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ublight:
hahahahahahah. Any religion that teaches re incarnation is fraud.

Not at all sir. life is a continuous journey. we only change our physical bodies and if we have attained full spiritual maturity then we can ascend to the beyond without reincarnation

Continued from last lecture
Through this tasting the spirit germ matures more and more, gradually developing the capacity to
distinguish and finally the ability to judge, until eventually it becomes ever more conscious and assured
and follows a certain definite direction. The choice of vibrations it is willing to follow has a deep effect
upon it. It is but a natural consequence that these vibrations in which the spirit germ swims, as it were, on
its own free volition will in reciprocity influence it in accordance with their nature.
The spirit-germ itself, however, possesses only pure and noble qualities! These are the talents which
it should “put to the highest use” in Creation. If it gives in to noble vibrations, these will, through the
reciprocal action, arouse its latent qualities, stir them up, and strengthen and cultivate them, so that they
may, in time, bear interest and bring great blessing to Creation. A thus developing spiritual man will in
this manner become a good steward.
If, however, the spirit-germ decides principally in favor of ignoble vibrations these can, in due
course, influence it so strongly that their nature adheres to it and shrouds the pure qualities of the spirit-
germ, suffocating them and preventing them from actual awakening and blossoming. These must finally
be considered as downright “buried” whereby the person concerned becomes a bad steward of the talents
entrusted to him.
Thus a spirit-germ cannot be impure of itself as it comes from the region of purity and carries only
purity within itself. But after immersion into the Material World, the spirit germ can soil its cloak, which
is now also material and, of its own volition, “taste” impure vibrations through temptations, whereby its
soul can even outwardly take on what is impure because what is noble becomes overgrown, and thus the
soul acquires impure qualities in contrast to the innate inherited qualities of the spirit. The soul is but the
most ethereal, gaseous cloak of the spirit and it exists only in the material Creation. In the event of a
return into the higher Pure-spiritual-Substantiality the soul has been discarded and there is only spirit
which cannot cross over the boundary of the material Creation into the spiritual realm in any other way.
However, his re-entrance, his return proceeds in a living, conscious form, which was not the case for the
emerging spark at the beginning.
All guilt and karma are only material! Existing only within material Creation and nowhere else! Nor
can they become part of the spirit as such, but can only cling to it. Therefore it is possible to be washed
clean of all guilt.
This recognition does not upset anything but only confirms what religion and church say
allegorically. Above all, we recognize more and more the great Truth which Christ brought to mankind.
Of course, a spirit-germ having burdened itself with impurity in the World of Matter, cannot return to
the Spiritual Realm with this burden, but must remain in the Material World until it has cast off this
burden and redeemed itself from it. In this process it must naturally remain in that region to which the
weight of its burden forces it, depending on the greater or lesser degree of impurity. If it does not succeed
in ridding itself of and casting off its burden before the Day of Judgment, it will not be able to rise in spite
of the purity always retained by the spirit-germ which, however, could not unfold itself according to its
actual qualities, because it had been suffocated by impurity. The impurity holds it down by its weight and
draws it along into the dissolution of all that is material. *(Lecture No. 20: The Last Judgment)
The more conscious a spirit-germ becomes in the course of its development, the more its outer cloak
takes on the form of its inner qualities. Striving either towards what is noble or what is ignoble, it thus
becomes either beautiful or ugly.
Every turn it takes forms a knot in the threads dragging behind it which, through following many
wrong paths and going to and fro, become looped and form a net in which the spirit gets entangled, and
which either holds it fast and causes it to perish, or causes it to free itself by force. The vibrations in
which it indulged by nibbling or feasting during its wanderings remain attached to it and drag after it like
threads, continually sending their particular radiations to it. If it keeps to the same direction for a long
time, then both the threads further back and the new threads have an undiminished effect. Whenever it
changes its course, however, the influence of the further vibrations will gradually be weakened by being
crossed, for they must first pass through a knot, which hinders them because, in making the knot, they
joined and fused with new vibrations of quite a different nature. The different nature of the then following
direction has a corrosive and dissolving effect on the previous one unless it belongs to a species similar to
the first one. Thus it goes on and on. As the spirit-germ grows, the threads become denser and stronger
and form karma, the ultimate effect of which may become so powerful that it may attach to the spirit this or that “propensity” which is finally able to influence its free decisions and give it a direction that can
already be estimated in advance. Then the free will has been darkened and can no longer operate as such.
Thus free will exists from the beginning, but later on, many a will becomes burdened to such an
extent that it is strongly influenced in the way already described and so can no longer act as a free will.
The spirit-germ which is developing more and more in this way must come ever nearer to the earth,
for from there, the vibrations emanate most strongly. Steering more and more consciously, the spirit-germ
follows these or, more precisely, lets itself be “attracted” by them, so that it may experience ever more
intensely those species chosen according to its inclination. It wants to pass from nibbling to the real
“tasting” and finally to “feasting.”
The reason why the vibrations from the earth are so strong is that something new and powerful is
added: physical gross-material, generative power! *(Lecture No. 62: The significance of man’s generative power for
his spiritual ascent)
The latter has the mission and the capacity to set the whole spiritual intuitive perception “aglow.” It
is only through this that the spirit receives the proper connection with material Creation and consequently,
it is able only then to be active in it with full vigor. It then embraces all that is requisite to gain complete
validity in the Material World, to stand firmly in it in every respect, to be able to work in it decisively and
forcefully, and to be armed and protected against everything.
Hence the mighty waves of power issuing from man’s experiences in his life on earth. Although they
only reach as far as material Creation, in it they vibrate to the outermost delicate edges.
A human being on earth of spiritually high and noble character, who was therefore able to bring to
his fellow-men high spiritual love, would remain a stranger to them and could not come close to them
inwardly as long as his generative power was missing. A bridge would be missing for understanding and
for empathy of the soul; there would be a gap.
However, at the moment in which this spiritual love enters into a pure union with the generative
power and is set aglow by it, the emanation from this receives an entirely different vitality for all material
substance, it becomes more real in the earthly sense and is thereby able to work more completely and
understandably upon humanity and upon the whole World of Matter. Only then can this emanation be
absorbed and perceived intuitively, bringing into Creation the blessing which the spirit of man is meant to
bring.
There is something powerful about this union. It is the actual purpose, at least the main purpose, of
this natural instinct, so immense and so mysterious to many, namely that it permits the spiritual to unfold
to its fullest working power in the World of Matter! Without it the spiritual would remain too alien to the
material world to be able to have its proper effect. The purpose of procreation is only of secondary
importance. The main result of this union is the upliftment occurring in the human being. This gives the
human spirit its full powers, its warmth and vitality and with this happening it becomes complete, so to
speak. Therefore it is not until this point that its full responsibility sets in!
At this important turning point the wise Justice of God gives man not only the opportunity but even
the natural urge to easily shake off all the karma with which he has burdened his free will up till then.
This enables man to completely free his will again, so as to become a child of God, standing consciously
and powerfully in Creation, working according to God’s Will, and ascending in pure and lofty intuitive
perceptions to those heights to which he will later be attracted as soon as he has laid aside his physical
body.
If man does not do this it is his own fault; for with the entry of the generative power there stirs within
above all an enormous momentum upward to all that is ideal and pure. This can always be clearly
observed in unspoiled youth of both sexes. Hence the daydreaming in the years of youth, unfortunately
often derided by adults and not be confused for the years of childhood. This also accounts for the
inexplicable, rather melancholy but none the less serious intuitive perceptions in these years. The hours in
which it seems as if the young man or maiden were burdened with all the sorrows of the world, when they
are touched by a deep seriousness, are not without reason. Also, their frequent feeling of not being
understood has in reality much truth in it. It arises from their occasional recognition of how wrong the
world around them is, a world which cannot and will not understand the blessed attempt of their soul to
soar on high in purity and a world which is not satisfied until these intuitive perceptions in the maturing.
to be continued.

In order to give a complete picture, much that is extraneous but which influences the main issue more or
less must be taken into consideration!
Free will! This is something which even eminent persons pause to ponder over, because the laws of
justice demand that along with responsibility, there must unquestionably also exist the possibility of
making a free decision.
Wherever one turns, from all sides one hears the question: Where does free will come in, if in fact
man is subject to Providence, guidance, destiny, the influence of the stars, and karma *(Fate)? Man gets
pushed, polished and molded, whether he wishes it or not!
Serious seekers eagerly seize upon all that is said about free will, rightly discerning that it is on this
subject especially that an explanation is very much needed. As long as this is lacking, man cannot adjust
himself properly so as to maintain his true position in this great Creation. If he is not properly attuned to
Creation he must remain a stranger in it, roam about and have to submit to being pushed, polished and
molded because he is lacking purposefulness. Thus one thing follows the other and as a natural
consequence man has finally become what he is today, but what he actually should not be!
His great deficiency is that he does not know where his free will resides and how it functions. This
fact shows that he has completely lost the way to his free will and no longer knows how to find it.
The entrance of the path leading to this knowledge is blocked by drifting sands and is no longer
discernible. All traces are effaced. Man runs irresolutely in circles, tiring himself out, till at last a fresh
breeze clears the path again. It is obvious that in this process the drifting sands will first be violently
whirled up and, before subsiding, will blind the eyes of many who continue hungrily to seek the entrance
to the path. For this reason everyone must exercise the greatest of care to keep his vision free until the last
grain of drifting sand is blown away. Otherwise it might well happen that, although he sees the way, his
somewhat dimmed vision may cause him to take a wrong step, stumble and fall, and thus sink away when
the path is already right in front of him. —
The lack of understanding which men stubbornly show regarding the actual existence of free will has
its roots mainly in the lack of understanding of what free will really is.
Although the explanation is already given in the words themselves, here as elsewhere, man does not
see a truly simple fact for all its simplicity, searching instead in the wrong places, thereby being unable to
form an idea of what free will is.
The great majority of men today regard the will as the forcible orientation of the earthly brain when
the intellect, bound to time and space, determines and sets one or another definite direction for thoughts
and feelings.
However, that is not free will, but the will bound by the earthly intellect!
The confusion of these two concepts by many people leads to great errors, and erects the wall which
makes recognition and understanding impossible. Man is then surprised when he comes upon gaps and
contradictions and cannot make any logical connections.
Free will is of quite a different nature; it alone has such an incisive effect upon actual life that it
reaches far into the world beyond, imprinting its stamp upon the soul and molding it. It is too great to be
limited to things of this earth. Hence it has no connection whatever with the earthly physical body,
therefore not with the brain either. Free will rests solely in the spirit, in the soul of man.
If man did not always give absolute supremacy to the intellect, then the more far sighted free will of
his spiritual true “self” would be able to direct the intellect from out of his intuitive sensitivity. As a result
the bound will which is absolutely necessary for accomplishing all earthly purposes bound to time and
space would quite frequently choose different paths from those chosen today. It is easily understandable
that fate would thus take different directions since karma would spin different threads and bring about
different reciprocal actions.
This explanation is naturally not sufficient to give a right understanding of what free will is. To give
a complete picture it is necessary to know how free will has already been active. Also how the many intricate entanglements of an existing karma came about, the effects of which can so conceal the free will
that it is hardly possible, or completely impossible, to recognize its existence.
Such an explanation on the other hand can only be given if the entire development of spiritual man is
taken into consideration, beginning with the moment in which the spirit-germ of man initially descends
into the ethereal layer, the outermost edge of the World of Matter. —
Then we see that man is in no way what he imagines himself to be. He can by no means claim the
absolute right to eternal bliss and eternal individual existence. *(Lecture No. 20: The Last Judgment) The
expression: “We are all God’s children” is wrong in the way that man has understood it! Not every man is
a child of God, but only he who has developed into one.
Man descends into Creation as a spirit-germ. This germ contains everything it needs to develop into a
self-conscious child of God. The condition for this, however, is that it unfolds and cultivates the requisite
abilities and does not allow them to wither.
Great and mighty is the process, yet quite natural in every stage. In this nothing stands outside a
logical development, because there is logic in all Divine activity which is perfect; and what is perfect
cannot be wanting in logic. Each of these germs of the spirit carries the same abilities within itself, since
they all derive from one spirit. Each of these abilities contains a promise which will be unconditionally
fulfilled as soon as the ability is being developed. But only then! That is the prospect of every germ when
it is sown. And yet...!
A Sower went forth to sow: The region where the Divine, the Eternal, floats above Creation, and
where the finest ethereal substance of Creation borders upon the Realm of Animistic Substantiality, there
is the field in which the human spirit-germs are sown. Small sparks cross the border from this Animistic
Substantiality and immerse themselves into the virgin soil of the fine-material part of Creation, similar to
electric discharges during a thunderstorm. It is as if the Creative Hand of the Holy Spirit were sowing
seeds into the World of Matter.
While the seeds develop and slowly ripen towards the harvest many of them are lost. They do not
germinate, that is, they have not developed their higher qualities, but have decayed or withered, and they
must get lost in the World of Matter. But those which have germinated and rise above the surface are
strictly sifted during harvest, and the dead ears are separated from the full ears. Then, after the harvest,
the chaff is once more carefully separated from the wheat.
That is the general outline of the development. In order to recognize the free will it is necessary to go
more thoroughly into the actual development of man:
As the highest, the most Pure in its glory is the Eternal, the Divine, the point of origin of everything,
the beginning and the end, surrounded by luminous Substantiality.
When sparks from this Animistic Substantiality cross over into the soil of the ethereal fringes of the
World of Matter, a gaseous covering of the same substance as this most delicate of all the regions of the
World of Matter immediately envelops them. Thereby the spirit-germ of man has entered into the
Creation which, like all that is material, is subject to change and disintegration. It is still free from karma
and awaits the things which are to come.
The vibrations of the powerful experiences which continually take place in the midst of Creation, in
the process of development and decay, extend to the furthest fringes.
Even if they are but the most delicate of hints that pass like a breath through this gaseous World of
Ethereal Substance, yet they are sufficient to awaken and alert the sensitive volition in the spirit-germ. It
desires to “taste” of this or that vibration, to follow it, or, to express it differently, to let itself be pulled
along by it, which is the same as allowing itself to be attracted by it. Therein lies the first decision of the
multi-talented spirit-germ which is now attracted here or there according to the choice it makes. Thus the
first delicate threads are woven for the fabric that later is to become its tapestry of life.
The rapidly developing germ can now use every moment to indulge in vibrations of other kinds,
which are constantly crossing its path in many variations. As soon as it does this, i.e. wishes it, it will
change its course and follow the newly-chosen kind of vibration or rather, allow itself to be drawn by it.
Its wish is like a rudder which can change its course in the currents as soon as one current no longer
pleases it. In this way it is able to “taste” here and there. To be continued

So simple did it appear that by virtue of its very simplicity it was bound to become the most difficult
thing for him to recognize. And in time it proved impossible for him to fulfill this. So today man faces
ruin, psychological breakdown, which must demolish everything he has built up!
Only one thing can save him: complete knowledge of the Divine Laws in Creation. This alone will
help him onward and upward again, and with him all that he will attempt to build up in the future.
Do not argue that, being human spirits, you cannot so easily recognize the Laws in Creation, and that
it is difficult to distinguish between the truth and fallacy. That is not so! Whoever says this is either once
more trying to conceal his indolence and to hide the indifference of his soul, or he is making excuses to
reassure himself.
But it is of no use; for all those who are indifferent or indolent will now be rejected! Only he who
musters all his strength and devotes it completely to achieve what is most indispensable for his soul has
any prospect of being saved. All half measures count for nothing. Every hesitation, every postponement,
is the same as complete neglect. Man has no more time left because he has already waited until the limit
of his allotted period.
This time, naturally, it will not be made so easy for man, and it will not be easy for him, since
through the most careless negligence in these matters he robbed himself of any capacity to even believe in
the profound seriousness of a necessary final decision! And it is exactly this point which is his greatest
weakness, which will inevitably cause the downfall of many!
For thousands of years much has been done to enlighten you about God's Will or the working of the
Laws in Creation, at least to the extent of what you need to know in order to ascend and find your way
back to the Original Creation whence you came! This was not achieved through the so-called earthly
sciences, nor through the churches, but through the servants of God, the prophets of old, and later through
the Message brought by the Son of God Himself. Although this Message was given to you quite simply,
so far you have only talked about it, but never seriously troubled yourselves to understand it aright, still
less to live in accordance with it! In your indolent opinion this was asking far too much of you, even
though it is your only salvation! You wish to be saved without exerting yourselves in any way! If you
reflect upon this you must surely come to this sad recognition.
You turned every Divine Message into a religion! For your own convenience! And that was wrong!
For you placed religion upon a special pedestal, removed from everyday life! That was the greatest
mistake you could have made; for in so doing you also removed God’s Will from your daily life or, what
amounts to the same thing, you removed yourself from God’s Will, instead of uniting with It and making
It the center of your daily life and activity! And becoming one with It! You must absorb every message
from God quite naturally and incorporate It in a practical manner into your work, your thoughts and your
whole life! You must not set it apart by itself, as you have done; only paying it a visit in your leisure
hours! In order to indulge for a short time in contrition, gratitude or for relaxation. As a result it never
became something natural, a part of you, like hunger or sleep.
Understand this aright at last: You are to live within this Will of God so that you may find your way
on all the paths which bring you benefit! God’s Messages are but precious hints which you need, and
without that knowledge and obediance to it you are lost! Therefore you must not place them in a glass
shrine, to gaze upon them as something sacred, with blissful thrill only on Sundays, or to retreat there in
times of distress and fear in order to receive strength! You wretched ones, you are not to venerate the
Message, but to make use of It! You must grasp It wholeheartedly, not only when you are in Sunday
attire, but with fists hardened by daily toil, which never disgraces or debases, but only honors anyone! A
precious gem shines with greater purity and brilliance in a calloused hand soiled with sweat and dirt, than
in the manicured hands of a lazy idler who spends his time on earth only in contemplations!
Every Divine Message was to be imparted to you, i.e. become a part of you! You must try to grasp its
meaning aright!
You should not have looked upon it as something separate, something remaining outside yourselves,
which you made it a habit to approach with timid reserve. Absorb the Word of God so that each one of
you may know how he must live and proceed in order to attain to the Kingdom of God!
Therefore, awake at last! Become acquainted with the Laws in Creation. Worldly cleverness will not
help you in this matter, nor will the little knowledge you have gained from technical observation, something so meager will not suffice for the path your soul must take! You must lift your gaze far beyond
this earth and recognize where your path leads after this earthly life, so that at the same time you may
become aware of why and for what purpose you are here on earth. And whatever your circumstances are
in this life, whether rich or poor, healthy or ill, at peace or in conflict, in joy or in sorrow, you will learn
to recognize their cause and purpose. You will become joyful and light, grateful for the experiences
which have come your way. You will learn to value every second as precious and, above all, learn to use
it! Use it for your ascent to joyful existence, to great pure happiness!
Because you so badly entangled and confused yourselves, and after the warnings of the prophets had
remained unheeded, the Divine Message was brought to you by the Son of God as a means of salvation.
The Divine Message showed the way, the only way, to save you from the swamp which already
threatened to smother you! The Son of God sought to lead you on this path by way of parables! Although
those who wanted to believe and who were seekers listened with their ears, they penetrated no further.
They never tried to live in accordance with them.
For you too religion and daily life have always remained two separate things. You always stood
beside it, instead of in it! The workings of the Laws of Creation explained in the parables remained not
understood by you at all because you did not seek them there!
And now, through the Grail Message, the same explanation of the laws comes to you once again in a
form more easily understandable to you at the present time! In reality they are precisely the same as those
Christ already brought in the form suitable for that time. He showed men how they should think, speak
and act so that they could mature spiritually and advance upwards in Creation! Humanity needed no more
than that. There is not a single gap in the Message given at that time. The Grail Message now brings the
same thing, only in present-day form.
He who at last adapts himself to It in his thoughts, words, and deeds thus practices the purest
worship of God; which lies in deeds alone!
He who willingly submits himself to these laws will always do the right thing! In so doing he proves
his veneration for the wisdom of God and joyfully submits to His Will expressed in His Laws. Its effects
will then further and protect him, and he will be freed from all sorrow and will be uplifted into the realm
of the Luminous Spirit. There, in jubilant experiencing, the Omniscience of God will become visible,
undimmed, to everyone and life itself is worship of God! There, every breath, every intuitive perception,
every action is borne of joyous gratitude and thus becomes permanent delight, delight born of happiness;
it sows happiness, and therefore reaps happiness! The worship of God in your life and in your experiences
consists solely of obeying the Divine Laws. This alone ensures happiness. So shall it be in the coming
Kingdom, in the Kingdom of the Millennium, which will be called the Kingdom of God on earth! Thus
all adherents to the Grail Message are to become as beacons and guideposts among mankind.
He, who cannot or will not do so, has not grasped the Message once again. Service to the Grail is to
be genuine, living worship of God. Worship is the first service to God which does not consist of outward
things, does not only show outwardly, but lives in every human being even in his most private hours and
is evidenced in his thinking and in his actions as a matter of course.
He who does not profess to this voluntarily will not experience the approaching time of the Kingdom
of God, but he will be destroyed or forced to unconditional submission by Divine power and with earthly
force! For the benefit of all of mankind which is blessed by Grace to finally find peace and happiness in
that Kingdom!

King2019:
Yes I have it now Thank you very much

you are very welcome sir

King2019:
I need the complete 3 in 1 edition My dad seized all my books he his a Christian fanatic The dogma of religion is very real in Nigeria

hope you have gotten the book

King2019:
It is the collective duty of noble men
At 17 I can see all this but I am apallapp to see people still under the bondage of slavery
I thought my dream is to at least rise to the oppression but now I want to leave and never come back

please keep chasing your Noble cause

Pharaoh4rin:
I missed G. M especially their book. I'd like to reconnect

I just shared the link above

tobechi74:
The message is wonderful.I suggest you remove GRAIL MESSAGE from the opening post as it would scare Christians from reading it. Only reference grail message in subsequent quote after they have read it. I doubt Mod will put it in front page with grail message as title

Grail message is our moniker

dangermouse:
Aptly put. Such is the true state of mankind.

you said it all

It can safely be stated that man has never yet understood, much less practiced, the worship of God, which
should be absolutely natural to him. Just consider for a moment how the worship of God has been
practiced so far! Man only knows how to plead, or more precisely, how to beg! Only now and then
prayers of thanksgiving ascend which really come from the heart. However, that is a great exception and
occurs only when a person unexpectedly receives a very special gift or when he is suddenly rescued from
a great danger. Unexpectedness and suddenness are necessary before he will arouse himself to utter a
prayer of thanks. The most tremendous things may fall into his lap undeservedly, but so long as this
happens in a quiet, normal way, it never, or only very seldom, occurs to him to think of offering thanks. If
he and all his loved ones are always blessed with good health, and if he has no material cares, he will
hardly bring himself to utter an earnest prayer of thanksgiving. In order to arouse a stronger emotion
within himself man unfortunately always needs a very special incentive. When all is well with him he
will never bestir himself of his own free will. He may perhaps talk about it now and then or go to church
in order to murmur a prayer of thanks, but it will never occur to him to put his whole soul into it, not even
for a single minute. Only if some real misfortune befalls him will he then very quickly remember that
there is One Who is able to help him. Fear finally drives him to stammer a prayer for once! However, this
is always merely begging, not worshipping.
Such is the man who thinks he is good and calls himself a believer! And there are few of them on
earth! Laudable exceptions!
Just picture this deplorable state of affairs! You humans, how does it strike you when you look at it
closely! How much more despicable must such a person appear in the eyes of his God! Yet, unfortunately
this is the reality! Turn and twist as you will, these facts remain when you trouble yourself to investigate
closely and without embellishment. It must leave you somewhat uneasy, for neither begging nor
thanksgiving belongs to worship.
Worship means reverence! But this is really not to be found anywhere on earth! Just look at the
festivals or celebrations which are intended to honor God and where in exceptional cases, begging and
pleading are abstained from. There are oratorios!*(pieces of spiritual music) Look for the singers who worship
God with their singing! Observe them as they prepare themselves in the concert hall or church. They all
want to achieve something in order to be admired by people, while being rather indifferent to God for
Whom it is intended, after all! Look at the conductor! He demands applause. He wants to show the people
what he can do.
Then go further. Look at the proud buildings, the churches and cathedrals, which are... supposed to
have been raised in honor of God. The artist, the architect and the builder only strive for earthly
recognition. Every city shows off these buildings... for its own glory. They must even serve to attract
tourists, however not for the purpose of worshipping God, but to raise money through increased traffic!
Wherever you look, there is nothing but craving for earthly superficialities! And all this under the pretext
of worshipping God!
Although here and there one may still find a person whose soul will expand in the forest or the
mountains, and who may even give a fleeting thought to the greatness of the Creator, albeit only in the far
distant background. His soul does expand, but not to take jubilant flight upwards... instead it literally
melts in a pleasurable feeling of enjoyment. This may not be mistaken for an upward-soaring. It really has
no value other than the pleasure a glutton derives from a richly-laden table. Such an expansion of the soul
is erroneously taken for worship; but it remains ecstasy lacking in substance, a personal feeling of well-
being, which is mistaken as gratitude to the Creator. But it is merely an earthly happening. There are also
many nature enthusiasts who take their enthusiasm to be genuine worship of God. They also imagine that
they are far superior to those who have no possibility of enjoying the scenic beauties of the earth. It is a
crass, pharisaical attitude, which manifests only in a personal feeling of well-being. It is fool’s gold,
utterly worthless. When the time comes for such people to seek the treasures of their souls in order to use
them for their ascent, they will find their inner shrine completely empty; for what they imagined to be a
treasure was only intoxication at the sight of beauty, nothing else. Genuine veneration for their Creator
was lacking. —
The real worship of God does not show itself in ecstasy, in murmured prayers, in begging, kneeling, and wringing of one’s hands, nor in blissful thrills, but in joyful activity! In the jubilant affirmation of this
life on earth! In the full enjoyment of every moment! And full enjoyment means to make full use. Making
full use in turn means... to experience! Not however, in dance and play or in time wasting activities,
which are harmful to body and soul, and which the intellect seeks and needs as a balance and as a
stimulant to its activity, but in looking upwards to the Light and Its Will, which only furthers, uplifts, and
ennobles all that exists in Creation!
The fundamental condition for this, however, is the exact knowledge of the Divine Laws in Creation.
These show him how he must live if he wishes to be healthy in body and in soul, point with precision to
the path leading upwards to the Spiritual Realm, while also enabling him to recognize clearly the horrors
he will have to face if he opposes these laws!
As the inexorable iron-clad Laws in Creation are alive and operate automatically, with a power
against which human spirits are entirely helpless, it stands to reason that the most urgent need of every
human being must be the thorough recognition of these laws, to the effects of which he remains
absolutely defenseless in every respect!
And yet men are so ignorant that they heedlessly overlook this clear and simple necessity, although
there is nothing which could be more obvious! It is well known that the simplest ideas never occur to
man. In this, strangely enough, every animal is wiser than man. It adapts itself to Creation and is nurtured
by it as long as man does not seek to hinder it. Man, however, wants to be master over something the
automatic activities of which he is and will always remain subject to. No sooner has he learned to turn to
his profit minute fractions of certain radiations, or learned to apply in some small way the effects of air,
water, and fire, than he thinks in his conceit that he is already master over these forces! But he does not
consider that before he can make his relatively minor applications he first has to learn and observe how to
make use of the already existing conditions or forces, completely in accordance to their specific nature.
To be successful he must try to adapt himself! He alone must do so! This is not ruling or conquering, but
it is submission and adaptation of himself to the existing laws.
Through this man should have finally realized that only by adapting himself can he learn and receive
any benefit! With this in mind he should gratefully go forward. But no! Instead he is boastful and acts
even more arrogantly than ever. Especially in those instances where for once he bows to and serves the
Divine Will in Creation, thereby immediately receiving visible benefits, he childishly tries to pose as
victor! Victor over nature! This senseless attitude is the height of stupidity, as a result of which he blindly
overlooks that which is really great; for with the right attitude he would indeed be a victor... over himself
and his vanity, because on logical examination he would see that in all his notable achievements he had
first learned from and submitted to what already existed. This alone will bring him success. Every
inventor and everyone achieving something really great adapted their thinking and volition to the existing
Laws of Nature. Whatever wishes to resist or even oppose these laws will be smothered, crushed and
shattered. It is impossible for it to ever really come to life.
As it is with minor experiences, so it is also with man’s whole existence, and with man himself!
Man, who must wander not only through the short span here on earth but also through the whole of
Creation, must of necessity possess the knowledge of the laws to which the whole Creation remains
subject, not merely the nearest environment visible to every man! If he does not possess this knowledge
he will be delayed, hampered, hurt, thrown back or even crushed, because in his ignorance he could not
go along with the power-currents of the laws, but placed himself into them so wrongly that they had to
force him downward instead of upward.
A human spirit who stubbornly and blindly tries to reject facts, the effects of which he must recognize
every day everywhere, does not appear great or admirable, but rather ridiculous when he makes use of
them for his work and in technology, yet does not make fundamental use of them for himself and his soul!
In his earthly life and activity the spirit always has the opportunity to observe the absolute completeness
and uniformity of all the basic effects of the laws, providing he does not thoughtlessly or even hostilely
close himself to them and remain asleep.
In this respect there is no exception in all Creation, not even for one human soul! It must submit to
the Laws of Creation if their activity is to further its progress! In the most superficial way men have up
till now completely overlooked this simple self-evident fact.
To be continued

sylve11:
Op nice one....

thank you very much. are you a cross bearer?

There are but few people who try to realize what they actually want when they say the “Lord’s Prayer.”
Fewer still are those who really know the meaning of the sentences which they rattle off. To rattle off is
about the only right expression for the process of what in this instance men call praying.
He who unsparingly examines himself in this respect must admit this, otherwise he only proves that
he spends his whole life in a similar way... superficially, and that he is not nor ever was capable of a deep
thought. There are more than enough of such people on this earth who indeed take themselves seriously
but who, with the best of will, cannot be taken seriously by others.
The beginning of this prayer in particular has always been falsely intuited, albeit in different ways.
Those people who attempt to pray this prayer earnestly, i.e. who approach it with a certain good volition,
feel rising within themselves at or just after these first words, a certain sense of security, of calmness of
the soul! This feeling prevails in them for several seconds after praying.
This explains two things. In the first place that the one who is praying can only maintain his
earnestness during the first words which arouse this feeling in him; and secondly, that the feeling thus
aroused proves how far removed he is from grasping what he is saying with these words!
This shows plainly either his inability to persist in any kind of deep thinking or his superficiality;
otherwise the succeeding words, as soon as they really come to life within him, should immediately
arouse a different feeling, corresponding to the different meaning of those words.
Thus only what the first words awaken remains with him. However, if he grasped the right sense and
the true meaning of those words they should arouse in him a feeling quite different from one of
comfortable security.
More presumptuous people on the other hand, see in the word “Father” the confirmation that they are
directly descended from God, and that therefore, given the right development, they will themselves
ultimately become divine, while already at the present time they definitely possess something of the
divine within them. Many more such errors concerning this sentence exist among men. Most people,
however, consider it as simply the form of address in the prayer, the invocation! This requires the least
effort in thinking. Accordingly the prayer is uttered thoughtlessly, despite the fact that the invocation to
God should carry the greatest fervor of which man’s soul can ever become capable.
But all of that is not what this first sentence is meant to convey or express, rather, by His choice of
words, the Son of God simultaneously gave the explanation or the notification for the way in which a
human soul should approach prayer; how it may and indeed must approach its God if the prayer is to be
heard. He tells exactly what quality the soul must possess at that moment, and in what condition the pure
intuitive perception must be if the soul wants to lay its petition before the steps of God’s Throne.
Thus the prayer is divided into three parts. In the first part the soul approaches and surrenders itself
completely to God. Figuratively speaking the soul unfolds itself before Him and thus gives testimony to
its pure volition before it brings forth its request. Here the Son of God wants to make clear which intuitive
perception alone may form the basis for approaching God! Therefore the words: “Our Father Who art in
Heaven!” with which the prayer starts, come as a great sacred vow. Bear in mind that a prayer is not
synonymous with a request! Otherwise there would be no prayer of thanksgiving, which contains no
request. To pray does not mean to beg. Even in this respect the “Lord’s Prayer” has so far always been
misconstrued because of man’s evil habit of never approaching God without at the same time expecting
or even demanding something from Him; for every expectation contains a demand. Man, in reality,
always expects something when praying, this he cannot deny! Generally speaking, it may merely be a
vague feeling within him of one day securing a place in heaven. Man does not know jubilant gratitude in
joyful appreciation of the conscious existence granted him through active involvement in the great
Creation for the benefit of his environment as willed and rightfully expected by God! He does not even
suspect that just in this and only in this lies his real welfare, as well as his advance and ascent.
It is on such a basis, according to God’s Will, that the “Lord’s Prayer” really stands! The Son of God,
Who only desired man’s welfare, which entirely depends on the proper observance and fulfillment of the
Will of God, could not have worded it in any other way!Thus the prayer He gave is anything but a petition, instead it is a great, all-embracing vow in which
man lays himself at the feet of his God! Jesus gave it to His disciples who, at that time, were willing to
live in the pure worship of God, to serve God through their life in Creation, and by this service to honor
His Holy Will!
Man should think over carefully whether he may dare to make use of and utter this prayer at all, and
should examine himself earnestly as to whether, in using it, he is not trying to deceive his God!
The introductory sentences admonish everyone plainly enough to examine himself as to whether he
really is as he professes to be in this prayer! Whether he thereby dares to approach God’s Throne without
guile!
But if you experience the first three sentences of the prayer within you, then they will lead you to the
steps of God’s Throne. They are the way thereto if they become a living experience in the soul! No other
way leads there. Yet this one does for sure! If these sentences are not experienced, however, none of your
petitions can reach there.
When you dare to say: “Our Father, Who art in Heaven!” it should be a devout but at the same time
joyful exclamation.
This outcry voices your sincere affirmation: “To Thee, O God, I give all a father’s rights over me and
wish to submit humbly to them like a child! With this I also acknowledge Thy Omniscience, O God, in
everything that Thou hast ordained. I beg Thee to treat me as a father has to treat his children! I am here,
Lord, to listen to Thee and to obey Thee like a child!”
The second sentence: “Hallowed be Thy Name!” This contains the assurance of the worshipping soul
as to how seriously it takes everything it dares to say to God. That the full intuitive perception controls its
every word and thought, and that it does not misuse God’s Name through superficiality! Since it regards
the Name of God as being too holy to do so! Bear in mind, you who pray, what you are vowing with this!
If you want to be absolutely honest with yourselves you must confess that so far it is precisely in this that
you have lied in the face of God; for you were never as earnest in your praying as the Son of God made
conditional in these words!
The third sentence: “Thy Kingdom come!” is again no petition, but another vow! A declaration by the
soul that it is prepared to make life here on earth such as it is in the Kingdom of God! Hence the
expression: “Thy Kingdom come!” That means: we humans will also develop so far here on earth that
Thy perfect Kingdom may reach here! We shall so prepare the soil that everything lives only according to
Thy Holy Will, thus completely fulfilling Thy Laws in Creation. Then it will become as it is in Thy
Kingdom, the Spiritual Realm, where the matured spirits who are freed from all guilt and burdens live
only to serve God’s Will. Since Thy Will is perfect, good can only come from unconditional obedience to
It. Thus it is man’s assurance that he wishes to develop in such a way that the earth will also become a
kingdom where God’s Will is fulfilled through the human soul!
This assurance is strengthened to an even greater extent through the next sentence: “Thy Will be done
on earth as It is in Heaven!” This is not only the declaration of willingness to conform entirely to the
Divine Will, but it also promises that man will concern himself about this Will and strive ardently to
recognize It. Of course this striving must precede the effort to conform to God’s Will, for as long as man
does not really know this Will he is not able to adjust himself to It in his intuitive perception, his
thoughts, words and deeds! What appalling, punishable carelessness everyone shows by continually
repeating these assurances to his God, when in reality he never troubles to find out what is His Will,
firmly anchored as It is in Creation. Man utters a lie with every word when he dares to say this prayer! He
stands before his God as a hypocrite and a fraud! He keeps on adding new sins to the old ones, and when
he breaks down ethereally, as he must under this burden in the beyond, he even feels he ought to be
pitied. There have already been three opportunities for man to recognize the Will of God! Once through
Moses who had been enlightened for that purpose. The second time through the Son of God, Jesus
Himself, who bore the Truth within Himself, and now for the third and the last time in the Grail Message
which again has been drawn directly from the Truth. —
It is only when a soul has really fulfilled the preliminary condition imposed by these sentences that it
can go on to say: “Give us this day our daily bread!” This means to say: “When I have fulfilled what I
promised, let Thy Blessing rest upon my earthly work so that, in attending to my physical needs, I may always retain the time to live according to Thy Will!”
“And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us!” In this sentence lies the
knowledge of the incorruptible and just reciprocal action of the spiritual laws ordained by the Will of
God. At the same time it expresses the assurance of complete confidence therein. For the plea for
forgiveness or redemption from guilt is conditional upon the petitioner having previously forgiven all the
wrongs inflicted upon him by his fellow-men. He who is capable of that, i.e., who has already forgiven
his fellow-men everything, is so purified inwardly that he will never intentionally do wrong! He is then
free of all guilt before God, for with God only that is considered wrong which is done with evil desire
and intention. It is only that which makes it wrong. This is very different from all the human laws and
opinions current in the world today.
The basis of this sentence again contains a promise to its God by each soul striving towards the Light.
It proclaims the true volition which the soul hopes to receive strength to fulfill through deep concentration
and self-clarification in the prayer, with the right attitude this power will be given to the soul according to
the Law of Reciprocal Action.
“And lead us not into temptation!” Man has a wrong conception when he tries to interpret these
words as if God would tempt him. God tempts no one! In this case, owing to a doubtful transmission, the
unfortunate choice of the word temptation was made. The right meaning would include such concepts as
erring, going astray and thus going wrong and seeking the Light on the wrong path. It means: “Let us not
take the wrong road, nor seek in the wrong direction! Let us not lose, waste nor fritter away time in such
seeking! But if necessary restrain us forcibly from doing so, even if we need to be stricken with sorrow
and pain.” Man should have grasped this meaning from the words of the next sentence, which according
to its contents evidently belong to it: “But deliver us from evil!” This “but” shows clearly enough that the
sentences are connected. The meaning is similar to: Let us recognize evil at whatever cost, even at the
cost of suffering. Let every error we commit help us to do so through Thy reciprocal actions. For in the
recognition of evil lies the redemption for those who are of goodwill!
With this man’s conversation with God, the second part of the prayer, ends. The third part completes
it: “For Thine is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory, forever and ever! Amen!”
When the soul has laid all it pledged in the prayer at the feet of God, these last words come as a
jubilant avowal of feeling protected by His Omnipotence! —
Thus the prayer given by the Son of God has two parts. The introduction or approach to God and the
conversation with God. Through Luther there was finally added the jubilant confession of the realization
of the help available for everything in the second part of the prayer, and of the strength received to fulfill
what the soul vowed to God. And this fulfillment must then carry the soul upward into the Kingdom of
God, to the region of Eternal Joy and Light! And so the Lord’s Prayer, if it is truly experienced, becomes
the support and the staff for ascent into the Spiritual Realm!
Man should not forget that when praying he actually need only obtain the strength to enable him to
achieve himself what he is praying for! That is how he should pray! And that is how the prayer which the
Son of God gave to His disciples is meant!

Any discussion of prayer is of course only addressed to those who personally concern themselves with
prayer. He who does not feel the inner urge to pray may well refrain from doing so, for his words or his
thoughts would inevitably dissolve into nothingness. If a prayer is not felt deeply within, through and
through, it has no value, and therefore will have no effect. The best foundation for a prayer which may be
expected to have an effect lies in those moments of spontaneous thankfulness arising out of great
happiness or of deepest pain resulting from heartfelt grief. In such moments a person is filled with one
particular intuitive perception which dominates all else. This enables the main wish of the prayer, be it
gratitude or a request, to receive undimmed power.
In any case, people often have a wrong picture of how a prayer comes into existence, what happens to
it, and how it develops further. Not every prayer penetrates to the Highest Ruler of the Universe. On the
contrary, it is a very rare exception that a prayer is actually able to ascend to the steps of His Throne. Here
too the basic Law of the Power of Attraction of Homogeneous Species plays the principal role.
A prayer which is seriously and deeply felt will be attracted to, and itself will attract, those of a
similar nature, and come into contact with a power-center of a kind identical to the main theme of the
prayer. These power-centers can also be called sections of spheres or something similar, it will basically
always amount to the same thing. Reciprocal action will bring about that which was the main wish of the
prayer. It will either bring serenity, strength, relaxation, plans suddenly arising in the mind, the solution to
difficult problems, or other such things. Something good will always come of it, be it only increased
composure and balance of mind, which will in turn lead to a solution and some way out of the difficulty.
It is also possible that the prayers sent out, having received increased power through the reciprocal
action of homogeneous power-centers, will find an ethereal path to people who, being stimulated through
this, will in some way bring help and thus fulfillment of the prayer. All these happenings will be easily
understood by observing ethereal life. Here again justice lies in the fact that it will always be the inner
quality of the one who prays which, depending on his depth, determines the power, i.e., the vitality and
effectiveness of the prayer.
In the great ethereal happenings in the cosmos each variety of intuitive perception finds the
homogeneous species to which it belongs, because not only could it not be attracted by others, but it
would even be repelled. Only when meeting its similar kind does a connection take place with a
consequent increase in strength. A prayer embodying various intuitive perceptions, which still contain a
certain measure of strength through the state of deep absorption of the one praying, will, in spite of its
fragmentation, thereby attract different things, and will also return different kinds of reciprocal effects.
Whether this results in any kind of fulfillment will depend entirely on the nature of the separate parts,
which can either foster or hinder each other. However, when praying, it is better in every case to send out
only one thought as an intuitive perception in order to prevent confusion.
Thus Christ by no means intended that the “Lord’s Prayer” absolutely had to be prayed all at once,
but in it He summarized all that for which a person with an earnest volition may primarily ask and be
certain of fulfillment.
These petitions contain the foundation for everything which man needs for his physical well-being
and spiritual ascent. They even give much more! They also indicate the guidelines which man should
strive to follow during his life on earth. The composition of the petitions is a masterpiece in itself. The
“Lord’s Prayer” alone provides everything for the seeker if he penetrates into it deeply and grasps it
aright. He would need nothing more than the “Lord’s Prayer”. It shows him the whole gospel in
concentrated form. It is the key to the Luminous Heights for him who knows how to experience it rightly.
It can be at once the staff and the beacon to all on their path forward and upward! It contains so
immeasurably much.*(Lecture: The Lord's Prayer)
The real purpose of the “Lord’s Prayer” is evident in the wealth of its contents. In the “Lord’s
Prayer” Jesus gave humanity the key to the Kingdom of God! It is the very essence of His Message. But
He did not intend that it should be recited in this way.
Man needs only to take note when he has prayed and he will realize how often his attention wanders
and how much the depth of his intuitive perception is weakened by repeating the separate petitions one after the other, even when he knows them fluently.
It is impossible for him to pass from one petition to the other with the deep fervor necessary to a
genuine prayer! In His way Jesus made everything easy for mankind. The right expression would be
“easy as child’s play”. Jesus specifically pointed out: “Become as little children!” That is, think as simply
and look no more for difficulties than they do. He would never have expected anything so impossible
from mankind as to pray the Lord’s Prayer with the deep concentration it requires, straight through. This
should also convince humanity that Jesus intended something different, something greater. He gave
humanity the key to the Kingdom of God, not merely a prayer!
Many-sidedness always weakens a prayer. A child does not come to its father with seven requests at a
time either, but only with that which is nearest to its heart, whether it be some distress or a wish.
This is the way in which man in his distress should also approach his God with a petition about that
which oppresses him. In most cases it will be just one particular matter, not many at once. Man should not
pray for something that does not really bother him at the time. Since such a prayer cannot come to life
deep within his intuition, it becomes an empty form and quite naturally weakens some other and perhaps
really necessary request.
Therefore man should only pray for what is really necessary! Avoid all empty phrases, as they are
bound to lead to fragmentation and in time must foster hypocrisy!
Prayer requires profound earnestness. Pray in calm and purity, so that the power of the intuitive
perception will be increased through calm, and through purity it will receive that luminous lightness
which will enable the prayer to be carried upward to the heights of all that is light and pure. Then the
supplicant will receive that fulfillment which will be most beneficial for him and really advance him in
his whole being!
The power of a prayer is not able to force or propel it upward; only purity with its corresponding
lightness can do so. As soon as the urge to ask becomes alive within him, every person can achieve purity
in prayer, although perhaps not in all prayers. It is not necessary for his whole life to be based on purity
already. This will not prevent him to at least uplift himself at times for a few seconds in the purity of his
intuitive perception.
Not only do quiet calm and the deeper concentration made possible thereby help to strengthen the
power of a prayer, but also every strong emotional feeling, such as fear, anxiety or joy.
This does not mean that the fulfillment of a prayer will necessarily always correspond to and
harmonize with man’s earthly ideas and wishes. The fulfillment benevolently reaches out far beyond
these, leading towards what is best for the whole, not just for the earthly moment! Often, therefore, an
apparent non-fulfillment must later be recognized as the only right and best fulfillment, and the person
will be happy that things did not go according to his wish of the moment.
As to the question of intercession! People often wonder how the reciprocal effect of a prayer of
intercession, i.e. a petition for someone else, can find its way to a person who has not himself prayed,
since the reaction must flow back to the petitioner along the way he has paved for it.
Here too there is no deviation from the firmly established laws. During a prayer the intercessor thinks
so intensively of the one for whom he is praying that his wishes are thereby first anchored or tied firmly
to the person, and then start in their upward course from there, thus returning to the other person, since
the strong wishes of the petitioner have already become alive and circle around him. However, the one
indispensable condition is that the soil within the person being prayed for is receptive, and, being of a like
nature, offers an anchorage and puts no obstacle in the way.
If the soil is not receptive, thus unworthy, then the fact that the intercessory prayer glances off reveals
once more the wonderful justice of the Divine Laws, which cannot permit that help from outside through
another person should fall on stony ground. This repulsing or glancing off of an intercession seeking
anchorage in the person being prayed for, whose inner state has proved him unworthy, makes it
impossible for help to come to him. Here again we find something so perfect in this automatic and natural
activity that man stands amazed before the unwavering and just distribution of the fruits of what men
themselves willed!
If this were not such an inexorable process, then the mechanism of Creation would have a gap which would allow for possibilities of injustice towards those who are unworthy of having intercessors, although
intercessors, on their part, arise only out of existing friendships or the like.
Intercessions by people who lack the definite inner urge from their genuine intuitive feelings have
neither value nor success. They are as chaff before the wind.
There is still another way in which genuine intercession can take effect. That is when it acts as a
signpost! The prayer immediately rises upwards and points to the one needing help. If now, in view of the
way shown to him, a spiritual messenger is sent to give aid, the possibility of help reaching the person in
need is subject to the same laws of worthiness or unworthiness, thus of whether he is open to it or will
repulse it. If the person needing help has an inward leaning towards darkness, the messenger sent to help
him in answer to the prayer cannot get in touch with or influence him, and must return without having
accomplished anything. Thus the intercession could not be fulfilled because the living laws did not permit
it. But if the soil is suitable then a genuine intercession is of immeasurable value! Either it brings help
without the person in need knowing it, or it unites with the wish or prayer of the person in need, thus
giving him greatly increased strength.

Many children live under an unfortunate delusion in regard to their parents which will do them great
harm. They believe they can charge their parents with being the cause of their existence on earth. One
often hears the remark: “Of course my parents must take care of me; after all, they have brought me into
the world. It is not my fault that I am here.”
Nothing more foolish could be said. Every human being is here on earth either at his own request or
because of his own fault! The parents merely provide the possibility for an incarnation, nothing more.
And every incarnated soul must be grateful for the opportunity offered!
The soul of the child is only the guest of its parents. This fact alone gives sufficient explanation to
enable one to know that in reality a child can claim no rights whatsoever in regard to its parents! It has no
spiritual claim on its parents! Earthly rights, however, have arisen solely out of a purely mundane social
order, provided by the State so as to avoid obligations on its part.
Spiritually the child is a complete personality in itself! It has received nothing from its parents apart
from its physical body which it needs as a tool for its activity on this gross material earth, i.e. only a
dwelling for the use of the already independent soul.
Still, through procreation the parents assume the obligation to take care of the dwelling place they
have thus created, and to maintain it until the soul which has taken possession of it is itself capable of
undertaking its maintenance. The natural development of the body will indicate when the moment for this
has come. Whatever is done beyond this is a gift from the parents.
Therefore children should finally cease to rely upon their parents, and would do better to think of
standing upon their own feet as soon as possible. In that respect it is really immaterial whether the child
works in the home of its parents or elsewhere, however, it must be an activity other than mere pleasure
and the fulfillment of so-called social duties. It must definitely be a really useful duty, such as would have
to be performed by some person specially engaged if the child no longer performed it. Only in this way
can one speak of a useful life on earth, which brings about the maturing of the spirit. If a child, male or
female, fulfills such a task in the parental home, then the parents should give it the same wage as they
would have to pay a stranger engaged for the purpose. In other words: the child must be regarded and
treated as a really independent human being while fulfilling its duty! If the parents and children are linked
by special bonds of love, confidence and friendship, it is so much the better for both, for then it is a
voluntary tie born of inner conviction, and therefore all the more precious! Then it is genuine, and the
bond will endure into the beyond for their mutual advancement and joy. Family pressure and family
customs are unsound and objectionable as soon as children have reached a certain age.
Naturally, neither should there be any so-called claims of kinship which particularly aunts, uncles,
cousins, and whoever else, so often tries to come up with. It is exactly these claims of kinship which are
an objectionable abuse, and which must always disgust a person who is complete and independent within
himself.
Unfortunately tradition has caused this sort of thing to become such a habit that a person usually does
not even try to think differently, but quietly submits to it, even though with aversion. But he who ventures
to take the small step of thinking it over freely will, from the bottom of his soul, find it all so ridiculous
and so repulsive that he will indignantly turn away from such presumptions.
Such an unnatural state of affairs must be cleared up! As soon as an inwardly new and healthy race of
men awakens inwardly, then this type of abuse will definitely be tolerated no longer because it is contrary
to any common sense. Anything really great could never arise out of such artificial distortions of natural
life, because they keep human beings far too unfree. A terrible bondage arises out of these apparently
minor matters. It is here that the individual must begin to free himself by breaking away from these
unworthy customs! True liberty lies only in the proper recognition of duty which remains linked to the
voluntary fulfillment of duty! Rights are obtained only by the fulfillment of duties! This also applies to
children who can only claim rights through the truest fulfillment of duty. —
There is, however, a whole range of the stricteEvery adult must be aware of what procreation really involves. The frivolity, thoughtlessness and
wrong views hitherto existing in this respect have wreaked a terrible vengeance.
You must know and understand that there are in the immediate beyond a great number of souls
standing ready and awaiting the opportunity to reincarnate on earth. They are mostly human souls bound
by threads of karma, which they are seeking to redeem in a new earth-life.
As soon as the possibility is presented, they attach themselves to where an act of procreation has
taken place in order to await and follow up the growth of the new human body as a prospective dwelling.
During this waiting period ethereal threads are spun from the young body to the soul which keeps itself
persistently in the immediate vicinity of the prospective mother and from the soul to the young body.
Anad at a particular stage of maturity these threads serve as the bridge which permits the alien soul from
the beyond to enter the young body and to immediately take full possession. Thereby a foreign guest
moves in whose karma can cause its educators many worries! A foreign guest! What an uncomfortable
thought! Everyone should always bear this in mind and never forget that he also can have a say in the
choice between the waiting souls, if he does not carelessly waste his time. The incarnation is certainly
subject to the Law of Attraction of Homogeneous Species. However, it is not absolutely necessary that
one of the procreators should serve as the homogeneous pole; sometimes it may be a person who is often
near the prospective mother. Many an evil can be averted as soon as mankind really understand the whole
process and consciously concern themselves with it. As it is they frivolously trifle their time away,
attending games and dances, giving parties, and paying little attention to the important event which is
being prepared during this period, and which later on will forcefully intervene in their whole lives.
Through prayer which is always based on fervent wishes, they should consciously take a guiding
hand in these matters, thus lessening the evil and strengthening the good. The strange guest who then
comes to them as a child would remain welcome to them in every way! Much nonsense is spewed about
pre-natal education in the usual manner of misunderstanding or half understanding of certain outwardly
observable effects.
As often happens the conclusions drawn by men from such observations are wrong. There is no
possibility of pre-natal education, but instead there is a definite possibility of influencing the attraction, if
it is done at the right time and with the appropriate seriousness! This is a difference, the consequences of
which reach further than any pre-natal education could ever accomplish.
If this has become clear and people still carelessly and thoughtlessly enter into a union, they deserve
nothing better than that a human spirit should penetrate into their circle with the risk of bringing only
disturbance, if not evil.
For spiritually free human beings procreation should be nothing but the proof of their willingness to
take a strange human spirit into the family as a permanent guest, offering it the opportunity on earth to
atone and to mature. Only when both sides have the fervent wish to achieve this purpose should the
opportunity for procreation be sought. If you now take into account only these facts as regards parents
and children much will automatically change. Their treatment of one another, their education and
everything will rest upon a different and more serious foundation than has up till now been customary in
many families. There will be more consideration and respect shown towards one another. Consciousness
of independence and striving for responsibility will be felt, resulting in a natural social advance for the
nation. The children, however, will soon learn to desist from claiming rights which never existed. —

most marriages are not undertaken as it is supposed that's the basis of all the failed marriages these days

prayer is too important

loyalty and morality goes hand in hand

keep the hearth of your thought pure and by so doing you bring peace and happiness

don't win the battle and loose the war

make sense

Marriages are made in heaven! These words are often uttered by married couples with grim bitterness.
But they are also used hypocritically by those who are furthest removed from heaven. The natural
consequence is that one has taken to shrugging one’s shoulders, to smiling, mocking and even sneering at
these words.
This becomes understandable when a person considers all the marriages with which he has become
acquainted in his own and wider circles during the course of years. The scoffers are right. Only it would
be better not to ridicule the saying but the marriages themselves! In the majority of cases these deserve
not only ridicule and scorn, but even contempt.
Marriages as they are today, and as they have already been for centuries, have so discredited the truth
of this saying as to prevent anyone from believing in it. Unfortunately, with but very few exceptions, they
are distinctly immoral and cannot be brought to an end quickly enough in order to save thousands from
the disgrace into which they blindly run because of present-day habits. They imagine that it cannot be
different because it is customary. Added to this, everything at the present time is shamelessly directed
towards dimming and suffocating every purer intuitive perception. No one thinks of making the
personality what it should, could and must be by also showing the necessary respect for the physical
body.
The body, like the soul, must be regarded as something precious and therefore untouchable,
something that should not be exhibited in order to entice. Something Lofty, Sacred! This is why on this
earth the body cannot be separated from the soul in this respect either. Like the soul it must be equally
respected and preserved as a shrine, if it is to have any value at all. Otherwise it will become befouling
junk, deserving nothing better than to be thrown into a corner and picked up cheaply by the first passing
junk dealer. An army of such junk dealers swarming over the earth will find untold quantities of this junk.
At every step they will find new collections just waiting for them. And truly such junk dealers and buyers
are already wandering about in droves. They are envoys and tools of the darkness, who greedily seize
their cheap booty to drag it triumphantly down further and further into their dark realm, till they are all
swallowed up in blackness and can never find their way back to the Light. It is no wonder that everyone
laughs when someone seriously affirms that marriages are made in heaven!
Civil marriage is nothing but a plain business contract. Those who thus bind themselves do not per
chance do so in order seriously to tackle a joint task, which would raise the inner and outer value of the
persons concerned, and also enable them to strive together for high aims, thereby becoming a blessing for
themselves, for mankind and also for the whole of Creation; but they regard it as a simple contract
ensuring each other’s material security, so that mutual physical surrender may proceed without any
further financial consideration. Where does this leave the sanctity of the body which both sides should
bring into and maintain within a marriage? This is not taken into consideration at all.
The position of the woman in this matter is so degrading that one should turn away from her. In
eighty out of a hundred cases she hires or sells herself simply into the service of her husband, who does
not seek in her a companion of equal worth but, apart from showing her off, merely uses her as a cheap
and willing housekeeper to make his home comfortable, with whom he can also indulge his sensual
appetite undisturbed and under the cover of a false respectability.
For the most trivial reasons young girls often leave the home of their parents in order to marry.
Sometimes they are tired of being at home and long for a sphere of influence in which they are in charge.
Others think it would be fascinating to play the role of a young wife or hope to get more excitement out of
life. They may also believe they can better their economic position. There are also cases where a young
girl marries out of spite to annoy some other person. Marriage can also be entered into merely out of
physical desires. Awakened and artificially nourished by reading bad literature, through improper
conversation and by playing around.
It is seldom the true love of the soul that urges them to take this most serious step of their earth-lives.
Aided and abetted by many parents, girls are supposedly “too clever” to allow themselves solely to be
guided by their purer intuitions, and thus they rush all the more easily into unhappiness. Such persons will
already pay in part for their superficiality in their married life. But only in part! The bitter experience of reciprocal action in consequence of such improper marriages comes much later; for the main fault lies in
irresponsibly neglecting the opportunity to advance. Many an earth-life is thereby completely lost to the
real purpose of personal existence. This may even bring serious retrogression which must be laboriously
made up for.
How different when a marriage has been entered into on the right foundation and develops
harmoniously! Joyfully, one in the voluntary service of the other, the couple grows upward together
towards spiritual ennoblement; shoulder to shoulder they smilingly face all mundane trials. The sheer
happiness of such a marriage is of great benefit to whole existence. And in this happiness lies an upswing,
not only for the individuals concerned, but for all humanity! Therefore, woe unto those parents who drive
their children into improper marriages by persuasion, cunning, compulsion or rational considerations. The
burden of responsibility, which extends further than that concerning the child only, will sooner or later
fall back with such persistence upon them that they will wish never to have entertained such “brilliant
ideas”.
The marriage ceremony in church is considered by many as only part of a purely mundane
celebration. The churches themselves or their representatives use the words: “What God hath joined
together, let not man put asunder!” In religious cults the fundamental thought is that those entering the
bond of marriage are, through this act, being united by God. “Advanced persons” give it the meaning that
the two entering the bond of marriage are thus united before God. The latter interpretation is more
justifiable than the former.
Such an explanation, however, is not intended by these words! They are meant to convey something
entirely different. They are based on the fact of such marriages as are truly made in heaven.
When all false conceptions and interpretations are removed from these words, then every cause for
laughter, ridicule or sneering will cease immediately, and their meaning will lie before us in all its
seriousness and unalterable truth. The natural result will then be the realization that marriages are meant
and intended to be something entirely different from what they are today, i.e., that the bond of marriage
may only be entered into under entirely different conditions, with entirely different views and
convictions, and with absolutely pure motives.
“Marriages are made in heaven” indicates in the first place that already at birth every human being
brings along certain qualities, the harmonious development of which can only be achieved through
someone with compatible qualities. However, compatible qualities are not identical qualities, but ones
that complement the others, and in complementing each other they obtain their full value. In this state of
complete value all the strings sound as one harmonious chord. If one partner is made complete by the
other partner, then the latter will also be made complete through the former, and in their union, that is, in
their living and working together, this harmonious chord will sound. Such is the marriage which has been
made in heaven.
However, this does not mean that for each person there is only one other particular person on earth
with whom he can enter upon a harmonious marriage, but there are generally several who possess the
qualities to complement the other person. It is therefore not necessary to wander about the earth for
decades to find this second, truly fitting and complementary part. It is only a question of exercising the
necessary seriousness, of keeping eyes, ears and heart open and, above all, of abstaining from all those
hitherto required preconditions for marriage. Just what is regarded as important today shall not be.
Working together and having high goals are as indispensable for a sound marriage as are exercise and
fresh air for a healthy body. Whoever counts on having comfort and the greatest possible freedom from
cares, and tries to build a mutual life thereon, will in the end only reap a state of unhealthiness, with all
attendant side effects. Therefore seek at last to enter into marriages that are made in heaven. Then
happiness will be yours!
Made in heaven signifies that two people were already destined for each other before or upon
entering this earth-life. This being pre-destined, however, lies only in the qualities that each brought
along, with which two people fully complement each other. Such persons are thereby meant for each
other.
You could just as well express destined for each other as “suited for each other,” thus really
complementing each other. Therein lies the predestination.“What God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.” Much harm has already been caused by a
misunderstanding of these words of Christ. Up till now many imagined that: “what God hath joined”
referred to the act of marriage. This, however, has so far had nothing to do with the meaning of the words.
That which God has joined is a union where the conditions required for complete harmony are fulfilled,
and is thus made in heaven. Whether or not the permission of the State and the Church has been given for
this union makes no difference.
It is, of course, also necessary to observe civil laws. If, then, with such a bond, a wedding takes place
according to a prevailing religious cult and with appropriate devoutness, it is quite natural that, through
the inner attitude of those concerned, the union will receive a much higher consecration, which will bring
a real and strong spiritual blessing to the couple. Such a marriage is then really united by and before God,
and is made in heaven.
And now follows the warning: “Let not man put asunder!” How has the high meaning of these words
been diminished. Yet the truth is so clearly evident! Wherever one finds a union that is made in heaven,
i.e. where two people so complement each other that a full and harmonious chord results, there no third
person shall attempt to bring about a separation. No matter whether it be to create discord, to make a
union impossible, or to cause a separation, such an attempt would be a sin. It would be an injustice which
in its reciprocal action must cling heavily to its originator, since two persons would be simultaneously
affected by it, together with the blessing which through their happiness would have spread throughout the
Gross Material and Ethereal Worlds. The simple truth that lies in these words is evident to all. The
warning is intended to protect only such unions as have been made in heaven under the aforesaid
conditions, which is confirmed by the fact that they brought along with them the necessary psychic
qualities to complement each other.
No third person should interfere with two such souls, not even the parents! It will never occur to the
two partners to wish for a separation. The divine harmony which is based on their mutual psychic
qualities does not permit such a thought to arise. Their happiness and the permanence of their marriage is
consequently assured from the start. If a divorce is proposed by one of the marriage partners it is the best
proof that the necessary harmony is not at the basis of the marriage, and therefore that it cannot have been
made in heaven. In such cases the marriage should definitely be ended in order to raise the moral self-
respect of the couple living in such an unsound state. Such wrong marriages now form the great majority.
The cause of this evil lies primarily in the moral decline of mankind, as well as in the prevailing worship
of the intellect.
Separating those whom God has joined together applies not only to the marriage, but also to the
preceding drawing together of the two souls, who through their complementing qualities can only develop
harmony and are thus destined for each other. If they enter into such a union and a third party tries to
interfere through slander or by similar well-known means, then this intention has already accomplished
adultery!
The meaning of the words: “What God hath joined together, let not man put asunder” is so simple
and clear that it is hard to understand how they could have been interpreted so erroneously. This was only
possible by wrongly separating the Spiritual World from the Material World, resulting in a narrow
intellectual conception, which has never yet produced anything of real value.
These words were given from the Spiritual World and it is only in the spiritual sense that they can
find their true interpretation!

Happy Sunday

How often are these words of the Son of God quoted as well-meant advice and warning whereby neither
the giver of the advice nor the recipient takes the trouble to reflect upon the real meaning of these words.
Every man knows what is meant by praying, or rather he thinks he knows, although in reality he does
not know. He also imagines that he knows what it means to watch, but he is far from doing so.
“Watch and pray” is a figurative rendering of the admonition to keep the ability to perceive
intuitively on the alert, i.e., to keep the spirit active! Spirit in its true sense, and not per chance the activity
of the brain, for the way the living human spirit expresses itself is only and solely through the intuitive
perception. In no other way does the spirit of man, i.e., the original kernel which evolved into his true
“ego” in the course of its wanderings through Subsequent Creation, become active.
“Watch and pray” is therefore nothing less than the demand to refine and strengthen man's ability to
perceive intuitively, which is equivalent to vitalizing the spirit, which is the only eternal value man
possesses which alone can return to Paradise, the Primordial Creation, from which it issued. It must return
there, either matured to self-consciousness, or in an unconscious state again; either welcome to the Light
as a living ego which has become useful in Creation, or as a dismembered and dead ego if it has proved
itself useless.
The admonition to “Watch and pray” is therefore one of the most serious which the Son of God
bequeathed to mankind. At the same time it is a grave warning to stand as useful beings in Creation, lest
damnation inevitably follows through the automatic working of the Divine Laws.
Look at woman! She has, as the most precious gift of womanhood, a delicacy of intuitive perception
which no other creature can attain. For this reason one should be able to speak only of noble womanhood
in this Creation, because womanhood possesses within itself the strongest gifts towards the realization of
all that is good. This, however, places the greatest of responsibilities upon woman. For this reason
Lucifer, with all the droves that belong to him, aimed primarily at woman in order thus to subjugate the
whole Creation to his power.
Unfortunately Lucifer found only too superficial a basis in the woman of Subsequent Creation. With
open eyes she flew towards him and, in her way, poisoned the entire Subsequent Creation by changing
pure concepts into distorted images, which inevitably brought confusion to all human spirits. The pure
flower of noble womanhood, the crown of this Subsequent Creation debased itself under the influence of
the tempter and soon became the poisonous plant which, with its glittering colors and seductive fragrance,
attracts all to the spot where it flourishes, to the swamp, into the sultry softness of which the victims thus
allured sink.
Woe unto woman! Because she did not make proper use of the highest of all values bestowed upon
her, she will inevitably be the first upon whom the Sword of Divine Justice will fall, unless she decides to
use the special mobility of her spiritual intuition, so peculiarly her own, to take the lead in the necessary
ascent of mankind out of the ruins of such a faulty structure of perverted conceptions, which only arose
through Lucifer’s promptings. Instead of setting the example of honestly striving for the white blossom of
noble purity and adorning herself with it, she chose to indulge in coquetry and vanity, which found their
playground in the craving for admiration of a wrongly cultivated social life. Although she sensed that she
was losing thereby the genuine ornament of womanhood, and grasped at the substitute offered to her by
the Darkness, by offering her physical charms for sale and becoming a shameless slave of fashion, as a
result of which she drifted still further into the abyss, dragging men along with her by stimulating their
sexual desires, which inevitably hindered the unfolding of their spirits.
All those who thus failed and became rotten fruit in this Creation had thereby planted within
themselves the seed which now, in the necessary Judgment, must cause their destruction through the
reciprocal action, because it made them incapable of withstanding the roaring and purifying storms. Let
no one soil his hands by helping the worshippers of the idol of vanity and coquetry if they stretch out their
arms to be saved in their hour of need. Let them sink and push them away; there is no value in them
which could be used in the new building up that has been promised.
They do not see how absurd and hollow their actions are. They laugh at and ridicule the few who try to preserve for themselves the decency and purity of true womanhood, at those who did not permit the
delicate feeling of modesty, the most beautiful ornament of girl and woman, to be extinguished, but their
mocking shall soon change to cries of dismay and thus be stifled!
It is as if the woman of Subsequent Creation is standing on the sharp edge of a knife, because of the
great gifts bestowed upon her. She must now give an account of what she has done with them up to the
present. There can be no excuse for her! It is impossible to turn and retrace her steps, for the time is up.
They should all have thought of it before, and should have known that their opinion cannot oppose the
adamantine Will of God, in which there is nothing but Purity, clear as crystal. —
The woman of the future, however, who has been able to preserve herself and her values during the
dissolute period of a modern Sodom and Gomorrah, together with those who will be newly born, will at
last bring womanhood to that blossom where all who approach her do so in holy awe and purest
veneration. She will be the woman who lives according to God’s Will, that is, who so stands in Creation
that she is like the radiant crown, which indeed she can and should be, permeating everything with the
vibrations she absorbs from the Luminous Heights and passing them on undimmed by virtue of her
ability, which lies in the delicacy of the feminine intuitive perception.
The Words of the Son of God: “Watch and pray” will be embodied in every woman of the future, as
they should already be in every woman of today, for in the vibrations of the feminine ability to perceive
intuitively lies that perpetual watchfulness and most beautiful praying which are pleasing to God,
providing she strives towards purity and the Light!
Such a vibration brings the experience of heartfelt gratitude and joy! And that is prayer as it should
be! At the same time the vibrations contain a constant warning to be on guard at all times, that is, to
watch! For everything unsightly that tries to approach and every evil volition, is sensed by such delicately
sensitive vibrations and is noticed before it can become a thought, and thus it is made easy for the woman
always to protect herself in time, unless she herself wants it otherwise.
In spite of the subtlety of these vibrations they hold a power which can transform everything in
Creation. There is nothing which could resist this power, for it brings Light and thereby Life!
This was well known to Lucifer! Therefore he mainly directed his attacks and temptations towards
womanhood! He knew that everything would succumb to him if only he succeeded in winning over
woman. Sadly and unfortunately he succeeded only too well, as everybody who wishes to can clearly see
today!
For this reason the Call from the Light is again addressed in the first place to woman! She ought to
be able to recognize to what depths she has fallen. She ought to, if... her vanity permitted it. But this snare
of Lucifer holds all womanhood bound so fast that she can no longer recognize the Light, and even no
longer wishes to! She no longer wishes to because modern woman cannot forgo her life of frivolous
trifling, although she is vaguely aware of what she has lost through it. Indeed she knows it only too well!
And to dull this warning intuitive perception, which is the equivalent of knowing, she throws herself
headlong and as if struck with blindness into the newest folly, emulating man in his profession and in his
whole being!
Instead of returning to genuine womanhood, the most precious of possessions in all Creation! And
thereby to the task allotted to her by the Light!
It is she who robs man of all that is sublime and thereby prevents the flowering of noble manhood.
No nation and no people can flourish and prosper where the man is unable to look up to the woman
in her womanliness!
Only genuine, purest womanhood can awaken and lead a man to great deeds! Nothing else. And that
is the vocation of woman in Creation according to God's Will! Through this she uplifts nations and
humanity, yes, even the whole of Subsequent Creation; for in it alone lies that sublime power of gentle
working! A power which is irresistible and compelling and, if of the purest volition, blessed by Divine
Power! There is nothing to equal her, for she carries beauty in its purest form into everything she does
and everything that proceeds from her! That is why her weaving should permeate the whole of Creation,
refreshing, uplifting, furthering and animating, like a breath from the longed-for Paradise!
This was the pearl among the gifts of your Creator that Lucifer grasped at first of all, with all his cunning and malice, knowing that that was the best method with which to tear away your foothold and
your striving towards the Light! For in woman lies the precious secret that is able to set free the purity
and sublimity of every thought, the inspiration to the greatest activity and noblest deeds... provided that
she is the woman the Creator intended her to be when He lavished these gifts upon her.
You let yourselves be duped too easily! You succumbed to the temptations without a fight. As a
willing slave of Lucifer woman now directs her beautiful Divine gifts to serve a contrary purpose, and
thereby brings the entire Subsequent Creation under the domination of the Darkness! Of everything that
God wanted to come into existence for the joy and happiness of all creatures in this Creation, today only
repulsive caricatures are present! Of course everything did come into existence, but changed and
distorted, wrong through the influence of Lucifer. The woman of Subsequent Creation made herself the
mediator in this matter! A sultry bog spread over the clear soil of purity. Radiant enthusiasm was replaced
by sensual orgies. Now you are willing to fight, but against every demand of the Light! Just so you can
remain in that state of vain self-satisfaction which intoxicates you!
There are not many who today are capable of meeting a clear gaze steadfastly. The majority turn out
to be leprous, whose beauty, i.e. true womanhood, has already been eaten away and can never be restored
again. Many who can still be saved, will be disgusted with themselves if they will remember years later
all that they regarded as being beautiful and good today. It will seem like an awakening and a recovery
from the most terrible fever-dreams!
Just as woman was able to drag the whole of Subsequent Creation down deeply, so also does she
have the power to once again uplift and to further it, for man will follow her lead in this. The time will
come, soon after the purification, when one can joyously call out: Look at woman as she should be,
genuine woman in all her greatness, her noblest purity and power and you will experience through her the
words of Christ: “Watch and pray,” in all naturalness and in the most beautiful form!

us! Inevitably! It cannot be halted by arms, money, or discoveries. Nor by kindness or skillful politics.
More incisive means are required here.
Yet this enormous guilt does not fall upon woman alone. She will always be only the true reflection
of that world of thought-forms which hovers over her people. This must not be forgotten. Respect and
honor woman as such, and she will form herself accordingly; she will become what you see in her, and in
this way you uplift your whole people! However, a great process of transformation must first take place
among women. As they are now a cure can only be effected through a radical intervention, by a forceful
and merciless cut, removing every tumor with sharp knives and casting them into the fire! Otherwise they
would still destroy all the healthy parts.
The present time is irresistibly rushing, faster, ever faster, towards this essential intervention on all
mankind, and will finally bring it about of itself! This will be painful and terrible, but the end will be
restoration to health. Not until then will it be the time to speak of morality. Today it would die away like
the word spoken in the wind. But when the hour is past when the sink of iniquity had to perish, because it
collapsed from inner decay, then observe the female gender! What they do and what they leave undone
will always show you how you stand, because through their finer intuitive ability they live what the
thought-forms desire.
This fact also gives us the assurance that with pure thinking and intuitive perceiving, womanhood
will be the first to soar upwards to that role model which we regard as a truly noble human being. Then
morality, in the full glory of its purity, will have entered!

Take a seat in any cafe or restaurant and observe the people sitting at the tables around you. Listen to their
conversation. Note what they have to say to one another. Go into families; watch your most intimate
friends in their hours of leisure when work no longer presses.
You will be shocked at the hollowness of their conversations when they cannot talk about their
various occupations. If you observe them closely you will sense with disgust the emptiness of their
thoughts and the oppressively narrow sphere of their interests, as well as their terrible superficiality. The
few exceptions you encounter, those whose words in their leisure hours of everyday life are penetrated by
a longing for a greater development of their souls, will appear to you as solitary strangers in the hustle
and bustle of a street fair.
It is just in his so-called leisure hours that you can best recognize the real inner man, when his daily
work is done and he has lost the outside support provided by his special field of knowledge. What then
remains is the actual man. Watch him and listen dispassionately to his words. You will soon cease your
observations because they will become intolerable. You will be filled with deep sadness when you realize
that many people are not very much different from animals. Not quite so dull and equipped with a higher
intellect, but on the whole the same. They go through life on earth as if with blinkers, never seeing more
than one aspect, i.e., what is purely material. They attend to eating and drinking and aim to increase to a
greater or lesser extent their hoard of earthly treasures, seeking for physical enjoyment and regarding all
reflection on things they cannot see as a waste of time, which they consider would be better employed in
“rest and recreation”.
They cannot and will not understand that life on earth, with all its pleasures and joys, only gets its
real meaning when one has become more or less familiar with the Ethereal World, and knows about the
reciprocal actions connecting us with it, for then one no longer has the feeling of being at the mercy of
chance. They repudiate this idea under the misapprehension that, if an ethereal world really exists, it
would only bring them discomfort or even terror as soon as they concern themselves with it.
To them it is a strange idea that life on earth only gets real value through striving upwards, which
causes the most wonderful vital warmth to pulsate through all earthly joys and pleasures. These then are
by no means pushed aside; on the contrary, those who yearn for and earnestly seek what is pure and high
will, as a beautiful result of reciprocal action, attain an ardent love of life, often ending in jubilant
enthusiasm for all that exists and presents itself.
Fools are they who pass this by! Cowards, to whom the glorious joys of those who advance
courageously will ever be denied.
Rejoice that all around you lives, into seemingly immeasurably far away regions! Nothing is dead;
nothing is void as it would appear. Everything is working and weaving in reciprocal action, in the center
of which you stand as humans to continually form and direct anew the threads, as both starting points and
final goals. Mighty rulers are you, every single one of you, establishing your own kingdom in such a way
that it will either uplift or bury you beneath its ruins. Awake! Use the power given to you in the full
knowledge of this mighty happening, lest in your stupidity and obstinacy, or even in your indolence, you
bring forth only harmful deformities which choke all that is healthy and good and finally cause you as
their author to totter and fall.
Even man’s nearest ethereal surrounding can contribute much to uplifting or debasing him. This is
the strange world of thought-forms, the vital activity of which comprises only a small part of the giant
mechanism of the whole Creation. Its threads, however, run both into the Gross Material World and
further up into the more Ethereal World and in the same way they also run downward into the realm of
Darkness. Like a gigantic network of veins or nerve-strands, all is intertwined and interwoven, un-
tearable and inseparable! Mark this well!
There are privileged ones who here and there can see a part of this, but much they can only intuitively
sense. In this way some things have come to the knowledge of mankind. It sought to build further upon
this knowledge in order to obtain a complete picture. But in so doing gaps and mistakes were bound to
occur. Many investigators of the ethereal realm jumped to conclusions which inevitably caused the proper
connection to be lost. Others again filled the gaps with fantastic imagery, bringing misrepresentations and distortions which consequently shattered faith in the whole matter. The result was justifiable derision
which, based on the lack of logic of the so-called spiritual researchers, was certain to win the day.
If these matters are to be spoken of at all it is necessary that first of all a cord must be drawn through
all that happens in the working of Creation, which the onlooker can grasp in order to help him climb
upwards. Many of the processes which perplex him have their origin in his immediate vicinity. One
glance into the world of thought-forms should help him understand some things that seemed inexplicable
before. In many cases the justice system for example would find the real perpetrators of a crime to be
quite different from the persons accused of it and hold them primarily accountable. The key to this lies in
the connection between the individual and the world of thought-forms, which is closest to humanity. It is
certainly a blessing for many to be blindfolded and unable to see further than their physical eyes will
permit. The nature of the existing thought-forms would give them a fright. Paralyzing horror would grip
many who today naively or frivolously lead unscrupulous lives. For every thought that is generated, like
everything in the Ethereal World, immediately takes a form which embodies and expresses the essential
meaning of the thought.
The Living Creative Power flowing through man concentrates ethereal matter through the focused
volition of a completed thought and combines it into a form which expresses the volition of the thought.
Thus this form is something real, something living, which now, in accordance with the Law of Attraction
of Homogeneous Species, attracts what is homogeneous in this world of thought-forms or is attracted by
them, depending on the strength it possesses. Just as a thought, when it arises, is simultaneously
perceived intuitively with greater or lesser intensity, so will its ethereal form bear equivalent life. This
world of thoughts is densely populated. Through the mutual power of attraction complete centers have
formed which, by means of their accumulated energy, exert their influence upon human beings.
In the first place those persons will always be influenced who tend towards a similar nature, i.e., who
bear something similar within themselves. Such persons will thereby be strengthened in their
corresponding will, and encouraged to continue producing new and similar forms which, working in the
same manner, enter the world of thought-forms.
But other people who do not possess these characteristic can also be disturbed by these influences
and gradually be attracted to them, if these centers are continually reinforced and so obtain unimagined
power. Only those are protected who possess something of a different nature in greater strength, rendering
impossible a connection with what is dissimilar.
Unfortunately, however, it is hate, envy, jealousy, lustfulness, avarice and all other evils which,
through their greater numbers of adherents, form the strongest power centers in the world of thought-
forms. Far less great are those of purity and love. This is the reason why evil is spreading with such
incredible rapidity. In addition, these power centers of thought-forms in turn obtain a connection with
homogeneous spheres of the darkness. From there they are specially fomented to ever greater activity so
that as a consequence they are able to create downright devastation among mankind.
Therefore, blessed be the hour when thoughts of pure Divine Love will once more occupy a greater
place among mankind, so that similarly strong centers will develop in the world of thought-forms, which
can be reinforced from the more luminous spheres and thus not only strengthen those striving towards
what is good, but also slowly exert a purifying effect on darker souls.
Yet another activity is to be observed in this Ethereal World: Through the wishes of their originator
thought-forms are directed to certain persons to whom they may then adhere. If these thought-forms are
of a pure and noble nature, they will beautify the person for whom they are meant, strengthen the shield
of purity around him and, if they meet with inner intuitive perceptions of a similar nature, they can uplift
him further and strengthen him for his ascent. Impure thoughts, however, cannot fail to soil the person for
whom they are meant in just the same way as a physical body is soiled if mud and dirt is thrown at it. If a
man so attacked is not inwardly anchored firmly to the centers of light-streams, it may very well happen
that in time his intuitive perception becomes confused under this barrage of impure thoughts. This is
possible because these impure thought-forms clinging to him are able to attract others of a like nature,
which strengthen them so that by degrees they poison the thoughts of the person in its clutches.
The greater part of the responsibility naturally falls back upon the man who generated the impure
thoughts and whose wish or desire sent them out to the person concerned, for the thought-forms also
remain attached to their author and react upon him accordingly.It is therefore necessary to call out to all true seekers over and over: “Be mindful of the purity of your
thoughts!” Put all your energy into this effort. You have no idea what you accomplish thereby. It is
tremendously powerful! You can use it as mighty warriors. Pioneers for the Light and thus for the
liberation of your fellow-men from the poisonous creepers that infest the world of thought-forms.
If the bandage were removed from the eyes of a man so that he could look into his immediate
ethereal environment, he would at first be alarmed and terrified at the wild confusion he would see there.
But this would only last until he realized the power within him, with which, as with a sharp sword, he is
able to cut a free path for himself. Effortlessly, merely by exerting his volition. He would see thought-
forms in a hundred thousand varieties in all possible and, to the physical eye often impossible, forms.
Each one, however, is sharply defined, showing and expressing precisely the true volition at the time
when the thought was generated. Unadorned and without artificial disguise.
Still, in spite of the thousands of varieties, one learns in time to recognize at a glance the nature of
each thought-form, that is to say, one knows to which category they belong in spite of their different
forms. Just as one can distinguish a man from an animal by his face, or indeed recognize the different
human races by certain facial characteristics, so in precisely the same way thought-forms have definite
features that clearly indicate whether the form belongs to hatred, envy, lust, or some other basic type.
Each of these basic types has its own particular stamp which is impressed on each thought form according
to the basic characteristic embodied by it regardless of the outer shape it has taken through the generating
thought. Thus, in spite of the most bizarre distortion of a form into grotesque deformities, one can
immediately recognize its fundamental type. With this recognition the appearance of wild confusion no
longer exists.
One sees the inexorable order and strictness of the fundamental laws governing all Creation which, if
one knows them and has adapted oneself to their course, afford immeasurable protection and great
blessing. He, however, who opposes these laws will naturally be attacked and will, if not utterly knocked
down and crushed, at least undergo a severe grinding down which, through pain and bitter experiences,
will remodel him until he fits into the flow of these laws and no longer represents an obstacle. Only then
can he be carried along upwards.
These thought-forms not only return their effects to humanity, but they go further; for the greater
number of nature beings belong to the same Ethereal World of the close environment. He who has
reconciled himself to the fact that all is alive thus has form, whether physically visible or not, will not find
it difficult to go a step further and realize that the forces of nature also have form. To these belong the
gnomes, elves, sylphs, water-sprites, etc., the earth, air, fire and water beings, which have been seen by
many – in earlier times more often than now. These are being influenced by the thought-forms and thus
are the cause of much good and evil. And so it goes on. One thing gears into another like cogwheels in the
finest and most highly-perfected mechanism.
In the midst of this mechanism stands man! He is equipped with the means to determine the nature of
the weaving that is to proceed from the loom of Creation and to set the mechanism in motion in different
directions. Be conscious of this immeasurable responsibility, for it all takes place only within the circle of
your earthly limits. By the wise ordinance of the Creator nothing goes beyond this, but everything only
returns back to you. Through your desires, thoughts and volition you are able to poison or, purify and
uplift towards the Light this world and the beyond. Therefore master your destiny so that it may lead
upwards through the purity of your thoughts!

Up till now there could be no question as yet of a sharp confrontation between two world views. Battle is
therefore an ill-chosen term for what is actually happening between the intellectuals and serious seekers
for the Truth. All that has so far taken place has consisted of one-sided attacks by the intellectuals, which
to any dispassionate observer must appear obviously unfounded and often absurd. Scorn, hostility, and
even persecution of a most serious kind await all those who seek to develop themselves higher in a purely
spiritual sense, even when they maintain quiet reserve. There are always those who try, by ridicule or
force, to pull back or drag down those who are striving upwards, into the dull slumber or hypocrisy of the
masses. As a result many were bound to become actual martyrs, because not only the masses, but with
them also the earthly power has been on the side of the intellectuals. What these have to offer is already
clearly indicated in the word “intellect.” That is: A narrowing of the perceptive capacity to purely earthly
matters, and thus to the tiniest part of real existence.
It is easily understandable that this can produce nothing perfect, nothing good whatever, for a
humanity whose existence moves mainly through spheres from which the intellectuals have closed
themselves off. This is especially so when one considers that it is just a brief earth-life which is to become
a significant turning-point for the whole existence, entailing as it does decisive interventions in those
spheres which are completely inconceivable to the intellectuals. The responsibility of the intellectuals,
who as such have already fallen deeply, is thus enormously increased; in the form of heavy pressure it
will help to push them more and more swiftly towards the goal of their choice, so that they will at last
have to partake of the fruits of what they have persistently and presumptuously advocated.
By intellectuals we are to understand those who have unconditionally submitted themselves to their
own intellect. These people, strange to say, have for thousands of years believed that they had an absolute
right to impose their limited convictions, by law and by force, upon those who wished to live according to
another conviction. This utterly illogical presumption again lies only in the narrow perceptive capacity of
the intellectual, which is incapable of raising itself to a higher level. This very limitation brings them a so-
called peak of comprehension, which must lead to such arrogant presumptions because they believe that
they really are standing at the ultimate height. This is actually true so far as they are concerned, since they
have arrived at that boundary which they cannot cross.
But their attacks on seekers for the Truth, so often inexplicably malevolent, clearly show, on closer
observation, the whip of the Darkness brandished behind them. Seldom does one find in these hostile acts
a trace of honest volition, which might somewhat excuse their often shocking actions. In most cases there
is only blind fury, devoid of any real logic. Examine such attacks dispassionately. How seldom is there
among them an article whose contents indicate an attempt to respond objectively to the speeches or essays
of a seeker for the Truth.
The inane inferiority of the attacks is always quite strikingly apparent from the very fact that these
are never kept purely objective! They are always overt or covert smear campaigns against the person of
the Truth-seeker. This is only done by someone who is incapable of replying objectively. After all, a
seeker for the Truth, or a bringer of the Truth, does not give himself personally, but he brings that which
he speaks.
The word must be examined, not the person! It is a habit of the intellectuals to seek always to
examine the person first, and then to consider whether they can listen to his words. Owing to the narrow
limitation of their perceptive capacity, these people need such an outward hold because they must cling to
externals to prevent them from becoming confused. Indeed just this is the hollow structure which they
erect, which is inadequate for men and a great hindrance to their advancement. If they had a firm inner
stability they would simply let fact speak against fact, excluding the personal element altogether. But this
they are unable to do. Indeed, they intentionally avoid it because they feel, or partly know, that in a well-
ordered tournament they would be quickly unseated. The ironic reference to “lay preacher” or “lay
interpretation,” so often used, shows such a degree of ridiculous presumption that every serious person
immediately senses: “This is a shield used to conceal shallowness at all cost. To cover their own
emptiness with a cheap signboard!”
This is a clumsy strategy which cannot last for long. Its purpose is from the beginning to place
seekers for the Truth who may become troublesome on an “inferior” if not downright ridiculous level in the eyes of their fellow-men, or at least to classify them as “charlatans” so that they will not be taken
seriously. With this approach they seek to prevent anyone from paying serious attention to the words.
Their motivation, however, is not concern over their fellow-men’s inner ascent being hindered through
erroneous teachings, rather it is a vague apprehension of losing influence and thereby being compelled to
penetrate more deeply than before, and having to change much that till now was supposed to be
unassailable, and which was convenient.
It is just this frequent reference to “laymen,” this strange condescension toward those who, through
their strengthened and less influenced intuitive perception, stand much nearer to the Truth, and who have
not built walls for themselves through rigid intellectual forms, which exposes a weakness whose dangers
cannot escape the notice of any thinking person. He who holds such opinions is from the outset excluded
from being an unprejudiced teacher and guide, for he stands much further away from God and His
Activity than any other man. The knowledge of the development of religions, with all the errors and
faults, does not bring men nearer to their God; neither does the intellectual interpretation of the Bible or
of other valuable writings of the different religions. The intellect is and remains bound to time and space,
that is to say earthbound; whereas the Godhead, and thus also the recognition of God and His Will, are
above time and space and above all that is transitory, and therefore can never be grasped by the narrowly-
confined intellect. For this simple reason the intellect is not qualified to bring enlightenment in eternal
values. Indeed it would be a contradiction. Therefore he who in these matters boasts of university
qualifications, and would look down upon those who are not so influenced, thereby declares his own
incompetence and limitation. Thinking people will at once sense intuitively the one-sidedness, and use
caution against him who cautions them in such a manner!
Only those with a calling can be true teachers. Those with a calling carry the ability within them.
These abilities, however, do not ask for university training, but for the vibrations of a refined intuitive
sensitivity able to soar above time and space, thus beyond the limit of comprehension of the earthly
intellect.
Moreover, any inwardly free man will always evaluate a matter or a teaching according to what it
brings, not according to who brings it. The latter is the strongest possible evidence of the incapacity of the
one who examines. Gold is gold, whether a prince or a beggar holds it in his hand.
Yet it is just in the most precious matters of human spirituality that one seeks to obstinately overlook
and alter this irrefutable fact; naturally with no more success than in the case of the gold. For those who
are really seeking seriously do not permit themselves to be influenced by such distractions from
examining the matter itself. But those who do allow themselves to be so influenced are not yet mature to
receive the Truth. It is not for them.
But the hour is not far distant when a battle must be waged which has been lacking so far. The one-
sidedness will end, and a sharp confrontation will follow which will destroy all false presumption.

continuation from last topic.
Not even the most fanatical sceptic is able to deny the existence of the primordial seed, and yet it
cannot be seen by any physical eye because it is of a different, “otherworldly” substance. Let us again
simply call it ethereal.
Nor is it difficult to understand that in the natural order of things the world that first forms itself from
primordial seed is equally ethereal, and not discernible with the physical eyes. Only later the coarsest
precipitation further resulting from it gradually forms the Gross Material World with its gross material
bodies, starting from and dependent on the Ethereal World; and it is only that which can be observed
from its most minute beginnings with the physical eyes and with all additional gross material aids.
Whether it is a matter of molecules, electrons or such, it will always only be a part of the coarsest
precipitation of the fine-material world which already had its life and finished forms long before.
It is no different with the covering of man himself in his spiritual nature, of whom I shall speak later.
During his wanderings through the various worlds his garment, cloak, shell, body or instrument, no
matter what one cares to call the covering, must always be of the same substance as the particular
environment which he enters, so that he can make use of it as a protection and necessary tool if he wishes
to be able to work directly and effectively therein. Since the Gross Material World is starting from and
dependent upon the Ethereal World, it follows that whatever happens in the Gross Material World also
reacts on the Ethereal World.
This immense ethereal environment has likewise been created from the primordial seed, it takes part
in the eternal cycle, and is finally also driven towards and sucked into the rear end of the aforesaid
gigantic funnel, where disintegration takes place, in order to be thrust out again at the other end as
primordial seed for a new cycle. As with the action of the heart and the blood circulation, the funnel is
like the heart of creation. Thus the process of disintegration involves the whole of Creation, including the
ethereal part, because everything is again dissolved into primordial seed in order to form itself anew.
There is nothing arbitrary in this, but everything develops out of the natural consistency of the Primordial
Laws, which permit of no other course. Hence, at a certain point of the great cycle, the moment comes for
all that is created, whether gross material or ethereal, when the process of disintegration prepares itself
automatically out of what was created and breaks forth in the end.
Now this Ethereal World is the transitional dwelling-place of the earthly departed, the so-called
beyond. It is closely connected with the Gross Material World, which is part of it and one with it. At the
moment of death man, with his ethereal body, which he bears along with the gross material body, enters
the homogeneous ethereal environment of the Gross Material World, while he leaves the gross material
body behind on the latter. Now this Ethereal World, the beyond, belonging as it does to Creation, is
subject to the same Laws of continuous development and disintegration. With the setting-in of decay, a
separation of the spiritual from the material again takes place in a perfectly natural way. According to
man’s spiritual state in the Gross Material World as well as in the Ethereal World, the spiritual man, the
real “ego,” must either move upwards or remain chained to the World of Matter. The serious longing for
Truth and Light will, by virtue of the change it works in him, make each person spiritually purer and thus
more luminous, so that this condition must naturally detach him more and more from dense matter, and
drive him upwards in proportion to his purity and lightness. However, he who believes only in the world
of matter keeps himself bound to matter by his conviction, remaining chained to it, and thus cannot be
driven upwards. Through the deliberate decision of each individual, a separation therefore takes place
between those striving towards the Light and those connected with the Darkness, in accordance with the
existing natural Laws of Spiritual Gravitation.
This separation is the Last Judgment!
Thus it becomes clear that one day there will be a definite end also to the possibility of development
through the purification-process in the so-called beyond for those who have departed this earth. A final
decision! Men in both worlds will either be so far ennobled that they can be uplifted to the Regions of
Light, or they will remain bound in their base nature through their own volition and thereby be finally
hurled down into “eternal damnation.” This means that together with matter, from which they cannot
detach themselves, they will be drawn towards disintegration, will themselves suffer painful
disintegration, and therewith cease to be personal. They will be scattered like chaff in the wind, crumbled
to dust and thereby they will be erased from the Golden Book of Life!
Hence this so-called Last Judgment, that is, the Final judgment, is likewise a happening which takes place in an absolutely natural manner as a consequence of the laws upholding Creation, and in such a way
that it could not be otherwise. Here, too, man always receives only the fruits of what he himself has
willed, that is to say, what he himself brings about through his conviction.
It does not diminish the greatness of the Creator, but can only give cause to regard Him as even more
sublime, to know that all that happens in Creation is strictly consistent and takes place automatically, that
the direction of men’s fate is always determined by themselves alone through their wishes and volition,
and that the Creator does not look on and intervene to reward or punish. The greatness lies in the
perfection of His Work, and this compels us to look upwards in reverential awe, since the greatest Love
and the most incorruptible Justice must lie in the mightiest as well as in the most minute happening,
without distinction. Great also is man, placed as such in Creation as master of his own destiny! Through
his will he is able to lift himself out of the Work, and at the same time contribute to its higher evolution;
or he can drag it down and become entangled in it so that he can no longer free himself but will, along
with it, move towards dissolution, whether in the Gross Material World or in the Ethereal World.
Therefore strive to free yourselves from all ties arising from base feelings; for it is high time! The hour
approaches when the allotted time is up! Awake in yourselves the longing for what is pure, true and
noble! —
Far above the eternal cycle of Creation there floats like a crown in the center an “Azure Island,” the
home of the blessed, of the purified spirits, who may already dwell in the Regions of Light! This Island is
separate from the World. Therefore it is not part of the cycle; but in spite of its height above the rotating
Creation, it constitutes the support and the center for the outgoing spiritual forces. It is the island that
bears on its summit the much-praised city with its streets of gold, the heavenly Jerusalem. Here nothing is
subject to change any longer. No Last Judgment is to be feared any more. Those who can dwell there are
“at home.” But as the last, as the highest on this Azure Island, inaccessible to the unbidden, stands the...
Grail Castle, so often spoken of in poetry!
Encompassed by legends, the object of longing to so many, it stands there in the Light of Greatest
Glory and harbors the Sacred Vessel, the symbol of the Pure Love of the Almighty, the Grail!
The purest of spirits are appointed as guardians who are standing closest to the throne of the Most
High. They are bearers of Divine Love in its purest form, which is very different from what men on earth
imagine it to be, although they experience it daily and hourly. This castle forms the gateway to the steps
of the throne of the Most High. No one can come to these steps without first having gone through the
Grail Castle. Strict watch is kept at the golden gate, severe and inexorable, so that the purity of the Grail
will be maintained and so that Its blessing may be poured over all seekers.
Through revelations, tidings of the Castle were brought down stage by stage over the immense
distance from the Azure Island through the Ethereal World, until finally, through a few deeply inspired
poets, they also became known among people of the gross material earth. Being passed on downwards
step by step, the Truth unintentionally suffered various distortions, so that the final version could only
remain a repeatedly obfuscated reflection which gave rise to many errors.
Now if from some part of the great Creation, suffering and ardent appeals rise to the Creator in dire
distress, then a Servant of the Vessel is sent forth, as a bearer of this Love in order to intervene and help
in the spiritual need. What floats merely as a myth and a legend in the Work of Creation then enters
Creation as a living reality! Such missions, however, do not occur often. Each time they are accompanied
by incisive changes and great upheavals. Thousands of years usually separate them. Those who are thus
sent bring Light and Truth to those gone astray, they bring peace to the despairing; with their message
they extend their hands to all who seek, they gather up all the faithful, offering them new courage and
new strength, and guide them through all Darkness up to the Light.
They come only for those who long for help from the Light, but not for the scoffers and the self-
righteous. The next coming of such an envoy from the Grail should be a signal to all seekers to vigorously
bestir themselves and strive for what is good and noble; for it is a reminder of the inevitable judgment
which one day must arrive as the Final Judgment. Blessed is he who is no longer bound to the material
world by his narrow mind, and who can thus be lifted up to the Light!

Again, by reason of the consistency of the Natural Laws, the point at which disintegration of each
celestial globe must begin is precisely determined, at a very definite place at which the process of
disintegration must develop, irrespective of the condition of the celestial globe concerned and of its
inhabitants. The cycle drives every celestial globe irresistibly towards this point, the hour of
disintegration will be fulfilled without delay; as with everything in Creation this actually denotes only a
transformation, the opportunity for a further development. Then the hour of “either – or” has come for
every human being. Either he is raised up towards the Light if he strives for the spiritual, or he remains
chained to the World of Matter, to which he clings if out of conviction he declares only material things to
have value. In that case, through the lawful consequence of his own volition, he is unable to rise from the
World of Matter, and on the last stretch of the way he is drawn into disintegration along with it. This then
is spiritual death! Equivalent to effacement from the Book of Life. This process, in itself quite natural, is
also called eternal damnation, because he who is thus drawn along into disintegration “must cease to be.”
He will be atomized and mixed in with the primordial seed which he, even after the dissolution, imbues
with spiritual energies. He will never again be able to regain his “individuality." It is the most dreadful
thing that can befall man. He is considered a “rejected stone,” which cannot be used for a spiritual
building and must therefore be ground up.
This separation of spirit from matter, taking place by reason of quite natural processes and Laws is
the so-called “Last Judgment”, which is connected with great upheavals and transformations.
Surely everyone will readily understand that this disintegration will not take place in one earth day;
for in Cosmic events a thousand years are as one day.
But we are well into the early stages of this epoch. The earth now approaches the point at which it
diverges from its previous course, which must also become strongly felt in gross matter. Then the sifting
of all men, which has already been prepared for some time, but which until now has only manifested itself
in “opinions and convictions”, will set in more sharply.
Every hour of an earth-life is therefore more precious than ever. He who earnestly seeks, and is
willing to learn, must exert all his strength to tear himself away from base thoughts, which must chain
him to earthly things. Otherwise he is in danger of remaining attached to the World of Matter, and of
being drawn with it towards complete disintegration. Those who strive for the Light, however, will
gradually become detached from the World of Matter, and will finally be uplifted to the home of all that
is spiritual.
Then the definite division between Light and Darkness will be accomplished, and the Judgment will
be fulfilled.
“The World” i.e. all of Creation, will not perish thereby, but the celestial bodies will only be drawn
into the process of disintegration when their course reaches the point where dissolution as well as the
preceding separation are due to set in. For the earth the beginning for this has already set in and
everything will soon begin to roll forward with giant steps.
This is accomplished through the natural effect of the Divine Laws, which have lain in Creation from
its very beginnings, which brought forth Creation itself, and which now and also in the future
unswervingly bear the Will of the Creator. In the eternal cycle there is perpetual creating, sowing,
ripening, harvesting and dissolving, so that, newly invigorated through the changing combinations, other
forms may again evolve, which speed towards a new cycle.
This cycle of Creation, may be pictured as a gigantic funnel or a gigantic cave of ethereal matter from
which an incessant stream of primordial seed, also of ethereal matter, pours forth, and in rotating
movements, strives towards fresh combinations and development. This is exactly as science already
knows and has correctly recorded. Through friction and amalgamation dense nebulae are formed that
become gross-material, and from these again celestial bodies are formed, which according to immutable
Laws group themselves with absolute consistency into solar systems; and rotating individually, they must
together follow the great cycle which is the eternal one. Just as it is in the processes that are visible to the
physical eye, wherein seeds are followed by development, formation, maturity, harvest or decay, which
entails transformation and disintegration for the purpose of further development in plant, animal and
human bodies, so it is in the great Cosmic process. The gross materially visible celestial bodies,
surrounded as they are by a far larger, more ethereal environment that is therefore invisible to the physical
eye, are subject to the same process in their eternal cycle, because the same Laws are active in them.

TO BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK

There will be far less unhappiness if people will only free themselves from the error of the merits of
sexual abstinence. Forced abstinence is an interference which may have dire consequences. Wherever one
looks the Laws in all Creation show the way plainly enough. Suppression is against Nature. All that is
against Nature is a rebellion against the Natural and thus the Divine Laws, which in this, as in all else, can
never yield any good results. No exception is made on this particular point. Only man must never permit
himself to be controlled by the sexual impulse, must not become a slave to his instincts, otherwise they
will develop into a passion whereby what is natural and healthy will become a morbid vice.
Man should be above it, which means: he should not force abstinence upon himself but, with a pure
inner morality, practice self-control so that neither he nor others will come to any harm thereby.
If some people think that through abstinence they can rise higher spiritually, it may well happen that
they achieve just the opposite. Depending on individual disposition, there will be a more or less continual
conflict with the natural urges. This struggle consumes a great part of the person’s spiritual powers,
restricting them so that they cannot be active in other directions. Thus the free unfolding of these spiritual
powers is hindered. Such persons will at times suffer from a depressing melancholy which will hinder
them from joyfully soaring upwards.
The body is a gift which God entrusted to man who has the duty to take care of it. Just as he cannot
abstain with impunity from satisfying the body’s needs of food, drink, rest and sleep, and of relieving
bladder and bowels; and just as lack of fresh air and sufficient exercise will soon make him feel
uncomfortable; so precisely the same applies to the healthy desire of a mature body for sexual activity,
which he cannot artificially deny without harming himself in some way.
Fulfilling the natural desire of the body can only further and never hinder the inner man, i.e., the
development of the spiritual, otherwise the Creator would not have placed this desire within him. But
here, as in everything else, excesses are harmful. Great care must be taken that the desire is not the result
of an imagination artificially stimulated by reading or some other cause, or the consequence of a
weakened body or overwrought nerves. It really must be only the demand of a healthy body, which by no
means approaches man often.
It will occur only when there has previously set in between both sexes a perfect spiritual harmony
which, in its consummation, sometimes strives towards physical union as well.
All other causes are dishonoring to both parties, are impure and immoral, even in marriage. Where
there is no spiritual harmony, the continuance of a marriage becomes absolutely immoral.
If the social order has not yet found the right way in this matter, then this lack can in no way change
the Laws of Nature, which will never orient themselves by human dispositions or by wrongly fostered
ideas. There will, however, be no other choice left to man but finally to adapt State and social institutions
to the Laws of Nature, i.e., to the Divine Laws, if he wants to have true inner peace and become healthy.
Sexual abstinence has nothing to do with chastity, either. At best abstinence could be included in the
concept of “decency,” resulting from discipline, education or self-control.
By true chastity is meant purity of thought, but in all things right down to everyday business. Chastity
is a purely spiritual and not a physical quality. Even in the act of satisfying the sexual urge, chastity can
be fully preserved through mutual purity of thought.
Moreover, physical union not only serves procreation, but also through the equally valuable and
necessary intimate fusion and exchange of mutual currents greater energy levels are attained.

This word is often used. However, who really understands what it means? “Earthbound” sounds as if it
were some terrible punishment. Most people have a mild sense of horror about those who are still
earthbound and fear them. While in fact the significance of the word is not that bad. Certainly there is
much that is dark to make this or that soul earthbound. However, mostly they are quite simple matters
which have to lead to this condition.
Let us, for instance, take the case of: The sins of the fathers revenge themselves unto the third and
fourth generation!
A child puts some question or other to the family concerning the beyond, or about God, something it
has heard in school or church. The father curtly dismisses it with the remark: “Stop such stupid nonsense!
When I am dead it is all over.” The child is startled and begins to doubt. The dismissive remarks of father
or mother are repeated. The child also hears the same from others, and finally accepts their opinion.
The hour now arrives when the father must pass on. To his dismay he realizes that that he has not
ceased to exist. The ardent wish will now awaken within him to impart this knowledge to his child. This
wish binds him to the child. But the child neither hears him nor feels his nearness; for it now lives in the
conviction that its father has ceased to exist, and this stands like a firm, impenetrable wall between it and
the father’s efforts. The father’s anguish however, at having to watch that the child follows the wrong
path through his influence, leading further and further away from the truth, and the fear that on this wrong
path the child will not be able to avoid the danger of sinking lower and mainly that it is much more easily
exposed now serve, at the same time, as his so-called punishment for having led the child onto this path.
Very seldom will he be able to lead it to this recognition in one way or another. He must witness how his
wrong idea is conveyed from his child to the children of his child and so on, all as a result of his own
failing. He cannot be released until one of his descendants recognizes and follows the right way and helps
influence the others, whereby he will gradually be freed and can begin to think about his own ascent.
Here is another case: A habitual smoker takes over with him the strong craving to smoke, which is
intuitive, thus spiritual. This craving turns into a burning desire and the thought of satisfying his desire
becomes a burning desire and holds him where he can obtain gratification... i.e. on earth. He finds this by
pursuing smokers and enjoying their intuitive sensing with them. If no heavy karma binds such persons to
any other place, they feel quite well pleasant and very seldom become conscious of the fact that this is
really a punishment. Only he who can survey the whole of existence recognizes the punishment in the
inevitable reciprocal action, which prevents the person in question from rising higher as long as the
perpetual desire for gratification by “experiencing” binds him to people still living on earth in the flesh,
through whose sensations alone he can find co-satisfaction.
So it is also with sexual gratification, with drinking, yes, even with a propensity for eating. Here, too,
many are bound by this propensity to rummage through kitchens and cellars, and to be present when food
is being enjoyed by others so as to at least share a small part of their enjoyment. Strictly speaking, this, of
course, is “punishment.” But the craving of these “earthbound” souls, which overshadows all else,
prevents them from perceiving it as such,and therefore, the yearning for something nobler and higher
cannot grow so strong as to become their principal experience, which would free them from the baser
desire and uplift them. They never realize the opportunity they are missing until this desire for
gratification, which at best can only be a minor partial gratification, enjoyed through others, on this
account slowly wanes and dies out. Then other sensations accompanied by lesser craving, which he still
carries with him, come forward and rise to first place, as a result of which they immediately become
experience and with that attain to the power of reality. The nature of the sensations which have come to
life bring him to the place where there are similar types, either higher or lower, until this, too, like the first
one, is gradually released through weaning, only to be followed by the next one to be dealt with. This
purification of all the dross he took over with him will be achieved in due course. Will he then not come
to a standstill somewhere at a last intuitive sensation? Or will the power of his intuition be diminished?
No! For when at last base sensations are gradually outlived or discarded, and ascent begins, then the
constant yearning for what is higher and purer awakens and steadily drives him upwards. This is the
normal course! But there are a thousand incidents. The danger of a fall or of remaining stationary is much
greater than when in the flesh on earth. If you have already attained to a certain height and yield but for a moment to a base intuition, then this intuition will immediately become an experience and thereby reality.
You become denser and heavier and you will sink down into homogeneous regions. Thus your horizon
narrows and you will gradually have to work yourself upwards again, if it does not happen that you sink
lower and lower. “Watch and pray!” is therefore no empty phrase. At the present moment the ethereal part
in you is still protected by your body as if held with a firm anchor. But when so-called death brings
severance and decomposition of the body, you are then without this protection and, being ethereal, you
will be irresistibly attracted by homogeneous species, whether high or low. You cannot escape. Only one
great driving power can help you upwards, your strong volition towards that which is good and sublime.
This will develop into a yearning and an intuitive perception, becoming also an experience and a reality,
in accordance with the law of the Ethereal World, which knows only intuitive perception. Therefore,
prepare yourself and start already now with this volition so that when you are called away, which can
happen at any hour, it is not overshadowed by too powerful an earthly desire! Beware, man, and keep
watch!