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


To be continued

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