the Sphere of Spiritual Substantiality, He does not demand to know beforehand what their decision will
be. It is only the consequence of such a decision which He can clearly recognize up to its end, because it
will then have to take its effect within His Will which rests in the laws governing Ethereal and Gross
Material Creation. If it were otherwise the reason could only be found in a lack of perfection, and this is
absolutely out of the question.
Thus man should always be fully conscious of this his immense responsibility of being truly
independent in his basic decisions. Unfortunately, however, he imagines himself either as a totally
dependent servant or, over-rating himself, as a part of the Divine. The probable reason for this is that in
both cases he considers himself relieved of all responsibility. In the one case as being too low and
dependent a creature, and in the other case as standing far above it. Both of these views are wrong! He
should look upon himself as a steward who has the right of free decision-making in certain matters, but
who also bears full responsibility, who thus enjoys great confidence, but who must not abuse it by being a
bad householder.
And it is just this perfection which makes it necessary that, when sending direct help to mankind
traveling on a wrong course, the Creator must reckon with the possibility of mankind failing in their
decision-making. In His Wisdom and Love, inherent, lawful and natural attributes of the Creator, He has
still other ways of helping in readiness which then link up as a continuation of the first path which might
have been cut off through the failure of mankind.
Thus before the Son of God was incarnated upon earth, another Messenger was being prepared in the
Eternal Kingdom of the Father for another mission, in case humanity should fail in spite of the Father’s
great sacrifice of Love. If mankind did not heed the warning of the Son of God, in His Pure Divine
nature, to the extent that they reset the switches in the direction He showed then, but blindly continued on
their course leading to destruction, then another Messenger was to come forth Who could stand closer to
the innermost nature of mankind than did the Son of God, so as to once more warn them and lead them in
the last hour if — — — — they desired to listen to His call of Truth. That is the Son of Man.
Christ, as the Son of God, knew about this. Upon recognizing during His Mission just how choked
and parched were the souls of men, it became clear to Him that His Ministry on earth would not bear the
fruit which, should have ripened had the volition of mankind been good. He grieved deeply at this, for,
knowing the Laws of Creation that bear the Will of His Father so well, He could clearly foresee the way
things were bound to develop towards the inevitable end, which the nature and volition of man were
certain to bring about. It was then that he began to speak about the Son of Man, Whose advent would
become necessary because of the course which events had taken. The more He fulfilled His great
Mission, which left two ways open depending on the decision by mankind either for a great following of
His teachings with subsequent ascent and avoidance of all that brings destruction, or for failure and
continuing to rush on the downward track which had to lead to destruction, the more clearly He saw that
the decision of the great majority of mankind was inclined towards failure and thus towards destruction.
Consequently His statements about the Son of Man formed themselves into direct promises and
proclamations, such as when He declared: “But when the Son of Man cometh...” etc.
Therewith He referred to the time just prior to the danger of destruction, which was bound to be the
ultimate end according to the Divine Laws operating in the World of Matter, because of the failure of
mankind in connection with His Mission and their insistence on continuing on their chosen course. This
realization caused Him intense suffering.
Every transmission insisting that Jesus, the Son of God, at the same time called Himself the Son of
Man is wrong. The Divine Laws cannot hold anything so illogical, nor can it be ascribed to the Son of
God Who Himself knew the Laws and carried them within Him. The disciples were not familiar with this,
as was evident from their questions. They alone spread the error which has prevailed up to the present
day. They thought that the Son of God meant Himself when He used the expression Son of Man and,
acting on this assumption, transmitted this error to posterity, which did no more concern itself with the
inherent lack of logic than did the Disciples themselves, but they simply glossed over it, partly from
diffidence and partly from indolence, although the all-embracing Love of the Creator would have
evidenced itself all the more clearly and powerfully by a rectification of the error. Following in the
footsteps of the Son of God, that is, the taking up and carrying on of His Mission, the Son of Man will
meet mankind on earth as the second Envoy of God the Father, so as to pull them back from their present
course by proclaiming the Truth, and inducing them to voluntarily decide on a different setting of the switches that will lead them away from the points of destruction that now await them.
Son of God – Son of Man! It is surely not so hard to discover that there must be a difference between
these Two. Each of these words has its own clearly defined, absolutely distinct meaning, which must
brand as indolent thinking any mixing and fusing into one. Hearers and readers of the lectures will be
aware of how the natural process of development, beginning with Primordial Light, which is God the
Father, descends right down to the globes of the Gross Material World. The Son of God came from
Divine Unsubstantiate, quickly passing through Spiritual Substantiality and ethereal matter to be
incarnated in the World of Gross Matter. Therefore He must rightfully be called the part of God or the
Son of God who had become man. His rapid transit through the Sphere of Spiritual Substantiality, where
the human spirit has its origin, permitted Him neither there, nor subsequently in the ethereal part of
Creation, to gain a foothold strong enough so that His Divine-Unsubstantiate Spirit could obtain the
strong protecting cloaks of these different species; the cloaks, which otherwise serve as a protective
armor, remained thin. This had the advantage that the innermost Divine nature radiated through and shone
forth more easily and strongly, but it also had the drawback that in the regions of the earth hostile to the
Light it was all the more quickly opposed and furiously attacked because It stood out. The strong, only
thinly veiled Divine part, in the physical vessel, had to remain a stranger among men, because It stood too
far apart. Figuratively speaking, one might say that His Divine Spirit was insufficiently armored and
equipped for the lower Gross Material Sphere, through lack of absorption from the Sphere of Spiritual
Substantiality and the Ethereal World. The gulf between the Divine and earthly was but slightly bridged.
As mankind neither heeded nor treasured this gift of Divine Love but, through the natural instinct of
all Darkness, met the luminous Son of God with animosity and hatred, a second Envoy had to come in the
Son of Man, who is better equipped for the World of Gross Matter.
The Son of Man is also an Envoy of God and has issued from the Divine Unsubstantiate. Before
beginning His Mission in the World of Gross Matter, He, however, was incarnated in the World of Pure-
Spiritual Substantiality, and was thus closely connected with that spiritual species in which the seed-germ
of the human spirit originates! Thus the Divine Unsubstantiate core of this second Envoy comes nearer to
the origin of the human spirit, thereby gaining greater protection and direct power against it.
For in the utmost heights of this same nature of the human spirit, there lives for everything in
existence a perfect ideal of what the evolution from out of Spiritual-Substantiality holds. This also
includes the eternal, Pure-Spiritual-Substantial ideal of all femininity, as queen of womanhood as it were,
with all the living virtues. Each female spirit germ bears the unconscious yearning within it to emulate
this pure living ideal in its most noble form. Unfortunately, during the journey through materiality, this
subconscious yearning often degenerates into vanity, which, in pretense and in self-deceit, is meant to
replace much that never came to life, although it was yearned for. However, this yearning becomes more
conscious during the ascent to the Light while still in the fine-material world. As soon as the base desires
begin to fall away this yearning breaks through more and more vigorously in order to finally invigorate
and energize the virtues. The magnet and the focal point of this noble yearning for the female virtues is
the queen of womanhood in the eternal Kingdom of the Father, the Pure-Spiritual-Substantiality. The
Divine-Unsubstantiate core of the second Messenger of God was now embedded into this Spiritual-
Substantiate ideal of womanhood and raised by her as the Spiritual-Substantiate mother in the eternal
Kingdom of God the Father with the Grail Castle being the home of His spiritual youth. It was only after
being in this sphere that He was sent down on His Mission to the World of Gross Matter at a time which
enabled Him to arrive at the proper hour on the field of battle, there to show the right way into the
Kingdom of the Father to all those seriously seeking God and asking for spiritual guidance and, at the
same time, to protect them against the attacks of those who are hostile to them and who are on a
downward course.
Because, as opposed to the Son of God, He spent His spiritual youth in the Spiritual-Substantiate, i.e.,
the origin and starting point of the human spirit, He is therefore rooted at the same time not only in the
Divine-Unsubstantiate but also firmly in the Spiritual-Substantiate, thereby, in His nature, He coming
closer to mankind and in the pairing of origin and youth, He is effectively God-man! Issuing from the
Divine-Unsubstantiate as well as the Pure-Spiritual-Substantiality, which is the origin of man. It is for
this reason that He is called the Son of Man, as opposed to the pure Son of God, to whom the path to the
Divine-Unsubstantiate is open due to His origin! That is why He bears within Him Divine strength and
power and thus faces all of mankind, as well as Lucifer, well equipped for battle. Therefore, be on your guard, so that you will recognize Him as soon as His time is come, for that will
also be your time!