense is nothing more than the ability to stand in the world with an open
and unrestrained spirit, no longer allowing itself to be suppressed by the limitation of the intellect.
Hereditary sin will thereby finally be eliminated!
But all this has nothing to do with what has been hitherto described as “occult faculties.” It will
simply be the normal man as he should be! To “become seeing” has nothing to do with “clairvoyance”,
but signifies “insight,” recognition.
Men will then be able to observe everything without bias, which simply means to assess. They will
see the intellectual man as he really is, with the limitations so dangerous to himself and his environment,
the origin of his presumptuous lust for power as well as the dogmatism which is actually a part of it.
And they will realize how for thousands of years all of mankind has suffered under this yoke in strict
consistency in one form or another and how this cancerous sore, as the hereditary enemy, has always been
directed against the development of the free human spirit, the main purpose in human existence! They
will not avoid anything, not even the bitter certainty that the tribulations, all of the suffering and every
downfall were bound to come about through this evil, and that there could never be any betterment,
because from the start, any recognition was precluded owing to the limitation of the perceptive capacity.
But with this awakening, all of the influence and all of the power of these intellectual men has
ceased. For all time; for then a new and better age for mankind begins in which the old can no longer
survive.
This will bring the inevitable victory of the spirit over the failing intellect, longed for by hundreds of
thousands today. Many of the masses who have hitherto been led astray will still recognize the fact that
until now they had completely misinterpreted the term “intellect.” The majority simply accepted it as an
idol, without examination, just because the others did the same; and because all its adherents always put
on airs of being infallible, absolute rulers through force and laws. That is why many do not even take the
trouble to expose the real hollowness of these people, and the deficiencies concealed thereby.
Nevertheless, there are those who for decades already have been fighting against this enemy with
tenacious energy and conviction, in secret and to some extent also openly, occasionally being exposed to
the most severe suffering. But they fight without knowing the real enemy! And this has naturally made
success more difficult. Indeed, it has made it impossible from the outset. The warriors’ sword was not
well sharpened, because they always nicked its edge by striking at non-essential things. With these non-
essentials, however, they have always struck to the side and missing the mark, wasting their own strength,
and only causing division among themselves which today is growing ever greater.
In reality there is only one enemy of mankind all the way down the line: the hitherto unrestricted
rule of the intellect! That was the great fall of man, his most grievous guilt, which brought all evil in its
wake. That is what became hereditary sin, and that also is the Antichrist of whom it is proclaimed that he
will raise his head. More plainly expressed, the dominance of the intellect is his tool through which men
have fallen prey. To him, the enemy of God, the Antichrist himself... Lucifer (* Lecture Nr. 89: The Antichrist)!
We are in the midst of this time! He dwells today in every human being, ready to ruin him; for his
activity turns man immediately away from God as a quite natural consequence. He cuts off the spirit as
soon as he is allowed to rule.
Therefore, let man be keenly on his guard. —
Now man must not diminish his intellect, but he must make it what it is, his tool; not, however, his
authoritative will. Not his master!
Man of the coming generation will be able to regard the past only with disgust, horror and shame.
Similar to the way we feel upon entering an old torture chamber. There, too, we perceive the evil fruits of
the cold, calculating domination of the intellect. For surely it is an indisputable fact that anyone
possessing but a little inner feeling, and thus spiritual activity, could never have devised such atrocities!
Altogether it is no different today, only somewhat more camouflaged, and the agony of the masses is the
same rotten fruit as was the individual torture in olden times.
On looking back into the past, man will only be able to shake his head in sheer amazement. He will
ask himself how it was possible to quietly endure these errors for thousands of years. The answer, of
course, is simple: by force. It can be recognized quite clearly anywhere one looks. Leaving aside the
times of remote antiquity, we need only enter the aforementioned torture chambers which can still be seen
everywhere today, and the use of which does not lie so very far back.
We shudder as we look at these old implements. What cold brutality, what bestiality do they reveal!
Hardly anyone today will doubt that this activity of the past represented the most heinous crime. An even
greater crime was thus perpetrated upon the criminals. But also many an innocent person was dragged
brutally from family and freedom, and cast into these dungeons. What lamentations, what screams of pain
sounded here from those who, completely defenseless, were at the mercy of their tormentors. People were
compelled to suffer things the contemplation of which simply fills one with horror and loathing.
Instinctively everyone asks himself whether it was really humanly possible to inflict all this on
defenseless human beings, and moreover under the guise of the law. Of a law that after all had once been
obtained only by force. And then, confessions of guilt were forced from suspects again through physical
pain, so that they could then be murdered at leisure. Even though these confessions of guilt were only
extracted under compulsion, in order to escape these insane physical tortures, they nevertheless satisfied
the judges, who needed them to comply with the “letter” of the law. Did these so narrow-minded ones
really imagine that in this way they could whitewash themselves before the Divine Will as well? And
escape the inexorable working of the basic Law of Reciprocal Action?
Either all of these people who dared to pass judgment on others were the scum of the most hardened
criminals, or it was the morbid limitation of the earthly intellect showing itself clearly. There can be
nothing in between.
According to the Divine Laws of Creation every person in authority, every judge, no matter what
office he holds here on earth, should never stand in his actions under the protection of his office. He alone
and purely personally must himself, like any other person, bear unprotected the full responsibility for
anything he does in his office. Not only in the spiritual but also in the earthly sense. Then everyone would
take things much more seriously and carefully. And so-called “errors” whose consequences are forever
irreparable, will certainly not occur again so easily, to say nothing of the physical and psychic suffering of
the victims and their relatives.
But let us further consider the so-called “witch trials” which are also part of this subject!
Anyone who has ever had access to court records of such trials would, overcome by burning shame,
wish never to be numbered among this mankind. In those days, if anyone even had knowledge of healing
herbs, either through practical experience or through tradition, and if he used this knowledge to aid
sufferers asking him for help, he was subjected to relentless torture from which he was released only
through death by fire if his body had not already succumbed to these cruelties.
At that time even physical beauty, especially chastity that did not yield willingly could be sufficient
cause.
And then the horrors of the Inquisition *(Trials for heresy)! Relatively few years separate us from “that time”!
Just as today we recognize this injustice, so also did the populace at that time feel it exactly the same
way, since the “intellect” had not yet limited them quite so much. Here and there feeling broke through in
them, i.e., the spirit.
Do we not recognize today the absolute narrow-mindedness in all this? The irresponsible stupidity?
Although these things are spoken of with an air of superiority and a shrugging of the shoulders, yet
fundamentally nothing has changed. The stupid presumption towards everything not understood is still
exactly the same! Except that instead of these tortures men now publicly scoff at everything which, owing
to their narrow-mindedness, they do not understand. Many a person would do well to search his heart and
think seriously about this without sparing himself. Any person who has the capacity to know something
which others are closed off from, who maybe able to see the ethereal world with ethereal eyes as a natural
happening, will be regarded as a swindler by hereos of the intellect, i.e., people who are not quite normal,
possibly even before a court; in the very near future this will no longer be doubted much less brutally
attacked.
And woe unto him who does not himself know what to make of it, but naively speaks of what he has
seen and heard. He must fear the consequences as did the first Christians under Nero with his helpers
always ready to murder.
Should he even possess different abilities which can never be grasped by absolute intellectuals, then
he will most certainly be mercilessly hunted, slandered and ostracized unless he complies with everyone’s
wishes; if at all possible he will be rendered “harmless” to use a fancy phrase. Nobody has any qualms of
conscience about it. Even today such a man is regarded as fair game for anyone, some of whom may be
very unclean inwardly. The more narrow-minded, the greater the delusion of cleverness and the proclivity
to conceit.
Man has learned nothing from these happenings of days gone by, with their tortures, burnings at the
stake, and the ludicrous trial records! For even today anyone is still free to defile and insult with impunity
all that is unusual and not understood. In this respect it is no different now from what it was then.
Worse than the proceedings of the courts of law were those of the Inquisition which were instigated
by the Church. Here the screams of the tortured were drowned out by pious prayers. It was a mockery of
the Divine Will in Creation! Representatives of the churches of those days thus proved that they had no
idea of Christ’s true teaching, nor of the Godhead and Its Creative Will, Whose Laws lie irrevocably
anchored in Creation where they take effect in the same way as they have from the beginning and as they
will to the end of time.
God endowed the human spirit in its very nature with the free will to decide. Only in this free will
can it mature as it should, refine itself and develop fully. Therein alone lies the possibility for it to do so.
Crippling this free will, however, presents an obstacle if not a forced regression. Christian churches,
however, as well as many religions, fought against this Divine ordinance, opposing it with the greatest
cruelty. By means of torture and finally through death, they sought to compel people to pursue courses
and make confessions which were against their conviction, thus against their will. Thereby they violated
the Divine commandment. More than that, they hindered men’s spiritual progress and threw them back by
centuries.
If only a spark of true feeling, thus of the spirit, had shown itself, this should and could never have
happened! Therefore, only the coldness of the intellect worked such inhuman barbarities.
As history shows, even many a Pope permitted the use of poison and dagger to realize his purely
earthly wishes and aims. That could only happen under the domination of the intellect, which in its
triumphal march subjugated everything and stopped at nothing. —
And supreme above all, the Will of our Creator lies immutable in the inevitable course of events. On
passing into the beyond every human being is divested of earthly power and its protection. His name, his
position, everything is left behind. Only a poor human soul passes over, there to receive and what it
sowed. Not a single exception is possible! Its path leads through all the wheels of the absolute reciprocal
action of Divine Justice. There is no church, no state, but only individual human souls who must
personally account for every error they have made!

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Four words only, and yet they are like a magic formula, for they bear within them the quality of instantly
arousing a particular type of intuitive perception in every human being. This intuitive perception is
seldom of the same kind. This is similar to the effect of music. Just as in music, these four words also find
their way straight to the spirit of man, his real “self.” This applies, of course, only to those who do not
keep the spirit completely locked within them, and who have thereby already lost their real humanity here
on earth.
On hearing these words, however, every human being will spontaniouls and instantly think back to
some former experience. This experience arises vividly before him and with the picture also an analogous
intuitive perception.
For one it will be a wistful tenderness, a melancholy happiness, or a silent longing impossible of
fulfillment. For others, however, it will be pride, anger, horror or hatred. Man will always think of some
experience he once had which made an exceptional impression upon him, but which he thought long since
extinguished within him.
Yet nothing has been extinguished in him, nothing lost of what he once really experienced within
himself. All of it he can still call his own, as something truly gained and thus everlasting. But only that
which has been experienced can arise with these words! Nothing else.
If a man pays close and careful attention with an alert mind, then he will soon recognize what is
really alive within him, and what can be called dead; the soulless shells of useless memories.
Of use and purpose for man, and by man we must not mean simply the body, is only that which has a
deep enough effect on him during his life to leave an imprint on his soul, an imprint which is indelible,
and cannot be erased. Only such imprints have an influence on the forming of the human soul and
consequently also on furthering the spirit for its continual development.
In reality, therefore, only that which leaves such a deep impression is experienced and thus made
one’s own. All else flits by ineffectively, or at best serves to help in the development of events that are
capable of calling forth such great impressions.
Happy is he who can call many such powerful experiences his own, no matter whether called forth by
joy or sorrow; for the impressions they leave will one day be the most precious that a human soul takes
with it on its way into the beyond. —
Purely earthly intellectual work, such as is customary today, when properly applied, serves only to
facilitate physical life on earth. Closely considered, that is the actual ultimate goal of any work of the
intellect! In the final analysis there is never any other result. Not with all book learning, regardless of the
field, nor with all activities whether in public affairs or in the family, with every individual or with
nations, or finally with humanity as a whole. But unfortunately everything has subjected itself quite
unconditionally to the intellect alone, and lies therefore within the heavy chains of the earthly limitation
of the perceptive capacity, which was naturally bound to bring in its wake disastrous consequences in
every activity and happening, and will continue to do so.
To this there is only one exception on this whole earth. This exception, however, is not offered to us
by the church, as many will think and as indeed it should be, but rather by art! In art the intellect
unquestionably takes second place. But where the intellect gains the upper hand, art is at once reduced to
craftsmanship; it immediately degenerates indisputably and deeply. This is a consequence which in its
simple naturalness cannot possibly be otherwise. Not one exception can be found.
Of course, the same conclusion must also be drawn in all else! Does this not cause man to reflect?
Surely it must be as though scales fell from his eyes. This quite plainly indicates to the thinking and
discriminating person that with everything else which is dominated by the intellect he can indeed obtain
but a substitute, i.e. something inferior! From this fact man should recognize the place assigned by nature
to the intellect, if anything that is right and of value is to arise!
So far only art is still born out of the activity of the living spirit, out of the intuitive perception. Art
alone has had a natural and therefore normal and healthy origin and development. The spirit, however,
does not express itself in the intellect, but in intuitive perceptions, and only manifests in what is generally called a “soulful nature”. And that is just what the intellectual man of today, who is so inordinately proud
of himself, likes to mock and ridicule. Thus he derides what is most valuable in man, the very thing that
makes him human in the first place!
Spirit has nothing to do with the intellect. If at last man wishes for improvement in all things he must
take heed of Christ’s words: By their works ye shall know them! The time is at hand when this will come
to pass.
Only the works of the spirit bear life within them from their very origin and therewith permanence
and stability. Everything else must collapse from within when its time of flowering is past. As soon as
these works are to bear their fruits, the barrenness will be exposed!
Just look at history! Only the work of the spirit, thus art, has outlived the peoples who have already
collapsed through the works of their intellect, which is lifeless and cold in itself. Their great, much-
vaunted knowledge could not offer them salvation from collapse. Egyptians, Jews, Greeks and Romans
went this way; as later did the Spaniards and the French and now the Germans – yet the works of genuine
art have outlived them all! Nor can they ever perish. But no one has noticed the strict consistency in these
recurring events. No one has thought of finding the real root of this great evil.
Instead of searching for this root, and calling a halt to the ever-recurring decline, men have blindly
submitted to it, and with laments and complaints have resigned themselves to the idea that “nothing can
be done about it.”
Now it will at last strike all mankind! Much misery already lies behind us, and still greater is to
come. And deep suffering grips the dense ranks of those who have to some extent already been affected
by it.
Think of all the peoples who already had to fall as soon as they entered their time of blossoming and
had reached the summit of their intellect. The fruits which ripened from their blossoming were the same
everywhere! Immorality, shamelessness and debauchery in various forms, followed inevitably by decline
and ruin.
The absolute similarity is very obvious to everyone! And every thinking person must discover in this
happening the very definite nature and consistency of the strictest Laws.
One after the other, these peoples had eventually to recognize that their greatness, their power and
their glory were only imaginary, upheld solely by force and oppression, and not secured by an inner
soundness.
Open your eyes, instead of despairing! Look around you, learn from the past, and compare it to the
messages from the Divine that had already reached you thousands of years ago, and you must discover the
root of the consuming evil, which alone forms the obstacle to the ascent of all mankind.
Only when the evil has been thoroughly eradicated will the path to general ascent be open, not
before. And this ascent will be lasting, because it will contain something of the living spirit, which has
hitherto been excluded. —
Before going into this subject more deeply, I want to explain what spirit is, as the only really living
part in man. Spirit is not wit, and not intellect! Nor is it acquired knowledge. It is erroneous, therefore, to
call a person “spirited” because he has studied, read and observed much and knows how to converse well
about it. Or if his brilliance expresses itself through good ideas and intellectual wit.
Spirit is something entirely different. It is of a consistency of its own, coming from the world of its
homogeneous species, which is different from the part to which the earth and thus the physical body
belong. The spiritual world lies higher; it forms the upper and lightest part of Creation. Owing to its
consistency this spiritual part in man bears within it the task of returning to the Pure-spiritual Realm, as
soon as all the material coverings are severed from it. The urge to do so is set free at a very definite
degree of maturity, and draws the spirit upwards to its homogeneous species, lifted through the power of
its attraction. *(Lecture: I am the Resurrection and the Life..!)
Spirit has nothing to do with the earthly intellect, only with the quality of “deep inner feelings”. To
be rich in spirit, therefore, is the same as “being soulful”, but not the same as being rich in intellect.
In order to discover this difference more easily, man should use the expression: “Once upon a time!” A great many seekers will find clarification through this alone. If they observe themselves carefully, they
will be able to recognize what has been of benefit to their souls in their earth-life up to now, or what has
merely served to make their life and work in their earthly environment easier. In other words, what is of
value to them not only on earth but also in the beyond, and what serves only earthly purposes but remains
valueless for the beyond. The one can be taken over to the beyond by man, but the other he leaves behind
at his departure as belonging only here, because it can be of no further use to him. What he leaves behind,
however, is but the tool for earthly events, an aid for the time on earth, nothing more.
A tool which is not used solely as a tool, but is instead elevated to a much higher position, obviously
cannot live up to this; it is in the wrong place and will thereby naturally produce many kinds of
deficiencies, which in time will have quite disastrous consequences.
The first and foremost of these tools is the earthly intellect which, as a product of the human brain,
must bear within itself the limitation to which anything physical-gross-material, due to its own nature,
always remains subject. And the product cannot possibly be different from its origin. It always remains
bound to the nature of the origin. As do the works developing from the product.
For the intellect this naturally results in the most limited, purely earthly comprehensive capacity,
closely bound to time and space. Since it originates in the World of Gross Matter, which in and of itself is
dead and bears no life of its own, the intellect is also without living power. This condition, of course,
extends to all the activities of the intellect, therefore making it impossible to impart to its works anything
that is alive.
In this inflexible natural process lies the key to the dismal events occurring during man’s life on this
small earth.
We must at last learn to differentiate between the spirit and the intellect, between the vital core of
man and his tool! When this tool is placed above the living core, as it has hitherto been, the result will be
something unsound, which even at its inception must bear within it the seed of death; and thereby the
vital, the highest and most valuable part is constricted, bound and cut off from its necessary activity, until
in the inevitable collapse of the lifeless structure it is released and rises from the ruins, unfinished.
Instead of “Once upon a time” let us now imagine the question: “What was it like in former times?”
How different is the effect. The great difference is immediately perceived. The first question speaks to the
intuitive perception, which is linked with the spirit. But the second question is directed to the intellect.
Entirely different pictures emerge. From the outset these are limited, cold, without vital warmth, because
the intellect has nothing else to give.
From the very beginning, however, mankind’s greatest guilt has been to place this intellect, which
can only produce what is incomplete and without life, on a high pedestal, virtually dancing around it in
adoration. It was given a place that was to be reserved to the spirit alone.
This endeavor is entirely opposed to the provisions of the Creator and thus to Nature, since these
provisions are anchored in the processes of Nature. Therefore nothing can lead to a true goal, but
everything must fail at the point where the harvest is due to set in. It cannot be otherwise, but is a natural
happening to be taken as fact.
Only in pure technology is this different, as in any industry. It has reached great heights through the
intellect, and will make even greater advances in the future! This fact, however, serves to prove the truth
of my explanations. Technology in all its aspects is and will always remain purely earthly, lifeless. And
since the intellect likewise belongs to all that is earthly, it is able to develop brilliantly in technology, and
can accomplish really great things. Here it stands in its right place, in its real task! But wherever anything
“living” thus purely human, is involved, the intellect by its nature is not adequate, and must therefore fail
if it is not guided by the spirit! For spirit alone is life. Success in a specific species can always be
achieved only by the activity of a homogeneous species. The earthly intellect will therefore never be able
to do spiritual work! For this reason placing the intellect above life has become the grave crime of this
mankind.
Contrary to the creative and thus wholly natural purpose, man has reversed his task; he has, so to
speak, turned it on its head in that he has given to the secondary and merely earthly intellect the supreme
place which belongs only to the living spirit. Consequently, man is now quite naturally forced painfully to
seek from below upwards, whereby the superimposed intellect, with its limited capacity to comprehend,


To be continued next week

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

Many people on earth are sorely troubled by the question of interaction between the two sexes, male and
female. The only exceptions are those frivolous persons who will not be disturbed by anything at all. All
others, no matter how different they may be, do seek for a solution either openly or quietly within
themselves. Fortunately there are many people who are longing for valid guidelines in this matter.
Whether they would then heed these guidelines however, remains to be seen. But the fact is that they
worry very much about this problem, and many are oppressed by the realization of their ignorance about
it.
Some have attempted to resolve this issue or to tie it to the question of marriage; however, no
satisfactory basic idea has yet been arrived at, for here as elsewhere the main point is merely that man
must know what he is dealing with! Otherwise, he can never come to terms with it. Uneasiness will
remain.
From the outset, many people quite frequently confuse the concept of the word “sex”. They take it in
a general sense, whereas it actually has a far deeper meaning.
If we wish to obtain a correct picture, we must not be so one-sided as to compress it into definitions
which merely serve a purely mundane social order, and which are in many ways absolutely contrary to
the Laws of Creation. In such grave matters it is necessary to delve deeply into Creation in order to grasp
the basic concept.
We call the concept of female and male simply two different genders or sexes. To the majority of
people, however, the word sex is drastically misleading from the beginning since in their thoughts they
automatically connect the word sex with procreation. And this is wrong. In the great conception of
Creation, the separation of female and male in that sense plays a role only in the outermost and densest
gross material part. Not in the principal happenings.
What is a gender-sex? When the spirit-germ issues from the Spiritual Sphere it is genderless/sexless.
Nor does any division occur, as is often assumed. Divisions are special exceptions which I will discuss at
the end of this lecture. Fundamentally a spirit-germ always remains self-contained. In becoming
conscious during its wanderings through Subsequent Creation, i.e., through the self-acting replica of
original Creation, as I have mentioned several times already, the spirit-germ takes on, according to its
degree of consciousness, the human forms known to us, which are replicas of the images of God, of the
First Created Ones.
Here it is the nature of the spirit-germ’s activity which is decisive. Meaning the direction in which
such a spirit-germ, in becoming conscious, mainly strives to develop the abilities resting within it,
whether in a positive, vigorously driving manner, or in a negative, quietly sustaining way. Wherever its
principal desire urges it.
According to its origin it can do both, because a spirit germ contains within itself all capabilities, one
like the other, unabridged. It is complete within itself. It only matters which one of these it develops. And
in this activity of the spirit-germ, even if it consists at the start of no more than strong desires which
increase to an urge, the form shapes itself. That which is positive shapes the male form, and that which is
negative the female form. Here masculine and feminine are recognizable already outwardly through their
forms. Each is in its form the expression of the nature of the activity which it chooses or desires.
Feminine and masculine therefore have nothing to do with the usual conception of gender-sex but
merely indicate the nature of the activity in Creation. It is only in the World of Gross Matter, so familiar
to man, that these forms develop the procreative organs which we designate as male and female. Only the
physical body, i.e., the earthly body, needs these organs for its procreation.
Thus the nature of the activity in Creation shapes the form of the actual body, male or female, of
which the gross material earthly body is again but a coarsely constructed copy.
Hence sexual intercourse is placed on the step where it belongs, that is, on the lowest step in
Creation, the gross material step which lies far removed from the Spiritual Sphere.
It is all the more sad, therefore, if a human spirit submits to the yoke of this activity, which is a
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
voluntarily allow itself to be trampled and suppressed under the cover of the coarsest form of matter.
It is understandable that such unnatural activity must end badly. It is unnatural because in the natural
order of things, that which is spiritual is the highest in the entire Creation, and harmony can only exist in
Creation as long as spirituality, as the highest, holds the dominant position, with all else remaining
subordinate to it, even in connection with gross matter here on earth.
I do not especially need to point out what a sad role a man takes who places his spirit under the
control of the coarsest material covering. Of a cloak which gains its sensitivity only through the spirit and
must lose it again upon being casting the cloak aside; a tool in the hand of the spirit which must be cared
for to keep it usable but which must always remain only a controlled tool; for in the order of Creation
there is no such thing as communism! Wherever such threatens to creep in collapse will absolutely be the
consequence, since such a part has to be expelled as being diseased so that disharmony can find no further
access. Through this kind of a collapse reciprocal action repairs such defective parts in Creation.
The spiritual, animistic and ethereal form of the body changes as soon as the spirit-germ changes its
activity. If it changes from a negative to a predominantly positive activity, then the female form must
change into a male one, and vice versa, for the predominant nature of the activity shapes the form. The
transformation of the physical shell, however, cannot follow so quickly. It is not so readily changeable,
and is therefore only intended to last for a very short time. Here the change manifests itself in
reincarnations, of which in most cases there are many.
Hence it happens that a human spirit quite frequently wanders through its lives on earth alternately in
male and female bodies, depending on its changing inner attitude. And this is necessary so that all the
capabilities of a spirit germ are developed gradually.
I have already pointed out that the prevalence of the desired activity determines how the form
develops, since a spirit germ will not necessarily be active in either an exclusively positive or an
exclusively negative way.
The capabilities that are not made use of remain dormant but can be awakened at any time.
If however it happens that a spirit germ does develop all the positive parts then this will have so
strong an effect on the negative, undeveloped capabilities, that they may be pushed out and thereby a cast
off, resulting in a division. Those parts of a different nature thus cast off are then forced to awaken onto
themselves and will naturally, in their wholeness develop the opposite, i.e., the female form. These are
divided germs that have to find each other again in order to become a whole. Generally, however, such a
process cannot be assumed.
Man’s view of a complementing soul existing for each person is correct as such, but not in the sense
of a division having preceded it. A dual soul is something altogether different. I have already emphasized
this in my lecture “Marriage.”*(Lecture Nr. 25) The dual soul is merely one that is compatible with another
soul. Which means, a soul which has developed just those capabilities which the other soul left dormant.
This then results in full complementation, in a united working together of all the capabilities of the spirit,
both positive and negative. However, such complementation exists not only once but many times, so that
a person seeking a complementation is not limited to merely one other particular human being. He may
meet with many during his life on earth, as long as he keeps his intuitive capacity pure and alert.
Thus the conditions for a life of happiness are not nearly so difficult to fulfill as it appears at first
glance to those who have only part-knowledge. Happiness is much easier to achieve than many think.
Mankind simply needs first to know the laws which rest in Creation. If they live accordingly then they
must become happy! At the present time, however, they are far removed from this and therefore, for the
time being, those who come closer to the Truth in Creation will have to feel lonely most of the time,
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
still an inexplicable happening to many people, and it is mostly regarded as being extraordinary, as
having occurred only that one time, and therefore as having been an arbitrary act.
However, it is just this erroneous view that is the cause for the apparent “inexplicability.”
The happening was not an isolated one, not one specially brought about for the disciples, but one that
has recurred regularly ever since Creation came into existence! With this recognition it will immediately
lose its inexplicability, and it will become understandable to the seriously seeking readers of the Grail
Message without forfeiting any of its greatness; on the contrary, this recognition makes it even more
stupendous.
He who has attentively studied my Grail Message will already have found the solution in this
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
Divine energy streams into the Holy Grail for the maintenance of Creation!
For some moments the “Holy Dove” appears above the Grail. This is the spiritually visible form of
the presence of the Holy Spirit, which directly belongs to the “form” of the Holy Spirit, and is therefore a
part of this “form.”
Just as the Cross is the spiritually visible form of Divine Truth, so is the “Dove” the visible form of
the Holy Spirit. This actually is the form; it is not meant merely as an imaginary conception! Since I have
already spoken to this at length I refer to the lecture.*(Lecture Nr. 44: The Holy Grail)
This renewal of energy by the Holy Spirit, thus the Living Will of God which is this energy, recurs
every year at a certain definite time in the Holy of Holies of the highest castle or temple harboring the
Holy Grail, the only point of connection of the Creation with the Creator, and it is therefore called the
Grail Castle.
This renewal may also be called the outpouring of energy, thus the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit or,
still more explicitly, the outpouring of energy by the Holy Spirit, for it is not the Holy Spirit that is poured
out, but the Holy Spirit pours out energy!
Since, on this day, the disciples were gathered in remembrance of their ascended Lord Who had
promised to send the Spirit, i.e., the living Power, this remembrance provided an anchorage point for the
event taking place at this time in the Pure-Spiritual Sphere to have, into a certain and commensurate
degree, a direct effect upon the disciples who were gathered on earth and attuned in worship! All the more
so as the way to these disciples had been more easily opened up and smoothed by the life of the Son of
God on earth.
And for this reason the miraculous happened, which could not otherwise have been possible on earth,
the experiencing of which is related in the Bible. The evangelists were able to describe their own
experiences but not the actual happening, which they themselves knew nothing about.
The festival of Pentecost has been instituted by Christians to commemorate this occurrence, without
their ever suspecting that at this approximate time each year the Day of the Holy Dove occurs in the Grail
Castle, that is, the day of the renewal of power for Creation by the Holy Spirit! Naturally this does not
always correspond exactly with the Pentecost festival as calculated for that purpose on earth, but at its
approximate time.
At that time the meeting of the disciples coincided exactly with the actual happening! Later, it will
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
Creation, as the “Day of the Holy Dove,” that is, the Day of the Holy Spirit, as a great prayer of
thanksgiving to God the Father!
It will be celebrated by those human beings who at last stand consciously in this Creation, which they
have now got to know aright in all its manifestations. Through their devout attitude at the exact time it
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.

doggedfighter:
I know their temple not so close to my house though .


Sometimes I wonder what they are all about

When I saw your thread I had to give a shout out

Please try and grab a copy to read

doggedfighter:
Grail, Grail !

Yeah, have you picked a copy of Grail message

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

75. Thou beholdest the mote that is in thy brother’s eye andconsiderest 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
have grasped their actual meaning. It is one-sided and wrong to interpret this saying as if it were only
meant to teach man to be lenient toward his neighbor. Leniency toward one’s neighbor will follow by
itself as a natural consequence of experiencing this statement, albeit only as a secondary consequence. He
who searches in the words of Christ in this fashion does not search deeply enough, and thereby shows
either that he is far from being able to make the words of the Son of God come to life or that he under-
estimates the wisdom of His statements from the outset. And in the interpretations of many preachers
these words, like everything else, are placed into the same category as the weakness and slackness of the
kind of love which the Church likes to present as Christian love.
However, man can and must use these words of the Son of God only as a measure for his own faults.
If he looks around with open eyes, and also observes himself at the same time, he will soon recognize that
the faults which most irritate him in others are present in himself to a particularly high degree and in a
way that is annoying to others.
In order to learn to observe properly it is perhaps best if you first closely observe your fellow-men
only. There will hardly be anyone who doesn't find this or that fault in another, and who openly or
covertly expresses it. As soon as this happens, you should place this person, who is so critical or even
indignant about the faults of others, under close scrutiny. Before long you will be surprised to discover
that the very faults he so sharply censures in others are present in him to a far greater degree!
This is a fact that will astound you at first, but which will always reveal itself without exception.
When judging people in the future you may safely assume this to be factual without fear of making a
mistake. The fact remains that a man who gets upset about this or that fault in another person is sure to
have these same faults to a far greater extent within himself.
Approach such examinations calmly. You will be able to do so, and will recognize the truth right
away, because you yourselves are not directly involved, and will therefore not attempt to gloss anything
over for either party.
Take a person who is habitually sullen and discourteous and who seldom shows a friendly face, a
person one would like to avoid. These are the very people who expect to be treated with special kindness,
and who become enraged, girls and women to the point of tears, if they meet with but a single reproachful
glance, however justified it may be. This strikes a serious observer as so unspeakably ridiculous, yet sad,
that he forgets to be indignant about it.
And so it is in a thousand and more different ways. Learning this and recognizing it will be easy for
you. Once you have reached that stage, also have the courage to assume that you yourselves are no
exception, since you found proof in all the others. Then at last your eyes will be opened about yourselves.
This means a great step forward towards your development, perhaps even the greatest one! You thereby
cut through a knot that today holds down all mankind! Free yourselves, then joyfully help others in the
same way.
This is what the Son of God meant to say with His simple words. Such was the value of the teaching
He offered with His plain statements. But man did not honestly seek for their real meaning. Pretentiously
as always, he merely wanted to look down upon others leniently. This flattered his disgusting arrogance.
The whole wretchedness of his false thinking, the unconcealed hypocritical pharisaism, becomes clearly
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
their usual and customary delusion that by reading the words they must also have truly grasped their
meaning. They convince themselves of this entirely as they see fit. That is not honest seeking. For that
reason they cannot find the real treasure, and therefore progress has not been possible. The Word
remained dead for those who were supposed to have called it to life within themselves in order to derive
values from it which would uplift them.
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!