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

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

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

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

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

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

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In order to follow this explanation it is necessary to know that man on earth does not live in Primordial
Creation but in a subsequent Creation. Primordial Creation is solely and exclusively the independently
existing Spiritual Realm known to men as Paradise, the summit of which is formed by the Grail Castle,
with the gate to the Divine that lies outside of Creation. Subsequent Creation, on the other hand, is the so-
called “world”, eternally rotating below Primordial Creation, the various solar systems of which are
subject to evolution, that is, they ripen, grow old and decay, because they were not created by Divinity
directly as was the imperishable eternal Primordial Creation, Paradise. Subsequent Creation came into
existence through the volition of the Primordial Beings and is subject to the influence of the developing
human spirits, whose path of development leads through this Subsequent Creation. This is the reason for
the imperfection therein, such as is not found in Primordial Creation, which is subject to the direct
influence of the Divine Holy Spirit.
To comfort the Primordial Beings, who were extremely perturbed about the ever-increasing and more
noticeable imperfection of Subsequent Creation, a Voice from Divinity called out to them: “Wait for Him
Whom I have chosen... to bring you help!” — which, to a certain extent, is accurately rendered in the
Grail legend, as passed on from the Primordial Creation.
Now to the subject at hand: Every earthly action can only be considered as the outward expression of
an inward process. “Inward process,” meaning a spiritual intuitive volition. Each intuitive volition is a
spiritual action which becomes decisive for man’s existence, because it brings about ascent or descent. In
no case may it be put on the same level with thought volition. Intuitive volition impacts the core of man
proper, while thought volition merely impacts a weaker outer circle. It is not always necessary for either
of these to become visible on earth, despite their unfailing effect. An earthly, gross-material action is not
needed for the development of a karmic burden. On the other hand, there is no earthly gross material
activity that does not have to be preceded by a thought volition or an intuitive volition. Thus, the earthly
visible activity is dependent upon either a thought volition or an intuitive volition, but not vice versa.
However, what is really decisive for the existence of a human spirit, for his ascent or for his descent,
is most strongly anchored in the intuitive volition, to which man pays the least attention, and yet from the
absolute and never-failing effects of which there is no escape, nor is there any glossing over or
falsification. This alone provides the real “experiencing” for the human spirit; for the intuitive volition is
the sole lever for the release of the spiritual power currents which rest in the work of the Creator, waiting
only for an impulse from the intuitive volition of the human spirits, in order to immediately and greatly
intensify the effect. Yet, up till now mankind have hardly paid any attention to this so important, even
most important, process.
For this reason I will again and again draw attention to an apparently simple but essential point which
contains everything: The spiritual power permeating the work of Creation can make contact only with the
intuitive volition of the human spirits, all else being excluded from making such contact!
Even the thought volition cannot make any such connection, much less can any products of the
thought volition. This fact excludes any hope that the actual principal power in Creation could ever be
associated with any kind of “invention”! Against this possibility, an immovable bolt has been installed.
Man does not know this principal power or its effects, although he stands in it. It is not what this or that
thinker and inventor imagines the Primordial Power to be! It is invariably a matter of a far subordinate
form of energy only, of which it is possible to find many more forms having astonishing effects, without
mankind coming even one step closer to the actual power which the human spirit uses daily without being
conscious of it. Unfortunately man trifles with this power, without being aware of the dreadful
consequences of his boundless carelessness! And in his limitless ignorance he always wantonly tries to
divert responsibility for the consequences onto God, which, however, does not free him from the great
guilt he burdens himself with by his not wanting to know.
I will try to give a clear picture here. For example a man has an intuitive feeling of envy. Usually it is
said: “Envy rises up in him!” At first this is a general intuitive feeling, of which quite often the human
spirit is not even clearly conscious. This intuitive perception, however, which as yet is not clad in definite
thoughts, that is, which has not as yet “risen” up to the brain, carries within it the key which alone has the
capacity for establishing contact with the “Living Power”, for building a bridge to it. Immediately, as much of the “Living Power” contained in Creation passes into this particular intuitive perception as this
latter is capable of absorbing. This in turn, depends upon the particular strength of the perception. It is
only through this that the human or “spiritualized” intuitive perception comes alive within itself and
receives the enormous capacity to generate (not the power to generate) in the Ethereal World, making
man lord among all creatures, the highest of all creatures in Creation. However, this process also permits
him to exert an immense influence upon the entire Subsequent Creation, and thereby also... invests him
with personal responsibility which no other creature besides him can have in Subsequent Creation; for
only man possesses the appropriate ability which rests in the nature of the spirit.
And he alone in the entire Subsequent Creation bears spirit in his innermost core, and as such he
alone receives connection with the Supreme Living Power resting in Subsequent Creation. The Primordial
Beings in Paradise are of a spirit different from that of the world wanderers, the so-called earth-men, and
therefore their capacity for connection pertains to another, higher and far stronger wave of power, which
they consciously make use of, and with which they can also naturally accompglish quite different things
than the world wanderers to whom earth-men belong, whose highest wave of power is but a gradation of
the power resting in Primordial Creation, just as earthment themselves are but a gradation of the
Primordial Beings.
What human knowledge has been lacking so far is primarily the knowledge of the many
progressively weaker levels downwards of everything contained in Primordial Creation and the
recognition that men themselves belong to these lower levels only. Once this understanding has really
penetrated, their hitherto existing pride will fall away and clear the path for ascent.
The stupid presumption of being the highest, of even carrying Divinity within themselves, will
collapse miserably, leaving behind only liberating shame. The Primordial Beings, who stand so much
higher and who are of much greater value, are not possessed of such conceit. They only smile indulgently
at these earthworms gone astray, just as many parents smile at the fantastic chatter of their children.
But let us return to the intuitive perception. A man’s intuitive perception thus strengthened, now
immediately and automatically produces a form in a further gradation which exactly embodies the nature
of the intuition! In this case then, envy. In the beginning the form stands within its creator and later beside
him, connected to him by a cord through which it receives nourishment. At the same time, however, in
obedience to the Law of the Attraction of Homogeneous Species, it immediately and automatically makes
contact with the gathering point of the same species of forms from where it receives strong
reinforcements, which, together with this young form, fashion the ethereal environment of that particular
person.
Meanwhile this intuitive perception rises higher and finally reaches the brain, stimulating thoughts of
a like nature, which define the goal sharply. Thus the thoughts become channels or roads upon which
these forms travel towards a very definite goal, there to do harm if they find the proper soil. However, if
the man who is to be the target of these forms has within himself only pure soil, i.e. pure volition, he
offers no point of attack for these forms, no anchorage. Still, they are not rendered harmless again
thereby, but they continue to wander about individually, or unite with their homogeneous species in
gathering centers which may be called “planes”, since they are subject to the law of their spiritual gravity
and therefore must form definite planes which can only admit and hold the same species. Thus they
definitely remain dangerous to all those human spirits who do not have sufficient purity of a strong
volition for the good, and in the end they also bring destruction upon their originators, since they
constantly remain connected with them, and these continually return new flows of envy energies through
the feeding cord. The forms themselves receive these from the accumulations of the collection centers.
This makes it difficult for such an originator to give himself over to purer intuitions again, because he
remains severely handicapped by the return flow of envy-energies which continually pull him back. He is
forced to expend far greater efforts for his ascent than would a human spirit not so hampered. And it is
only through constant pure volition that such a feeding cord of evil gradually decays, until it finally dries
up and falls limply away. This means the liberation of the originator of such evil, provided that his
construct has meanwhile done no harm; for if it has, new ties are then immediately formed which must
also be redeemed.
To effect the release of such threads it is absolutely necessary for the originator again to cross paths,
either on this earth or in the beyond, with any person harmed by the evil, so that recognition and
forgiveness can be obtained. Consequently the ascent of the originator of such forms cannot take place before those persons who have suffered injury have made their ascent. The connecting thread or threads
of fate hold him back for as long as there is no redemption through making amends and obtaining
forgiveness.
But this is not all! This intuitive volition, under the intensified “Living Power”, has a far greater
effect; for it not only populates the Ethereal World, but it also directs the fate of the entire Subsequent
Creation, of which the earth and all the surrounding stars are a part! Thus it also influences the World of
Gross Matter. Either up-building or destructive! This should make man recognize at last the absurdities
which he has already wrought, instead of fulfilling his duties which were given to him through the
abilities of his spirit for the benefit of Subsequent Creation and of all creatures. Man often asks why strife
manifests in nature, yet in Subsequent Creation, the Substantiate orientates itself to... the nature of man!
With the exception of Primordial Substantiate Beings. – But let us go further:
The products of the intuitive volition of the human spirit, the forms mentioned above, do not cease to
exist after detachment from their originator, but they continue to exist independently as long as they
receive nourishment from like-minded human spirits ! It need not be the originator himself. They seek an
opportunity to attach themselves to this or that person who is open to their influence, or whose power of
resistance is weak. If evil, they are the demons born of envy, hatred and all that is similar. If good, they
are benevolent beings which lovingly only promote peace and foster ascent.
With all these processes a visible earthly action by humans is not in the least bit necessary; such an
act only adds further chains or threads which must be redeemed on the gross material plane, and require a
reincarnation if redemption cannot be attained in one lifetime on earth.
These constructs of the human intuitive volition have inherent power because they come into being
through spiritual volition in combination with the “neutral principal power” and, what is most important,
because thereby during the process of their formation they also absorb animistic substantiality, which is
that species from which gnomes etc. develop. The volition of an animal cannot achieve this because the
animal soul contains nothing spiritual, but is animistic only. Thus this process takes place only with the
forms of human intuitive volition; it must therefore bring great blessings if the volition is good, but
incalculable harm if the volition is evil, since the animistic core of such forms carries its own motive
power, combined with the ability to influence all that is gross material. And thereby the responsibility of
the human spirit becomes enormous. Depending on its nature, its intuitive volition creates benevolent
entities as well as animated demons.
Both are merely products of man’s spiritual abilities in Subsequent Creation. Their cores, self-
motivated and thus unpredictable in their influence, do not originate in that part of Animistic
Substantiality which has the capacity to will, and where animal souls originate, but issue from a lower
gradation thereof which does not possess the personal ability to will. In the World of Animistic
Substantiality, as well as in the Spiritual Sphere above it, there are also many gradations and special
species, about which I have to speak separately.*(Lecture Nr. 49: The difference in origin of man and animal)
Let me add as a further explanation that animistic substantiality also has contact with a living power
resting in Creation which, however, is not the same as the Living Power with which the volition of the
human spirit is connected, but only a lower gradation thereof.
It is just these possibilities and impossibilities of combinations which are the strictest maintainers of
order in Subsequent Creation and bring about a firm, immutable organization in all coming into being
and decaying.
So far-reaching, then, is the activity of the human spirit. Now look closely and observe properly men
today, and you can imagine what havoc they have already wreaked. Especially when you consider the
further consequences of the activity of these living forms which are let loose upon all creatures! It is the
same as with a stone which, once it has left the hand, is no longer subject to the control and will of the
thrower.
Besides these forms, the far-reaching activity and influence of which it would take a whole book to
describe, there is another species which is next to and closely connected with them, but which forms a
weaker section. Yet this section is still just dangerous enough to molest many people, to hinder them and
even cause them to fall. They are the formations created by thoughts. That is to say, thought-forms or
phantoms.


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For a long time I have hesitated to answer the various questions about clairvoyance, because anyone who
has read my Grail Message aright must be completely informed on the subject; provided of course that he
has not read the Message as he would read a novel, to pass the time or with preconceptions. Rather, he
must have delved deeply and earnestly into It and must have made every effort to fathom the deep
meaning of each sentence as such, and also of each sentence as an integral part of the Message as a
whole; for that is how it was intended from the outset.
For this, the spirit must be awake. Superficial people will thus be automatically excluded.
I have repeatedly pointed out that a particular species can only be recognized by the same species.
Naturally the species referred to here are Creation species.
Viewed from below upwards, there are the species of gross matter, the species of ethereal matter, the
species of animistic substantiality, and the species of spiritual substance as the highest. Each of these
species is again divided into many levels so that the danger easily arises of confusing the levels of fine
gross matter with those of coarse ethereal matter. The transitions are quite subtle and in their working and
effects, not actually firmly connected, but only meshing with each other.
On each of these levels life manifests in a different manner. Man has a cloak of each species of
Creation which is below the spiritual. The core itself is spiritual. Each cloak is equivalent to a body. Thus
man is a spiritual core which, in the development of self-consciousness, takes on human form, which with
increasing development toward the Light, becomes ever more ideal up to the most perfect beauty, while
in the case of a downward development it takes on more and more of the opposite up to the most
grotesque deformations. In order to avoid any errors I wish to mention especially that the gross material
covering or body is not subject to this development. It is involved for only a short time, and on the gross
material earth-plane can be subject only to very limited changes.
Man on earth, that is, man living in the World of Gross Matter, bears the cloaks of all the species in
Creation simultaneously. Each cloak, each body of the different species, also has its own separate sensory
organs. The gross material organs, for example, can function only within the same species, i.e.,the gross
material species. A more refined development provides the possibility, under the most favorable
conditions, to see up to a certain degree of finer gross matter.
People engaged in these matters call this finer gross matter “astral,” a concept which is not even
really understood by those who introduced the term, much less by those who repeat it. I use this definition
because it is already known. However, as is typical in occult research, this term serves only as a sort of
collective term for everything that is known and felt to exist, but is not yet correctly understood, much
less explained. All of the pseudo-knowledge that occultists have established up till now is nothing but a
great, self-created labyrinth of ignorance, a rubbish heap of presumptions produced by intellectual
thinking, which is inadequate for these things. Nevertheless I wish to stay with this much-used term
“astral.” That which men see and mean by “astral” however, does not even belong to the World of
Ethereal Matter, but merely to fine gross matter.
The investigators, filled with human presumptions, have not yet stepped beyond the World of Gross
Matter in these fields, but have remained in the lowest species of Subsequent Creation, and therefore
make much ado with all kinds of “high-sounding” foreign words! They do not even see with their ethereal
eye, but merely to the ethereal world with the transitory perception of the gross material eye. This could
be called practice clairvoyance, or partial clairvoyance.
When a human spirit lays aside its gross material body through physical death, naturally the gross
material sensory organs are also laid aside, because they belong to the cloak concerned. Thus earthly
death is nothing but the stripping off of the outermost cloak or shell which enabled man to see and work
in the World of Gross Matter. Immediately after the human spirit has cast aside this cloak it stands in the
so-called other world or, more precisely, in the planes of the World of Ethereal Matter. Here it can only
work with those sensory organs of the ethereal body, which has now become its outer shell or covering.
Thus it sees with the eyes and hears with the ears, etc., of the ethereal body.
It is natural that on entering the Ethereal World the human spirit must first learn to make proper use of the sensory organs of the ethereal cloak which has suddenly been forced into activity, as formerly it
had to learn to use the organs of the physical body in the World of Gross Matter. Since this different
species of matter is not as heavy as gross matter, proper use of the organs is learned more quickly and
easily. And this applies to each of the other species as well.
The transitional or partial sight into the intermediate planes is given to facilitate adaptation to the
respective species. Through a certain tension caused by extraordinary conditions of the physical body, the
gross material eye may be able to get a small glimpse of the intermediate plane between gross matter and
ethereal matter, while the ethereal eye in the beginning of its activity may also, upon looking back, obtain
partial sight of this same plane where fine gross matter joins coarse ethereal matter. This partial sight
provides a certain support to the human spirit on its transit so that it need never feel completely lost. This
applies to every border between two different species. Animistic power currents, the magnetic quality of
which has a holding and binding effect, ensure that the two different species of matter cling to each other
and do not form a gulf because they are never able to merge.
After the human spirit has passed through the different sections of the World of Ethereal Matter, it
also lays aside its ethereal body and enters the World of Animistic Substantiality. Remaining as its
outermost cloak is the animistic body, the eyes and ears of which it must now use to see and hear, until it
is able also to lay aside the animistic cloaks and enter the Spiritual Realm. Only here is it really itself
alone, unveiled, and it must see, hear and speak, and so on, with its spiritual organs.
Readers must keenly think through these statements of mine so that they can visualize this properly
for themselves. Materializations of souls who have left the earth are nothing more than the process by
which those departed ones wearing their ethereal bodies can, with the help of a medium, envelop
themselves with a cloak of fine gross matter. This is probably the only exception which allows earthmen
of today to clearly see and grasp fine gross matter with their physical eyes and other physical senses.
They can see it and feel it because, in spite of its fineness, the same kind of sensory organs are still
involved, that is, those of gross matter.
Man should therefore be mindful of the fact that gross matter can only be “perceived” by what is of
gross matter, ethereal matter by what is of ethereal matter, animistic substantiality by what is of animistic
substantiality and spiritual substantiality by what is of spiritual substantiality. No intermingling is
possible.
However, there is one thing: a man on earth may here and there behold with his gross-material eye,
and, while still in the flesh, open his ethereal eye, at least from time to time. That is not simultaneously,
but consecutively. When he sees with his ethereal eye his physical sight is wholly or in part inactive, and
vice versa. He will never be able to see truly ethereal things with his physical eye, nor gross material
things with his ethereal eye. That is impossible. Statements to the contrary would only be based on errors
springing from ignorance of the Laws of Creation. They are delusions to which such people fall victim
when they assert that they can recognize ethereal matter with their physical eyes or spiritual substantiality
with their ethereal eyes.
He who considers all of this rightly, and tries to picture the process clearly to himself, will recognize
what indescribable confusion must at present exist in evaluating clairvoyance, that it is virtually
impossible to obtain reliable information on this subject as long as the governing laws are not made
known, which is something that cannot be done through manifestations or revelations in spiritist circles,
because neither the revealing nor the manifesting souls from the beyond have an overall view, but must
always move within the limits of their own respective state of maturity.
It is only possible to achieve an orderly explanation of the wonderful weaving of Subsequent
Creation if there is an all-embracing knowledge. Otherwise it is impossible. Men, however, in their well-
known morbid presumption to know never recognize this, but take on a hostile attitude toward all such
teachings from the start.
They prefer to go on strutting jauntily about in their pathetic seeking, with the result that they can
never agree on anything nor achieve any real success. If they would but once show the greatness of
overcoming their conceit and, without prejudice and in all seriousness, consider the Grail Message as the
explanation of the world, and if they eliminated their own presumed knowledge while studying It,
perspectives would soon be revealed to them which, in logical sequence, would clarify every happening
not understood, and in one broad sweep pave the way to what was hitherto unknown. However, it is well known that obstinacy is only one of the unmistakable signs of real stupidity and
narrow-mindedness. None of these people ever suspect that, through such behavior they brand themselves
as utterly incapable and that in the near future this brand will burn them with shame and eliminate them,
because they can no longer hide or deny it.
There must be, as the basis of any assessment of a case of clairvoyance, the knowledge of which eye
the clairvoyant sees with, i.e. what plane his sight pertains to and the stage of his development therein.
Only then may further conclusions be drawn. The person who leads such investigations would need to
have an absolutely clear knowledge about the various steps within the different species, as well as of the
resulting various effects and activities within them. And therein lies the problem of the present time, in
which it is the very people who presume to know, who understand nothing at all.
It is deplorable to see the flood of publications in magazines and books about all kinds of occult
observations and experiments, and to read the more or less illogical and untenable attempts at
explanation, which in most cases presumptuously even receive the stamp of definite knowledge, while on
the whole they not only remain divorced from the facts, but even convey the opposite. And how infuriated
and hostile the army of such wiseacres becomes when the structure of Subsequent Creation is put before
them in simple, easily verifiable sequence, and yet without the exact knowledge of which they cannot
understand anything at all. We will not even speak of Primordial Creation in this connection.
He who would evaluate or even condemn clairvoyants must know, really know, the entire Creation!
As long as this is not the case he should keep silent about it. Nor should zealous champions of the facts of
clairvoyance make assertions which cannot be substantiated without an exact knowledge of Creation. So
many fateful errors are currently being circulated about all processes outside the World of Gross Matter
that it is now high time to bring some order and lawfulness into it. Fortunately the time is not far off when
a clean sweep will be made among the countless absolutely ridiculous figures in the actually very serious
fields of occultism who, as everybody knows, clamor the loudest and who are most obtrusive in their
teachings. Unfortunately, however, these babblers have already led many seekers astray through their
behavior. The responsibility for this will not fail to manifest, and it will fall with dreadful force upon all
those who attempt to deal with the most serious matters in such a frivolous manner; however, this will be
of little benefit to those who have gone astray, and who have been seduced thereby; rather, they
themselves will have to suffer the damage for having allowed themselves to be so easily tempted into the
adoption of false opinions. On the average, it is safe to say that for the time being it is just in the occult
fields that the fine term “research” is still being used, and that consequently, most researchers are mere
prattlers.
Thus, among clairvoyants there is seeing of fine gross matter, seeing of ethereal matter, and seeing of
animistic substantiality. Always with the eyes belonging to the same species. Spiritual seeing, however,
has remained closed to men, and it would have to be an especially called one, who for a specific purpose
was so gifted that he could open his spiritual eye while he was still on the earth.
But the countless present-day clairvoyants do not belong to these. Most of them can only recognize
one of the various steps of the World of Ethereal Matter, and in time perhaps more. Thus their ethereal
eye is opened. It happens only rarely that the eye of the animistic body is also able to see.
If in connection with certain earthly events, such as criminal or other cases, a clairvoyant human
being is called in to bring clarification, the interested person must know the following: the clairvoyant
sees with his ethereal eye, and is therefore not able to see the gross material event that actually took
place. But every earthly happening has its concomitant ethereal phenomena, which are often the same as
the earthly happening, or at least similar. For instance, in the case of a murder the clairvoyant will see the
ethereal happening which occurs at the same time, not the actual gross-material event which, in
accordance with existing mundane laws, is the only standard for the courts. This ethereal happening,
however, may differ in detail to a greater or lesser degree from the earthly event. Consequently it would
be wrong to speak hastily of the failure of clairvoyance or of a false vision.
Let us stay with a case of murder or theft. The clairvoyant who has been asked to help with solving
the crime will see partly on the astral plane and partly on the ethereal plane. He will see the location of
the action astrally, that is, in fine gross matter, and the action itself he will see ethereally. To this must be
added the fact that he can also see various thought-forms which came into being through the thoughts of
the murderer as well as of the murdered person, or of the thief. To distinguish between all these things must be part of the knowledge of the person conducting the investigation! Only then will the result be
correct. However, a person proficient enough in such knowledge to conduct such investigations does not
as yet exist. Although it may sound grotesque, since it is really not analogous, I would still like to give a
secondary example by mentioning the work of a police dog, which is also used to help in the uncovering
of crimes. Naturally the leader of a police dog must be thoroughly acquainted with the manner in which
the dog works, and must closely and very actively collaborate with it, as is well known to experts. We
only need to think of this kind of work in a much more ennobled form and we have the activity of the
director of an investigation collaborating with a clairvoyant in the solution of a crime. Here also the
leader of the investigation must do the actual work, observing and combining the various factors, and
taking the greater part of the activity upon himself, while the clairvoyant merely remains the passively
working assistant. Every judge must go through protracted studies of such activities before he may
consider them. It is a far more difficult course of study than the study of the law.

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

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

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

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Soon the cycle will close. Things are piling up ever more, rising like a wall which will soon collapse
and crash down upon mankind, which goes on living unsuspectingly in spiritual apathy. Finally, at the
time of fulfillment, they will naturally no longer have the free choice!
Now they must reap what they sowed at that time, as well as on their subsequent wrong paths.
All who once rejected the Word at the time of Christ are today reincarnated on this earth to settle
accounts. Now they no longer have the right to be forewarned, and to decide again. In the two thousand
years they have had time enough to change their minds! Also he who accepts a wrong interpretation of
God and His Creation, and does not exert himself to grasp It more purely, has not absorbed It at all.
Indeed, it is far worse, for a wrong belief keeps one back from grasping the Truth.
But woe unto him who, in order to attract followers, falsifies or alters the Truth, because men find a
more convenient form more pleasant. He not only burdens himself with the guilt of falsification and
misleading but in addition he also bears the entire responsibility for those who he was able to pull along
by making it more convenient or acceptable. He will not be helped when his hour of retribution comes.
He will fall into the abyss from which there can be no return, and rightly so! – This too John was
permitted to see and warn against in his Revelation.
And when the great purification begins man will have no time to rebel this time, or even to stem this
happening. The Divine Laws of which man so much likes to form a wrong picture will then take effect
inexorably.
It is just in the frightfulness of the times, the worst which the earth has ever experienced, that
humanity will at last learn that God’s Love is far removed from the softness and weakness which man
presumed to ascribe to It.
More than half of all the men living at the present time do not belong on this earth at all!
Already for thousands of years men have sunk so low, and live in such dense darkness, that through
their unclean volition they have built many bridges to dark spheres which are far below this earth-plane.
In these dark spheres live those who have sunk low, whose ethereal weight never permitted the possibility
of their rising to this earth-plane.
In this was contained a protection both for all those living on earth as well as for these dark ones
themselves. They are separated by the natural Law of Ethereal Gravity. Down below they can give full
vent to their passions, and all baseness, without doing harm. On the contrary. There, their unrestrained
indulgence strikes only those of a similar nature whose base way of living in turn affects them in the same
way. Thus they suffer mutually, which leads to maturing but not to further guilt. For through the
suffering, self-loathing may awaken in time and with it the desire to escape from this region. The desire
gradually leads to an agonizing despair, which may finally lead to the most fervent prayers and therewith
to an earnest volition to do better.
This is how it was meant to be. But through men’s wrong volition things developed differently!
Through their dark volition men built a bridge to the region of Darkness. Thus they held out a hand
to those living there, making it possible for them to rise to the earth through the power of attraction of
similar species. Here they naturally also found the opportunity for a fresh incarnation, which was not yet
intended for them in the normal course of world events.
For on the earth-plane, where through the medium of gross matter they can live together with those
who are more luminous and better, they only do harm and thereby burden themselves with fresh guilt.
This they cannot do in their lower regions; for to their homogeneous kind the depravity is only beneficial,
because ultimately they only recognize themselves for what they really are, and come to abhor their
baseness, which abhorrence helps towards improvement.
Man has now disrupted this normal course in all development through the base use of his free will,
with which he formed ethereal bridges to the region of Darkness, so that those who had sunk there could
be thrown onto the earth-plane like a mob, which now joyfully populates the greater part of it.
Since luminous souls must retreat before the Darkness wherever the latter has gained a firm foothold,
it was easy for the darker souls, who had unjustly come to the earth-plane, to sometimes incarnate where
otherwise only a luminous soul would have entered. In such a case the dark soul has found an anchorage
through some person near the expectant mother, enabling it to assert itself and push aside the light soul, even when mother or father belong to the more luminous ones.
This also clears up the puzzle of how so many black sheep could come to good parents. However, if
an expectant mother pays more attention to herself and her immediate surroundings, and to those with
whom she associates, this cannot happen.
Thus one can recognize it only as Love when at last the final effect of the Laws sweeps away from
the earth-plane in full justice those who do not belong here, so that they fall into that realm of Darkness to
which they belong according to their nature. Thus they can no longer hinder the ascent of the more
luminous ones, nor burden themselves with fresh guilt, but perhaps they can still, after all, mature through
disgust at their own experiences. — —
The time will certainly come when the hearts of all men will be seized with an iron grip, when
spiritual arrogance will be eradicated in every human creature with terrible relentlessness. Then every
doubt will vanish which today prevents the human spirit from recognizing that Divinity is not in him, but
high above him. That it can only stand as the purest image on the altar of his inner life, to which he looks
up in humble prayer. —
It is not an error, but a sin when a human spirit professes a wish also to be Divine. Such presumption
must cause his fall; for it is equivalent to an attempt to tear the scepter from the Hand of his God, and
degrade Him to the same level as that occupied by man, a level which until now he has never even
fulfilled, because he wanted to be more, and aspire to heights which he can never possibly reach, nor even
recognize. Thus he heedlessly overlooked all reality, not only making himself quite useless in Creation,
but far worse, making himself a pernicious creature!
In the end, brought about through his own wrong attitude, it will be proved to him with incredible
clarity that in his present degenerated state he does not even represent a shadow of Divinity. The whole
treasure of earthly knowledge that he has laboriously accumulated over these thousands of years will then
prove before his horrified gaze to be as nothing; helpless, he will experience within himself how the fruits
of his one-sided earthly aspirations become useless and sometimes even a curse to him. Then let him
reflect upon his own divinity, if he can! — —
A mighty voice will sound forth and compel him: Down on your knees, creature, before your God
and Lord! Do not attempt to sacrilegiously raise yourself to the level of God! — —
The self-willed indolence of the human spirit cannot continue. — —
Only then can this humanity really think of an ascent. That will also be the time when everything that
does not stand on a sound foundation will collapse. Sham forms of existence, false prophets and the
organizations formed around them, will collapse upon themselves! Previous wrong paths will thus be
revealed. Then many a self-complacent person will be terrified to realize that he is standing on the brink
of an abyss and, being misguided, is swiftly gliding downwards when he proudly imagined himself
already to be ascending and nearing the Light! He will realize that he opened protective gates without
having the full strength of defense behind him. That he attracted dangers which in the natural course of
events he would have passed over. Happy is he who then finds the right way back!

BRATISLAVA:
In Light of the Truth, one of the best books to read. I never got the read the 3rd volume.

What I don't understand is certain perspectives on humanity.

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Like deepest night, ethereal darkness has blanketed this earth! For a very long time already. So dense and
firm is the suffocating embrace that every ascending light-perception is like a flame which, without
oxygen, loses its power, quickly fades and collapses in on itself. Dreadful is this ethereal condition, now
manifesting its worst effects. Anyone permitted to glimpse these happenings for even five seconds would,
from sheer horror, be deprived of all hope of salvation! —
And all this has been brought on through the fault of men themselves. Through the fault of their
propensity for what is base. Here mankind has been its own worst enemy. Now even those few who are
again earnestly striving upwards are also in danger of being swept into the depths, towards which others
are now developing at an amazing speed.
It is like an entanglement which is followed by inevitably being sucked up. Sucked up into the sultry,
tenacious swamp, in which everything disappears without a sound. It is no longer a struggling, but only a
silent, mute, eerie choking.
And man does not recognize it. Spiritual indolence blinds him to this fateful happening.
But all the time the swamp is sending forth its poisonous emanations, which slowly weary those who
are still strong and alert, so that they too will fall asleep and, lacking strength, perish.
That is the state of affairs on earth today. It is not a picture that I am unfolding, but life! Since all
ethereal matter bears forms, created and animated through men’s intuitive perceptions, such a happening
is actually taking place continually. And this is the environment that awaits men when they must leave
this earth, and cannot be led upwards to the more luminous and beautiful regions.
But the Darkness grows ever denser.
Therefore the time draws near when for a while this earth must be left to the reign of the Darkness,
without direct help from the Light, because humanity through their volition forced it upon themselves.
The consequences of the volition of the majority were bound to bring this ending. – It is the time which
John was once permitted to behold, when God hides His face. —
Night is all around. Yet in the deepest distress, when everything, even that which is better is in
danger of sinking, at that same time a new dawn will break! But the dawn will first bring on the labor
pains of a great purification, which is unavoidable before the salvation of all serious seekers can begin;
for a helping hand can not be offered to all those who pursue base ends! They shall fall headlong into
those terrible depths where alone they can still hope for an awakening through such torments that they
must come to loathe themselves. Those who with sneers and apparent impunity have hitherto been able to
hinder the upward striving ones will become silent and more pensive, until finally, whimpering, they will
beg for the Truth.
Then it will not be so easy for them; they will be relentlessly led through the millstones of the
inexorable Laws of Divine Justice, until in experiencing they come to the recognition of their errors. —
In the course of my travels I could see that a firebrand was hurled among indolent human spirits with
my Word, which declares that no man can lay claim to Divinity; while just at this time many efforts are
made to discover God within oneself, thus ultimately to become God!
Hence uneasiness frequently arises through my Word, with mankind rebelliously seeking to defend
themselves against It, because they only wish to hear soothing and reassuring words that seem pleasant to
them!
Those who so rebel are simply cowards, who would like nothing better than to hide from themselves,
only to remain in the darkness, where they can indulge in sweet and peaceful dreams to their heart’s
content.
Not everyone can bear to be exposed to the Light of Truth, which clearly and mercilessly shows up
the defects and stains on their garment.
With smiles, derision or with hostility such people would like to prevent the coming of the day when
the feet of clay supporting that flimsily constructed idol, their “ego” will be clearly revealed. Such fools only play masquerade games with themselves, which will be relentlessly followed by the gray of Ash
Wednesday. With their wrong views they really only want to idolize themselves, make themselves feel
good and be comfortable on earth. From the outset they regard anyone as their enemy who disturbs them
in their indolent placidity!
However, this time no amount of rebellion will be of any use to them!
The self-idolatry evident in the assertion that there is Divinity in man is a base attempt to grasp at the
sublimity and purity of your God, thereby defiling what is most holy to you, to which you look up in the
most blissful trust! —
There is within you an altar for the worship of your God. This altar is your intuitive faculty. If this is
pure it is directly connected with the Spiritual Realm and thus with Paradise! At these moments you too
can fully sense the nearness of your God, as often happens in times of deepest sorrow and greatest joy!
Then you perceive His nearness in the same way as it is constantly experienced by the eternal Pure
Spirits in Paradise, with whom you are closely connected at such moments. The strong vibration caused
by the stirring of great joy or of deep sorrow pushes everything earthly and low far into the background
for a few seconds, thereby setting free the purity of the intuitive perception, thus immediately forming the
bridge to the homogeneous purity that animates Paradise!
This is the most supreme happiness for the human spirit, this crown of all Creation. The eternal ones
in Paradise live in it continually. It brings the glorious feeling of being safe and secure. They are then
fully conscious of the nearness of their great God, in Whose Power they stand, while realizing as a matter
of course that they have reached their greatest height, and will never be able to behold God.
This, however, does not depress them, but in the recognition of His unapproachable Majesty they find
jubilant gratitude for the inexpressible mercy he has always shown towards the arrogant creatures.
And this happiness can already be enjoyed by man on earth. It is quite right to say that in deeply
solemn moments earth-man senses the nearness of his God. However, using this wondrous bridge of the
consciousness of God’s nearness as a claim to possessing a spark of divinity becomes sacrilege.
Hand in hand with such a claim goes debasement of Divine Love. How can God’s Love be measured
by the standard of human love? Moreover, how can It be valued even below this human love? Look at
those people who picture the highest ideal of Divine Love as simply enduring silently and also forgiving
everything! They would recognize Divinity in the fact that It tolerates any misbehavior from far lower
creatures, such as only the greatest weakling or the most cowardly human being would do, for which he
is despised. Just reflect what a monstrous indignity this implies!
Men would like their sins to go unpunished, and then finally even to please their God by allowing
Him to forgive their sins without having to atone for them! Such presumption shows either the height of
narrow-mindedness, unpardonable laziness, or the realization of their hopeless weakness in summoning
the good volition to strive upwards: The one, however, is as reprehensible as the other.
Imagine Divine Love! Crystal clear, radiant, pure and great! Can you then imagine It to be as
sentimentally weak and degradingly indulgent as mankind would like It to be! They want to build up a
false greatness where they wish for weakness, they give a false picture only to deceive and reassure
themselves about their own shortcomings, which make them willing servants of the Darkness. Where is
the freshness and power that unquestionably belong to the crystal purity of Divine Love? Divine Love is
inseparable from the utmost severity of Divine Justice. Indeed It is such severity itself. Justice is Love,
and Love in turn lies only in Justice. In this alone lies Divine Forgiveness.
The churches are right in saying that God forgives everything! And truly forgives! Contrary to men,
who go on condemning a person even after he has atoned for some trivial offense; and by such thoughts
they burden themselves with twice the guilt, because they do not act according to the Will of God. Here
human love lacks justice.
The effect of the Divine Creative Will is to purify every human spirit of its guilt as soon as it strives
upwards, whether through its own experiences or through its voluntary efforts at improvement.
If it returns to the Spiritual Realm after having gone through the mills of the World of Matter, it
stands pure in the Kingdom of its Creator; it matters not what its guilt may have been! It is just as pure as
one who has never sinned. But first its path will take it through the effects of the Divine Laws, and in this fact lies the guarantee of Divine Forgiveness, of His Mercy!
Do we not often hear today the horrified question: How could God allow such years of tribulation?
Where does love, where does justice come in? The question is asked by mankind, by nations, often by
families and the individual human being! Should this not rather prove to him that God’s Love is after all
different from what many would like to imagine? Just try to visualize the all-forgiving Love of God all
the way through to the end in the way man insists on portraying It! Without personal atonement,
tolerating everything, and ultimately even offering generous forgiveness. It must produce a pathetic
result! Does man consider himself so precious that his God should suffer under this? Thus more precious
even than God Himself? What all is contained in this human presumption. —
On calm reflection you must stumble over a thousand obstacles, and can come to a conclusion only
when you belittle God and make Him imperfect.
But He was, and is, and remains perfect, regardless of man’s opinion.
His Forgiveness lies in Justice. In nothing else. And in this unconditional Justice also lies the great
Love which hitherto has been so misunderstood!
Rid yourselves of the habit of measuring according to earthly standards. God’s Justice and God’s
Love concern the human spirit. Material substance has nothing whatever to do with this. It is only formed
by the human spirit itself, and has no life without spirit.
Why do you so often torment yourselves with mere earthly trifles which you perceive as being sins
but which really are not.
Only what the spirit wills in any action is decisive for the Divine Laws in Creation. This spiritual
willing, however, is not thought-activity, but the deepest intuitive perception, the actual volition within
man, which alone can set in motion the Laws of the beyond, and indeed does so automatically.
Divine Love cannot be degraded by men; for in It lie the inexorable Laws of His Will in Creation,
which is borne by Love. And these Laws take effect according to how man comports himself therein.
They can connect him with the proximity of his God, or they form a dividing wall that can never be
destroyed unless man at last adapts himself to them, which means obeying them, through which alone he
can find his salvation, his happiness. It is cast in one perfect piece; the great Work shows no flaws, no
gaps. Any fool or simpleton who would have it otherwise will smash his head thereby. —
Divine Love effects only what benefits every human spirit, not what pleases and seems agreeable to
him on earth. Divine Love goes far beyond this, because it governs the entire existence. —
Nowadays, many a person often thinks: If tribulation and destruction are to be expected in order to
bring about a great purification, then God must be so just as to send out preachers calling for repentance
in advance. Man must certainly be forewarned. Where is John the Baptist to proclaim what is to come?
These are unfortunate ones who think themselves so great in their empty-mindedness! Such cries
merely conceal an utterly hollow presumption. They would only scourge him and throw him into prison!
Do open your eyes and ears! Aren’t the increasing natural phenomena and catastrophes sufficient
warnings? Do the conditions in Russia and in China not speak a serious language? Even lamentations
from Germans in the nearby border regions can be heard often enough under the scourge of their, our
enemies! But heedlessly man goes on dancing frivolously and ignoring all the suffering and misery of his
fellow-men! He does not want to see and hear! —
Already two thousand years ago a preacher of repentance led the way and was followed on his heels
by the Word Incarnate. But mankind tried hard to efface and obscure the pure luster of the Word, so that
the magnetic power of Its radiance should gradually become extinct. —
And all those who wish to disentangle the Word from the clinging vines must soon perceive how
desperately messengers from the Darkness try to prevent any joyful awakening!
Today, however, nothing will occur in the same way as it did at the time of Christ! At that time the
Word came! Mankind had its free will, and the majority then decided to reject and repudiate this Word!
From that time on-wards they were subject to the Laws, which were automatically linked to the free
decision as it was made at that time. Thereafter men found all the fruits of their own volition on their self-
chosen paths.

TO BE CONTINUED NEXT SUNDAY.
STAY TUNED.
HAVE A BEAUTIFUL WEEK AHEAD.

Coming from the Divine, Jesus was right in using these words because He was the only One who could
overlook and really explain everything. His Message, which cannot be separated from Him personally,
shows the clear path up to the Light amid the confusion arising from erroneous views. For all human
spirits this means the possibility of a rising or a resurrection from the World of Matter into which they are
immersed for their further development. Such a resurrection means life for everyone!
Please listen carefully: All that is base and all that is evil, i.e., all that is called Darkness, exists only
in the World of Matter, both in gross matter and in ethereal matter! He who grasps this aright has gained
much already.
When a man’s thoughts are evil or base he does immense harm to himself. The main strength of his
volition then flows forth like a magnetic ray toward the lower surroundings, where in turn it attracts,
through its weight and its greater density, ethereal matter which is correspondingly denser and thus
darker, and as a result, the human spirit, from which this volition issues, is enveloped by this dense kind
of matter. Also if a human mind is primarily bent on worldly things, for example if he is under the spell
of a passion for something which need not necessarily be immorality, gambling or drinking, but can also
be a marked partiality for anything of an earthly nature, his spirit will be covered by a more or less dense
ethereal cloak through the process I have already mentioned.
This dense and consequently dark cloak prevents all possibility of the spirit rising upwards, and
persists as long as the spirit does not change the nature of its volition.
Only an earnest volition and an earnest striving for lofty spirituality can loosen and at last completely
detach such a cloak, because then it no longer receives a supply of strength of a like nature and gradually
loosens its grip, and finally it is dissolved and falls away, thus freeing the spirit for its ascent.
Ethereal matter must not be regarded as a refinement of visible gross matter, for it is a species quite
different from gross matter and of a different nature, which however can still be called matter. It forms a
transition to animistic substantiality from which the animal soul originates.
Those humans who remain in the World of Matter must eventually, in the natural course of events, be
dragged into the disintegration to which all matter is subject, since because of their envelopment, they can
no longer free themselves in time.
Those who of their own desire have descended into the World of Matter for their development will
remain bound in it unless they continue on the right path! They are incapable of a re-emergence from it,
which is tantamount to a resurrection towards the Light. — —
It should be further explained that every development of a spirit-germ longing for personal
consciousness necessitates immersion into the World of Matter. Only through experiences in the World of
Matter can it so develop. No other way is open to it. The spirit-germ, however, is not forced into this
immersion, for it happens only as soon as its own desire to do so awakens within it. Its own desire then
impels it towards the necessary course of development. Out of the so-called Paradise of unconsciousness
and thus out of its state of non-responsibility.
If men in the world of matter, through their wrong desires, lose the right path that leads upwards
again, back to the Light, then they will remain straying about in the world of matter.
Now try and observe the happenings in the World of Gross Matter. Observe the development and the
decaying in your immediate and visible surroundings.
You will observe in the germination, growing, ripening and decaying how the process of forming
works, i.e., how the basic substances combine, how they mature, followed by decomposition and how
what was formed returns into the same basic substances through disintegration, that is, through falling
apart in the process of decaying. You can see this clearly in water, also in the so-called weathering of
rocks, in plants and in animal and human bodies. And in the same way that this happens in small things it
also happens with great things, and ultimately in all cosmic processes. It applies not only to the Gross
Material World which is visible to man on earth, but also to the Ethereal World, the so-called beyond which, however, has nothing to do with Paradise. — —
The entire World of Matter is suspended like a great wreath at the lowest part of Creation, rotating in
an immense circle which takes many millions of years to complete. Thus in the great cosmic happenings
everything not only revolves around itself, but the whole of Creation also continually rotates in an
immense circle. Just as this great cycle resulted from the first process of combination up to its present
state of completion, so it continues unswervingly on its course in the same manner until disintegration
sets in and returns the component parts to their primeval substance. The cycle, with its primeval
substance, nonetheless continues steadily to rotate in order to form new worlds through new
combinations, which bear virgin, as yet unused energies.
Such is the great process of evolution, eternally repeating itself on the smallest as well as on the
grandest scale. And above this cycle there stands firmly anchored the first spiritually pure Creation, the
so-called Paradise. In contrast to the formed World of Matter, Paradise is not subject to disintegration.
It is in this Eternal Pure-Spiritual Sphere, which stands luminously above the cycle that the origin of
the unconscious spirit-germ of man lies. This spiritual sphere becomes the final goal of the human spirit
again, after it has become self-conscious and thus personal in the World of Matter. It goes forth as an
unconscious and non-responsible germ. It returns as an individual, self-conscious and therefore
responsible personality provided that... it does not get lost on its necessary journey through the World of
Matter, becoming entangled in it, but celebrates its resurrection from it as a human spirit which has
become fully conscious. This is the joyful re-emergence from the World of Matter towards this luminous
and eternal part of Creation.
As long as the human spirit remains in the World of Matter it partakes in a part of this great and
eternal rotating movement without, of course, realizing it. Thus one day it will at last arrive at the
boundary line where that part of Creation where it dwells slowly drifts towards disintegration. Then,
however, it is high time for all human spirits which are still within the World of Matter to make haste and
improve themselves to such an extent that they can ascend to the safe and luminous haven of the Eternal
Kingdom, which means the right way and above all the shortest way of escape from the impending
dangers in the World of Matter before being overtaken by them.
If the human spirits do not achieve this then it will become more and more difficult, and finally too
late for them!
Along with everything else they will then be drawn into slow disintegration, in which process the
acquired personal “ego” will be torn to shreds. Suffering a thousand torments they will again become
unconscious spirit-germs. This is the most dreadful fate which can befall a spirit that has attained self-
consciousness.
This applies to all those who have developed their personality in the wrong direction. They must
therefore lose their personality as both useless and detrimental. It should be noted that disintegration is
not the same as annihilation. Nothing can be annihilated. It is but a return into the primeval state. What
will be destroyed in these lost ones is the personal “ego” they had acquired up to that time, a process
accompanied by unspeakable torments.
Such lost or damned ones then cease to be complete human spirits, while the others are permitted to
return home to the Eternal Kingdom of Joy and Light as self-conscious spirits, consciously enjoying all
its splendor. —
Just as a cornfield, after a number of years, yields an ever-decreasing harvest of grain, and only
receives new energy through crop rotation, so it is with the whole World of Matter. It, too, becomes
exhausted after a time and must refresh its strength through disintegration and new composition. Such
processes, however, require millions of years. However, even in the course of many millions of years
there comes one definite year which is decisive for the necessary separation of what is useful from what is
useless.
And we have now reached this point in time in the great cycle. The human spirit still dwelling in the
World of Matter must at last decide to make its ascent, or the World of Matter will keep it firmly
entwined for the ensuing disintegration … which is eternal damnation from which a spiritual, self-
conscious resurrection and ascent towards the luminous, eternal part of Creation that stands elevated
above such disintegration, will never be possible again. — In the natural development of the whole there has, for a long time already, no longer been any
possibility for spirit-germs striving to become conscious to incarnate upon this over-ripe earth-plane,
because they would require too long a period to make a timely departure from the World of Matter as
individual self-conscious spirits. In the natural course of events the path of the spirit germs encounters
only such parts of the cosmos which are similar in the fact that their necessary development requires a
length of time at least equal to that needed by a spirit germ for its completion. Only the sameness of
stages of development opens the way for the spirit germs, while a more mature part of the cosmos would
create quite insurmountable barriers for unfinished spirit germs. Thus here too there can be absolutely no
question of an injustice and a deficiency. Therefore, every human spirit is, at the same time and in the
same highest state of maturity as its material environment, able to stand matured at the boundary of that
part of the World of Matter in which we currently dwell.
There is not one human being who could not be mature! The disparity among men is but the
necessary consequence of their own free volition. The World of Matter is now transitioning from a state
of over-ripeness to a process of disintegration while simultaneously drifting towards a new birth.
For the cornfield of the human spirits, however, the time of harvesting has arrived, and with it the
separation. That which is mature will be uplifted towards the Light through the effects of the Natural
Laws which permit the ethereal cloak gradually to be cast off, leaving the spirit thus freed from its burden
consciously to swing upwards to the realm of a homogeneous nature, of all that is eternally spiritual. That
which is unfit, however, will be retained in the World of Matter by the self-willed density of its ethereal
body. The fate of these latter is that their ethereal bodies will remain subject to the changes now
beginning in the World of Matter, and they will have to suffer under the most painful disintegration
lasting thousands of years. The magnitude of their suffering will finally affect the human spirit in such a
manner as to make it lose its self-consciousness. In this process the form of the image of God, the form of
man, acquired in the course of becoming conscious, again disintegrates. After the complete disintegration
of matter back into primeval substance, that which has become unconscious spiritual substance is again
set free and, in accordance with its nature rises upwards. Then, however, it does not return as a conscious
human spirit, but as an unconscious seed which at some time or other, through a newly-awakening desire,
starts its whole course again from the beginning in a new part of the world.
Looking out from His height, i.e., looking down from above, Christ, as always, chose His words in
such a way as to describe as a quite natural process the resurrection of the spirit-germ from the World of
matter into which it had descended.
Try to imagine yourself standing above the World of Matter.
Below you, spread out like a field, lies the World of Matter in its many species. Spirit-germs, coming
from above, now descend into the World of Matter. Gradually, over a long period of time and at many
intervals, complete human spirits emerge which have become self-conscious through their experiences in
the World of Matter, and which through their urge to strive upwards have been able to cast off all that is
material and leave it behind. These thereby celebrate their resurrection from the World of Matter!
But not all germs rise to the surface as matured spirits. A good many of them remain behind and must
perish therein, useless. —
Everything is exactly the same as with a wheat field.
Just as with the grain of wheat, all the mysterious and actual development takes place in the soil
needed for that purpose, so the principal development of the spirit-germ takes place in the general World
of Matter. —
With each one of His statements Christ always illustrates some natural happening in Creation. — —
Whether He said: No man cometh to the Father but by My Message, or by My Word, or by Me it is
one and the same thing. It means: “No man can find the way except through what I say.” One expression
means the same as the other. It is also the same whether He says: “Through My Message I bring you the
possibility of resurrection from the World of Matter and with it life” or “I am, by My Word, resurrection
and life for you.”
Men should grasp the meaning and not persist in confusing themselves ever anew by haggling over
words. — — —

I again point out that all life in Creation is of two kinds. That which is self-conscious and that which is
unconscious. Consciousness is advancement for all that is unconscious. It is only in the process of
becoming conscious that the human form evolves, which we understand to be in the likeness of the
Creator. The taking on of form proceeds evenly, hand in hand with the development of consciousness.
In the first actual Creation, which stands closest to the Creative Spirit and which can therefore be
only spiritual in nature, besides the unconscious spiritual substantiality there also exist the first created
conscious spirit beings. In this unconsciousness, which has the same qualities as consciousness, there lies
dormant the natural urge for further development. This, however, can only take place when there is an
increase in consciousness.
Now when the urge to become conscious has increased to a certain degree in this spiritual
unconsciousness, a process similar to an earthly birth takes place in the normal and natural order of
things. We need only observe our own environment. It is here that the physical body automatically throws
off every fruit that has ripened. Both in man and in beast. Every tree, too, casts off its fruit. This process
is the repetition of a development which is based in the first Creation, in the so-called Paradise.
There too, an automatic casting off takes place at a certain stage of maturity of the unconscious
substance striving to become conscious; this is a severance from the unconscious, also called an
expulsion. These spiritually unconscious particles which have thus been ejected now form the spirit-
germs of developing human beings!
This is the process of the expulsion from Paradise as it is figuratively portrayed in the Bible!
This process must take place because unconsciousness is without responsibility while responsibility
ripens in tandem with a growing consciousness.
This severance of the maturing unconscious is therefore necessary for the spirit which wishes to
follow its natural urge and develop towards consciousness. This is progress, not retrogression!
Since these living germs cannot be ejected upwards, i.e., towards perfection, they can only take the
road leading downwards. Here, however, they enter the Realm of Animistic Substantiality which is
heavier in weight and contains nothing spiritual.
Thus the spirit germ, urging toward consciousness, suddenly finds itself in an environment which is
not of the same nature as its own i.e. an alien environment and practically unclothed. Being spiritual it
feels naked and bare in the denser animistic substantiality. If it is to stay there or advance it naturally
needs to clothe itself in an animistic cloak of the same nature as its surroundings. Otherwise it can neither
become active nor maintain itself there. Thus it not only has the desire to cover its unclothedness in the
pursuit of knowledge, as is depicted in the Bible, but here too it is a necessary step in its evolution.
The germ of the developing human spirit is now guided along natural paths into the World of Matter.
Here once again it is covered by a necessary cloak of the same kind as its new material environment.
Now the spirit-germ stands at the outer boundary of the Ethereal World.
The earth, however, is that gross material point at which all that rests in Creation comes together.
Here species from all sections that are otherwise strictly separated, due to their different characteristics,
converge. All threads, all roads converge upon this earth as if to a single gathering place. Here they
combine and also create new effects, which flare up strongly and hurl power currents into the Universe!
Such as from no other part of the World of Matter.
On this earth takes place the most intense experiencing due to the merging of all species in Creation
which is facilitated by materiality. But again and again, it can always only be through the merging of all
of the created species, not the Divine or of the Holy Spirit, which stands above and outside Creation. —
Now the last vibrations of this experiencing on earth stream towards the spirit-germ as soon as it
enters the Ethereal World. It is awash in these effects. They attract it while also helping it to awaken to
consciousness and development.
Still standing unfettered, that is without guilt, on the threshold of all matter, the spirit-germ perceives the last effects of the vibrations of the strong experiences which take place during the birth and decay of
all matter. The desire then arises within it to take a closer look. As soon as it forms such a wish, however,
the spirit-germ voluntarily attunes itself to some of these vibrations, be they good or evil. Through the
Law of Attraction of Homogeneous Species it is immediately drawn to a homogeneous species stronger
than its own. It is driven toward a point where the desired species is indulged in more than was its own
desire.
Such an inner craving immediately increases the density of its ethereal cloak corresponding to that
desire, and the Law of Gravitation causes it to sink further downwards.
True experiencing of what lies within it, however, is finally offered only by the gross-material earth!
— —
Therefore, as it wishes to proceed from nibbling to enjoying, the spirit-germ is further encouraged to
incarnate on earth. The stronger the desire for earthly enjoyments becomes in the spirit-germ awakening
through this nibbling, the denser becomes the ethereal cloak it bears. As a result its weight also increases,
and it sinks slowly downwards to the earth-plane where there exists the only opportunity to substantiate
its wishes. Having arrived on this earth-plane, however, it has thereby also become ripe for an earthly
birth.
The Law of the Power of Attraction of Homogeneous Species now manifests itself more
conspicuously. Each of the undeveloped spirits, exactly according to the wish or propensity within it, is
magnetically attracted to a spot where the main substance of its wish is realized by men on earth. If, for
example, the spirit has the desire to dominate, it is by no means born into circumstances where it can
indulge its wish, but is attracted by a person who has a strong craving for power, that is, to one who feels
the same way it does and so on. In this manner it can already atone in part for wrong desires or find
happiness in the right ones. At least it has the opportunity to do so.
From this process it is erroneously concluded that characteristics or spiritual abilities are inherited!
This is wrong! Outwardly it may appear to be so. However, in reality a human being can impart nothing
of his living spirit to his children.
There is no such thing as spiritual heredity!
No man is in a position to give away even the least particle of his living spirit!
In this matter an error has been fostered that casts its obstructive and confusing shadow over many
things. No child may thank its parents for any spiritual abilities, any more than it may reproach them for
its deficiencies! That would be wrong and a punishable injustice!
The wonderful work of Creation is so complete and perfect that it could never allow such arbitrary or
chance acts as spiritual heredity!
This power of attraction of all homogeneous species, which is so important in the birth of a child, can
emanate from the father, from the mother, or from anyone in the vicinity of the expectant mother.
Therefore an expectant mother ought to be very careful whom she allows around her. It has to be
remembered that inner strength lies primarily in weaknesses, not in the outward character. Weaknesses
bring important periods of inner experiencing which produce a strong power of attraction.
The coming of man to this earth is comprised of procreation, incarnation and birth. The incarnation,
that is, the entrance of the soul, takes place in the middle of pregnancy. The growing state of maturity,
both of the expectant mother and of the soul preparing to incarnate, also produces a special more earthly
bond. This comprises radiations created by their mutual state of maturity, which irresistibly strive towards
one another as a natural consequence. This radiation becomes stronger and stronger and in a demanding
way binds the soul and the expectant mother ever more tightly, until finally, at a certain maturity of the
developing body in the mother’s womb, the soul is literally absorbed by it.
The moment when the soul enters, or is being absorbed, naturally brings about the first tremors of the
little body, which show themselves in twitchings which are called the first movements of the child. When
this occurs the expectant mother very often experiences a change in her inner feelings. Either uplifting or
oppressive, depending on the kind of soul that has entered. —
With this little body the human soul, as it has developed thus far, now takes on a cover of gross-
materiality which is necessary in order to experience, hear, see and feel everything in earthly gross- materiality, and which is possible only with the aid of a cloak or tool of homogeneous substance and
nature. Only now can it proceed from nibbling to actual tasting and thence to discriminating. It is
understandable that the soul must first learn to make use of and control this new body as if it were a tool.
This in short is the process of man’s development until his first birth on earth.
For in the natural course of events it has been impossible for a long time already for any soul to
embark on its first incarnation upon the earth; births have instead brought souls which have wandered
through at least one life on earth before. Thus they come already grievously burdened with much diverse
karma at birth. The opportunity to free themselves from this karma is offered through sexual power.
Through the protection afforded by the gross material body the soul of man is kept isolated during his
childhood years from currents which try to reach it from outside. All that is dark and evil on this earth-
plane finds its way to the soul barred by the gross material body. Thus it cannot influence or harm the
child. But the evil a reincarnated soul brings over from previous experiences naturally remains with it
during childhood.
The body forms this protective wall as long as it is still undeveloped and immature. It is as if the soul
had withdrawn into a castle with the drawbridge raised. During these years an impassable gulf yawns
between the soul of the child and Ethereal Creation, in which the ethereal vibrations of guilt and
atonement live. Thus the soul lies sheltered in its earthly cloak, maturing towards responsibility and
waiting for the moment when the lowering of the drawbridge will mark the real beginning of its life in the
World of Matter.
Through Natural Laws the Creator has endowed every creature with an imitative instinct to take the
place of the free will before the latter has become active. One generally speaks of “impressionable
youth.” The imitative instinct is meant to prepare development for life on earth until such a time as, in the
case of animals, it is enriched and supported through experiences, but in the case of human beings, it is
uplifted to self-conscious activity through the free will of the spirit!
The spirit incarnated in the child’s body lacks a bridge of radiations, which can only be formed with
the sexual power at the time of physical maturity. The spirit lacks this bridge to a fully effective and truly
active working in Creation, which can only be accomplished through the possibility of uninterrupted
radiations by all species in Creation. For life lies only in radiation, and it is only in them and through
them that movement is generated.
During this time the child, which can impact its environment fully only through its animistic part but
not through its spiritual core, bears somewhat more responsibility towards the laws of Creation than does
the most highly developed animal.
Meanwhile the young body matures and gradually sexual power, which is only to be found in gross
matter, awakens within it. It is the finest and noblest flower of all gross matter, the highest that Gross
Material Creation has to offer. In the fineness of its nature it forms the summit of all that is gross
material, that is, of all that is earthly, and as its outermost living ramification it comes closest to the
Animistic Realm. Sexual power is the pulsating life of the World of Matter, and it alone can form the
bridge to Animistic Substantiality, which in turn forms the connection to Spiritual Substantiality.
It is for this reason that the awakening of sexual power in the physical body may be likened to the
lowering of the drawbridge in a hitherto closed off castle. This permits the inhabitant of the castle, the
human soul, to step forth fully armed and ready for battle, while at the same time allowing friends or foes
lying in wait outside to enter. These friends or foes are primarily ethereal currents of a good or evil
nature, but also include those in the beyond who only wait until a hand is stretched forth to them through
some wish, as it were, which enables them to attach themselves firmly to the soul and exercise a
homogeneous influence upon it.
However, in the natural course of development the Laws of the Creator do not allow the influences
from without to be stronger than the power of resistance within, so that an unequal struggle is completely
out of the question. – Providing nothing sinful is involved. For any unnatural sexual urge caused by
artificial stimulation opens this strong castle prematurely and causes the soul not yet equally strong to be
exposed. It must then succumb to the onrushing evil ethereal currents which it could otherwise easily
have coped with.


To be continued next Sunday

Continued from last lecture

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For a better understanding I must still divide the World of Matter into two sections. Into ethereal
matter and gross matter. Ethereal matter is that matter which cannot become visible to the physical eye,
owing to its different nature. And yet it is still matter.
The so-called “beyond” must not be confused with the longed-for Paradise, which is strictly pure-
spiritual. The spiritual must not be taken as something having “to do with thoughts” but the spiritual is a
species, just as the animistic and the material each is a species. This ethereal matter then is simply called
the beyond because it lies beyond earthly vision. Gross matter on the other hand is this world, all that is
earthly, which is visible to our gross material eyes because of its homogeneity.
Man should get out of the habit of considering things invisible to him as incomprehensible and
unnatural. Everything is natural, even the so-called beyond and Paradise, which still lies at an immense
distance from it.
Just as it is here, where our physical body is sensitive to its surroundings of a homogenous nature,
which it can therefore see, hear, and feel, so is it exactly in those parts of Creation whose species are not
like ours. The ethereal man in the so-called beyond feels, hears and sees only his homogeneous ethereal
environment; the higher spiritual man can again only feel his spiritual environment.
Thus it happens that some earth-dwellers will now and then already see and hear the Ethereal World
with their ethereal bodies, which they bear within before the separation from the gross material earthly
body takes place through physical death. There is absolutely nothing unnatural in this.
In addition to and of equal importance as the Law of Gravitation is the coactive Law of
Homogeneous Species.
I have already touched upon this by saying that any species can only recognize the same species. The
proverbs: “Birds of a feather flock together” and “like attracts like” seem to have been gleaned from the
Primordial Law. Together with the Law of Gravitation it swings throughout Creation.
In addition to those already mentioned there is a third Primordial Law in Creation: The Law of
Reciprocal Action. The effect of this Law is that man must reap what he once sowed, absolutely. He
cannot reap wheat where he sowed rye or clover where he spread thistles. In the Ethereal World it is
exactly the same. In the end he will not be able to reap kindness where he felt hatred, nor joy where he
cultivated envy within himself!
These three fundamental Laws form the landmarks of the Divine Will! They alone automatically
work out reward or punishment for a human spirit, with inexorable justice! So incorruptibly, in the most
miraculous, precise gradations, that the thought of even the slightest injustice in the gigantic world
happening becomes impossible.
The effect of these simple Laws brings every human spirit exactly to the place where he belongs
according to his inner attitude. Any error here is impossible, because the manifestation of these Laws can
only be set in motion by the innermost condition of a human being, which will set it in motion without
fail in every case! Thus the lever for activating the reciprocal effects requires man’s innate pure-spiritual
power of intuitive perception! Nothing else has this effect. For this reason only the real volition, man’s
intuitive perception, is decisive for what develops for him in the world that is invisible to him, and which
he must enter after his earthly death.
Neither pretense nor self-deception will help him. He absolutely must reap what he has sown through
his volition! What is more, the homogeneous currents of the other worlds are set in motion to a greater or
lesser degree exactly according to the strength or weakness of his volition, no matter whether it is hatred,
envy or love. An absolutely natural process, of the greatest simplicity, and yet with the inexorable effect
of adamantine justice!
He who tries to seriously immerse his thinking into these happenings in the beyond will recognize
what incorruptible justice lies in this automatic working and in this alone will he see the inconceivable
Greatness of God. God does not need to intervene, after having placed His Will into Creation in the form
of perfect Laws.
He who, in the course of his ascent, returns to the Spiritual Realm is purified; for he had to first pass
through the self-acting mills of the Divine Will. No other road leads into the vicinity of God. And how
these mills work on the human spirit depends on the latter's preceding inner life, its own volition. They can carry it pleasantly into the Luminous Height; or they can pull it agonizingly down into the night of
horror, indeed even drag it into complete destruction. —
It should be realized that at the time of its earthly birth the human spirit which has matured to the
point of incarnation already wears an ethereal cloak or body, which it has needed on its journey through
the Ethereal World. During the spirit’s earthly existence this cloak remains with him as a connecting link
to the physical body. Now the Law of Gravitation always exerts its main effect upon the densest and
coarsest part. During life on earth this is the physical body. But when this body dies and falls away, the
ethereal body again becomes free and in this moment, unprotected and now the coarsest part, is subject to
this Law of Gravitation.
When it is said that the spirit forms its body then that is true as regards the ethereal body. The inner
quality of man, his desires and his actual volition lays the foundation for it. Volition harbors the power to
form ethereal matter. Through the urge for what is base or for mere earthly pleasures the ethereal body
becomes dense, therewith heavy and dark, because the fulfillment of such desires lies in the World of
Gross Matter. Thereby man binds himself to what is coarse and earthly. His desires pull along the ethereal
body which is formed so densely that its consistency resembles as nearly as possible that of the earthly
body, which alone holds the prospect of being able to participate in earthly pleasures or passions, after the
physical body has fallen away. Whoever strives after such things must sink according to the Law of
Gravitation.
It is different with people whose minds are mainly directed towards higher and nobler things. Here
the volition automatically makes the ethereal body lighter and thus more luminous, so that it can draw
near to the goal of their earnest aspirations! That is, to the purity of the Luminous Height.
Expressed in other words: The particular goal of the human spirit at the same time so equips the
ethereal body in earth-man that, after the death of the physical body, it can strive towards this goal,
whatever kind of goal this may be. Here the spirit really forms the body; for its volition, being spiritual,
also bears within it the power to make use of ethereal substance. The spirit can never evade this natural
process. It happens with every volition, whether he likes it or not. And these forms remain clinging to the
spirit as long as it nourishes them through its volition and intuitive sense. They advance or retard the
spirit according to their nature, which is subject to the Law of Gravitation. Yet, the moment the spirit
changes its volition and intuition, new forms will immediately arise thereby, whereas the old ones, no
longer receiving nourishment because of this change, must die off and dissolve. In this way man also
changes his fate.
As soon as the earthly anchorage falls away through the death of the physical body, the ethereal body
which is thereby released either sinks down or floats up like a cork in the Ethereal World, which is called
the beyond. Through the Law of Gravitation it will be held fast exactly in that place which corresponds
with its own weight; for then it cannot move further, neither up nor down. Here it will naturally find all
that is of homogeneous species or of like mind; for like nature implies like weight, and like weight of
course implies like nature. According to the way he himself was, so will a man have to suffer or enjoy
himself among those of like nature, until he changes anew inwardly, and with him his ethereal body,
which under the effect of the altered weight must either lead him further upwards or downwards.
Therefore man can neither complain nor need he give thanks; for if he is raised towards the Light it is
his own condition that inevitably causes him to be raised; if he falls into the Darkness, it is again his
condition that forces him to do so.
But every human being has reason to glorify and praise the Creator for the perfection that lies in the
working of these three Laws. The human spirit is thereby unreservedly made the absolute master of its
own fate! For its true volition, its genuine inner condition, must cause it either to rise or to sink.
If you try to get a true picture of the effect of these Laws, singly and as they work together, you will
find that they contain reward and punishment, mercy or damnation, minutely weighed for everyone
according to his inner state. It is a most simple process, and shows the lifeline provided by every serious
volition of a human being, which can never break and never fail. It is the greatness of such simplicity that
forces him who recognizes this to his knees before the infinite Sublimity of the Creator!
In every happening and in all my explanations we always meet clearly and distinctly, again and
again, the effect of these simple Laws, whose wonderful interaction I must yet describe specifically. Once man knows this interaction he holds the step-ladder to the Luminous Realm of the Spirit, to
Paradise. But then he also sees the road that leads down to the Darkness!
He need not even tread these steps himself, but the automatic mechanism raises him on high or drags
him down, entirely according to how he adjusts the mechanism for himself through his inner life.
It is always left to his decision, on which course he wishes to let himself be carried.
Man must not allow himself to be deterred by scoffers.
Rightly viewed, doubt and derision are nothing but the expression of desires. Quite unconsciously,
every doubter expresses what he desires for himself, thus exposing his inner self to a scrutinizing eye. For
denial and defense also harbor deeply hidden desires which can be easily recognized. It is sad or even
shocking to see what negligence or poverty is thus sometimes revealed, for it is precisely through this that
a man often drags himself down inwardly; below the level of any ignorant animal. One should have pity
on such people, without however, being indulgent; for indulgence would indeed mean preferring
indolence to serious investigation. He who seeks earnestly must use indulgence sparingly; otherwise he
will ultimately harm himself without helping the other.
With growing recognition, however, man will stand jubilantly before the wonder of such a Creation,
and consciously let himself be borne upward to the Luminous Heights which he may call his home!

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There is many a man who lifts up his eyes seeking for Light and Truth. His longing is great, but very
often he lacks earnest volition! More than half of the seekers are not genuine. They bring their own
preconceived opinion. Should they have to change it in the slightest degree, then they would much rather
reject all that is new to them, even if it contains the Truth.
Thus thousands must fall because, entangled as they are in erroneous convictions, they have restricted
the freedom of movement which they need to swing themselves upward to salvation.
There are always some who imagine they have already grasped all that is right. They have no
intention of subjecting themselves to a strict examination based on what they have heard and read.
Naturally I am not addressing such people!
Nor do I speak to churches and political parties, to religious orders, sects and societies, but only in all
simplicity to man himself. Far be it from me to pull down what exists; for I am building up and
completing the answers to questions as yet unsolved, questions that must arise in everyone as soon as he
thinks even a little.
Only one basic condition is essential for every listener: earnest seeking for the Truth. He should
examine the words and let them come to life inwardly, without regard to the speaker. Otherwise he
derives no benefit. All who do not aspire to this are simply wasting their time from the start.
It is incredible how naively the great majority of people cling tenaciously to their ignorance on such
questions as whence they come, what they are, and whither they go!
Birth and death, the inseparable poles of all life on earth, should not be a secret to man.
There is a great deal of contradiction in the views of what constitutes the inner core of man. This is
the result of the morbid self-aggrandizement of the earth-dwellers, who presumptuously boast that their
inner core is Divine!
Look at humanity! Can you discover anything Divine in them? Such a foolish statement should be
branded as blasphemy, because it is a debasement of Divinity.
Man does not carry a speck of Divinity within him!
This idea is just morbid presumption, the cause of which is simply the consciousness of being unable
to understand. Where is the man who can honestly say that for him such a belief has also become his
conviction? Whoever seriously reflects within himself must deny it. He will feel distinctly that it is only a
longing and a desire to bear something Divine within him, but not a certainty! It is quite right to say that
man carries within him a spark of God. But this spark of God is spirit! It is not a part of Divinity.
The term spark is a perfectly correct designation. A spark develops and sprays out without
transporting or bearing within it anything of the nature of its originator. It is the same here. A spark of
God is not itself Divine.
When such mistakes with regard to the origin of a being can already be found, then failure must
ensue regarding the whole development! If I have built on a wrong foundation, then one day the whole
structure must totter and fall.
It is, after all, the origin which provides support for everyone’s entire being and development!
Anyone who seeks to reach far beyond his origin, as usually happens, and reaches for something he
cannot grasp, thereby loses all support in the quite natural course of events.
If, for instance, I reach for the branch of a tree whose material earthly nature is similar to my earthly
body, I gain support from this branch and can thus swing myself up on it.
But if I reach beyond this branch, then I cannot find support in the different consistency of the air,
and therefore... cannot pull myself up! Surely this is clear enough.
It is exactly the same with the inner consistency of man, called the soul, and its core, the spirit.
If this spirit wishes to have the essential support that it needs from its origin, then it must of course
not seek to reach into the Divine. That would be unnatural; for the Divine lies much too far above it, and is of an entirely different nature!
And yet, in his conceit, man seeks contact at this point which he can never attain, and he thereby
interrupts natural development. His wrong desire is like a dam forming an obstruction between himself
and his necessary supply of power from the origin. He cuts himself off from it.
Therefore away with such errors! Only then can the human spirit develop its full power, which today
it still heedlessly disregards, and become what it can and should be i.e., a ruler in Creation! But mark you
well, only in Creation, not standing above it.
Only Divinity stands above all Creation. —
God Himself, the Origin of all Being and Life, is, just as the word says, Divine! Man, however, the
fact is not unknown, was created by His Spirit!
Thus man is not directly from out of God, but rather from His Spirit! Divine and spiritual are not one
and the same, Spirit is the Will of God. Only out of this Will did the first Creation came into being, not
however out of the Divine! Do let us keep to this simple fact; it provides the possibility for a better
understanding.
By way of comparison, just picture your own will. It is an act, but not part of man himself; otherwise
man would in time dissolve in his many acts of will. There would be nothing left of him whatever.
It is no different with God! His Will created Paradise! But His Will is the Spirit, designated as the
“Holy Spirit.” Paradise, again, was only the work of the Spirit, not part of the Spirit Itself. There is a
gradation downwards in this. The Creative Holy Spirit, that is, the Living Will of God, was not absorbed
in His Creation. He did not even give a part of Himself to it, but He Himself remained wholly outside
Creation. The Bible already states this quite clearly and explicitly with the words: “And the Spirit of God
moved above the face of the waters,” not God Himself personally! There is, after all, a difference. Thus
man does not carry within him anything of the Holy Spirit Itself, but only of the spirit which is a work of
the Holy Spirit, an act.
Instead of considering this fact, man tries with all his might to form a gap here already! Just consider
the prevalent conception of the First Creation, of Paradise! It absolutely had to be on this earth. The small
human mind thereby compressed the developments of millions of years into its own sphere, limited by
space and time, and imagined itself to be the center and axis of all cosmic events. As a result he readily
lost the way to the actual origin of life. In place of this clear path, of which he no longer had a complete
view, his religious conceptions needed a substitute, if he were not to designate himself as the creator of all
being and life, and thus as God. This substitute was provided by the term “faith!” And the word “faith” is
what all of mankind has suffered from until now! What is more, this misunderstood word, which was
meant to supplement all that was lost, became a barrier which caused total failure!
Faith is satisfactory only to the indolent. And it is faith that the scoffers catch hold of. And the word
“faith” wrongly interpreted, is the barrier which today obstructs the road to mankind’s progress.
Faith is not meant to be the cloak generously covering all the inertia of indolent thinking which, like
a sleeping-sickness, gradually descends upon and paralyses the spirit of man! In reality faith must become
conviction. Conviction however demands life, and the keenest examination!
Where even one gap, one unsolved mystery remains, conviction becomes impossible. Therefore no
one can have genuine faith so long as he has an unanswered question.
Already the expression “blind faith” allows the unsoundness to be recognized!
Faith must be alive, as Christ already demanded, otherwise it serves no purpose. To be alive,
however, means to bestir oneself, to weigh and also to examine! It does not mean the apathetic acceptance
of thoughts of others. To believe blindly clearly means not to understand. What a person does not
understand cannot benefit him spiritually, for through lack of understanding it cannot come to life within
him.
But whatever he does not fully experience within can never become his own! And only what is his
own helps him to ascend.
After all, no one can walk and go forward along a road containing great yawning clefts. Spiritually
man must come to a halt where he cannot advance knowingly. This fact is irrefutable and no doubt easily understood. Hence he who wishes to advance spiritually must awaken!
He can never proceed on his path to the Light of Truth while asleep! Nor with a bandage or a veil
over his eyes.
The Creator wants His human beings to be seeing in Creation. To be seeing, however, means to be
knowing! And knowledge does not go with blind faith. Only indolence and slothful thinking do, but not
greatness!
The advantage of the ability to think entails the duty to investigate!
In order to avoid all of this, man, out of indolence, simply so belittled the great Creator as to ascribe
to Him arbitrary actions as proof of His Omnipotence.
He who will think but a little must again find a great error therein. An arbitrary act implies the
possibility of bending the existing Laws of Nature. However, where such a thing is possible, there is no
perfection. For where there is perfection there can be no alteration. Thus a large part of humanity
erroneously represents the Omnipotence of God in such a way that those who think more deeply would
have to regard it as a proof of imperfection. And therein lies the root of much evil.
Give God the honor of perfection! Then you will find the key to the unsolved mysteries of all life. —
It shall be my endeavor to lead serious seekers to this point. A sigh of relief shall go through the
circles of all seekers for the Truth. Finally they will joyfully recognize that there is no mystery, no gap in
the entire course of world events. And then... they will see clearly before them the road to ascent. They
only need to follow it. —
In all of Creation there is no justification whatever for mysticism! There is no room for it, because
everything should lie before the human spirit clearly and without gaps, right back to its origin. And this
area includes all of Creation. Only what is above this Creation, the Divine alone, will have to remain a
most sacred mystery to every human spirit because it is above his origin which rests within Creation.
Therefore the human spirit will never be able to grasp what is Divine. Not with the best will and the
greatest knowledge. But in this inability to grasp what is Divine rests the most natural process for man
that one can think of; for it is well known that it is not possible for anything to go beyond the nature of its
origin. This is also true for the spirit of man! The difference in consistency always sets a boundary. And
the Divine is of an entirely different consistency from the spiritual, in which man originates.
The animal, for instance, can never become a human being, however highly developed its soul may
be. From out of its animistic substance there can, under no circumstances, blossom forth spiritual
substance which gives birth to the human spirit. The composition of all animistic substance lacks the
basic nature of spirit. Man, who has issued from the spiritual part of Creation, can in turn never become
Divine, since the spirit does not have the nature of the Divine. The human spirit may well be able to
develop to the highest degree of perfection, but must nevertheless always remain spiritual. It can never go
above itself into the Divine. Here again the different consistency forms the natural, ever impassable
limitation upwards. The World of Matter does not enter into this at all since it has no life of its own, but
serves as a cloak, driven and formed by the spiritual and the animistic.
The mighty field of the spirit extends through all Creation. Therefore man can, should and must fully
grasp and recognize Creation! And through his knowledge he will rule in it. But rightly understood, to
rule, no matter how severely, simply means to serve! —
At no point in the entire Creation, up to the highest spiritual, is there any deviation from natural
development! This fact alone surely makes all things much more familiar to everyone. The unhealthy and
secret fear, the reluctance to face so many things as yet unknown, thus collapses by itself. With
naturalness a fresh breeze blows through the sultry atmosphere formed by the morbid fantasies of those
who like to draw attention to themselves. Their morbidly fantastic constructs, terrifying to the weak and
mocked by the strong, seem absurd and childishly foolish as the view becomes clear and in the end,
boldly and joyfully takes in the glorious naturalness of all developments, which always move only in
simple, straight lines that can be clearly recognized.
It runs through everything uniformly, in the strictest regularity and order. And this makes it easier for
every seeker to obtain the broad, free view right to the point of his actual origin!
For this he needs neither painstaking research nor flights of fancy. The main thing is for him to stay away from all those who in their confusing secretiveness try to make meager part-knowledge appear
greater.
It all lies before men so simply that because of the very simplicity they often do not come to
recognition, because from the outset they assume that the great work of Creation must be much more
difficult and entangled.
In spite of the best volition thousands stumble over this. Seeking they raise their eyes to the heavens,
not realizing that all they have to do is to look in front and around them without effort. They will then see
that through their existence on earth they are already standing on the right road, and need only calmly
stride forward! Without haste and without strain, but with open eyes and a free, unrestricted mind! Man
must learn at last that true greatness lies only in the most simple and natural happening, indeed, that
greatness requires this simplicity.
So it is in Creation, and so it is in him, who belongs to Creation as a part of it!
Only simple thinking and intuitive perceiving can give him clarity! Such simplicity as children still
possess! Calm reflection will show him that, for man’s ability to comprehend, simplicity is identical with
clarity and also with naturalness! One is inconceivable without the other. They form a triad expressing
one concept! Whoever makes it the foundation-stone of his seeking will soon break through the nebulous
confusion. Everything that has been artificially inflated will then collapse into nothingness.
Man will realize that the natural order of development cannot be eliminated or interrupted anywhere!
And the greatness of God reveals itself therein! The unchangeable liveliness of the self-acting Creative
Will! For the Laws of Nature are the inexorable Laws of God, continually visible to all men, speaking to
them insistently, testifying to the Greatness of the Creator, of an unshakable constancy without exception!
Without exception! For a grain of oat can bring forth only oats, and likewise only wheat can grow from a
grain of wheat, and so forth.
So is it also in that first Creation which, as the Creator’s own Work, stands nearest to His Perfection.
There the fundamental Laws are anchored in such a way that, driven by the vitality of the Will, they were
bound to entail in the most natural development the genesis of the further Creation, eventually down to
these celestial globes. Only becoming coarser the further Creation becomes removed from the perfection
of the origin in the process of development. —
Let us first of all consider Creation.
Imagine that all life therein bears only two species, no matter what part it is found in. The one kind is
self-conscious, the other kind is unselfconscious. It is of the utmost value to observe these two different
categories! They are connected with the “origin of man.” The differences also provide the stimulus to
further development, to the apparent struggle. The unconscious is the foundation of all that is conscious,
while its composition is of exactly the same nature. To become conscious is progress and development for
the unconscious. Which, through being together with the conscious, is continually being stimulated to
also attain to this consciousness.
In the process of developing downwards, the first Creation itself brought three great successive basic
divisions: as the uppermost and highest is the spiritual, the Primordial Creation, followed by the Sphere
of Animistic Substance which becomes increasingly dense, and thus heavy. Lastly, as the lowest and
because of its greatest density the heaviest, there still follows the great Realm of Matter which, separating
itself from Primordial Creation, gradually sank downward! Through this there finally remained only the
Pure-Spiritual as the uppermost Substance, because in its pure nature it embodies what is lightest and
most luminous. It is the oft-mentioned Paradise, the crown of all Creation.
With the sinking down of that which becomes denser we already touch upon the Law of Gravitation,
which is not only anchored in matter, but has an effect in all Creation, from the so-called Paradise on
down to us.
The Law of Gravitation is of such crucial importance that everyone should hammer it into his mind;
for it is the main lever in the whole evolution and process of development of the human spirit.
I have already said that this gravitation applies not only to earthly consistencies, but also works
uniformly in those parts of Creation which earthmen can no longer see, and which they therefore simply
call the beyond.


To be continued

Ever since the crime committed against the Son of God, the Bringer of Truth, Jesus of Nazareth, the fact
that men did not recognize the most significant prophecy for mankind made by the greatest of all
prophets, has weighed upon mankind like a curse, and even today they stand before it unwittingly as if
wearing a dense blindfold. The terrible consequence of this will be that a great part of mankind will
stumble towards destruction, past the only possibility of rescue from being cast away.
This is the prophecy of the Coming of the Son of Man, which the Son of God, under the constant
attacks upon Him by the masses who, standing in the Darkness, naturally hated the Bringer of Truth, held
out as a star of hope and also as a serious warning. The same wave of erring feelings and thoughts, which
prevented the recognition of the Son of God as such, also confused the ability to understand the
importance of this prophecy even at the time it was made. The human spirit was too dark and far too
conceited to still be able to receive such high Divine Messages undimmed. Messages coming from a
height above their own sphere of origin passed them by without leaving any impression. A real
understanding of this Message would have required a belief based on conscious conviction, which not
even His followers were capable of at the time. The soil upon which the words of the Redeemer fell still
remained much too wildly overgrown. Furthermore, the momentous, deeply moving emotional upheavals
of life in the Savior’s environment were compressed into only a few years,whereby all their feelings were
bound to be concentrated on the Person of Jesus, so that when He spoke of another Person in the distant
future it was not regarded as such but was again interwoven with Him personally.
Thus the error has lived on in the views of men until the present day, because the unbelievers did not
bother themselves about the Savior’s words, while the believers, just because of their belief, forcibly
suppressed every serious criticism of the transmissions out of holy awe and concern that they must not
offend these words of the Savior. But in doing so they overlooked the fact that they were not His own real
and original words, but merely transmissions, written down long after His life on earth. Thus the words
were naturally subject to unconscious modifications through the human intellect and personal opinions.
Surely there is a certain greatness in this reverential upholding of purely human transmissions, and
therefore no reproach shall be made.
All this, however, does not prevent the hampering consequences of erroneous beliefs which have
arisen through faulty transmissions, because the Laws of Reciprocal Action cannot be overthrown even in
this case. Even if the only effect of such errors is to raise bars which obstruct the human spirit in its
further ascent, this still constitutes a fateful standstill and lack of progress as long as the liberating Word
of Enlightenment cannot come to life within them.
He who believes in the Son of God and in His words and has made them come to life within himself,
that is he carries them within him in their correct interpretation and acts accordingly, naturally need not
wait for the promised Son of Man for the Son of Man has nothing to bring other than what the Son of God
has already brought. It is a condition, however, that such a person has really understood the words of the
Son of God, and does not stubbornly cling to erroneous transmissions. If he has bound himself to errors
somewhere he will not be able to complete his ascent until he has received the enlightenment which was
reserved for the Son of Man to bring because the limited human spirit is unable to free itself from the
dense undergrowth which now obscures the Truth.
Jesus spoke of the Coming of the Son of Man as the last possibility of salvation, and also pointed out
that with His Coming the Judgment would commence and that those who are still not willing, in other
words, who, because of their own stubbornness or indolence, are not ready to accept enlightenment,
would be irretrievably cast out. This leads to the conclusion that there will be no further opportunity for
consideration and decision. It is also unmistakably an announcement of great tribulations to come which
will bring to an end a period of patient forbearance. This in turn attests to the impending struggle of the
Light against all darkness, which must end with the forced destruction of all darkness.
It is not to be assumed that all these events will coincide with human expectations, wishes and
conceptions, because all past happenings indicate to the contrary. Never as yet have human ideas agreed
with the manifestations of the Divine Will. Reality was always different than the ideas of men, and only
long afterwards did the recognition of what had happened dawn on them. Nor is there any hope that it will
be different this time, because human ideas and views have gained nothing in comparison with former times. On the contrary they have become even much more “realistic.”
The Son of Man! A veil is still shrouding Him and His time. While a vague sense of anticipation
awakens in many a spirit, a longing for the Day of His Coming, many of those who feel this longing will
probably pass Him by unawares and will not wish to know Him, because their expectations made them
believe in a different kind of fulfillment. It is only with great difficulty that man can get used to the idea
that, in obedience to the Law of God, a Divine Being on earth cannot differ outwardly from human beings
themselves. Man insists on picturing the Divine in supernatural form only, and yet he has unfortunately so
fettered himself that he would not be capable of recognizing aright what is supernatural, much less would
he be able to bear it. Nor is this even necessary at all!
The man who seeks the Will of his God in the Natural Laws of all Creation will soon recognize it
therein, and finally realize that the Divine can come to him only on the paths of these adamantine laws,
not otherwise. As a result such a person will become vigilant and will carefully scrutinize everything he
meets on these paths, but only with a view to the Divine Laws and not with regard to human opinions.
Thus he will recognize at the right hour Him Who brings liberation in the Word. Through his personal
examination of what is brought, and not through the clamor of the masses.
It will have occurred already to every thinking person that the Son of God and the Son of Man cannot
be one! The difference is quite clearly expressed in the words themselves.
During His mission and incarnation on earth, the pure Divinity of the Son of God bore within It,
precisely because of its pure Divine nature, the precondition and inevitable necessity of reuniting with
Divinity. In the natural order of things there is simply no other possibility. This is also confirmed by the
Son of God Himself when He referred to His “Becoming One with the Father” and His “being reunited
with the Father.” For this reason the Son of God’s Mission as Mediator between the Godhead and
Creation could only last a limited time. The Son of God who, being purely Divine, absolutely must,
through the power of attraction of the stronger homogeneity, be drawn back to His Divine origin where
He is forced to remain, after discarding anything adhering to Him which is not Divine. Therefore He
could not remain the eternal Mediator between the Godhead and the Creation with mankind. Thus,
through the reunion of the Son of God and the Father, a new chasm would have arisen, and the Mediator
between pure Divinity and Creation would again have been missing. The Son of God Himself proclaimed
to mankind the Coming of the Son of Man, Who will then remain the eternal Mediator between the
Divine and Creation. This expresses the sublime love of the Creator for His Creation.
The difference between the Son of Man and the Son of God is that, though born out of the purely
Divine, the Son of Man was at the same time connected with the Sphere of Conscious Spiritual
Substantiality, so that it is as if He stands simultaneously with one foot in the Divine and with the other in
the highest part of Conscious Spiritual Substantiality. He is a part of each, and thus forms the eternal
bridge between the Divine and the summit of Creation. This connection, however, involves the imperative
of remaining separated from the pure Divine, yet in spite of this, permits, even requires admittance to
Divinity.
The spiritual adjunct to the Divine merely prevents a reunion which would otherwise be unavoidable.
Mankind will hardly ever grasp the fact that this is another sacrifice of love on the part of the Creator, and
the fulfillment of a promise of such magnitude as only God Himself is capable of giving and fulfilling.
That is the difference between the Son of God and the Son of Man. This also provides the justification for
the designation of Son of Man; for in Him a twin-birth occurred, one part as Son from the Divine, and the
other part as Son from the Conscious Spiritual, in whose unconscious outermost edges the germ of the
human spirit has its origin.
The Mission of the Son of Man is the continuation and consummation of the Mission of the Son of
God, since the Mission of the Son of God could only be a transient one. Hence in the continuation and
completion it is at the same time a reinforcement of Christ’s mission.
Whereas the Son of God was born directly into His earthly Mission, the Son of Man had to traverse a
far wider sphere before He could enter into the beginning of His actual Mission. As a condition for the
fulfillment of His task, which in comparison to that of the Son of God was more earthly, the Son of Man,
coming as He did from the highest Heights, also had to descend into the deepest depths. Not only in the
beyond but also here on earth, so that He might personally “experience” all the misery and suffering of
mankind. Only then will He be in the position, when His Hour comes, to intervene effectively in their shortcomings and help to bring about change. For this reason He could not stand aside from the
experiences of mankind, but through experiencing the bitter aspects Himself, He had to stand in the midst
of them and suffer from them. Again, it was only for the sake of men that His learning period had to be
like this. But people will try to blame Him for just this in order to make His task more difficult, just as
they did with Jesus in His time, since such high guidance remains incomprehensible to the human spirit in
its narrowness which allows it to judge by external appearances only. Just what He had to suffer for the
sake of men in order to recognize the weakest points in their errors, that is, what He suffered or came to
know through His own experiences in the interests of the future welfare of mankind, they will wish to use
as stones to throw at Him when their rising hatred is inflamed by the Darkness as it trembles in fear of
annihilation.
It is not difficult to explain that something so incredible can happen again in spite of the events
during the Son of God’s time on earth, because in reality more than half of the present inhabitants of the
earth do not belong here at all but should be maturing in much lower and darker regions! The reason for
this lies only in a persistent psychic regression, caused by the dominance of the slaves of their own tool,
i.e., the limited intellect. As an exclusive ruler the limited intellect will, because it is merely earthly,
always promote everything material and thereby will also cultivate all the accompanying evil side effects.
The resulting decline of higher comprehension created a breach, and stretched out a hand downwards,
whereby, souls which could otherwise have never come to the surface of the earth owing to their spiritual
gravity caused by the density of the darkness, were able to hoist themselves up for incarnations. Most of
all, though, it is a matter of the purely animalistic sensations accompanying procreation, as well as the
general striving for earthy pleasures, which in this time of moral deprivation which has lasted for
centuries already, has enabled inferior souls to rise. These souls then constantly circle round expectant
mothers, and, given an opportunity, they incarnate, because up until now all that is light has voluntarily
retreated from what is dark in order to avoid becoming soiled.
So it gradually became possible for the ethereal environment of the earth to grow ever denser and
darker and thus heavier, so heavy in fact that it even keeps the gross material earth itself from a course
that would make it more accessible to higher spiritual influences. As the majority of all incarnated souls
actually belong to regions that lie much lower than the earth itself, it will therefore be but Divine Justice
if such souls are swept away and sink back to where they properly belong; to the region where, due to
their absolute homogeneity, they have no further opportunity to burden themselves with new guilt;
consequently they are better able to mature toward an ascending change through the suffering in their
spheres.
It is not up to human will to someday elect the Son of Man sent by God, but the Power of God will
uplift Him at the hour when a helpless, whimpering mankind begs for deliverance. Then all blasphemy
will cease, because horror will silence these mouths, and they will accept willingly all the gifts the
Creator offers His creatures through Him. But he who will not accept them from Him shall be cast out for
all eternity.

Perfect is God the Lord! Perfect is His Will, which is in Him and which issues from Him in order to bring
into being and maintain the Work of Creation. Perfect as well, therefore, are the Laws that permeate
Creation according to His Will.
Perfection, however, excludes any changes from the very beginning. This is the fundamental fact
which absolutely justifies doubt about so many assertions! Some teachings contradict themselves in that,
although they quite rightly teach the Perfection of God, yet at the same time they make assertions exactly
to the contrary, demanding belief in things which exclude the Perfection of God and of His Will which
rests in the Laws of Creation.
With this, however, the germ of disease was introduced into many a teaching. Like a boring worm
that forces the entire structure to collapse. This collapse is all the more inevitable where such
contradictions are made into foundational pillars, which not only cast doubt on the Perfection of God but
directly deny it! This denial of the perfection of God even belongs to creeds upon which entry into the
community of faith is conditioned.
Reference is made to the resurrection of the flesh, i.e. the resurrection of the physical body of the Son
of God which is quite thoughtlessly accepted by most people without leaving the faintest trace of an
understanding. Others again, although fully aware of their own ignorance, accept this assertion because
they lacked a teacher who could give them the proper explanation for it.
What a sad picture this presents to the calm and serious observer. How pitiful such a group of people
appears in his eyes when they quite often consider themselves to be ardent confessors of their faith, strict
believers, showing their zeal in ignorant presumption by impetuously looking down upon those of
different opinion, while not realizing that this is an infallible sign of their helpless lack of understanding.
He who accepts and professes important matters as his conviction without question shows boundless
indifference, not true faith.
It is in this light that such a person stands before that which he is used to calling the highest and the
holiest, which should represent the content and the mainstay of his whole being.
As such he is not an alive member of his religion who may expect ascent and redemption, rather he is
but sounding brass, only an empty tinkling cymbal, which neither understands the Laws of his Creator nor
himself makes the effort to recognize them.
For all who act thus it means standstill and retrogression on the road which is meant to lead them in
their development and advancement through the World of Matter towards the Light of Truth.
The wrong conception of the resurrection of the flesh, like any other erroneous opinion, is also an
artificially constructed obstacle which they take over with them into the beyond, before which they will
have to come to a halt without the possibility of progress, since they cannot get rid of it of their own
accord and since a false belief tightly clings to them and binds them in such a way that they are cut off
from any unobstructed view towards the Luminous Truth.
They do not dare to change their way of thinking, thus cannot advance. With this the danger arises
that these souls, who keep themselves thus fettered, will miss the last opportunity of becoming free and
cannot ascend to the Light in time, as a consequence of which they will have to slide down into
disintegration, and will find eternal damnation as their final goal.
Eternal damnation is permanent exclusion from the Light. As a natural consequence it is the self-
determined separation from the opportunity of being able to return to the Light as a fully conscious and
mature personality. This condition occurs through being drawn into disintegration which not only
atomizes and dissolves the ethereal body, but also all that has been gained by the spirit in terms of
individual consciousness*(Lecture: The World). That, then, is the so-called “spiritual death” from which
there can no longer be any ascent towards the Light for the conscious “ego” developed up to that point,
whereas in the case of an ascent, the conscious ego not only endures but continues to mature till it reaches
spiritual perfection.
A man who has passed into the beyond with a wrong or thoughtlessly accepted faith remains bound and hampered until he becomes alive and free within himself through a different conviction, thus
shattering the obstacle which through his own faith keeps him from striding forward along the right and
true path.
This overcoming and the expenditure of energy required to free oneself from such a false belief,
however, is enormous. The mere step towards approaching such a thought calls for an immense spiritual
boost. Thus millions keep themselves imprisoned and therefore cannot gain sufficient strength even to lift
a foot, under the fatal delusion that they would be doing something wrong. They are as if paralyzed and
would indeed be lost unless the Living Power of God Itself seeks a way to them. But this Power can
intervene and help only if the human soul harbors the spark of a volition for it which reaches out towards
it.
Nothing could be more terrible and fatal than the paralysis arising from this simple and natural
happening. For with this the blessing of free decision entrusted to man becomes a curse through false
application. Each individual is always free to exclude himself or to join. And a heavy price is paid, when
a man blindly embraces a teaching without careful and serious examination! Indolence in this matter may
cost him his entire being!
Man’s worst enemy in purely earthly matters is indolence. Indolence in matters of faith, however,
will result in his spiritual death!
Woe unto those who do not awaken soon, pull themselves together and submit to the keenest scrutiny
everything that they call faith! Perdition indeed awaits those who cause such great misery! Who as false
shepherds lead their sheep into the desolate wilderness. Nothing can help them but to lead their misguided
sheep back onto the true path. The great question, however, is whether there will still be enough time left
for them to do so. Hence everyone must carefully examine himself before he presumes to teach his
neighbor.
False belief is delusion! Which keeps the human spirit closely and tightly bound here as well as in the
beyond with such strength that only the Living Power of the true Word of God can break loos. Therefore
harken to its call whenever it is heard. It is only meant for him who perceives the call! Such a one must
then weigh and examine and become free!
He should not forget that only his own decision can burst the fetters with which he had previously
bound himself through a false belief. Just as he once resolved, out of sloth or indolence, blindly to
embrace some teaching or other without seriously examining it in all its aspects, or just as perhaps he
tried to deny God because up till then he was not able to find a way to Him that satisfied his legitimate
desire for logical completeness, so now it is again necessary that the first volition for uncompromising
examination in all his seeking must issue from himself! Only then will he be able to raise the foot held so
firmly down by his own will, and so take the first step that will lead him to the Truth and thereby to
freedom in the Light.
It is always and only man himself who can, shall and must weigh these matters because he possesses
the gift to do so. He himself must also shoulder all responsibility for everything he wills and does,
whatever it may be.
This knowledge alone should impel him to the keenest scrutiny.
It is just this responsibility which not only gives every man the unlimited right to such an
examination, but even makes it an absolute necessity! If he regards it as a healthy instinct for self-
preservation, then this is by no means wrong! He would certainly never sign an earthly contract which
would burden him with some responsibility without examining it carefully, word by word, and
considering whether he would be able to comply with all its conditions. It is no different, but far more
serious in spiritual matters regarding the decision to devote oneself to a particular belief! If men would
only exercise a little more of the sound instinct for self-preservation in this respect it would not be a sin
but a blessing!
Resurrection of the flesh! How can flesh of gross material substance ascend to the Pure-Spiritual
Realm of God the Father! Gross material substance that cannot even pass over into the ethereal substance
of the beyond. All gross matter, and even all ethereal matter, is subject to disintegration in accordance
with the eternal Laws of Nature. There are no exceptions or deviations, for the laws are perfect. Hence
gross matter cannot, after death has occurred, ascend into the Kingdom of the Father, nor even into the ethereal beyond, which is also subject to disintegration! Due to the perfection of the Divine Laws of
Nature such deviations are simply impossible!
On a small scale, all this can be quite distinctly observed in the laws of physics, for these too,
demonstrate nothing but the immutable Laws of the Creator, which spread throughout this field as they do
throughout all existence.
All that exists is subject to the uniform Laws of genesis which carry within them clearly and
distinctly the simple but inexorable Divine Will. Nothing can be removed from them.
Thus it is all the more regrettable if some teachings refuse to acknowledge the immense greatness of
God thus revealed with which He visibly comes so close to human understanding!
Every teaching points quite correctly to the Perfection of God. If, however, the Origin or the
Primordial Source as such is perfect, it follows that all that issues from It cannot be other than perfect.
Consequently, the Laws of Creation, resting as they do in the Acts of Will that have issued from the
Primordial Source, must necessarily be perfect also. Quite naturally one cannot be separated from the
other. These perfect Laws of Creation, namely the Laws of Nature, extend throughout and support all that
has come into existence. Perfection, however, means immutability. Hence it follows that a bending of
these fundamental or natural laws is completely impossible. In other words: under no circumstances can
there be exceptions which are contrary to all other happenings in their naturalness.
Thus no resurrection of the flesh can take place because the flesh is of gross material substance and
remains absolutely bound to gross matter!
As all the primordial laws have proceeded from Divine Perfection, no new Act of God’s Will can
take a form different from that which was laid down at the primordial beginning of Creation.
If various teachings refuse to accept this self-evident fact given through God’s absolute Perfection
then this is proof that their foundation is false; that it is based upon the human intellect which is bound to
space and time and therefore cannot lay claim to being a message of God which would not include any
gaps, since a message of God can only come out of Perfection, out of the Truth Itself which is without
gaps and easily understood in its simple greatness. In the first place it is natural, for what man calls
Nature issued from the Perfection of the Divine Will, and still maintains its aliveness unchanged and
therefore cannot be subject to any exceptions.
Consequently, when Christ came to this earth to proclaim God’s Message of Truth He was obliged,
like any human being, to use a physical body, i.e., a body of flesh. Every thinking man should recognize
in this the immutability of the Laws of Nature, just as he must recognize it in His physical death which
occurred through crucifixion.
This gross material flesh could not then be an exception after death, but had to remain in the Gross
Material World! It could not rise from the dead in order to enter another world! The immutable Divine or
Natural Laws, through their Perfection which issued from the Divine Will, do not permit of such a thing.
They cannot permit it; otherwise they would not be perfect, which in turn would also imply that the Will
of God, His Power and He Himself are not perfect.
Since this remains impossible, however, as any science in Creation can observe for itself, it follows
that it is wrong and that any assertion claiming that this gross material flesh was resurrected and ascended
into another world after forty days constitutes doubt in God’s Perfection.
If flesh is really to come to life again, this can only occur if the soul, which for a time is still
connected to the physical body by an ethereal cord, is called back into the body.*(Lecture No. 40: Death) In
accordance with the Natural Laws this is only possible as long as this cord still exists. Once this cord is
severed, a raising from the dead, i.e., a recalling of the soul into its physical body would be impossible!
This also is strictly subject to the Laws of Nature which are without gap, and even God Himself could not
do it because it would be against His Own Perfect Laws, against His Own Perfect Will which operates
automatically in Nature. Precisely because of this Perfection such an imperfect thought, which would
have to be an arbitrary act, would never occur to Him. Here again there appears to be a boundedness of
God within the work of Creation through His flawless Perfection, which must be fulfilled in every case
and which permits no change; nor indeed is such a change intended or necessary. But this is by no means
an actual boundedness; it only appears as such to man in certain things because he is unable to have a
complete overview of the entire happening. And this inability to have a complete overview is the cause of his expecting, albeit well-meant and with reverence, arbitrary acts from his God which, on keen
reflection, must only belittle Divine Perfection. Thus, man's thinking, intended to be in all humility, is, in
this case, not reverentially gazing upward, but rather is a pulling down into the quite natural confines of
the human spirit.
The Laws of the Divine Will or the Laws of Nature were strictly observed in the cases of the raising
of Lazarus and of the youth of Nain. These could be raised because the cord connecting body and soul
was still intact. At the Master’s call the soul could re-unite with the body. Which body was then
compelled to remain in the Gross Material World, according to the Laws of Nature, until a new separation
between the gross material body and ethereal body took place, i.e., until a new physical death occurred,
permitting the ethereal body to enter the ethereal beyond.
However, it is impossible for a gross material body to pass over into another world. If the Spirit of
Christ had again returned into His gross material body, or had perhaps not even left the body at all, He
would have been forced to remain in gross matter until He died again, not otherwise.
Resurrection of the flesh into another world is completely out of the question for men, as it was then
for Christ!
The physical body of the Redeemer followed the same course that every other physical body has to
follow in accordance with the Natural Laws of the Creator.
Consequently, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of God, did not rise again in the flesh!
Yet in spite of all logic and the far greater reverence towards God expressed in this, there will still be
many who, in the blindness and indolence of their erroneous faith, are not willing to follow such simple
paths of the Truth. There are also some who cannot follow because of their self-imposed limitations.
Others again will angrily and with full intention try to fight against it on account of their well-founded
fear that their laboriously erected edifice of convenient faith must collapse.
It is of no avail to them if they rely as a basis only on literal transmissions; for the disciples were
human beings too. It is only human if the disciples, who were greatly upset by all of the dreadful
happenings at that time, wove, in their memory, some of their own thoughts into the accounts they
transmitted; on account of their having witnessed miracles which they themselves could still not explain,
they reported some things differently from what they had been in reality.
Their writings and stories were frequently rooted too strongly in their own human assumptions,
which then later on became the basis for many an error, as for instance in the erroneous melding together
of the Son of God and the Son of Man into one person.
Even though they were assisted by the strongest spiritual inspiration, their own preconceived ideas
nevertheless interfered strongly with their transmission and often dimmed the clearest and best
intentioned picture.
Jesus Himself, however, never wrote down anything, and thus nothing was left upon which one could
rely absolutely and indisputably.
He never would have said or written anything that was not wholly and completely in accord with the
Laws of His Father, the Divine Laws of Nature or the Creative Will. For He Himself said succinctly:
“I am come to fulfill the Laws of God!”
The Laws of God, however, are clearly evident in Nature which extends further than merely to the
Gross Material Sphere, yet remains “natural” everywhere, in the Ethereal as well as in the Animistic and
Spiritual Worlds. In these significant words of the Redeemer a thinking man can surely find something
which goes beyond the confusing religious teaching sand which shows a way to all who are really serious
in their seeking!
In addition, however, everybody can find indications in the Bible, for Jesus appeared to many. But
what happened? Mary did not recognize Him at first, Mary Magdalene did not recognize Him
immediately, the two disciples on their way to Emmaus did not recognize Him for hours, although He
walked and spoke with them... What must be inferred from this? That it must have been another body
they saw, otherwise they would all have recognized Him at once! —
However, let him who does not wish to hear remain deaf, and let him who is too lazy to open his eyes remain blind!
The general concept of “resurrection of the flesh” finds its justification when applied to earthly
births, which will never cease for as long as there are men on earth. It is a great promise that repeated
lives here on earth are possible, repeated incarnations for the purpose of a more rapid advancement, and
for the necessary redemption of reciprocal actions of a lower kind, which is the same as the forgiveness of
sins. It is proof of the immeasurable Love of the Creator Who graciously grants departed souls, which
totally or partially wasted their time on earth and were therefore unready to ascend when they entered the
beyond, another opportunity to take on a new gross material body or cloak, whereby the flesh they had
discarded celebrates a resurrection in the new flesh. The soul that had already passed over thereby
celebrates a resurrection in the flesh.
The blessing of this continually repeating fulfillment of such high Grace will be recognized only at a
later time by the spirit of man which cannot have a complete overview all things!

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The Son of God said to His disciples, “He who absorbs my Word, absorbs me, in reality, he eats my body
and drinks my blood!”
Such is the sense of the words the Son of God spoke when He instituted the Last Supper as a
remembrance of His life on earth, symbolized through the meal. How then could it happen that fierce
controversies about these words arose among the learned and among the churches. Their meaning is so
simple and so clear when man takes as their basis that the Son of God, Christ Jesus, was the Word of God
which had become flesh.
How could He express Himself more clearly than by simply saying: “He who absorbs My Word eats
of My Body and drinks of My Blood!” Also when He said: “The Word is truly My Body and My Blood!”
He had to speak in this way because He Himself was the Living Word in flesh and blood. All
transmissions, however, time and again, left out the most important point: the reference to the Word
which walked on earth! It was considered insignificant because it was not understood. Through this
however, the whole Mission of Christ was misunderstood, mutilated and distorted.
Despite their faith, even the disciples of the Son of God at that time were not capable of
understanding the words of their Master aright, just as they had never fully grasped so much of what He
had said. Indeed Christ Himself often enough expressed His sadness at this. They simply formed the
meaning of the Last Supper in such a way as they, in their childlike simplicity, had understood it. It is
therefore quite natural that they passed on words which were not quite clear to them in the way in which
they comprehended them, and not as the Son of God had meant them. —
Jesus was the Word of God become flesh! Thus he who absorbed His Word aright also received Jesus
Himself.
And if a man lets this Word of God which is offered to him come to life within himself so that it
becomes an integral part of himself, of his thoughts and his actions, he thereby also lets the spirit of Christ
come to life within himself, for the Son of God was the Incarnate Living Word of God!
Man must make an effort to really fathom this train of thought aright. He should not merely read it
and talk about it, but he must also try to make it come alive by quietly experiencing its meaning in living
pictures. Then he will also truly experience the Last Supper, providing he recognizes that he receives the
Living Word of God thereby, the meaning and intent of which he must first thoroughly know, of course.
It is not quite as easy as many believers think it to be. To partake of Holy Communion apathetically
will be of no benefit; for what is living, as is the Word of God, must also be accepted as a living thing.
The Church cannot breathe life into Holy Communion for someone else unless the communicant has
prepared himself beforehand to receive it in the right way.
One also sees pictures intended to illustrate the beautiful words: “I am knocking!” Such pictures are
quite right. The Son of God is standing at the door of the cottage, knocking and desiring admittance. But
here man has already added some of his own thoughts by showing a set table through the partly-open
door of the cottage. This gives rise to the idea that no one who asks for food and drink should be turned
away. The thought is beautiful and corresponds to Christ’s Word, but it has been interpreted in too narrow
a sense. “I am knocking” means more! Charity forms but a small part of the meaning of God’s Word.
When Christ says: “I am knocking” He means that the Word of God embodied in Him is knocking on
the door of the human soul, not asking for admittance but demanding it! The Word in its entirety, as it has
been given to man, is to be received by him. His soul is to open its door to admit the Word! If the soul
complies with this demand, the physical actions of the earth-man will naturally accord with what the
“Word” demands.
Man invariably seeks only intellectual understanding, which means analysis, and therewith
diminishment; a placing within narrow boundaries. Therefore, time and again he runs the risk of
recognizing only fragments of all that is great, just as it happened again in this case.
The Incarnation, i.e., the becoming human of the Living Word of God, is always bound to remain a
mystery to man on earth because the beginning of this happening took place in the Divine Sphere. The
human spirit does not possess the perceptive capacity to penetrate into the Divine Sphere wherefore the first link in the chain of events which led to the later Incarnation will always remain closed to human
understanding. It is therefore not surprising that just this symbolic act of the Son of God, as expressed in
the distribution of the bread and the wine, could up till now not be understood by mankind. However, if
after this explanation, which enables man to construct a picture in his mind, he still persists in zealously
agitating against it, he merely proves that the limit of his perception ends in the Spiritual Sphere. By
defending the hitherto prevailing unnatural explanation of the Words of Christ he would only attest to an
unscrupulous obstinacy.

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