CONTINUATION FROM LAST THREAD
end, they hardly possess the ability to develop thoughts of their own.
It must be emphasized that only the homogeneous will be attracted. Hence the proverb: “Birds of a
feather flock together”. Thus drinkers will always find each other, smokers will have “fellow feelings”
likewise gossips, gamblers, and so on, yet noble characters will also come together for a high aim.
But it goes further: Whatever is drawn to another spiritually will eventually also manifest physically,
since everything spiritual penetrates into the gross material, whereby we must bear in mind the Law of
Returns, because a thought always remains connected with its origin and radiates back to it through this
link.
I am always speaking here only of real thoughts, which carry within them the vital power of the
psychic intuition. Not of the power wasted by the brain-substance entrusted to you as a tool, which forms
but fleeting thoughts that only manifest in a wild medley as shadowy phantoms, and fortunately very soon
fade away. Such thoughts merely waste your time and energy, and thereby you fritter away a gift
entrusted to you.
If, for instance, you seriously ponder over something, this thought becomes strongly magnetic within
you through the power of silence, attracting all that is similar and thus becoming fructified. It matures and
rises above the commonplace, thereby even penetrating into other spheres, from which it receives an
influx of higher thoughts... inspiration! Hence, in contrast to medium-ship, the basic thought in
inspiration must proceed from yourself, must form a bridge to the beyond, to the spiritual world, in order
to draw consciously from a spring there. Inspiration has therefore nothing whatever to do with medium-
ship. In this way the thought is brought to full maturity within you. You approach its realization, and
bring into effect, condensed through your power, what already in countless elements was floating in the
Universe before as thought-forms.
Through unification and condensation of what has long existed spiritually you thus produce a new
form! So in the entire Creation it is always only the forms that change, because all else is eternal and
indestructible.
Beware of confused thoughts, of all shallowness in thinking. Carelessness will exact a bitter revenge;
for it will speedily debase you to the level of a playground for alien influences, through which you very
easily become sullen, moody and unjust to your surroundings.
If you have a genuine thought and cling to it, then the gathered power must eventually also press
towards realization; for the evolution of everything takes place entirely in the spiritual, since every power
is purely spiritual! What then becomes visible to you are always only the final effects of a preceding
spiritual-magnetic process, which takes place continually and uniformly according to a firmly established
order.
Observation of your thoughts and feelings will soon prove to you that all real life can in truth only be
spiritual life, in which alone the origin and also the development lie. You must come to the conviction
that everything you see with your physical eyes is in reality only the manifestations of the eternally
driving spirit.
Every action, even the slightest movement of a human being, is indeed always first spiritually willed.
The physical bodies merely act as spiritually animated instruments, which themselves only took shape
through the power of the spirit. The same applies to trees, stones and the whole earth. Everything is
animated, permeated and driven by the Creative Spirit.
However, since all matter, thus all that can be physically seen, is simply the outcome of spiritual life,
it is not hard for you to comprehend that conditions on earth are also formed according to the nature of
the spiritual life which immediately surrounds us. What logically follows from this is clear: Through the
wise ordering of Creation mankind has been given the power to "self-creatingly" shape conditions for
himself with the Power of the Creator. Happy is he who uses it only for good! But woe unto him who
succumbs to the temptation to use it for evil!
The spirit in men is only encompassed and darkened by earthly desire, which clings to it like dross,
burdens it and drags it down. However, his thoughts are acts of will endowed with spiritual power. The
decision to think in a good or evil way lies with man, and he can thus guide the Divine Power to good or
evil purpose! Therein lies the responsibility that man bears, for reward or retribution will infallibly be his,
as all the consequences of his thoughts return to the starting-point through the established reciprocal action, which never fails, and which is quite inflexible in this matter, thus inexorable. Thereby also
incorruptible, stern and just! Do people not also say the same of God?
If today many opponents of religion reject the existence of a Godhead, this cannot in any way alter
the facts I have cited. People need only omit the little word “God” and engross themselves deeply in
science, and they will find exactly the same, only expressed in different words. Is it not absurd, therefore,
still to argue about it? There is no getting round the Laws of Nature, no man can defy them. God is the
Power that activates the Natural Laws; the Power that nobody has yet grasped or seen, but whose effects
every one, daily, hourly, indeed in every fraction of a second, must see, intuitively sense and observe, if
only he wants to do so, in himself, in every animal, every tree, every flower, in every fiber of a leaf
swelling and bursting its sheath to come to the light. Is it not blindness to oppose this so obstinately while
everyone, including these stubborn repudiators themselves, confirms and acknowledges the existence of
this Power? What is it that prevents them from calling this acknowledged Power God? Is it childlike
obstinacy? Or is it a certain shame at being obliged to confess that they have been obstinately trying all
the time to deny something, the existence of which has always been clear to them?
Probably nothing of all this. The cause may well lie in the caricatures of the great Godhead held up to
mankind from so many sides, which on serious investigation they could not accept. Any attempt to press
the all-embracing and all-pervading Power of the Godhead into a picture must certainly debase and
dishonor It!
On serious reflection no picture can be brought into harmony with It! Just because every man bears
within him the awareness of God, he rejects with misgiving the narrowing down of the great
inconceivable Power that created and guides him.
It is dogma that is to blame for a great number of those who, in their antagonism, seek to overstep the
mark altogether, very often against the certainty living within them.
The hour is not far distant, however, when spiritual awakening will come! When the words of the
Redeemer will be rightly interpreted and His great Work of Redemption rightly grasped; for Christ
brought us redemption from the Darkness by pointing out the way to the Truth to us, by showing as a man
the path to the Luminous Height! And with His blood shed on the cross He set the seal to His conviction!
Truth has never yet been different from what it was even then, and is today, and still will be tens of
thousands of years hence; for it is eternal!
Therefore learn to know the Laws contained in the great Book of the entire Creation. To submit to
them means: To love God! For then you will bring no discord into the harmony, but will help to bring the
resounding chord to its full magnificence.
Whether you say: I voluntarily submit to the existing Laws of Nature because it is for my own good,
or: I submit to God’s Will, Which manifests in the Laws of Nature, or to the unfathomable Power Which
activates the Laws of Nature... would the effect be any different? The Power is there and you recognize it,
you simply must acknowledge it, because as soon as you reflect a little there is nothing else you can do...
and thereby you acknowledge your God, the Creator!
And this Power also operates within you when you are thinking! Therefore do not misuse it to evil
purpose, but think good thoughts! Never forget: When you are producing thoughts you are using Divine
Power, with which you can achieve the purest and highest!
Try never to forget here that all the consequences of your thoughts always fall back upon you in
proportion to the power, importance and extent of the effect of the thoughts for good or evil.
Since thought is spiritual, however, the consequences will return spiritually. They will thus affect you
no matter whether here on earth, or later in the spiritual after your departure. Being spiritual they are by
no means bound to the material either. Thus it follows that the disintegration of the body does not prevent
the consequences from taking effect! The requital in the reaction will surely come, sooner or later, here or
hereafter, with all certainty. The spiritual link with all your works remains firm; for indeed earthly,
material works also have a spiritual origin through the creative thought, and will remain in existence even
when everything earthly has passed away. It is therefore rightly said: “Your works await you, in so far as
the effect has not yet reached you through the reaction.”
If you are still here on earth when a reaction is due, or if you are again here, the consequences ...to be continued

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Sometimes I always enjoyed you people,of certain understanding to the words of God, you believed that whatsoever man does,is coming back to him.what about if that person (s), repent, and changes from his or her old ways, will the person still be punished? and why?

jom28gy:
Sometimes I always enjoyed you people,of certain understanding to the words of God, you believed that whatsoever man does,is coming back to him.what about if that person (s), repent, and changes from his or her old ways, will the person still be punished? and why?

What a lovely question. Well yoruba's have this adage that "something meant to kill a man if it just fall off the man's cap then we should be thankful" repentance definitely will impact a man's karma by subsiding it, but he must definitely experience a dose of the karma but not as much as if he doesn't repent.

GRAILMESSAGE:

What a lovely question. Well yoruba's have this adage that "something meant to kill a man if it just fall off the man's cap then we should be thankful" repentance definitely will impact a man's karma by subsiding it, but he must definitely experience a dose of the karma but not as much as if he doesn't repent.

ok, what the believe you people have on reincarnation

jom28gy:
ok, what the believe you people have on reincarnation

if you come to this Earth and you fail to fulfill your earthly purpose then reincarnation is sure especially if you are strongly attached to material things

GRAILMESSAGE:

if you come to this Earth and you fail to fulfill your earthly purpose then reincarnation is sure especially if you are strongly attached to material things

hmmm, your party right

jom28gy:
hmmm, your party right

partly? explain more