₦airaland Forum

There is no greater danger to a cause than to leave a gap which, as may often be intuitively sensed, needs
filling. It is of no avail to pass it over because such a gap hinders all progress and any building erected
over it will inevitably collapse sooner or later, even if the greatest skill and best materials have been used.
Such is the case with the various Christian religious communities of today. They persistently close
their eyes and ears at certain points in their teaching which are sensed as illogical. They try to dismiss
them with empty phrases instead of seriously going within. Yet they do sense the danger that one day the
temporary bridges they have built over such gaps through a teaching of blind faith will no longer suffice,
and they dread the moment when enlightenment will show up the flimsy character of these structures.
Moreover they know that then they will no longer be able to persuade anybody to follow such a
treacherous course, with the natural result that any further solid building or pathway will also have to
remain empty. They also realize that a single flash of fresh truth must sweep away such artificial
structures. Still, for want of something better, they seek to cling to the swaying plank in spite of every
danger. Even worse, they are prepared to defend their position by every means in their power, and would
destroy him who dared to provide a firmer crossing over the gap through the Truth Itself. Without
hesitation they would try to repeat the same event that occurred here on earth nearly two thousand years
ago which still casts its shadow to the present day, but which they themselves, as a great accusation
against the blindness and pernicious stubbornness of mankind, have made the focal point of their own
teaching and their faith. It was the religious establishment and scholars of that time, with their narrow
dogmatism and conceit betraying their weakness, who were unable to recognize the Truth and the Son of
God; they closed themselves against it, hating and persecuting Him and His followers out of envy and
fear, whereas other people more readily opened themselves to the recognition and were quicker to
intuitively perceive the Truth of the Word. Although the present heads of Christian religious communities
put particular emphasis on the Son of God’s path of suffering, they have learned and profited nothing
from this fact itself. It is just the present leaders of communities based on Christ’s teaching, as well as
those of newer movements, who would again today try to eliminate any man who, by revealing the Truth
Itself, could endanger the swaying bridges over the precarious gaps or chasms in their teachings and
interpretations. They would persecute him with their hatred born of fear and even more of vanity, exactly
as it happened once before.
They would lack the greatness of character to endure the fact that their knowledge was insufficient to
recognize the Truth and to fill the gaps, in order to smooth the path for mankind towards an easier
understanding and complete comprehension.
And yet it is possible for mankind to ascend only through fully grasping the Truth, never through
blind, ignorant faith!
One such gap created by an erroneous transmission concerns the concept of the “Son of Man.”
People cling to it morbidly, like the Pharisees who did not want to open themselves to the Truth brought
by the Son of God, which opposed their conventional and rigid teachings. Christ spoke of Himself only as
the Son of God. It was far from Him to so illogically call Himself Son of Man at the same time. Even if,
as a result of their own doubts, people have tried with the greatest cleverness and skillfulness in all
directions to explain this obvious contradiction between the Son of God and the Son of Man, which is
intuitively sensed by every calmly thinking person, it cannot be asserted that in spite of all their efforts
they have found a way to make them one and the same. The most favorable of all the interpretations had
to, over and over again, show a dual nature which remained standing side by side, but could never appear
as one.
This is quite in the natural order of things. The Son of God cannot become the Son of Man just
because He had to be born of a human body so as to enable Him to walk on earth.
Every Christian knows that the Son of God came only on a spiritual mission, and that all His words
referred to the Spiritual Kingdom and were thus meant spiritually. Consequently His repeated references
to the Son of Man may not from the very outset be interpreted in any other way! Why should an
exception be made here. In the spiritual sense, however, Christ was and remained only the Son of God!
Therefore, when He spoke of the Son of Man He could not possibly mean Himself. There is something
far more powerful in all this than is represented in the present interpretations of the Christian religions. This obvious contradiction should long ago have induced men to more serious reflection, had it not been
for the fetters of dogmatism darkening everything. Instead of making the serious investigations which are
absolutely necessary in such incisive matters, they clung tenaciously to the transmitted words, thus
putting on blinkers that hindered a free view. The natural consequence is that these interpreters and
teachers, although they stand in the Creation of their God, are not even able to understand It aright,
whereas such an understanding offers the only prospect of coming closer to the Creator Himself, the
Origin of all that is created.
In the first place Christ taught absolute naturalness, which means adjusting oneself to the Laws of
Nature, and thus of Creation. But only he who knows these laws can adapt himself to them. The Laws of
Nature in turn embody the Will of the Creator, and thereby provide the path to the recognition of the
Creator Himself. Whoever knows the Laws of Nature will also get to know the absolute precision with
which they gear into each other, and thus he know that this activity, in its steady forward driving logic, is
unchangeable, as therefore is also the Will of the Creator, God the Father.
Any divergence would have to mean a change of the Divine Will. A change, however, would indicate
imperfection. But since the Primordial Source of All Being, God the Father, is always uniform and
perfect, it follows that even the most minute deviation in the Laws of Nature, thus the laws of
development, would simply be impossible and out of the question from the very start. This fact requires
the condition that theology and natural science must in every respect coincide in perfect clarity and
consistency if they are to represent the Truth.
There is no denying that natural science today still has a very limited range of knowledge compared
with the whole of Creation, as it has merely kept to the World of Gross Matter, because the intellect of
today can tackle only what is bound to time and space. The one absolutely unpardonable mistake made is
that the disciples of that very science try to ridicule and deny the existence of anything which goes
beyond its range, except for a few scientists who have lifted themselves above the average and become
more far-sighted, and who refused to cover their ignorance with conceit.
Although the science of religion extends much further, it nevertheless remains dependent upon the
Natural Laws which reach out beyond all that is bound to time and space and which, coming from the
Primordial Source, extend down into what is physically visible without a break or change in their nature.
For this reason there may be neither gaps nor contradictions in religious teachings if they are really to
accord with the Truth and thus with the Laws of Nature or the Divine Will, that is if they are to harbor the
Truth. Leading and responsible teachings cannot permit themselves the liberty of blind faith!
The erroneous conception concerning the Son of Man therefore weighs heavily upon the followers of
the true Christian teachings, because they quietly accept and carry on erroneous transmissions, in spite of
the fact that from time to time an intuitive sense to the contrary quietly warns many people.
It is the very immutability and perfection of the Divine Will which precludes arbitrary intervention in
Creation by God. And it is this same perfection which is unable simply to eliminate Lucifer after the
separation through his wrong actions, *(Lecture No. 45: The mystery of Lucifer) and it also has to allow men to
misuse the Natural Laws, the Divine Will, because the human spirit, by virtue of its origin in Eternal
Spiritual Substantiality, has been granted the freedom of decision. *(Lecture No. 5: Responsibility) In the
happenings of ethereal and gross material Creation it is just this immutable perfection of the Creator’s
Will that must appear as a kind of boundedness! But only inferior and small human spirits will upon
recognizing this, regard it as a limitation of the Power and Greatness. Such a view would merely be the
result of their own narrow-mindedness.
The vastness of it all confuses them, because factually they are only able to have an imagine of it if –
corresponding to their own understanding – it has a more narrow limit.
He, however, who makes an honest effort to recognize his Creator in His Work will, when he follows
the certain road of the Natural Laws, has received a convincing idea of the far reaching events that have
their beginning in the Primordial Source, i.e., the starting point of all happenings, whence they spread
through Creation like immovable railway tracks, along which all further life unfurls according to the
position of the switches. The setting of the switches, however, happens automatically by the human spirit
on its journey through the World of Matter. *(Lecture No. 30: Man and his free will) Unfortunately the majority
allow themselves to be induced through Lucifer’s principle to set the points wrong; and so their lives, in
accordance with the immutable laws of continuous development which run through all material Creation like railway lines, roll more and more downward towards a very definite final destination depending on
the setting.
The setting of the points by the free decision can be exactly observed or intuitively perceived from
the Point of Origin, making it possible to clearly recognize the further course, which can only run along
those lines which the Laws anchored in Creation have laid down according to the decision taken. This
circumstance enables many events to be foreseen, because the Laws of Nature or Creation never deviate
in their drive to develop. Here millennia play no role. In these foreseen, definite final destinations, there
arise the great revelations shown to specially blessed ones in spiritual pictures, which through
transmission become known by mankind. One thing, however, cannot be accurately predicted: the earthly
time at which these revelations and promises find their fulfillment!
This will come to pass at the hour when such a life, traveling along the line it has chosen, reaches a
foreseen intermediate station or the terminus. The fate of man as well as that of a nation, indeed of all
humanity, may be compared to a train standing and waiting on a single track connected to lines leading in
all directions. Man sets the switches as he pleases, jumps on to the engine and turns on the steam, which
means he animates it. As he turns on to the line he has chosen one can tell each station and the terminus
only, but never the exact hour of arrival, for this depends on the speed at which the train travels, and that
may vary according to the nature of people; for it is man who animates the engine, and he will drive it
forward in accordance with his own nature, either with steady consistency or impetuous fervor, or
alternating between the two. The nearer such a train of individuals or nations or of humanity gets to a
station of the direction on its track or of its fate, the more surely can its impending arrival be foreseen and
foretold. However, the network of tracks has a few connecting lines which, by turning their respective
switches during the journey, can be used to change direction and thereby reach another terminus than the
one first headed for. It is obviously necessary in this case to slow down when approaching such
switching-points, to stop and then to reset them. Slowing down represents reflection, and stopping the
decision taken by man, which he is always free to make until he reaches a last opportunity to choose and
reset the switches which is the deed that follows this decision.
The Divine Will which, like railway tracks, traverses the World of Matter in the form of the firmly
established Natural Laws may also be called the nerves in the work of Creation, which detect every
unevenness in the gigantic body of Creation and report it to the starting point, the Creative Primordial
Source.
The certainty of this overview up to each end is due to the immutability of the laws causing the
Creator to supplement His revelations with promises proclaiming the advent of helpers to be sent by Him
at a time, when a train is seen to be approaching the most dangerous curves, intermediary stations and
termini! Such helpers are equipped by Him, to open the eyes of those human spirits who are traveling
along the wrong track, by proclaiming the Truth shortly before inevitable catastrophes and dangerous
changes take place, which serves to enable mankind to change the switches in time, thus avoiding the
increasingly dangerous places and also escaping the fatal terminus by taking a new direction. Woe to him
who, here or in the beyond, overlooks and misses the last of all switching points thereby ignoring and
missing the possibility of setting a better direction! He is hopelessly lost.
As the Creator cannot alter the Perfection of His own Will, He will also, in connection with these
helpers, keep exactly to the existing laws. In other words: His Will is perfect from the very first
beginning. Every new expression of His Will must naturally also be perfect. This presupposes that every
new Act of Will issuing from Him must also bear within itself the same laws as those that preceded it.
Consequently it will fit itself precisely into the course of development prevailing in the Ethereal and
Gross Material Worlds. By virtue of the Perfection of God any other possibility is absolutely precluded.
In this foreseeing as explained there arose the promise of the Son of God becoming man, so that by
proclaiming the Truth He would induce mankind to reset their switches. The act of resetting the switches
is reserved to the human spirits themselves according to the laws. As a result it is not possible to foresee
the kind of decision they make; because it is only those lines already chosen by the human spirits, for
which they have already set the switches according to their free decisions, which can be exactly surveyed
with all the stations and curves right to the terminus. This naturally excludes those switching-points
which are still to be determined by a free decision of mankind, for this right is also just as immutable as
everything else, due to the natural lawfulness of coming into existence and development through the
Perfection of God; and as the Creator has granted this right to the human spirits because of their origin in the sphere of spiritual substantiality.

to be continued next Sunday

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