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GENESIS!
1:1
In the beginning God created
the heaven and the earth.!
LIVING GOD!
En Sôph
You still speak of a ‘God’ – the ‘creator’ of all things who ‘brought into
existence’ and maintains an endless world to glorify itself.!
Yet such a concept of God and such an explanation of the world’s
existence could only be excused in primitive times which had no
knowledge at all of the ways elements of Primal Being manifest themselves
today. Truly, this should cause you to expunge the old concepts from your
thinking. Wanting to hold on to them is folly and blasphemy in equal
measure! !
‘God’ is creator only of its own self in all that ‘exists’, and all that truly
‘exists’ is being of its being! !
God is only propagator of itself and is not, as you understand it, the
creator of humans and things! !
The powers – elements of Primal Being – which create all suns and
worlds are forms of the Spirit experiencing themselves in time and space
and thus crystallize in time and space into forms of time and space, only
temporal manifestation each time conditioned by space…!
However, elements of Primal Being are continually ejected from Primal
Being and continually return to it. So it was forever, and so shall it be
forever!!
Constantly alternating their effect, elements of Primal Being show
themselves: at times as powers creating phenomena, at other times as
powers destroying what they created. They themselves simply ‘exist’ from
Eternity to Eternity, irrespective of their alternating effect, and are ‘brought
about’ by no one…!
There was never a ‘beginning’, and never can there be an end to this
Eternal Life!!
The whole, vast Universe, saturated with forms, with all that is visible and
to you invisible, is but the reflecting surface of an eternal spiritual ‘sea’
from which the cloud of the Godhead arises through its own force! !
‘God’ requires the Universe, and the Universe requires ‘God’!
GENESIS!
1:2
And the earth was without
form, and void; and darkness
was upon the face of the
deep. And the Spirit of God
moved upon the face of the
waters.
LIVING GOD!
The Path
You have been given a false idea of ‘God’; idle doctrine has strangled the
seed in you from which the ‘lotus flower’ should have blossomed in the
sacred waters of your deepest soul, the ‘lotus flower’ in which can be
‘born’ the light which shall eternally illuminate you…!
“The Spirit which hovered over the waters” fills endless space, but you
can only approach it – in yourself! !
Only when it takes form in you – as your God – from Light unto Light, will
you be able to bear witness to its silent rule!
GENESIS!
1:27
So God created man in his
own image, in the image of
God created he him; male
and female created he them.
MORE LIGHT!
True Service
In this inner quiet we may find the archetypal image of our own true Self,
which is our Living God: the indwelling God that in every moment of our
existence creates us after its own image anew, and whose expression of
timeless, ongoing creation we are.!
Our task is to bring ourselves into alignment with this divine source so
that, out of the consciousness of our Living God, we may become able to
preserve the consciousness of our own identity throughout Eternity.!
…It is this curbing of the intellect that alone makes possible the great
“letting be”—the state that must be attained if the energies with which we
sense and feel can become willing servants of the inner God from whom
our being emanates—if the Human Being of Eternity within the earthly
human can be resurrected from its grave, born anew out of the Spirit—in
the image and likeness of its ‘Father’ who dwells within it in its ‘heaven’.
MAN!
Introduction
The breadth of the concept of ‘humanity’, if it really is to encompass the
human being and not just one of its countless appearances in the spiritual
and physically perceptible cosmos, will be told to you in this ‘Book on
Man’. I believe you will no longer smile at the words of the sage once you
have recognized in yourself the things I have to say to you…!
You will then understand what this ancient holy sentence means:!
“The Elohim created man in the likeness of God.”!
You will then no longer search for ‘primeval humans’ on this planet; you
will recognize that what you hitherto have described as such should more
correctly be described as a primeval animal from which the more refined
animal evolved which now fulfills its role as carrier and tool of the human
being, enabling it to experience itself in the physical world…!
You will also never again dream of ‘heaven on Earth’ for you will have
recognized that not even the animal, serving humanity in this material
world, could find its ‘heaven’ here, that that true ‘human being’, however,
once, long ago, possessed its heaven, before throwing itself into the realm
of physical creation where the ‘animal human’ must lend its powers to it so
that it might find its way back to this heaven…
MAN!
Path of Woman
With this tearing away from the world of spiritual appearance and its new
attachment to the animal body, the ‘fall’ from exalted illumination is now
finally completed. The spiritual human, hitherto ‘man’ and ‘woman’ –
united in the same perception of ‘I’ and continuing to propagate in all other
spiritual worlds – is now cut into two. For in the world of physical
appearance the poles ‘man’ and ‘woman’ are of necessity separated from
each other, since this world only exists in the continual ‘tension’ resulting
from the separateness of the two original poles .
GENESIS!
3:4-10!
GENESIS!
3:16-19
4 And the serpent said unto
the woman, Ye shall not
surely die:!
5 For God doth know that in
the day ye eat thereof, then
your eyes shall be opened,
and ye shall be as gods,
knowing good and evil.!
6 ..and she took of the fruit
thereof, and did eat, and
gave also unto her husband
with her; and he did eat.!
7 And the eyes of them both
were opened, and they knew
that they were naked; and
they sewed fig leaves
together, and made
themselves aprons.!
8 And they heard the voice of
the LORD God walking in the
garden in the cool of the day:
and Adam and his wife hid
themselves from the
presence of the LORD God
amongst the trees of the
garden.!
9 And the LORD God called
unto Adam, and said unto
him, Where art thou?!
10 And he said, I heard thy
voice in the garden, and I
was afraid, because I was
naked; and I hid myself…!
16 Unto the woman he said, I
will greatly multiply thy
sorrow and thy conception;
in sorrow thou shalt bring
forth children; and thy desire
shall be to thy husband, and
he shall rule over thee.
LIVING GOD!
Karma
Unimaginable ages ago you were once united with your Living God as a
purely spiritual being in the Spirit’s all-embracing, all-pervading life and
substance. All the vast domains of the invisible realm of the physical world,
– an immeasurable dimension of the universe, – were then accessible to
your active will, and you were their ruler…!
A field of influence was open to you which reached from the purest Spirit
into ever denser forms. So it was that you reached the frontier where what
is invisible and physical assumes the denseness of matter perceived by
earthly senses.You saw the frightening powers of eternal chaos at work –
the repelling powers of absolute, rigid ‘nothingness’ as dense as lava, and
you succumbed to its animosity towards all that ‘is’…!
But you never would have had to succumb to those powers if, – giddy
with your own power, you had not fallen away from your God. And so you
became helpless and lost your supreme power. Now you had to become
prey to baser powers which – continually under the influence of the
resilient effects of absolute ‘nothingness’ – seek to destroy everything in
their constant hostility, turning into ‘nothingness’ everything which
penetrates them from the spheres of eternally pure being: – everything
which ‘falls’ into their dark zone of influence. !
Even the powers you previously mastered, and with which you could
have easily subjugated those powers now ‘hostile’ towards you and
transform them into obedient servants of your will, had become too mighty
for you, too powerful…!
And so you grew afraid of your own once mastered powers. From this
fear came the urge to find a new and different life in the realms of material
tangibility, the realms of this Universe that can be apprehended with
physical senses, a Universe which conceals those frightening powers from
those who do not break through the barriers erected here. !
Your will had fallen from that sublime illumination and now wanted to
enter the world of physical matter along with you…You were at home in the
‘world of causes’, – yet your fear drove you out into the ‘world of effects’.!
This is the truth found in legends of a ‘paradise’ and of the ‘fall’ of
humanity by the committing of ‘sin’!!
Before this fall you had already created your ‘karma’ as the Orient calls
the line of causes of the fate of every person on Earth – by the ‘degree’ of
your ‘turning away’ from your God – by the ‘degree’ of your frenzied
madness trying to teach you to see a ‘God’ in yourself.!
–– “Eritis sicut Deus….” [“You will be like God…”]!
You decided on the time when you were to be born into this earthly
world, your ancestral lineage and the ways your fate on Earth would follow,
when you turned from being a ruler in the spiritual world through the power
GENESIS!
3:22-24
17 And unto Adam he said,
Because thou hast
hearkened unto the voice of
thy wife, and hast eaten of
the tree, of which I
commanded thee, saying,
Thou shalt not eat of it:
cursed is the ground for thy
sake; in sorrow shalt thou
eat of it all the days of thy
life;!
18 Thorns also and thistles
shall it bring forth to thee;
and thou shalt eat the herb
of the field;!
19 In the sweat of thy face
shalt thou eat bread, till thou
return unto the ground; for
out of it wast thou taken: for
dust thou art, and unto dust
shalt thou return.!
22 And the LORD God said,
Behold, the man is become
as one of us, to know good
and evil: and now, lest he
put forth his hand, and take
also of the tree of life, and
eat, and live for ever:!
23 Therefore the LORD God
sent him forth from the
garden of Eden, to till the
ground from whence he was
taken.!
24 So he drove out the man;
and he placed at the east of
the garden Cherubims, and
a flaming sword which
turned every way, to keep
the way of the tree of life.
MORE LIGHT!
Architects!
LIVING GOD!
On Seeking
God!
SHOW WAY!
Urge To
Criticize!
of your God to a slave of baser powers in a world where every deed has,
and must have, its 'consequence’, since it is but a reflection of effect and
powerless in willing to end the chain of occurrence within its sphere.!
In all yearning for analytical knowledge nothing other is seen than the
calamity which drove humanity from ‘paradise’: seen in it is an expression
of the stupidity which acts no differently than one who puts a clock in
strong acid in order to get to the bottom of its secret mechanism, thinking
that once it was dissolved into atoms it would reveal the answer.!
In those spheres one knows that every analytical wanting-to-know leads
in the opposite direction, opposing the cosmic law which brings forth
forms from points of power within chaos, whose true explanation can only
be found in the highest spiritual forms. There one knows that every higher
form illuminates the lower, but that any deduction from the lower to the
higher, even if it seems to offer satisfying results within certain limits, is
nevertheless an illusory deduction.!
You have been told that the human of the Earth is a ‘god’ in disguise
and must only come to recognize itself in order to find itself as ‘God’ for
all Eternity.!
Those who spoke these words to you were truly far removed from God,
further than they knew!!
You are not God; however, your God can manifest himself in you alone
on this earth, and then you are united with your God in the same way as
words and meaning are united in a song! !
Then nothing will ever be able to separate you from your God! He will be
‘alive’ in you through all Eternity! !
The urge to criticize is the sickness with which the ‘serpent’ in ‘Paradise’
infects humanity. Perhaps one can now better understand, after the words
of explanation given here, the tempting words which were whispered by
the satanic principle to man in the mythical narrative:!
“You will be as gods – knowing good and evil!” !
Most bleak and, ultimately, transient ‘gods’ are those who partake of such
‘knowledge’!!
As far as the eternal essential Spirit is concerned everything ‘evil’ is but
temporal, transient error whose physical reality is ‘non-existent’ to spiritual
consciousness, for, only that which experiences itself in the Spirit alone, is
eternal perfection: the primally begotten and eternally self-generating
'good'.
LOVE!
Creative Power!
MAN!
Truly, there is no realm of occult powers which provides such possibilities
of deception than that of sexual mystery! Woe to those who believe they
can find here what they seek!!
At best they will awaken their somnambulist powers which will willingly
provide them with illusions to feed their imagination, until, too late, in their
entanglement imagining themselves ‘as gods’ and now being beyond
redemption, they discover with despair that they had listened to the
‘serpent of paradise’.!
Whoever recognizes himself as being on these paths should tear himself
away with all haste from everything binding him to these paths; for the
danger is ineffably great!
MAN!
Path of the
Woman!
The myth of the Garden of Eden has ‘Eve’ tempted by the ‘serpent’, and
she in turn tempts ‘Adam’. Although this myth as we know it today may
not have been handed down to us in its original form, it nevertheless
clearly demonstrates that one initiated in an eternally recurring process
sought to convey to later generations that knowledge, symbolically
concealed within an account couched in the language of his times, should
they recognize his symbolic language.!
Those who can interpret the words of this initiate will also find the further
consequences for ‘man’ and ‘woman’ in their divided state on Earth
described in words this wise man has the ‘Lord’ speak to ‘Adam’ and
‘Eve’, words which assign the measure of the consequence of guilt with
significant differentiation.!
In the continually recurring process of the ‘fall’ – in every individual fall –
it is the ‘feminine’ pole, by nature passive, which first succumbs to ‘original
guilt’ through fear, and first gives way to the attractive forces of the
physical world.!
Yet the masculine pole is in no way free of guilt, as though it were merely
the ‘victim’ of its union with the feminine pole! The ‘guilt’ of the ‘masculine’
pole lies in the abdication of its active resistance within bipolar common
life at the moment the feminine pole was threatened by fear and attraction.!
Thus it is that the two poles exchange roles—a spiritual perversion by
which the feminine pole takes on the active, and the masculine pole the
passive attitude, making the ‘fall’ into the physical phenomenal world
inevitable. Yet decisive as ‘original guilt’ is only the positive act of will
within the feminine pole. !
Therefore, in the myth of the ‘fall of man’, the ‘curse’ which afflicts
humanity is in the ‘woman’, promising the woman in the earthly form
physical pain, fear and distress such that cannot be spared the physical
animal body, and that continual struggle with the elusive ‘serpent’ of
physical sensory perception. For the ‘man’ this form of perception itself is
devalued by the curse put upon it. He is promised only the toil and torment
which is bound up with existence in the physical form of perception.!
Thus, further on in the myth, we find the words of the ‘Lord’ to the
‘woman’ in man: !
“Thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee!” !
How often have these words been misused to condone the repression of
feminine individuality by citing them to justify the unconditional domination
of the husband in marriage, supposedly granted in the text!
GENESIS!
6:2
That the sons of God saw the
daughters of men that they
were fair; and they took them
wives of all which they
chose.
MAN!
Path of the
Woman
It is initially the feminine pole in the spiritual phenomenal human which
causes this ‘fall’ and covets existence in animal form. However, in spiritual
realms nothing can continue to exist where only one of the two poles of
‘man’–‘woman’ would be effective. Thus the male pole must follow the
‘fall’ at the same time.!
The female pole immediately finds in its ‘fall’ an animal form already
‘created’ from spiritual humanity's earliest procreation and compels the
masculine pole to covet the same form for itself. !
“That the sons of the Gods saw the daughters of men that they were fair;
and took them wives of all which they chose.”!
The daughters of the Gods had already here become ‘daughters of the
Earth! And the sons of the Gods followed suit!!
In this way we could describe in earthly terms the ever recurring process
which eventually enslaves the spiritual human to the manifestation
belonging to the world of physical-sensory phenomena.
GENESIS!
11:1-9
1 And the whole earth was of
one language, and of one
speech.!
2 And it came to pass, as
they journeyed from the east,
that they found a plain in the
land of Shinar; and they
dwelt there.!
3 And they said one to
another, Go to, let us make
brick, and burn them
throughly. And they had brick
for stone, and slime had they
for morter.!
4 And they said, Go to, let us
build us a city and a tower,
whose top may reach unto
heaven; and let us make us a
name, lest we be scattered
abroad upon the face of the
whole earth.!
5 And the LORD came down
to see the city and the tower,
which the children of men
builded.!
6 And the LORD said,
Behold, the people is one,
and they have all one
language; and this they begin
to do: and now nothing will
be restrained from them,
which they have imagined to
do.!
7 Go to, let us go down, and
there confound their
language, that they may not
understand one another's
speech.!
THE SECRET!
Rocky Island
We too must—if the temple we are ourselves is to tower with its dome
high up into the kingdom of pure Spirit—lay the foundation stone in the
Earth’s interior. In this way it will be anchored there, while we add brick
upon brick according to the plan revealed within ourselves.!
If we do otherwise and make so bold as to build on the Earth’s surface,
we will be like those sinners in the legend of the ‘Tower of Babel’ which
collapsed within itself because the building powers could no longer
understand each other…!
We may also think we can erect the tower of a temple rising into the
heavens, on the surface of the external knowledge which gives us our
earthly delusions and thoughts, but whoever builds with such folly will be
shunned by true spiritual architects. !
Those who rely solely on lower earthly powers may well suffice for a time
as apparently capable builders. But once the uppermost height, still
controllable by their powers, has been reached, their ‘language will be
become confused’ so that they end up destroying what they once
created……
8 So the LORD scattered
them abroad from thence
upon the face of all the earth:
and they left off to build the
city.!
9 Therefore is the name of it
called Babel; because the
LORD did there confound the
language of all the earth: and
from thence did the LORD
scatter them abroad upon
the face of all the earth.
GENESIS!
14:18
And Melchizedek king of
Salem brought forth bread
and wine: and he was the
priest of the most high God.
MORE LIGHT!
Architects
Only then is he who is born to be a master also de facto a ‘master’; only
then is he aware of his priestly status ‘after the order of Melchizedek’.
During his years of development he had to pass through the most diverse
stages of occult-spiritual possibilities, like the child in the womb passes
through all stages of life which are below those of earthly humans. In this
way, he who was still not perfect stood at a crossroads offering him the
freedom to mature into a fakir or into a spiritual master.!
Here it will remain in existence until the end of the days on this Earth,
and with it for all time those eternally ordained to it and who belong to it as
‘priests after the order of Melchizedek’ – the ‘order’ which the Eternal sets
up for itself within the temporal!!
Only for these exceptionally few men of this Earth, whose eternal
spiritual essence received the form of consciousness for it from the
‘Sophia’ – the wisdom! – of God as the eternal feminine pole of the
substantial Spirit, is it ever possible according to this order, to
communicate the recognition and the knowledge about the Sophia in God
to their fellow humans on Earth!
GENESIS!
17:5
Neither shall thy name any
more be called Abram, but
thy name shall be Abraham;
for a father of many nations
have I made thee.
LIVING GOD!
Supernatural
And not without reason let us here remember those words from Genesis:!
“Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be
Abraham…”!
And likewise: “Thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but !
Israel shall be thy name…”!
‘The name’ of an individual spiritual being is something completely
different from the name taken from external circumstances given to a
mortal human by the tradition and language of his land and people. !
The human of this Earth too is a spiritual individuality, but it does not yet
know ‘its name’, – apart from very few exceptions which can appear in any
age. Only after it has become aware of his substantial spirituality does it
also know ‘its name’.!
Thus the ‘name’ of a true ‘initiate’, one ‘consecrated’ in the Spirit, in the
past often kept most secret for fear of ‘desecrating’ it through common
usage, is truly not any arbitrary designation such as is the ‘ordinary’ so
called name derived from the ancestral home or trade, from a
characteristic found in distant forefathers or ultimately the whims of one’s
parents! !
It is bestowed upon the ‘admitted’ son and brother by the ‘eldest’ among
the brothers. In the ‘language of letters’ used by the ‘brothers on Earth’ it
describes those powers which come into effect in the brother’s spiritual
being…!
Its ‘main’ power, however, resides in certain ‘letters’, so that the brother
could also ‘name’ himself by using other words as long as the ‘letters’
which constitute his ‘cosmic number’ – his spiritual and eternally ever
existing, substantially spiritual ‘name’ – are contained within them…!
The ‘name’ with its eternal spiritual validity continues to be hidden by an
inherently sanctified veil. The name cannot be ‘pronounced’ by any one, –
even if one knows the main ‘letters’, except the one who is himself this
‘name’… !
In his ‘name’ the brother is a ‘word’ within the Primal Word: – as the self-
expression of the Primal Word in an individual, self-aware, substantial,
spiritual form…
GENESIS!
32:26
And he said, Let me go, for
the day breaketh. And he
said, I will not let thee go,
except thou bless me.
PATH PUPILS!
Self-torment
It was once said about the ‘kingdom of God’ that only those who used
‘force’ could take it, – but what is meant here by ‘force’ can only properly
be known by comparing this saying with the words of Jacob who wrestled
with the angel: “I will not let you go unless you bless me!”
GENESIS!
32:28
And he said, Thy name shall
be called no more Jacob, but
Israel: for as a prince hast
thou power with God and
with men, and hast prevailed.
LIVING GOD!
Supernatural
And not without reason let us here remember those words from Genesis: !
“Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be
Abraham…” And likewise:!
“Thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy
name…”
EXODUS!
13:21
And the LORD went before
them by day in a pillar of a
cloud, to lead them the way;
and by night in a pillar of fire,
to give them light; to go by
day and night:
LIVING GOD!
The Path
All great things demand courage and belief! Before you have hung ‘on
the cross’ you cannot ‘rise again’! !
Before you have faith, the ‘pillar of fire’ can not lead you through the
‘parted’ sea!
EXODUS !
17:1-7
1 And all the congregation of
the children of Israel
journeyed from the
wilderness of Sin, after their
journeys, according to the
commandment of the LORD,
and pitched in Rephidim: and
there was no water for the
people to drink.!
2 Wherefore the people did
chide with Moses, and said,
Give us water that we may
drink. And Moses said unto
them, Why chide ye with me?
wherefore do ye tempt the
LORD?!
3 And the people thirsted
there for water; and the
people murmured against
Moses, and said, Wherefore
is this that thou hast brought
us up out of Egypt, to kill us
and our children and our
cattle with thirst?!
4 And Moses cried unto the
LORD, saying, What shall I
do unto this people? they be
almost ready to stone me.!
5 And the LORD said unto
Moses, Go on before the
people, and take with thee of
the elders of Israel; and thy
rod, wherewith thou smotest
the river, take in thine hand,
and go.!
6 Behold, I will stand before
thee there upon the rock in
Horeb; and thou shalt smite
the rock, and there shall
WSDOM JOHN!
Earthly Path
When the Master then arrived [in Jerusalem], they went out beyond the
city gates to welcome him with jubilation – men, women and children, –
and their spokesmen demanded that he lead them against the oppressors.!
Overwhelmed by everything he saw, he lost at this moment the security
of his inner calling, and just as Moses in the legend doubted whether he
could provide water for the people, so he believed, for moments only, that
the power they wanted to bestow upon him could support his mission.!
Only too soon did he realize his error; he had scarcely entered the city,
when he withdrew from the excited mob and sought refuge in the house of
one of his distinguished friends until the crowd had been dispersed by the
Roman guards.!
Nonetheless, the consequences of his moment of dithering could not be
avoided any more, whether in the spiritual realm or on Earth. Hated for a
long time as a bitter critic of the priest of the temple and feared on account
of his reputation among the people, he had created himself the opportunity
for accusations to be brought against him with the Roman authorities that
he was one who resisted their rule: an agitator who wanted to be king over
his people.
come water out of it, that the
people may drink. And
Moses did so in the sight of
the elders of Israel.!
7 And he called the name of
the place Massah, and
Meribah, because of the
chiding of the children of
Israel, and because they
tempted the LORD, saying, Is
the LORD among us, or not?
EXODUS!
20:2-4
2 I am the LORD thy God,
which have brought thee out
of the land of Egypt, out of
the house of bondage.!
3 Thou shalt have no other
gods before me.!
4 Thou shalt not make unto
thee any graven image, or
any likeness of any thing that
is in heaven above, or that is
in the earth beneath, or that
is in the water under the
earth:
ROYAL ART!
Luminary!
Speaks
Hear the ancient misinterpreted words with new understanding! Listen
with shaking heart:!
‘I’ – ‘am the Lord!’ – says your God…‘You shall seek no other gods!’ !
‘You shall create no image to yourself and make it into your own ‘god’; it
would be a monstrous distortion of yourself, existing only through your
desire until the time you vanish from the Earth!'!
Destroy the false gods that cloud your mind if you would approach the
only eternal One–-your living God!!
Your God is within yourself, and only within yourself can you perceive its
presence! Only within yourself can it be born to you…!
Only within yourself can it make itself perceptible to you!!
You shall seek no other ‘god’ than the God within you! You shall want to
worship no other ‘god’!
NUMBERS!
20:8,11,12
8 Take the rod, and gather
thou the assembly together,
thou, and Aaron thy brother,
and speak ye unto the rock
before their eyes; and it shall
give forth his water, and thou
shalt bring forth to them
water out of the rock: so thou
shalt give the congregation
and their beasts drink.!
11 And Moses lifted up his
hand, and with his rod he
smote the rock twice: and
the water came out
abundantly, and the
congregation drank, and their
beasts also.!
12 And the LORD spake unto
Moses and Aaron, Because
ye believed me not, to
sanctify me in the eyes of the
children of Israel, therefore
ye shall not bring this
congregation into the land
which I have given them.
WSDOM JOHN!
Earthly Path
*** see EXODUS 17:1-7 ***
JOB!
19:25
For I know that my redeemer
liveth, and that he shall stand
at the latter day upon the
earth:
LOVE!
Primordial Fire
If you truly would prove yourself worthy of the carpenter, a Luminary of
the Primal Light, as is also the one who writes these words, then be
prepared to awaken within you the exalted love which must consume you,
if it is to transform you into a new being!!
Only then will you truly be his pupil, his disciple!!
Only then will he know you to be within his love, just as he knew himself
to be within his ‘Father’s’ love! !
Only then will he be able to recognize you as one of those whom the
‘Father’ loves because they found perfection in the Father’s ‘son’…!
Only then will Jehoshuah, the carpenter from Nazareth, of whom the
ancient record speaks but who has been estranged from you by followers
of the ancient myths of the gods – those who thought him far too close to
humanity and therefore draped him in the apparel of their delusion of
divinity,!
Only then will he come close to you, and only then you may say in truth:!
“I know that my redeemer lives!”!
– – the ‘Son’ of Man who in his day could confirm to his disciples that he
would spiritually abide with them “unto the end of the world!”
PSALMS!
35:9
And my soul shall be joyful in
the LORD: it shall rejoice in
his salvation.
WORLDS!
Visions
Now he is in the interior of the sanctuary of mysteries, and at once he
feels as though the ‘animal’ has slipped away from him.!
He feels himself once more as spiritual being, and from the deepest
ardor of his feeling pour from his lips the words: ‘DE PROFUNDIS’ from the
depths, O Lord, redeem my soul!!
In devotion he bows before the image of God he sees in the depths of
the illuminated room. His prayer appears to him here to be the first
redemption from unbearable torment…
PSALMS!
110:1-4
1 The LORD said unto my
Lord, Sit thou at my right
hand, until I make thine
enemies thy footstool.!
2 The LORD shall send the
rod of thy strength out of
Zion: rule thou in the midst of
thine enemies.!
3 Thy people shall be willing
in the day of thy power, in the
beauties of holiness from the
womb of the morning: thou
hast the dew of thy youth.!
4 The LORD hath sworn, and
will not repent, Thou art a
priest for ever after the order
of Melchizedek.
MORE LIGHT!
Architects
***see GENESIS 14:18 ***
PSALMS !
118:22
The stone which the builders
refused is become the head
stone of the corner.
MORE LIGHT!
Architects
May it become easier for some embarking on a search for ‘the Light’, to
trust that their path is protected – ‘by the masters of the illuminated day’,
the architects of the cathedral of humanity to whom the master of all
masters gave the measurement of the ‘corner stone’ containing within it all
‘accurate scales’ of the spiritual!
MORE LIGHT!
Theosophy
Yet the ‘Son of God’ of the Gospels never thought of regarding his
human personality as the only bearer of this sonship on earth. Only his
later exegetes misunderstood his words in this manner, twisting and
distorting their meaning.!
Countless are the errors derived from ignorance about the Christos-
mystery; it would have been very easy to avoid many false teachings, had
the saying been understood:!
“I am the door: if any man enter in through me he shall be blessed.”!
In this way the “the stone set as the cornerstone has been rejected by the
builders” and men seek on false paths, for the path which is ‘truth’ and
‘life’ appears inaccessible to them.
DANIEL!
9:27
And he shall confirm the
covenant with many for one
week: and in the midst of the
week he shall cause the
sacrifice and the oblation to
cease, and for the
overspreading of
abominations he shall make
it desolate, even until the
consummation, and that
determined shall be poured
upon the desolate.
LOVE!
Creative Power
But those who are still able to move, including even me will suddenly
amaze the world with their work!!
They will no longer tolerate ‘the outrage of devastating a holy place’ and
will erect the temple anew!
2MACCABEE!
12:43-45
43 And when he had made a
gathering throughout the
company to the sum of two
thousand drachms of silver,
he sent it to Jerusalem to
offer a sin offering, doing
therein very well and
honestly, in that he was
mindful of the resurrection:!
44 For if he had not hoped
that they that were slain
should have risen again, it
had been superfluous and
vain to pray for the dead.!
45 And also in that he
perceived that there was
great favor laid up for those
that died godly, it was an
holy and good thought.
Whereupon he made a
reconciliation for the dead,
that they might be delivered
from sin.
PRAYER!
Spiritual
Renewal
When the words are found in an ancient sacred book: “It is a sacred and
beneficial thought to pray for the dead, that they may be redeemed!” – one
may indeed be certain that only someone could write these words who has
seen behind the dense concealment which makes it impossible to see into
the ‘land without return’ for the human of the Earth who has not been
prepared for it…
MATTHEW!
1:23
Behold, a virgin shall be with
child, and shall bring forth a
son, and they shall call his
name Emmanuel, which
being interpreted is, God
with us.
MARRIAGE!
Holiness!
MORE LIGHT!
Comprehended!
MORE LIGHT!
Theosophy
*** see LUKE 1:34-38 ***
MATTHEW!
2:1-2
1 Now when Jesus was born
in Bethlehem of Judaea in
the days of Herod the king,
behold, there came wise men
from the east to Jerusalem,!
2 Saying, Where is he that is
born King of the Jews? for
we have seen his star in the
east, and are come to
worship him.
LOVE!
Great Man
But there was really no need for him to set off on a journey to India, for
what was bound to come to him ‘from India’ did indeed come. The
wondrous depiction of the ‘wise men from the Orient’, priest-kings who
saw ‘his star’ and brought him their gifts – was only backdated to his early
childhood because the writers of the account only knew it themselves as a
vague story, and because it better suited the miraculous they sought to
attach to the Master’s early childhood.
WSDOM JOHN!
Aftermath
Twelve months later they left Palestine for ever and wandered towards
the east: towards their homeland – near the highest mountains in the
world… !
They were in reality those ‘wise men’ from the east – priestly kings and
kingly priests – who once ‘saw far away in the east’ the ‘star’ of the young
carpenter from Galilee. They had come to teach him until the day he could
comprehend his mission himself – even if they did not, as later legend
would have it, kneel at the babe’s crib and offer him their gifts.
MATTHEW!
2:13-15
13 And when they were
departed, behold, the angel
of the Lord appeareth to
Joseph in a dream, saying,
Arise, and take the young
child and his mother, and flee
into Egypt, and be thou there
until I bring thee word: for
Herod will seek the young
child to destroy him.!
14 When he arose, he took
the young child and his
mother by night, and
departed into Egypt:!
WSDOM JOHN!
Earthly Path
He was born in Nazareth in Galilee – thus not only called a ‘Nazarene’
after a mystic sect – and taken by his father at a tender age, along with his
mother, to Egypt where at that time his father’s craft was well remunerated.
From this actual event later arose the legend of the ‘Flight into Egypt’.
THE SECRET!
Sea Journey
His wisdom did not come to him from Egypt nor from India; indeed, at
any time he can find the same wisdom who is worthy of it!!
It was his ‘Father’s’ power and wisdom which was revealed in him
according to his own words; but this ‘Father’s’ wisdom is no work of
thought but of wakeful being!
MATTHEW !
3:1-2
15 And was there until the
death of Herod: that it might
be fulfilled which was spoken
of the Lord by the prophet,
saying, Out of Egypt have I
called my son. !
1 In those days came John
the Baptist, preaching in the
wilderness of Judaea,!
2 And saying, Repent ye: for
the kingdom of heaven is at
hand.
LIVING GOD!
Himavat
Humanity is ready to recognize itself finally as part of the Earth…!
No longer will it dream of the cloudy thrones of their gods, and the new
day approaches when – probably for the first time – it will experience
within itself the meaning of those words once spoken by a man of God:!
“The kingdom of heaven is at hand.” – – –
MATTHEW!
4:1-11
1 Then was Jesus led up of
the Spirit into the wilderness
to be tempted of the devil.!
2 And when he had fasted
forty days and forty nights,
he was afterward an
hungred.!
3 And when the tempter
came to him, he said, If thou
be the Son of God,
command that these stones
be made bread.!
4 But he answered and said,
It is written, Man shall not
live by bread alone, but by
every word that proceedeth
out of the mouth of God.!
5 Then the devil taketh him
up into the holy city, and
setteth him on a pinnacle of
the temple,!
6 And saith unto him, If thou
be the Son of God, cast
thyself down: for it is written,
He shall give his angels
charge concerning thee: and
in their hands they shall bear
thee up, lest at any time thou
dash thy foot against a
stone.!
7 Jesus said unto him, It is
written again, Thou shalt not
tempt the Lord thy God.!
8 Again, the devil taketh him
up into an exceeding high
mountain, and sheweth him
all the kingdoms of the
world, and the glory of them;
GOLGOTHA!
Spiritual
Guidance
As long as the Earth has borne human beings, invisible essences of the
physical world have sought to offer themselves as “spiritual guides”
wherever there has been a demand for such guidance.Indeed, still far
higher ambitions were fulfilled for them through earthly men, and so many
“miracle”-working “gods”, in ancient, and, in certain cultural circles, in
current times, are to be found among their ranks; which possess many
kinds of differences, from beastly instinct to intelligence far beyond human
measure. !
For to these beings much is like an open book which to you is heavily
veiled; it is very easy for their cunning to discover what could most easily
convince you. –Nothing is “holy” to them; they know no “good” and no
“evil”!!
They are only pervaded by the urge to be recognized as real existences
by you and to thoroughly impress you, regardless of whether they achieve
this through sublime speeches, mean scolding, through prophecies and
good advice or through hoaxing and stupidity…!
It is even said of the exalted Anointed One of Nazareth that he was
tempted many times by the “devil”.!
Radical fasting had unexpectedly created a “mediumistic” situation in the
Anointed One. But he resisted temptation and from then on had the power
to “drive out devils” which were nothing other than those lemurian
creatures inhabiting the invisible sphere of the physical world of which I
here give warning.
9 And saith unto him, All
these things will I give thee, if
thou wilt fall down and
worship me. !
10 Then saith Jesus unto
him, Get thee hence, Satan:
for it is written, Thou shalt
worship the Lord thy God,
and him only shalt thou
serve.!
11 Then the devil leaveth
him, and, behold, angels
came and ministered unto
him.
MATTHEW!
4:4
4 But he answered and said,
It is written, Man shall not
live by bread alone, but by
every word that proceedeth
out of the mouth of God.
RESURRECT!
Festive Joy
“Man shall not live from bread alone, but by every word that proceeds
out of the mouth of God!”!
The nourishing word of God, however, will only enter you if you have
prepared your soul festively to receive it! !
As long as you are a workshop of the everyday – and you should be that
in your every day life – you will also have to make do with the spiritual food
everyday life provides. For the duration of your labors in the outer world
this nourishment will be sufficient for you.!
But at times your soul will become weary; you will notice this when it can
no longer partake of the food every day life offers it.!
It will then hunger after another kind of food which everyday life – though
rich in food for the soul – can never ever provide.!
In such hours you must know that the time has come to prepare a
festival for the soul!
MATTHEW!
4:19
And he saith unto them,
Follow me, and I will make
you fishers of men.
LOVE!
Great Man
For the sake of ‘fishing for men’ his teaching has been sinned against in
a way that is hard to put into words. These sins, committed by foolish
disseminators of badly distorted doctrine, still exert an influence today.
There is no end in sight for such misleading practices!
MATTHEW !
5:3
Blessed are the poor in spirit:
for theirs is the kingdom of
heaven.
WORLDS!
The Visions
But do not believe that you can force [your spiritual consciousness] to
awaken! You can only create afresh each day the preconditions, and must
tarry patiently until sooner or later awakening arrives spontaneously within
you. !
The most important precondition is the directing of your every thought
and striving towards extreme simplicity of feeling. !
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they shall inherit the kingdom of
heaven!”!
You are dragging around with you a massive weight of cerebral riches
which only rob you of the free, light attitude you must maintain if you are to
find the ‘kingdom of heaven’ within you!!
Only in this sense should you ‘flee from yourself’, should you ‘lose
yourself’, so that you might find yourself in conscious reality…
MATTHEW!
5:25-6
25 Agree with thine
adversary quickly, whiles
thou art in the way with him;
lest at any time the adversary
deliver thee to the judge, and
the judge deliver thee to the
officer, and thou be cast into
prison.!
26 Verily I say unto thee,
Thou shalt by no means
come out thence, till thou
hast paid the uttermost
farthing.
MORE LIGHT!
True Service
May no one enter that ‘night’ when working is impossible, from which
there is no escape until the debt of those biding is paid ‘to the last penny’!!
Still it is ‘day’, and helpful hands are at work to lead spiritual help to all
those who seek it. There is no need of special training to call upon this
help; there is no need of any individual instruction to make it one’s own.!
“He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”
HIGH GOAL!
Power of Love
Indeed, all will in time, after aeons, attain ‘blessedness’. Yet that
‘blessedness’ attainable by all is in no measure comparable to that high
goal which you can reach when you seek to raise yourself in the earth-
bound form of your appearance, when you release yourself from the fetters
of the mighty of the cosmos which can hold you bound for millennia and
aeons!!
To this it has been said that no one can find liberation until he ‘has paid
the last penny’! –
HAPPINESS!
‘I’ and ‘You’
Spiritual laws can not be – bypassed, nor interpreted to your own
advantage, like earthly laws. You will not find any advocate prepared to
protect you from the consequences of your behaviour. !
You will have to pay without remission all you owe to humanity through
your behavior towards another human being; you will not escape the law
until the ‘last penny’ has been paid. !
The longer the period of grace you are given to pay, the more you have
cause to be concerned – for you will not be discharged from the interest
and interest upon the interest for all Eternity…
HAPPINESS!
Money
But do not forget that even the poorest remuneration does not free you
from your duty to think and act according to those spiritual laws which
must be followed with regards to money, if you are not to suffer harm
because you have been the cause of damage to an other!!
You must also know that your remuneration is measured by spiritual
laws, always in the fairest manner, commensurate with your commitment
at work.!
Thus you will one day, in some form or other, receive to the last penny
everything your employer may have held back from you. !
On the other hand, if you achieve higher remuneration than is justified by
your commitment at work and your interest, – you will with absolute
certainty be required to pay back one day the excess.
MATTHEW!
5:27-28
But I say unto you, That
whosoever looketh on a
woman to lust after her hath
committed adultery with her
already in his heart.
MARRIAGE!
Temptation
Once there was one who taught, who was truly permitted to teach from
the Spirit, that adultery is already committed by anyone who is tempted by
the very sight of a woman into desiring her physically.!
This saying has lead to much displeasure, and people have tried to twist
and turn it because it makes so many feel uncomfortable. –!
But I must say to you that all deliberate attempts to nurture and intensify
the natural erotic impulses between man and woman – as soon as they
apply to someone other than one’s own spouse – desecrate marriage,
even if this intensification comes nowhere near to physical desire and does
not yet lead to spiritual adultery!
MATTHEW !
5:33-34!
5:38-39!
33 Again, ye have heard that
it hath been said by them of
old time, Thou shalt not
forswear thyself, but shalt
perform unto the Lord thine
oaths:!
34 But I say unto you, Swear
not at all; neither by heaven;
for it is God's throne:!
38 Ye have heard that it hath
been said, An eye for an eye,
and a tooth for a tooth:!
39 But I say unto you, That
ye resist not evil: but
whosoever shall smite thee
on thy right cheek, turn to
him the other also.
LOVE!
Great Man
He spoke of his ‘Father’, and they thought he was speaking about their
tribal god, even though he refused categorically to serve this ‘god of
vengeance’ who had spoken ‘to the ancients’ and he taught, demolishing
that god’s supposed ‘commandment’, through the power of the Spirit: !
“But I say unto you…”!
… They then shamelessly ascribed to the exalted Master’s ‘Father in
heaven’ all those vicious characteristics which according to fear-evoking,
ancient priestly dogma fulfilled the image of that dour tribal god which the
exalted Master overcame spiritually with his powerful saying:!
“But I say unto you…!”
WSDOM JOHN!
Earthly Path
He gave an interpretation of ancient teachings of his people which
allowed their continued existence even in the face of higher knowledge.
Only when he saw that the faithful were oppressed by sterile formulas or
that sacrifices were required by the gloomy tribal god of ancient times did
he say:!
‘To men of old it was said…’!
‘But I say unto you…!’
MATTHEW !
5:43-44
43 Ye have heard that it hath
been said, Thou shalt love
thy neighbor, and hate thine
enemy.!
44 But I say unto you, Love
your enemies, bless them
that curse you, do good to
them that hate you, and pray
for them which despitefully
use you, and persecute you;
GOLGOTHA!
Love and
Hatred
“Love your enemies! – Do good to those that hate you!” !
It is difficult beyond words to follow such a command as long as you are
only conscious of bad conscience, having to force yourself to love…!
Only those will be able to feel love with unforced spontaneity who made
the art of life, which is an art of love, so thoroughly their own that it has
mastered flesh and blood…!
All love induced by force, in order to comply with a commandment,
remains a wretched grimace, and must become a “sin” against one’s flesh
and blood, a “lie” that drains the marrow of one’s life.
MATTHEW!
5:48
Be ye therefore perfect, even
as your Father which is in
heaven is perfect.
MAN!
Mystery
Only in your eternal life can you experience yourself as a human being of
Eternity! Thus the sacred word of the exalted Master will also apply to you
when he says:!
“Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect!”!
But nothing earthly that is a part of you can ever attain the ‘perfection’
meant here.!
Only when you have found your eternal life within yourself and you live in
it will you be ‘perfect’ like the ‘Father’ who is in ‘heaven’
MATTHEW !
6:6
But thou, when thou prayest,
enter into thy closet, and
when thou hast shut thy
door, pray to thy Father
which is in secret; and thy
Father which seeth in secret
shall reward thee openly.
GOLGOTHA!
Growth of the
Soul
Thus the “great Man of Love” went often in his earthly life “up into the
mountains” or into solitude “to pray”.!
Thus he taught: “When thou prayest, enter into thy closet and shut thy
door.”
PRAYER!
Knock
Spiritual arrogance, full of stupid pride, thinks that nothing must come
between God and oneself, – yet the only proper answer to this is the
request:!
“Lord, forgive them, for they know not how they scorn you!”!
You therefore who really wants the door to be ‘opened’ unto you when you
dare with all your life and with all your earthly acts and deeds to ‘knock’, let
you not expect ‘God’ – in whatever form you believe in it, – to be standing
at the doorway, as eternal Primal Being, to ‘open up’ to you!
MATTHEW!
6:9-13
9 After this manner therefore
pray ye: Our Father which art
in heaven, Hallowed be thy
name.!
10 Thy kingdom come. Thy
will be done in earth, as it is!
in heaven.!
11 Give us this day our daily
bread.!
12 And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.!
13 And lead us not into
temptation, but deliver us
from evil: For thine is the
kingdom, and the power, and
the glory, for ever. Amen.
PRAYER!
Mystery!
PRAYER!
Ask!
PRAYER!
Seek
*** see LUKE 11:1 and LUKE 11:2-4 ***
PRAYER!
After This
Manner
Therefore Pray!
IN THE HOUR OF AWAKENING!
ON FEEDING THE BODY!
AT DAY'S END!
IN HAPPINESS!
IN NEED AND DISTRESS!
CONCERNED FOR A SOUL!
IN TEMPTATION!
BEFORE A DIFFICULT DUTY!
IN DEEP DARKNESS!
AT A BIER!
BY A CRADLE!
IN DEEP JOY!
AS TO FIND ONESELF!
FOR ENLIGHTENMENT!
AFTER SALVATION FROM DANGER!
FOR SUCCESS!
FOR WISDOM!
FOR TRUE BELIEF!
FOR RELEASE FROM ENSLAVEMENT TO DOUBT!
FOR INNER CERTAINTY!
IN SICKNESS AND PAIN!
REMEMBERING THOSE WHO HAVE PASSED AWAY
MATTHEW !
6:19-20
19 Lay not up for yourselves
treasures upon earth, where
moth and rust doth corrupt,
and where thieves break
through and steal:!
20 But lay up for yourselves
treasures in heaven, where
neither moth nor rust doth
corrupt, and where thieves
do not break through nor
steal:
MEANING!
Conclusion
Spiritual law wants from you wakeful and well considered action! !
Truly, ‘too much’ as it were, is not required of you!!
You must only prove that you are serious in your striving; you can
produce evidence for this simply by using the power given you over earthly
things to secure your eternal treasures, where “neither moths nor rust doth
corrupt”!
MATTHEW!
6:24
No man can serve two
masters: for either he will
hate the one, and love the
other; or else he will hold to
the one, and despise the
other. Ye cannot serve God
and mammon.
LETTERS!
Professing Men
*** see MATTHEW 10:33 ***
MATTHEW !
6:26,28
26 Behold the fowls of the
air: for they sow not, neither
do they reap, nor gather into
barns; yet your heavenly
Father feedeth them. Are ye
not much better than they?!
28 And why take ye thought
for raiment? Consider the
lilies of the field, how they
grow; they toil not, neither do
they spin:
LOVE!
Primordial Fire
Do not say you have love as long as you still worry about yourself!!
Like the ‘lilies of the field’ growing wild in many parts of the Orient, and
the ‘birds of the air’, you must no longer “take thought” and fret about
yourself, if you wish to be capable of love in its highest form!!
As long as common anxious worries about yourself and your fate on
Earth torment you, – a fear that plainly shows your lack of trust in the
Eternal—you truly know nothing yet of that love the exalted Master taught,
– the love through which alone your spirit shall gain freedom.!
You are enslaving yourself to your worries, and yet with all your anguish
you accomplish nothing!!
And all the while the most divine power resides dormant within you,
because you do not know how to make use of it!
MATTHEW!
6:31-32
31 Therefore take no
thought, saying, What shall
we eat? or, What shall we
drink? or, Wherewithal shall
we be clothed?!
32 (For after all these things
do the Gentiles seek:) for
your heavenly Father
knoweth that ye have need of
all these things.
WSDOM JOHN!
Earthly Path
He had realized long ago that he could no longer carry on his trade. Yet
since he knew that he would always abundantly find what he needed, if he
—true to the spiritual law—left it to his ‘Father’ to feed and clothe him, he
felt no concern. In the end he asked his host to bless his departure so that
he could teach in other places.
MATTHEW !
6:33
But seek ye first the kingdom
of God, and his
righteousness; and all these
things shall be added unto
you.
HAPPINESS!
Duty To Be
Happy
Not everyone needs the same things; yet everyone undertaking to create
his own happiness will obtain everything he really needs for his happiness. !
‘Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and its righteousness, and all these
things shall be added unto you!’!
How badly misinterpreted have been these words of the Master of
Nazareth! Certainly he also said, according to the books which describe
his teaching, these words:!
‘The Kingdom of God cometh not with observation: neither shall they
say, lo here! Or lo there, for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you!’,
and through this he demonstrated that there is a power in humans whose
‘righteousness’—whose innate laws—must be fulfilled, if ‘all these things
shall be added’.
GOLGOTHA!
Growth of the
Soul
But “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and”, that which it demands: “its
righteousness”, as a consequence of the proper fulfillment of eternal laws,
“and all these things shall be added unto you”.!
An alarming weakness is shown if one believes that one can only do
justice to the life of the soul if one flees “the evil world and its acts” and
thus be undisturbed by everything else! Only through the continual use and
continuous practice on resistance are physical powers strengthened; with
the powers of the soul there is not the slightest difference!
MATTHEW!
7:6
Give not that which is holy
unto the dogs, neither cast
ye your pearls before swine,
lest they trample them under
their feet, and turn again and
rend you.
MORE LIGHT!
Theosophy
Yet the writers of these ‘Gospels’ have their exalted master speak thus to
his disciples:!
“Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven:
but to the others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing
they might not understand!”!
It is a hard and dreadful saying if all people – as one likes to think – were
‘equal before God’, if ‘the others’ accordingly had somehow a right to get
to the bottom of the ‘mysteries of the kingdom of God’ in the same way?!!
Yet the holy books upon which all Christian teaching is built know
nothing of this ‘equality before God’. They clearly and incisively
differentiate between the ‘children of this world’ and the ‘children of the
light’. !
They have their master warn of throwing what is ‘holy to the dogs’ and
casting ‘pearls before swine’… similes which are explicit enough not to be
caught up in the view that all humans are ‘equal before God’!
MATTHEW !
7:7-8!
7 Ask, and it shall be given
you; seek, and ye shall find;
knock, and it shall be opened
unto you:!
8 For every one that asketh
receiveth; and he that
seeketh findeth; and to him
that knocketh it shall be
opened.!
MORE LIGHT !
On the 3 Levels
…Only in this state, united with God in the pure Spirit, does prayer truly
become an expression of the innermost union of the individual eternal
spiritual human with the Primal Light from which it lives.!
Only here does the meaning of what the Master !
from Nazareth said become evident: !
“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it
shall be opened unto you.”!
And also: “Whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he will
give unto you.”!
…The Spirit will only grant help to those who have first escaped the occult
powers of earthly ‘nature’, then master the powers of the soul and strive
higher towards the realm of pure Spirit, for only then can it be received –
we may only bring help from the Spirit’s powers to those the Spirit
commands us to help.!
They will be freed from all lower urges to dominate and in the pure Spirit,
from which they originated before eternities, they will, renewed, attain their
former consciousness.!
Having become alive in the pure Spirit, they will live love, knowing that
nothing exists in the Spirit which is unworthy of love – nothing that might
arouse their hatred.
MORE LIGHT!
Theosophy
*** see JOHN 12:44-50 ***
PRAYER!
Mystery
The sacred priestly art of creating ‘prayers’ and of really “praying” has
almost been completely lost today. Where it is still practiced in some form
or other, it is done so mechanically, stripped of all life, or superstitiously.!
But even where one thinks one is still praying, one can only see in that
prayer a plea to the Godhead, an expression of thanks, or praise. Although
all these elements may be found in prayer, by no means do they make up
the essence of prayer. !
One no longer knows that even a structure of the most wonderful words
of praise, thanks or beseeching must first be genuinely ‘prayed’ before it
can become ‘prayer’. That ‘God’ can only be attained for us in ourselves –
that only in our innermost being can the heart of pure eternal being give
‘birth anew’ to itself in endlessly unfolding, individual self-propagation: this
is the primary inescapable insight which all who would truly learn to ‘pray’
must have painstakingly acquired! !
Yet at the same time he must know that the original eternal ‘Father’ –
whatever interpretation !
the believer chooses to put upon this word – wishes for neither thanks nor
praise in the human sense – and that it would be blasphemous to really
believe that the Heart of Being expects human supplication before it
eventually allows itself to ‘soften’ by this ‘beseeching’ – for ‘asking’ in the
sense of true prayer is indeed something essentially different from the
begging with which so many appear before the ‘God’ of their imagination.!
I emphasize here the term ‘God’ of the imagination, since unfortunately
the vast majority of people get no further than the picture created by the
power of their imagination, believing from insufficient or erroneous
teaching that the way to God must lead always upwards and thus always
outwards. !
However, in this way they can never feel the living Godhead, since they
do not seek where the living God would only be attainable to them.!
Yet, according to the ancient account it was also said:!
“Seek, and you shall find!”!
“Ask, and you shall receive!”!
“Knock, and it will be opened unto you!”!
‘Seeking’ can surely only lead to ‘finding’ if seeking takes place where
what is sought actually lies concealed! !
‘Asking’, in the sense meant here, which completely excludes all
‘begging’, will only be able to bring about receiving if he who asks is
entitled to receive! !
‘Knocking’, however, in order to be let into the house, can only succeed
if one who knocks is also completely certain of the door one knocks at,
and knows how to knock in such a way that one will be admitted into the
house, being recognized straightaway as one who can expect to be
admitted! !
However, we must not separate here ‘seeking’, ‘asking’ and ‘knocking’ in
any way from each other, for only in oneness do they result in – ‘prayer’!!
Blessed is one who can pray in this way!!
One will be heard while still ‘knocking’!!
One will straightaway ‘receive’ while one still ‘asks’!!
One will in all certainty ‘find’ what one ‘seeks’ in such a way that it can
be found!
MATTHEW !
7:21
Not every one that saith unto
me, Lord, Lord, shall enter
into the kingdom of heaven;
but he that doeth the will of
my Father which is in
heaven.
LOVE!
Redeeming
Light
“Not every one that saith unto me: Lord, Lord!, shall enter into the
kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father,” – he who feels
this will within him and fulfills it in his deeds! –!
Your mere desire will be of no use to you; – you will have to ‘call’ through
your entire behavior, through your deeds and actions. Many poor
inconspicuous ones who only loyally perform their daily chores have often
‘called’ in a better way than those exalted ones, acquainted with all the
profound writings, who consider themselves so worthy that a helper ‘would
be bound’ to come to them and raise them to further ‘exaltation’ in their
view and that of others!
HIGH GOAL!
The Two Paths
Any phenomenon of external nature, any event of this earthly life can be
bent towards good or bad. For this capability to be used correctly serves:
all the teaching of those called. !
“Not every one that says unto me: Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of
heaven, but whoever in his own will lets the will of Him work, who as my
‘Father’ begat me from Himself!”!
So said many generations ago one who was permitted to teach because
he knew from spiritual experience of what he spoke. Truly he could say of
himself:!
“I do not teach from myself, but as the ‘Father’ has commanded, so I
teach you!”!
…His teaching had nothing other in mind than that earthly humans
should learn to use their lives: attaining salvation through deeds.
HORT CONC!
Once More
Truth
..what lives in itself and is at all times ‘eternal’, called by Jesus ‘the
kingdom of heaven’: – the realm of the substantial Spirit encompassing all
duration within itself alone, which is the only inexhaustible abundance of all
powers.
MATTHEW!
7:29
For he taught them as one
having authority, and not as
the scribes.
WSDOM JOHN!
Portrait of the
Master
Yet he also knew, like none of those close to him, the derivation of his
elevated dignity, knew of the many years of spiritual training, knew of the
bitter struggle within himself to which he finally owed the certainty from
which he now could speak and teach ‘not as the scribes.’
MATTHEW!
8:11
And I say unto you, That
many shall come from the
east and west, and shall sit
down with Abraham, and
Isaac, and Jacob, in the
kingdom of heaven.
MORE LIGHT!
Christianity
In the remote areas of central Asia men live even now with whom no
European, apart from the one speaking now, can compare himself, even
formally, with respect to the true insight into what constitutes the essence
of Christianity, and for whom, nevertheless, nothing is further from their
minds than to join a religious group with a ‘Christian’ orientation.!
“Many shall come from the east and the west, and shall sit down with
Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.”!
Is it still necessary to say that only ridiculous pride and blind arrogance
can presume to believe that they can pertly determine the intentions of the
divine Spirit with respect to the future of Christianity?!
MATTHEW!
8:13
And Jesus said unto the
centurion, Go thy way; and
as thou hast believed, so be
it done unto thee. And his
servant was healed in the
selfsame hour.
ROYAL ART!
Luminary!
Speaks
If you want to come to the light, you must learn to have faith!!
Having faith means: developing power in order to awaken higher power.!
Words of faith alone can develop power, but you shall not learn to believe
in words alone.!
Faith is will!!
As you believe, so will it be done unto you in the way you willed it!!
It is only your own power which releases all the higher powers to bring
you help!
MATTHEW !
9:8
But when the multitudes saw
it, they marvelled and
glorified God,which had
given such power unto men.
SHOW WAY!
Power of
Healing
The story is told of a Maori in New Zealand who carried out unheard of
healings. The man was a baptized Christian and he asked of those he was
about to heal that they should give thanks for their cure only to the ‘Holy
Trinity: – Father, Son and Holy Ghost’. He even threatened that the cure
would fade if this faith he requested were to disappear in those he healed.!
In Christian circles, however, the work of this Maori was regarded as a
tangible confirmation of the dogma…
MATTHEW !
9:38
Pray ye therefore the Lord of
the harvest, that he will send
forth labourers into his
harvest.
MORE LIGHT!
Christianity
Is it still necessary to say that only ridiculous pride and blind arrogance
can presume to believe that they can pertly determine the intentions of the
divine Spirit with respect to the future of Christianity?!!
Everywhere “the lord of the harvest has sent forth his laborers into his
vineyard,” and each fruit-bringing vine will be found by them and most
carefully nurtured. The same spiritual Sun will allow the fruit of all vines to
ripen, at a time determined by the Spirit!
MATTHEW!
10:33
But whosoever shall deny me
before men, him will I also
deny before my Father which
is in heaven.
LETTERS!
Professing Men
It is recounted of Jesus, as is well known by all Christian believers, that
he is supposed to have said on one occasion:!
“But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my
Father which is in heaven.” !
To be sure, Jesus did not intend these words as a threat. But the
threatening tone of the version that has come down to us suited the
purposes of the growing Christian cult that followed his death…!
Nevertheless there was a rationale for the threatening slant given to
Jesus’s words. For Jesus had indeed once pointed out that “no man can
serve two masters,” – that is to say, if one lives one’s outer life in a way
contrary to what the insights of one’s soul require, one betrays oneself.
This, naturally, only means that earthly behavior must follow eternal law,
and a person cannot lead an earthly life according to one system, as it
were, and be capable of entering one's eternal salvation by following
another…!
Thus, in a certain sense, the threatening tone inserted into the words of
Jesus after his death can indeed be understood to express an unyielding
truth: that adherence to spiritual teaching does not lead to the desired goal
if one does not use it to guide one’s conduct in the outside world.
MATTHEW!
11:11
Verily I say unto you, Among
them that are born of women
there hath not risen a greater
than John the Baptist:
notwithstanding he that is
least in the kingdom of
heaven is greater than he.
WSDOM JOHN!
The Message
Only then did he begin to tell the story of the Baptist, which he had
already found in the old scriptures. He evaluated it in his own way, since he
not only knew himself opposed to the disciples of the Baptist, who were
still around at that time, but also wanted to show his own followers that
neither strict asceticism, once preached by the Baptist as an emissary of a
mystic sect, nor baptism by water, as advocated by the new cult which
called itself after the exalted Master, would bring salvation.!
He also wanted to refute the error – found in an older legend – that the
exalted Master had first been a pupil of the Baptist before he started to
teach himself.!
Therefore he has the Baptist’s disciples abandon him at the point when
he has to confess that, although he baptizes with water, Jehoshuah
baptized with the Spirit.
MATTHEW!
11:12
And from the days of John
the Baptist until now the
kingdom of heaven suffereth
violence, and the violent take
it by force.
HIGH GOAL!
Seeking and
Finding
But all who ever sought the key to final things within the innermost part
of their being, and there had found what they desired, first had practiced
the art of waiting and thereby fostered a culture of stillness within!!
Only in the most silent immersion could they acquire what was sought in
vain by thousands who lacked inner stillness.!
“The Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence; and the violent take it by
force!” This ‘force’ is nothing other than the force to control oneself; it
banishes all restlessness from the soul!!
Only when you have created such stillness within yourself that you would
think it foolish even to wonder when you will receive illumination, are you
truly close to fulfillment, and then you may be confident that you will
indeed find what was concealed from you when, still bound by impatience,
your labors were in vain.
PATH PUPILS!
Self-torment
It was once said about the ‘kingdom of God’ that only those who used
‘force’ could take it, – but what is meant here by ‘force’ can only properly
be known by comparing this saying with the words of Jacob who wrestled
with the angel: “I will not let you go unless you bless me!”!
Here ‘force’ is not meant in the sense of being able to usurp; it is a
resolute holding on whilst being fully aware of one’s own impotence,
weakness and smallness.!
Yet if a seeker feels so bound by this saying that one cannot rid oneself
of it, let one be counseled to direct the ‘force’ one thinks one cannot
renounce, to restrain permanently all the obstacles produced by one's
restlessly brooding brain seeking to make it harder for one to reach one's
goal.!
There must be no rushing, insisting and chasing after the goal for one
who as my pupil has set off on the path I show to one, on which one can
reach one's goal in the manner suited to one's individual nature!!
With certain assurance one must walk step by step, with perseverance
and thoughtfulness, always according to the manner suited to one as
found described in my words and then chose for oneself…
MORE LIGHT!
True Service
The unification within the innermost self of all the soul’s powers, of all the
kinds of feelings and sensations that are possible, including those
imparted only by the body, is the one spiritual task which proves to be truly
worth every effort.!
“The kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by
force!”!
One needs the “violent” force of will in order to free oneself from the
distractions of the mind, to put away the intrusive thoughts and
speculations that are concerned solely with the physical world, so that one
may attain a state of inner quiet. In this inner quiet we may find the
archetypal image of our own true self, which is our Living God: the
indwelling God that in every moment of our existence creates us after its
own image anew, and whose expression of timeless, ongoing creation we
are.!
Our task is to bring ourselves into alignment with this divine source so
that, out of the consciousness of our Living God, we may become able to
preserve the consciousness of our own identity throughout Eternity.
LIVING GOD!
The Path
Yet, – “the kingdom of heaven yields to force, and only those who use
force shall seize it!’ !
Without subjugating your impatience, without persistent exercise of your
powers, expecting success is not permitted.!
But do not think that a wild desire to conquer or desperate efforts could
bring you nearer to your goal! This is not the meaning of these words!!
You must continually surround yourself with an atmosphere of cheerful
composure and quiet joy; all your care must be directed at achieving with
ineffable gentleness that subtle inner perception I spoke of earlier.!
It will cost more ‘force’ to keep yourself in check than many a heroic and
widely visible act would cost you…!
If you have considered well what I have said to you, and if henceforth
you seek to do what is required, I can give you the assurance that you too
will one day be among those who may experience the mystery of the
‘kingdom of heaven’ within themselves.
MATTHEW!
11:25
At that time Jesus answered
and said, I thank thee, O
Father, Lord of heaven and
earth, because thou hast hid
these things from the wise
and prudent, and hast
revealed them unto babes.
GOLGOTHA!
Dreadful
Enemies
Knowing such things from the profoundest experience of himself, the
exalted Master gives thanks to him he calls the “Father” who reveals
himself “to those who are small and ignorant”, but keeps himself
concealed from those enslaved by their knowledge.!
Recognizing such things he utters the saying about “little children” whom
those who wish to experience in themselves the “Kingdom of Heaven”
must resemble.
revealed them unto babes.
GOLGOTHA!
Occult Practice
So he initiates – at times understood, at other times misunderstood by
his listeners, – his disciples into many a wise teaching which “can be
revealed” to the smallest and innocent, while “remaining concealed” from
the puffed up and know-it-alls.
MATTHEW!
12:30
He that is not with me is
against me; and he that
gathereth not with me
scattereth abroad.
FREEDOM!
Associate
In the ancient sacred account the most divine of the men of the Earth
says: “He that gathers not with me: he scatters!”!
If ever a word of a human was: the ‘Word of God’, here it has been
uttered!!
Not gathering together – not to seek to gather – is in itself already:
scattering!!
The exalted Spirit having influence on Earth and comprehensible to
people in their souls continually seeks to ‘gather what has been lost’, and
if, what others recognize as exalted, because it comes to them so close to
experience as does experience of themselves, you believe in your narrow
view is justified only when rooted purely in the earthly, you must
nevertheless admit that the inclination to gather together is of a higher kind
than that dark instinct which always seeks to scatter again and dissolve
what has been gathered organically within itself.
MATTHEW!
12:31,32
31 Wherefore I say unto you,
All manner of sin and
blasphemy shall be forgiven
unto men: but the blasphemy
against the Holy Ghost shall
not be forgiven unto men.!
32 And whosoever speaketh
a word against the Son of
man, it shall be forgiven him:
but whosoever speaketh
against the Holy Ghost, it
shall not be forgiven him,
neither in this world, neither
in the world to come.!
MORE LIGHT!
Architects
Even a spiritual ‘master’ can, when it comes to his earthly existence, still
‘fall’, yet even he can only as a man of this Earth, commit the one ‘sin’ for
which there is ‘no forgiveness’ – ‘the sin against the Holy Spirit’, – which in
his case is the resisting, arrogant ignoring of what seeks to reveal itself
through him. Without a sound he will then disappear from the spiritual
world like an extinguished star sinking into space. His name is eradicated
from the ‘Book of the Lamb’ bearing the ‘seven seals’.
MATTHEW!
13:10-16
10 And the disciples came,
and said unto him, Why
speakest thou unto them in
parables?!
11 He answered and said
unto them, Because it is
given unto you to know the
mysteries of the kingdom of
heaven, but to them it is not
given.!
12 For whosoever hath, to
him shall be given, and he
shall have more abundance:
but whosoever hath not, from
him shall be taken away even
that he hath.!
13 Therefore speak I to them
in parables: because they
seeing see not; and hearing
they hear not, neither do they
understand.!
14 And in them is fulfilled the
prophecy of Esaias, which
saith, By hearing ye shall
hear, and shall not
understand; and seeing ye
shall see, and shall not
perceive:!
15 For this people's heart is
waxed gross, and their ears
are dull of hearing, and their
eyes they have closed; lest at
any time they should see
with their eyes, and hear with
their ears, and should
understand with their heart,
and should be converted,
and I should heal them.!
MORE LIGHT!
Theosophy
*** see MATTHEW 7:6 ***
16 But blessed are your
eyes, for they see: and your
ears, for they hear.
GOLGOTHA!
Occult Practice
Read the Sermon on the Mount and you will learn those general “first
practices” which to him appear completely obligatory. If you are looking for
“practices” for those of you who are advanced, then each of his parables
speaks volumes, regardless of the fact that he says quite clearly to his
actual disciples: “Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the
Kingdom of Heaven, to the rest are given only parables.”!
In the parables he describes only what is necessary as a “practice”: the
focusing of consciousness on the stimuli of the soul’s powers, and the
subsequent action which the will owes to these stimuli.!
To his own disciples, however, he also showed the working of spiritual
laws. He showed them why what is recommended in the parable must be
done.!
He also enlightened them to how to drive out “evil spirits”, precisely
those intermediate beings of the invisible part of the physical world, when
they do harm to the soul.!
…Despite this he utters the word: !
“I would have had much more to say to you, but you cannot yet bear it”;
he tells those he instructs that for each one who is truly prepared comes
“the Spirit of Truth”, the true divine spark of Spirit into the true Self of the
soul: – the “living God”, – who teaches them “all truth”, who only takes
from “his own” even if he will once speak from another mouth. !
This saying remains rich in mystery in its double significance, because
everything the Anointed One himself gave was from the sea of spiritual
treasures of the “Living God”, whom he carried in himself and with whom
he was consciously united, as with those “like him” whom he saw come
after him.
MORE LIGHT!
On the 3 Levels
Yet he who promised eternal life to all who believed in him and lived his
words knew all too well that more was needed to understand him than
what ‘nature’ – what ‘flesh and blood’ revealed.!
He speaks of those who are ‘outside’, who “have eyes to see, yet do not
see; have ears to hear, yet do not hear.”!
At all times there will be those who are ‘outside’…
MATTHEW!
15:4
For God commanded,
saying, Honor thy father and
mother: and, He that curseth
father or mother, let him die
the death.
MAN!
Marriage
I am speaking first and foremost here to those who gave life and blood to
their child, and I am speaking of the child who has not yet been cheated of
its originally given right by a misconception of ‘parental rights’. I speak of
the child who has not yet taken that vengeance which every child must
practice in self-defense as soon as spiritual human in it is stifled by its
parents’ guilt, and the powers of its soul are bound to the drudgery of its
physical inheritance.!
Your child can be a wise teacher to you if you know how to heed the way
in which the pure spiritual human in it seeks to force its way through all the
physical covers you have given it.!
Your child can be far older than you on account of those powers of the
soul from remote eras which unite anew within it, seeking through a human
spirit to arrive at a permanent state of oneness.!
You cannot expect your child to honor you if it stands far above you…
MATTHEW!
16:19
And I will give unto thee the
keys of the kingdom of
heaven: and whatsoever thou
shalt bind on Earth shall be
bound in heaven: and
whatsoever thou shalt loose
on earth shall be loosed in
heaven.
THE SECRET!
Rocky Island
…All our bodily organs correlate with spiritual organs of the soul…This
same animal body was once the self-sought refuge of the spiritual human,
‘fallen’ from its original spiritual state. And this same animal body in which
it now finds itself, becomes its ‘cave of redemption’ when ‘its time’ has
come. For, in its fall the Spirit did not lose in any sense its creative power,
and thus could imitate the shape of the animal body. Only in this shape
can he it redeemable on Earth and be comprehended by the
consciousness of the human animal. !
Whoever recognizes through feeling this ineffably profound mystery in all
its immeasurable scope will surely thereafter no longer regard one's earthly
body as an obstacle and burdensome weight as one strives for awakening
in pure Spirit …..!
‘Whatsoever thou shalt bind on Earth shall be bound in heaven’ – in the
kingdom of pure Spirit – ‘and whatsoever thou shalt loosen on Earth shall
be loosed in heaven.’ !
There is no real redemption for the earthly human apart from: in the body
and bodily experienced through the living substantial Spirit formed just like
its body!!!
Only when it recognizes its identically formed spiritual life within its whole
self-awareness through the earthly body, has it ‘reached the Spirit’.
BEYOND!
Skill of Dying
For only very few can consciously become aware of the sphere of
existence in the hereafter during their lives on earth; while all people can in
advance, as it were, go through all feelings, experiences and states of
consciousness awaiting them after their earthly death by arousing
imaginary pictures which reflect reality…!
In no sense has one become ‘someone else’ by discarding one's
physical body! One cannot suddenly be granted what one still lacks.!
As possessions one can only bring with one those things one was able to
attain on Earth. The things one was able to bind on Earth will remain
‘bound’ in the life of the spiritual senses; those things one dissolved during
one's life on Earth will remain for one ‘dissolved’… !
Only gradually can one be led upwards, until one day one is capable of
entering the most sublime of all spiritual realms: – the pure light-world of
most blessed and absolute fulfillment.
MATTHEW!
16:24-26
24 Then said Jesus unto his
disciples, If any man will
come after me, let him deny
himself, and take up his
cross, and follow me.!
25 For whosoever will save
his life shall lose it: and
whosoever will lose his life
for my sake shall find it.!
26 For what is a man
profited, if he shall gain the
whole world, and lose his
own soul? or what shall a
man give in exchange for his
soul?!
GOLGOTHA!
Growth of the
Soul
The soul is capable of growth, as it is capable of decline. Indeed during
physical life it may almost completely disappear without thereby making
the function of physical organs impossible. The growth of the soul can also
come to a standstill and a certain sterility may appear which excludes any
further growth. !
Not in vain does pious belief call out to man: “Save your soul!” !
Or: “What profits it a man if he gains the whole world but harms his
soul!”!
Yes, you can truly “suffer harm” to your soul, and very many do suffer
harm to their souls, without being the slightest bit aware of it. Indeed, they
often believe they are in the midst of growth of the soul and do not suspect
that what they see as their “soul” is nothing other than the finer, invisible
organism of their physical earthly body, an organism which indeed may be
rich in blessings if guided through the powers of the soul, if in service of
the soul, but which can also indescribably impede the work of the soul if it
arrogantly asserts itself in man.!
Anyone seeking to divert the strivings of one's soul, commonly described
as “religious”, who sees for example one's “religion” in art, in aesthetic
sensibility, in the scientific urge for knowledge or in joy in nature”, has
become a slave to this finer physical organism and is in great danger of
becoming a murderer of one's soul. !
…“For whosoever will save his soul shall lose it; but whosoever will lose it
will help it live!”!
This obscure saying means, among other things, that an “abandonment
of the world” to find the soul can never lead to the goal. The growth of the
soul is rather to be found where one least hopes to find it: – in the midst of
the world’s daily life.!
Only through practical behavior in daily life can we cause our soul to
grow! – There are no possibilities to serve the soul alone and thereby to
shut out daily life!!
It is just cowardice and convenience or an erroneous philosophy when
dreaming up a life solely devoted to the growth of the soul and turned !
away from the world. For it is the world which makes it possible to achieve
what is for earthly man only achievable through a constant struggle with
the powers of the world. !
One can indeed further the mortal, finer, fluid powers of the body by
fleeing from worldly life, but never will a man help his soul grow if he does
not put its powers to the test every new day against the resistance of the
“world outside” created by the activities of the many who surround him!
HORT CONC!
Remains After
Death
When one speaks of how the soul can ‘be lost’, and in doing so means
the lasting, eternal soul, this should only be understood in a metaphorical
sense, for in reality the eternal soul can neither be damaged by the earthly
nor even killed. Yet it can be lost to earthly humans–and earthly humans to
it–so that dies within one what before in time had received spiritual life
from the powers of one's soul. !
With respect to the animal soul of an earthly human this indeed can offer
up to one's eternal lasting soul presence of memories which the eternal
soul intends to retain when the impulses which made the impression, have
long since been exhausted. And so the unity of consciousness between a
human once living in the earthly sphere and one's lasting soul is preserved
in Eternity. Yet the eternal soul can also just as effectively be burdened
with what is not appropriate to it coming from the animal soul, so that over
immeasurable periods of time every union of the formerly earthly with
eternal consciousness, is excluded, or – even made impossible for all
Eternity…
WORLDS!
Guidance
Only remain sure of yourself and your will to reach your homeland. Give
up all fear and supposition, and even concern for your being!!
You must think of being and non-being as equal in value, lest I have
accompanied you in vain on this flight through the heights! – –!
You must want to sacrifice everything you were to yourself and what you
made of yourself…!
Shake the fear from your shoulders! Fear has never yet achieved a great
goal! !
As long as fear oppresses you, you will not find your place at this
primeval land, for you do not yet want to bring yourself as a sacrifice so
that you might find yourself!!
Do you not know the words of the Master who said that your soul will be
lost to you if you would hold on to it, and that you can only win yourself, if
you release the fetters which bind you to yourself?
MATTHEW !
17:1-4,9
1 And after six days Jesus
taketh Peter, James, and
John his brother, and
bringeth them up into an high
mountain apart,!
2 And was transfigured
before them: and his face did
shine as the sun, and his
raiment was white as the
light.!
3 And, behold, there
appeared unto them Moses
and Elias talking with him.!
4 Then answered Peter, and
said unto Jesus, Lord, it is
good for us to be here: if
thou wilt, let us make here
three tabernacles; one for
thee, and one for Moses, and
one for Elias.!
9 And as they came down
from the mountain, Jesus
charged them, saying, Tell
the vision to no man, until the
Son of man be risen again
from the dead.
LOVE!
Great Man
But the Master had in his days on Earth often met with others in the
solitude of the mountains, well away from other people. These others were
not of his own people, but were of his kind, united with him in that
Community of Light in which he was a brother, and with which he was
spiritually interwoven …!
When he took three of his twelve disciples on one occasion with him to
the mountain where he was accustomed to ‘pray’ and there allowed them
to see his ‘transfiguration’ into his spiritual form, his loyal followers
believed, on seeing two men in white apparel next to their Master, that they
had to be two of the prophets of old, – ‘Moses’ and ‘Elias’ – so that the
Master, full of disappointment when seeing their error, forbade them to tell
the others about it.!
He perceived that all his teaching was unable to liberate them from the
narrowness of their tribal faith and that he would only create confusion if
he sought to clear up the error.
MATTHEW!
17:20!
And Jesus said unto them,
Because of your unbelief: for
verily I say unto you, If ye
have faith as a grain of
mustard seed, ye shall say
unto this mountain, Remove
hence to yonder place; and it
shall remove; and nothing
shall be impossible unto you.!
GOLGOTHA!
Occult Practice
But there was One who said: “If ye had faith like a grain of mustard seed
ye shall say unto this mountain: remove hence to yonder place and it shall
remove and nothing will be impossible unto you.”!
And in another place [LUKE 17:5-6} a saying with the same meaning is
reported of him:!
“If ye had faith like a grain of mustard seed ye would say to this mulberry
tree: be thou plucked up by the root and be thou planted in the sea; and it
should obey you.”!
He too had pupils, and they asked him: “Increase our faith!”!
And here we are finally at the core of genuine magic, the practical
wisdom of the Spirit!!
All “practices” of this true magic have the sole aim of learning to make
faith live in oneself…!
Genuine spiritual practices…are aimed at the complete human, all one's
daily activity, all one does and does not do. They want to see a “new”
human arise from the material which hitherto has served the representation
of the “old”, and the process of transformation must not leave behind any
residue.!
Everything that has hitherto served the consequences of life must now
give itself up, in order to live from “faith”.!
The word “faith” is misunderstood if one supposes that the
transformation called for here, which makes it possible for a person to live
in “faith”, is a “change of mind” and refers in the ordinary sense to “belief”
or “disbelief” regarding certain accounts from “holy” books, or that it is
dependent on rejection or acceptance of assertions made by religious
teachers! !
If one who “believes” is “blessed”, truly this is not because one holds
some metaphysical teaching to be right, but because one has acquired the
art to use the power of which we are speaking, because one lives from
“faith”, from the power of the “Name”, which is the Word, which is “with
God” and is “God”.!
One “believes” in the right manner because one has “faith”; just as one
lives because one has life.
MATTHEW!
18:3
And said, Verily I say unto
you, Except ye be converted,
and become as little children,
ye shall not enter into the
kingdom of heaven.
WORLDS!
To Conclude
The path to the essential Spirit is basically so simple that you will do well
to ‘simplify’ yourself in the whole manner of your thinking and feeling!!
This is the sense of the words spoken by the exalted Master when he
taught: “If you become not as little children, you shall not enter into the
kingdom of heaven.” –
kingdom of heaven.
MAN!
Marriage
The more carefully you consider the divine spark who entrusts itself to
you in your child, the more you will suspect that divine spark within
yourself again and perhaps even learn to really find it through your child. !
You will then feel what the Divine One once meant with the oft repeated
words that anyone who seeks to attain the ‘kingdom of heaven’ in oneself
must become a ‘child’.
ABOVE EVERY!
A Hard
Demand
Smile not in amusement at the child, dear friends,%
When it tells you of things%
Which are real to it, –%
Though you can no longer comprehend%
The reality of these things,%
As once you did, when you still%
Could experience in your way%
The same reality!!
Smile not in amusement%
At what the little mouth –%
Scarcely mastering all the words%
It would like to utter –%
Tells you of wonders%
Which have happened by night and day%
In the world of your child!!
You will have to find in yourselves%
This world of the child,%
If you would find your way to that place%
The deepest yearning of your soul%
Strives to find!
ABOVE EVERY!
Respect for the
Old
If you “do not become as little children”,!
None among you will ever become a finder!!
Yet: – if he does not shelter it with the old,!
None will hold on to what he has found!!
Youth creates value only by waiting!!
Youth is a garden ready to sprout!!
Only among the old do the fruits ripen!!
In youth they are ruined by lustful crazes!!
Youth can never mold itself,!
Unless it finds molders among the old!!
Every people becomes its own destroyer,!
If the old no longer are their guides!
MATTHEW!
18:20
For where two or three are
gathered together in my
name, there am I in the midst
of them.
LIVING GOD!
Hidden Temple
Therefore all who have received the right and power to teach of these
things are obliged to repeat the saying of the exalted Master of Nazareth: !
“Where two or three are gathered together in my ‘name’, there am I in the
midst of them!”!
Yet let there never be more than ‘two or three’ coming together to
exchange their experiences of the soul in the words of the external
language!
MATTHEW!
19:17
And he said unto him, Why
callest thou me good? there
is none good but one, that is,
God:
WSDOM JOHN!
Portrait of the
Master
It was related that he said:!
“Why callest thou me good? None is good, save one, that is God.”!
– how enraged in his innermost being he would have been, had one of
those close to him ever dared to pay him divine honor and call him God…!
And just as he drove out the money-changers and merchants from the
temple courts of their God, so too he would have driven away with a ‘whip
made of cords’ anyone who would have said to him: “Master, a temple will
be built to you one day!” !
Truly, he was well aware of his spiritual dignity, even though at times he
felt small and diffident. But where could you find a person who constantly
showed himself to be aware of all his powers and of his supreme
worthiness?!!
When his consciousness is illuminated within the high spiritual union with
the ‘Father’, revealed by the Primal Word from the Primal Light – the great
‘Ancient One’ who was in the ‘Beginning’: the Human Being of Eternity in
its primally given procreation – then his word becomes ‘powerful’, and he
feels himself raised above all that is of this Earth.!
The Luminary of the Primal Light reveals himself then in his supreme
spiritual power.
MORE LIGHT!
On the 3 Levels
“No man comes to the Father except through me!” – So it was that one
of our kind who had truly become ‘path’ could speak long ago – yet he
was not understood, and they made of him, – in accordance with the
general notion of his time, – a God who had become man. !
But he was truly ‘son of God’, precisely like his spiritual brothers born
from the pure spirit; he did not hide the fact that there were ‘many’
mansions in his father’s house. !
He resisted and said: “Why do you call me good? – God alone is good!”!
He is not guilty if a teaching grew up around his name which – as the fruit
of ancient teachings about the gods – made of him the human god of this
small planet.
MATTHEW!
19:24
And again I say unto you, It is
easier for a camel to go
through the eye of a needle,
than for a rich man to enter
into the kingdom of God.
HAPPINESS!
Wealth and
Poverty
Poverty may be blessed; yet poverty does not imply deprivation…!
Wealth can bestow immeasurable benefits; yet it must not wallow sated
and without creative power in those nether regions of which a divine
teacher once said that “it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a
needle” than for ‘a rich man’ to enter through the gates of the ‘Kingdom of
Heaven’…
MATTHEW !
21:42
Jesus saith unto them, Did
ye never read in the
scriptures, The stone which
the builders rejected, the
same is become the head of
the corner: this is the Lord's
doing, and it is marvelous in
our eyes?
MORE LIGHT!
Architects!
MORE LIGHT!
Theosophy
*** see PSALMS 118:22 ***
MATTHEW!
24:24
For there shall arise false
Christs, and false prophets,
and shall shew great signs
and wonders; insomuch that,
if it were possible, they shall
deceive the very elect.
LOVE!
Primordial Fire
Thus there are today amongst us still many vain fools who think
themselves wise; they find satisfaction in making the grand gestures of
wise men of knowledge. Not all know that they deceive; many think they
are servants of the truth.!
However, this age of the devaluation of all values has spawned far too
many whose ‘conscience’ no longer hinders them, once delusion has got a
grip on their febrile imaginations. !
Thus they lead thousands, through their teaching, into destruction,
intoxicated by their power to confuse human souls, and surrounded by a
fog of vanity at the number of those who follow their banners.–%
“There shall arise false Christs and false prophets…”!
Pay heed to the signs of the times and save yourselves from ensnarement
in infernal nets from which escape is rarely possible!
MORE LIGHT!
Theosophy
Let one beware, as I have already said, of presuming that the Luminaries
of the Primal Light, amongst whom the Master of Nazareth still lives today
on Earth in his spiritual form, can somehow be equated with the ‘masters’
spoken about in certain so-called ‘theosophical’ writings, or even with the
aforementioned ‘Great School of Science’ created in America and bearing
the stamp of falsity, visible for all on its forehead, alongside all the
pompous sounding moralistic declarations of its inventor who has been
unmasked in the meantime!!
“For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets and shall show
great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall
deceive the very elect.”
MATTHEW!
25:23-30
23 His lord said unto him,
Well done, good and faithful
servant; thou hast been
faithful over a few things, I
will make thee ruler over
many things: enter thou into
the joy of thy lord.!
24 Then he which had
received the one talent came
and said, Lord, I knew thee
that thou art an hard man,
reaping where thou hast not
sown, and gathering where
thou hast not strawed:!
25 And I was afraid, and
went and hid thy talent in the
earth: lo, there thou hast that
is thine.!
26 His lord answered and
said unto him, Thou wicked
and slothful servant, thou
knewest that I reap where I
sowed not, and gather where
I have not strawed:!
27 Thou oughtest therefore
to have put my money to the
exchangers, and then at my
coming I should have
received mine own with
usury.!
28 Take therefore the talent
from him, and give it unto
him which hath ten talents.!
29 For unto every one that
hath shall be given, and he
shall have abundance: but
from him that hath not shall
be taken away even that
which he hath.!
PATH PUPILS!
Inner Life Outer
Life!
GOLGOTHA!
Growth of the
Soul!
GOLGOTHA!
Mystery
In a parable in the Gospels it is said to the good servant: “Because you
have been faithful in little, have authority over much!”!
What is here in parable form applies to one of the most important
demands of the Spirit!!
Whoever cannot manage in his transient earthly life to behave already in
such a way that his thoughts, speech and actions can be acknowledged
by the Spirit has not yet understood the possible help of the outer world,
and all his striving to become conscious in the eternal Spirit is of no use to
him.!
But whoever in his daily world even makes the smallest decision to act, –
and even if it must be made in extreme haste, – with all naturalness in such
a way that his eternal salvation depends solely on this one decision is
much nearer to becoming spiritually conscious than he thinks. Even if
one's inherited disposition prevents complete development here in one's
earthly life, one will enter Eternity as one who is conscious! !
But [night] comes only for those who failed to understand how to
increase the powers of the soul entrusted to them.!
To each who has, will be given so that one has in abundance; to one who
has not shall be taken away that which one believed one had, – however
little it might be! –!
It is said unto one who, like the “faithful servant” knows how to increase
what one has received from one's lord: !
“Because thou hast been faithful in a very little, I will set thee over much.”!
One who buries one's talent and only produces what was given one in
the beginning shall, according to eternal laws, experience “the outer
darkness”: that region robbed of all the soul’s warmth, in which “wailing
and gnashing of teeth” prevail, a place of inner cold and oppression.!
Far be it from me to disturb here the pious belief according to which the
Master of the Gospels became the only “Son of God”!!
!
…The stronger one's belief truly is, so much more surely will one draw
new strength from these disclosures, for:!
“To him who has, shall be given, so that he has in abundance”.!
If he feels weak and vacillating, and if his belief is only that weak
consolation which doubting teachers of this faith, condemned to the duty
of teaching, have to give, then let him rather not read on. For it is written: !
“To him who has not, shall be taken away that which he thought he had.”
30 And cast ye the
unprofitable servant into
outer darkness: there shall
be weeping and gnashing of
teeth.
MATTHEW!
25:40
And the King shall answer
and say unto them, Verily I
say unto you, Inasmuch as
ye have done it unto one of
the least of these my
brethren, ye have done it
unto me.
MAN!
Marriage
“What you have done unto the least of my brethren, you have done unto
me,” – once spoke the Master, proclaimed by the sacred books.!
In the same way, we can say: that whatever you do to your masculine or
feminine opposite pole here in the marital companionship of this life on
earth, you will do unto yourself, and most certainly to your own spiritual
opposite pole, whether you have found it here on Earth or not!
MATTHEW!
26:26-29
26 And as they were eating,
Jesus took bread, and
blessed it, and brake it, and
gave it to the disciples, and
said, Take, eat; this is my
body.!
27 And he took the cup, and
gave thanks, and gave it to
them, saying, Drink ye all of
it;!
28 For this is my blood of the
new testament, which is
shed for many for the
remission of sins.!
29 But I say unto you, I will
not drink henceforth of this
fruit of the vine, until that day
when I drink it new with you
in my Father's kingdom.
WSDOM JOHN!
Pure Teaching
Yet it is truly no ‘coincidence’ that today’s preserved text of the message
is alone in reporting nothing about the sayings found in the older three
accounts, attributed to the Master at the Last Supper, which became the
foundation of the same cult! !
How would especially the writer, to whom have been attributed the false
words of the Master about his earthly flesh and blood: – that his ‘flesh’ was !
‘truly meat’ and his ‘blood’ was ‘truly drink’, have noted with the most
solemn emphasis imaginable those words spoken at the Last Supper, had
only a single saying, even with a similar meaning, been recorded in the
falsified passage!!
But he knew full well that ideas taken from ancient pagan cults had
found a new life in the exalted Master’s name.
HAPPINESS!
‘I’ and ‘You’
If you should one day attain supreme understanding, you will most
certainly recall with deepest shame those days when it seemed to you part
of a divine plan that a ‘Son of God’ had to suffer for your actions because
you thought this a convenient way to shirk the consequences of your
deeds…!
You will then no longer be able to conceive why you did not wish for total
self-obliteration rather than bearing for just one moment the thought that
an innocent man should redeem your debt through torture and death.
MATTHEW!
28:2-3
2 And, behold, there was a
great earthquake: for the
angel of the Lord descended
from heaven, and came and
rolled back the stone from
the door, and sat upon it.!
3 His countenance was like
lightning, and his raiment
white as snow:
LOVE!
Great Man
*** see LUKE 24:2-7 ***
MATTHEW!
28:10
Then said Jesus unto them,
Be not afraid: go tell my
brethren that they go into
Galilee, and there shall they
see me.
ABOVE EVERY!
Greeting of the
One Who Has
Risen
“Be not afraid!”
You who are consecrated in me!
Be not afraid:
I will walk with you!
I am no shadow come to frighten you, –
I would awaken you from fear and dreams.
“Be not afraid!”
Thus is reported
The Master’s greeting,
When he, brightened by heavenly flames,
Upon returning home
Showed himself to his followers,
Satisfying earthly fervor.
!“Be not afraid!”
I will stay with you, –
Take into me each of mine, –
Each who recognizes himself in me
Just as the Father calls him
By name!
A loving guide in eternal light –
I will stay with you: –
“Be not afraid!”
MATTHEW!
28:11-15
11 Now when they were
going, behold, some of the
watch came into the city, and
shewed unto the chief priests
all the things that were done.!
12 And when they were
assembled with the elders,
and had taken counsel, they
gave large money unto the
soldiers,!
13 Saying, Say ye, His
disciples came by night, and
stole him away while we
slept.!
14 And if this come to the
governor's ears, we will
persuade him, and secure
you.!
15 So they took the money,
and did as they were taught:
and this saying is commonly
reported among the Jews
until this day.
LOVE!
Great Man
*** see LUKE 24:2-7 ***
MATTHEW!
28:20
… and, lo, I am with you
alway, even unto the end of
the world. Amen.
ROYAL ART!
Easter Night
Himself resurrected in his spiritual form, he has been, since those days,
present in a state of exalted life in the spiritual realm of this Earth as
resurrection to all who are true disciples of his teaching in deed and life.!
And so he lives amidst his own as he had once promised: – “unto the
end of the world!”
LOVE!
Primordial Fire
– – of the ‘Son’ of Man who once could confirm to his disciples that he
would be with them ‘until the end of the world’!!
It is only possible from the original fire of the power of love to keep such
a promise! For him who is perfected within himself it is an indescribably
demanding sacrifice which is continually made, to keep himself, after the
death of the earthly body, in a condition in which he is still accessible to
human feelings confined to this Earth …!
But you must certainly not try to imagine that this continuation in the
sphere of earthly human consciousness, experienced by myself and my
kind, entails a ‘miracle’ shrouded in mystery!!
We are talking about nothing other than a focusing of consciousness,
precisely established in spiritual law, – which far exceeds the duration of
the earthly human body – until the last vibration of the seeking of the soul
in the sphere of this planet.That this entails no small sacrifice arises
already from the necessity to remain in a body – as the bearer of
consciousness – which is self-created, though imperceptible to the senses
of the earth, and yet subjected to the invisible physical world…!
At the same time, nature requires this focusing of consciousness: to be
obliged to share passion with all the suffering of the soul of total humanity.
Only the original fire of the power of love can make this shared passion
with all human misery bearable to the Luminary’s self-confined
consciousness, until the last of his brothers on Earth has entered the Light.
MORE LIGHT!
Theosophy
The words of everyone who teaches as the ‘Father’ commands him to
teach, lead to true ‘theo-sophia’ which is identical to the originally
imparted mysterious and spiritual ‘Christianity’ from the eternal ‘Christos’
in the Primal Light whose most sublime temple on Earth was found only in
the ‘innermost east’ long before the Master of Nazareth, as one belonging
to it, taught how to experience eternal love.!
Here it will remain in existence until the end of the days on this earth, and
with it for all time those eternally ordained to it and who belong to it as
‘priests after the order of Melchizedek’: – the ‘order’ which the Eternal sets
up for itself within the temporal!!
Only for these exceptionally few men of this earth, whose eternal spiritual
essence received the form of consciousness for it from the ‘Sophia’ – the
wisdom! – of God as the eternal feminine pole of the substantial Spirit, is it
ever possible according to this order, to communicate the recognition and
the knowledge about the Sophia in God to their fellow humans on Earth!
MARK!
1:22
And they were astonished at
his doctrine: for he taught
them as one that had
authority, and not as the
scribes.
WSDOM JOHN!
Portrait of the
Master
*** see MATTHEW 7:29 ***
MARK!
2:27
And he said unto them, The
sabbath was made for man,
and not man for the sabbath:
FREEDOM!
Religion
Your everyday life can show whether the teaching to which your heart is
faithful is taking you towards true freedom or whether you are a servant to
a teaching which dazzles you, so that you do not see that it is only a
spectre pretending to be ‘freedom’! !
“The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath!” !
Only when teaching becomes part of life can it prove itself!
HORT CONC!
Forms of
Religion
Man on Earth is the precondition for the origin and existence of earthly
religions, but these are by no means conditional for the earthly existence of
man! This sentence is not only based upon the famous passage in the
Gospels about the Jewish Sabbath, but also, quite independently of it, is a
self-evident assertion beyond contention by any rational person. !
…The Exalted One…described so clearly the Sabbath, and with it all
religious conventions and regulations, as a purely human matter: ‘for the
sake of humanity’.
MARK!
4:11
And he said unto them, Unto
you it is given to know the
mystery of the kingdom of
God: but unto them that are
without, all these things are
done in parables:
MORE LIGHT!
Architects +!
On the 3 Levels
*** see MATTHEW 13:10-16 ***
GOLGOTHA!
Occult Practice
+!
Theosophy
MARK!
8:18
Having eyes, see ye not? and
having ears, hear ye not?
and do ye not remember?
MORE LIGHT!
On the 3 Levels
*** see MATTHEW 13:10-16 ***
MARK!
8:34-37
34 And when he had called
the people unto him with his
disciples also, he said unto
them, Whosoever will come
after me, let him deny
himself, and take up his
cross, and follow me.!
35 For whosoever will save
his life shall lose it; but
whosoever shall lose his life
for my sake and the gospel's,
the same shall save it.!
36 For what shall it profit a
man, if he shall gain the
whole world, and lose his
own soul?!
37 Or what shall a man give
in exchange for his soul?
GOLGOTHA!
Growth of the
Soul!
HORT CONC!
Remains After
Death!
WORLDS!
Guidance
*** see MATTHEW 16:24-26 ***
MARK!
9:2-5, 9
2 And after six days Jesus
taketh with him Peter, and
James, and John, and
leadeth them up into an high
mountain apart by
themselves: and he was
transfigured before them.!
3 And his raiment became
shining, exceeding white as
snow; so as no fuller on earth
can white them.!
4 And there appeared unto
them Elias with Moses: and
they were talking with Jesus.!
5 And Peter answered and
said to Jesus, Master, it is
good for us to be here: and
let us make three
tabernacles; one for thee,
and one for Moses, and one
for Elias.!
9 And as they came down
from the mountain, he
charged them that they
should tell no man what
things they had seen, till the
Son of man were risen from
the dead.
LOVE!
Great Man
*** See MATTHEW 17:1-4, 9 ***
MARK !
10:18
And Jesus said unto him,
Why callest thou me good?
there is none good but one,
that is, God.
WSDOM JOHN!
Portrait of the
Master!
MORE LIGHT!
On the 3 Levels
*** see MATTHEW 19:17 ***
MARK!
12:10
And have ye not read this
scripture; The stone which
the builders rejected is
become the head of the
corner:
MORE LIGHT!
Architects!
MORE LIGHT!
Theosophy
*** see PSALMS 118:22 ***
MARK!
14:22-25
22 And as they did eat,
Jesus took bread, and
blessed, and brake it, and
gave to them, and said, Take,
eat: this is my body.!
23 And he took the cup, and
when he had given thanks,
he gave it to them: and they
all drank of it.!
24 And he said unto them,
This is my blood of the new
testament, which is shed for
many.!
25 Verily I say unto you, I will
drink no more of the fruit of
the vine, until that day that I
drink it new in the kingdom
of God.
WSDOM JOHN!
Pure Teaching!
HAPPINESS!
'You' and 'I'
*** see MATTHEW 26:26-29 ***
MARK!
16:1-8
1 And when the sabbath was
past, Mary Magdalene, and
Mary the mother of James,
and Salome, had bought
sweet spices, that they might
come and anoint him.!
2 And very early in the
morning the first day of the
week, they came unto the
sepulcher at the rising of the
sun.!
3 And they said among
themselves, Who shall roll us
away the stone from the door
of the sepulcher?!
4 And when they looked, 4
they saw that the stone was
rolled away: for it was very
great.!
5 And entering into the
sepulcher, they saw a young
man sitting on the right side,
clothed in a long white
garment; and they were
affrighted.!
6 And he saith unto them, Be
not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus
of Nazareth, which was
crucified: he is risen; he is
not here: behold the place
where they laid him.!
7 But go your way, tell his
disciples and Peter that he
goeth before you into Galilee:
there shall ye see him, as he
said unto you.!
LOVE!
Great Man!
ROYAL ART!
Easter Night
The Master did indeed ‘rise’ from the grave; however, his earthly body
could in truth have been of no further use to him. The ‘young man in white
apparel’ was indeed no delusion on the part of anxious women, however,
note also the clues to the truth which the writer of that ancient record was
unable to erase, since they were neither visible nor comprehensible to him,
and had to report against his will, however much he subsequently tried to
wipe them from the account: !
Indeed, it was not the exalted Master’s disciples who had taken his
earthly corpse; so that with good reason the chronicler could claim that
this was a false ‘rumor’…!
Yet those ‘men in white apparel’ and the ‘young man’ the women found
in the tomb were not strangers to each other. As they wanted to avoid a
cult growing up around the dead body of their exalted brother they did
what is still today customary in their land with earthly remains: they
consigned them to the consuming flames after having carefully chosen and
prepared a location where they would be completely undisturbed…!
He who was truly risen wanted everything to be thus, and his brothers
duly carried out his behest. The decaying remains of his earthly body were
not to hinder the resurrection which he had prepared for himself in the
souls of those belonging to him.!
But now he was released from everything which was not Spirit to him.
Now that he was freed he was only conscious of his spiritual form, – not
knowing any more of the injury his earthly body had suffered.!
Himself resurrected in his spiritual form, he has been, since those days,
present in a state of exalted life in the spiritual realm of this Earth as
resurrection to all who are true disciples of his teaching in deed and life. !
And so he lives amidst his own as he had once promised: – “unto the
end of the world!”
8 And they went out quickly,
and fled from the sepulcher;
for they trembled and were
amazed: neither said they
any thing to any man; for
they were afraid.
LUKE !
1:34-38
34 Then said Mary unto the
angel, How shall this be,
seeing I know not a man?!
35 And the angel answered
and said unto her, The Holy
Ghost shall come upon thee,
and the power of the Highest
shall overshadow thee:
therefore also that holy thing
which shall be born of thee
shall be called the Son of
God.!
36 And, behold, thy cousin
Elisabeth, she hath also
conceived a son in her old
age: and this is the sixth
month with her, who was
called barren.!
37 For with God nothing shall
be impossible.!
38 And Mary said, Behold
the handmaid of the Lord; be
it unto me according to thy
word. And the angel
departed from her.
MARRIAGE!
Holiness
It is truly time for marriage to defend what is holiest about it when the
‘immaculate conception’ denies the act of procreation so that the ancient
‘pagan’ tale has been adopted without hesitation to ascribe the birth of the
most divinely sublime man to a ‘virgin’ as is customary in ancient myths –
not suspecting that those ancient myths give a deeply veiled account of
the birth of God in human hearts – the birth of the ‘son of God’ in the soul
which the Spirit of God alone can impregnate…!
Most worthy of all reverence is indeed that woman who became the
mother of a son whose light-filled teachings prepared salvation for the
whole world, if one would trouble oneself to act according to them
inasmuch as one still really knows about them! –!
Yet, one should not honor the father of this son any the less, for: whoever
sees the son here also sees the one who begat him, since the blood legacy
must already exist before it can become legacy! !
Here the denial of begetting from the blood of the father is simply an
expression of contempt which in another place declares that the unmarried
state is ‘holier’ than marriage!
MORE LIGHT!
Comprehended
The ‘Logos’ concept is derived from Gnostic insight. But here, in the
‘Word’ that is of God and is God, we are faced with nothing other than the
self-expression of the eternal, incomprehensible Primal Light in an
individualized spiritual form. This insight of spiritual reality entered the
teachings of Christianity where it was completely confused with the utterly
different status of ‘Son of God’ of the Master from Nazareth, so that the
‘Anointed One’, the Christos of the Gospels, has been understood and
worshipped for almost two thousand years as: the Logos ‘become man’.
MORE LIGHT!
Theosophy!
Yet the ‘Son of God’ of the Gospels never thought of regarding his
human personality as the only bearer of this sonship on earth. Only his
later exegetes misunderstood his words in this manner, twisting and
distorting their meaning.
LUKE !
4:4
And Jesus answered him,
saying, It is written, That man
shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word of God.
RESURRECT!
Festive Joy!
*** see MATTHEW 4:4 ***
LUKE!
5:9-10!
LUKE !
7:14-16!
LUKE!
7:21-22
9 For he was astonished, and
all that were with him, at the
draught of the fishes which
they had taken:!
10 And so was also James,
and John, the sons of
Zebedee, which were
partners with Simon. And
Jesus said unto Simon, Fear
not; from henceforth thou
shalt catch men.!
14 And he came and
touched the bier: and they
that bare him stood still. And
he said, Young man, I say
unto thee, Arise.!
15 And he that was dead sat
up, and began to speak. And
he delivered him to his
mother.!
16 And there came a fear on
all: and they glorified God,
saying, That a great prophet
is risen up among us; and,
That God hath visited his
people.!
21 And in that same hour he
cured many of their
infirmities and plagues, and
of evil spirits; and unto many
that were blind he gave sight.!
22 Then Jesus answering
said unto them, Go your way,
and tell John what things ye
have seen and heard; how
that the blind see, the lame
walk, the lepers are
cleansed, the deaf hear, the
dead are raised, to the poor
the gospel is preached.
LOVE!
Great Man!
He never performed the fakir miracles which the writers of the account
heap upon him; – yet many of the ‘miracles’ attributed to him have deep
symbolic content, and are therefore: full of truth; whilst his innate power of
healing made him capable of many deeds which may have appeared
‘miraculous’ to those around him, but had not the slightest connection with
his spiritual mission.!
For the sake of ‘fishing for men’ his teaching has been sinned against in
a way that is hard to put into words. These sins, committed by foolish
disseminators of badly distorted doctrine, still exert an influence today.
There is no end in sight for such misleading practices!
LUKE!
8:10
And he said, Unto you it is
given to know the mysteries
of the kingdom of God: but
to others in parables; that
seeing they might not see,
and hearing they might not
understand.
MORE LIGHT!
On the 3 Levels!
GOLGOTHA!
Occult Practice!
*** see MATTHEW 13:10-16 ***
LUKE!
9:23-25
23 And he said to them all, If
any man will come after me,
let him deny himself, and
take up his cross daily, and
follow me.!
24 For whosoever will save
his life shall lose it: but
whosoever will lose his life
for my sake, the same shall
save it.!
25 For what is a man
advantaged, if he gain the
whole world, and lose
himself, or be cast away?
GOLGOTHA!
Growth of the
Soul!
HORT CONC!
Remains After
Death!
WORLDS!
Guidance
*** see MATTHEW 16:24-26 ***
LUKE!
9:28-30,33,!
36
28 And it came to pass about
an eight days after these
sayings, he took Peter and
John and James, and went
up into a mountain to pray.!
29 And as he prayed, the
fashion of his countenance
was altered, and his raiment
was white and glistering.!
30 And, behold, there talked
with him two men, which
were Moses and Elias:!
33 And it came to pass, as
they departed from him,
Peter said unto Jesus,
Master, it is good for us to be
here: and let us make three
tabernacles; one for thee,
and one for Moses, and one
for Elias: not knowing what
he said.!
36 And when the voice was
past, Jesus was found alone.
And they kept it close, and
told no man in those days
any of those things which
they had seen.
LOVE!
Great Man
*** See MATTHEW 17:1-4, 9 ***
LUKE!
11:1
And it came to pass, that, as
he was praying in a certain
place, when he ceased, one
of his disciples said unto
him, Lord, teach us to pray,
as John also taught his
disciples.
PRAYER!
Mystery
According to the ancient and holy account the pupils of the wise
carpenter, the exalted ‘Rabbi’ from Nazareth, are said to have once come
to him with the request:!
“Lord, teach us to pray!”!
Upon which–so the ancient record tells us–the teacher of life, who was
one with God, instructed them to cease from babbling traditional long
litanies in the manner of those who know not. Instead of this, they were to
use those wondrously beautiful, simple words which are now found on the
lips of all those who profess, in whatever form of creed, or claim to
profess, the love-filled teaching of that sublimely great man of God.
PRAYER!
Ask
They certainly already knew enough prayers by rote and did not ask:
“Lord, teach us a new prayer”. On the contrary, they said clearly and
unambiguously:!
“Lord, teach us to pray!”!
Even if the whole of the ancient account were nothing other than pure
fiction, the writer would have revealed himself as a man of knowledge; for
only such a man could have put these unambiguously clear words into the
mouths of the exalted Master’s pupils.
LUKE!
11:2-4
2 And he said unto them,
When ye pray, say, Our
Father which art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name. Thy
kingdom come. Thy will be
done, as in heaven, so in
earth.!
3 Give us day by day our
daily bread.!
4 And forgive us our sins; for
we also forgive every one
that is indebted to us. And
lead us not into temptation;
but deliver us from evil.
PRAYER!
Seek
If he now utters the wonderful words, so simple and clear in meaning,
that the exalted Master of Nazareth once commanded his pupils to ‘pray’,
this attained new consciousness will feel each of these words as a further
confirmation of its own will.!
The complete ‘Lord’s Prayer’ will be to the seeker nothing other than the
most perfect testimony of his own indivisible oneness with the will of
Eternal Being…!
What is experienced within one’s being finds in this prayer expression in
words of human language, and works from this form of expression back
into one’s own soul, where it becomes of itself an ‘asking’ which carries
within itself its own fulfillment.!
Thus the seeker will henceforth be freed from that foolish delusion that
prayer is a means to ‘change the mind’ of the Godhead…!
He now knows that ‘prayer’ means nothing other than: willing with his
own will within the will of Eternal Primal Being, what has always been
willed there from all Eternity, which, freed by a right way of ‘asking’, may
now appear, take effect and propagate itself.!
Truly his searching has become ‘finding’!!
In all Eternity he can no longer lose what he has in this way found within
himself!
LUKE!
11:9
And I say unto you, Ask, and
it shall be given you; seek,
and ye shall find; knock, and
it shall be opened unto you.
MORE LIGHT!
On the 3 Levels!
PRAYER!
Mystery
*** see: MATTHEW 7:7-8 ***
LUKE !
11:23
He that is not with me is
against me: and he that
gathereth not with me
scattereth.
FREEDOM!
Associate
In the ancient sacred account the most divine of the men of the Earth
says:“He that gathers not with me: he scatters!”!
If ever a word of a man was: the ‘Word of God’, here it has been uttered!
Not gathering together – not to seek to gather – is in itself already:
scattering! !
The exalted Spirit having influence on Earth and comprehensible to one
in one's soul continually seeks to ‘gather what has been lost’. –
LUKE!
12:49
I am come to send fire on the
earth; and what will I, if it be
already kindled?
LOVE!
Redeeming
Light
And if I bear witness of that ‘Great Man of Love’, believed by narrow-
minded doctrine of faith to belong to it alone, despite the fact that in their
deeds his image has often served as the shield of hatred, my witness is the
work of his own will. He consecrated namely all men in that last act of love
before his death on this Earth and he became their redeemer from the
bondage which only could be dissolved by a man of love excelling all who
live on Earth in love, in unfolding the power of the fire of love!
LUKE!
12:59
I tell thee, thou shalt not
depart thence, till thou hast
paid the very last mite.
MORE LIGHT!
True Service!
HIGH GOAL!
Power of Love!
HAPPINESS!
‘I’ and ‘You’!
HAPPINESS!
Money
*** see MATTHEW 5:25-26 ***
LUKE !
13:28,29
28 There shall be weeping
and gnashing of teeth, when
ye shall see Abraham, and
Isaac, and Jacob, and all the
prophets, in the kingdom of
God, and you yourselves
thrust out.!
29 And they shall come from
the east, and from the west,
and from the north, and from
the south, and shall sit down
in the kingdom of God.
MORE LIGHT!
Christianity
*** see MATTHEW 8:11 ***
LUKE !
14:11
For whosoever exalteth
himself shall be abased; and
he that humbleth himself
shall be exalted.
LOVE!
Redeeming
Light
Your mere desire will be of no use to you; you will have to ‘call’ through
your entire behavior, through your deeds and actions. Many poor
inconspicuous ones who only loyally perform their daily chores have often
‘called’ in a better way than those exalted ones, acquainted with all the
profound writings, who consider themselves so worthy that a helper ‘would
be bound’ to come to them and raise them to further ‘exaltation’ in their
view and that of others!
LUKE!
16:8
And the lord commended the
unjust steward, because he
had done wisely: for the
children of this world are in
their generation wiser than
the children of light.
MAN!
New Mankind
The holy books of ancient times rightly proclaim both a kingdom of the
‘children of light’ and a kingdom of the ‘children of this world’ of the
external powers which cannot be eliminated. One who truly knew of these
things once said: !
“The children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children
of light!” !
It is to be wished that the ‘children of light’ would become ‘wiser’ in their
way, and could break the spell by which they are fettered by the ‘children
of this world’!
MORE LIGHT!
Theosophy
*** see MATTHEW 7:6 ***
LUKE !
17:5,6
5 And the apostles said unto
the Lord, Increase our faith.!
6 And the Lord said, If ye had
faith as a grain of mustard
seed, ye might say unto this
sycamine tree, Be thou
plucked up by the root, and
be thou planted in the sea;
and it should obey you.
GOLGOTHA!
Occult Practice
*** see MATTHEW 17:20 ***
LUKE !
17:21
Neither shall they say, Lo
here! or, lo there! for, behold,
the kingdom of God is within
you.
THE SECRET!
Sea Journey
Then you will perhaps be able to apprehend what the great Man of Love
once taught when he said that the Kingdom of Heaven was ‘nigh’; one
could not say it was here or there nor think that it would come with great
gestures for:!
“ The Kingdom of God is in you!’”
LUKE !
17:33
Whosoever shall seek to
save his life shall lose it; and
whosoever shall lose his life
shall preserve it.
GOLGOTHA!
Growth of the
Soul!
HORT CONC!
Remains After
Death!
WORLDS!
Guidance
*** see MATTHEW 16:24-26 ***
LUKE!
18:19
And Jesus said unto him,
Why callest thou me good?
none is good, save one, that
is, God.
WSDOM JOHN!
Portrait of the
Master
It was related that he said:!
“WHY CALLEST THOU ME GOOD? NONE IS GOOD, SAVE ONE, THAT IS
GOD.”!
– how enraged in his innermost being he would have been, had one of
those close to him ever dared to pay him divine honor and call him God…
MORE LIGHT!
On the 3 Levels
“No man comes to the Father except through me!” – !
So it was that one of our kind who had truly become ‘path’ could speak
long ago – yet he was not understood, and they made of him, – in
accordance with the general notion of his time, – a God who had become
man. !
But he was truly ‘son of God’, precisely like his spiritual brothers born
from the pure spirit; he did not hide the fact that there were ‘many’
mansions in !
his father’s house. –!
He resisted and said: “Why do you call me good? – God alone is good!”!
He is not guilty if a teaching grew up around his name which – as the fruit
of ancient teachings about the gods – made of him the human god of this
small planet.
LUKE !
19:17
And he said unto him, Well,
thou good servant: because
thou hast been faithful in a
very little, have thou authority
over ten cities.
PATH PUPILS!
Inner Life Outer
Life!
GOLGOTHA!
Mystery +!
Growth of the
Soul
*** see MATTHEW 25:23-30 ***
LUKE!
20:17
And he beheld them, and
said, What is this then that is
written, The stone which the
builders rejected, the same is
become the head of the
corner?
MORE LIGHT!
Architects!
MORE LIGHT!
Theosophy
*** see PSALMS 118:22 ***
LUKE!
22:15-20
15 And he said unto them,
With desire I have desired to
eat this passover with you
before I suffer:!
16 For I say unto you, I will
not any more eat thereof,
until it be fulfilled in the
kingdom of God.!
17 And he took the cup, and
gave thanks, and said, Take
this, and divide it among
yourselves:!
18 For I say unto you, I will
not drink of the fruit of the
vine, until the kingdom of
God shall come.!
19 And he took bread, and
gave thanks, and brake it,
and gave unto them, saying,
This is my body which is
given for you: this do in
remembrance of me.!
20 Likewise also the cup
after supper, saying, This cup
is the new testament in my
blood, which is shed for you.
WSDOM JOHN!
Pure Teaching!
HAPPINESS!
'You' and 'I'
*** see MATTHEW 26:26-29 ***
LUKE!
22:43
And there appeared an angel
unto him from heaven,
strengthening him.
LOVE!
Great Man
But when a messenger from the community of Light to which he
belonged, finally showed him in that dread-filled night at Gethsemane, that
the way he had prepared for himself could not be diverted, not even by the
‘Father’ of all those working within this community of Light, then he
withdraws within himself to find himself within the priest-kingship of the
Luminaries and walks as a hero his last heavy path, weighed down by the
wood of the gallows.
LUKE!
23:34!
Then said Jesus, Father,
forgive them; for they know
not what they do. And they
parted his raiment, and cast
lots.
GOLGOTHA!
Mystery
Yet his work of redemption has no need of any myth telling of a vengeful
tribal god who sent his “son” to humanity as a human being, so that his own
thirst for revenge would find its satisfaction through their cruelty…
It likewise was something altogether different from the “vicarious
atonement” invented by the wish for effortless salvation that avoids feeling
any duty of personal action and commitment.
On the cross of Golgotha the world was indeed “released” from a
bondage, even if completely different from the way in which those who
suspected tried to comprehend it!
…He alone, by virtue of the Love that he released in death, could break the
bars locking the gate to freedom for human spirits from the time that, born
in animal bodies on Earth, they had so thoroughly succumbed to the
creature’s drives that a redemption from beastly destiny seemed no longer
attainable.
Only “one with knowledge” could recognize that it was possible for the
highest act of love of a man to reawaken a spiritual power within the realm
of human might – to awaken it in such a way that it would be accessible to
all those in danger of being ensnared by their overwhelming beastly
instincts – that only one who had merged his spiritual essence with the
animal, bringing forth a new existence, could unlock the gate to freedom for
all who were prepared to follow him.
…The path to Spirit was thus opened up by Jesus of Nazareth to all those
who are willing to bring to life within themselves what was alive in him.
Within himself he had united his Living God with the animal, begetting that
new being he was accustomed to call the Son of Man, the “son” begotten
by the human spirit when at last it overcomes the animal in which it was
imprisoned by letting it behold its own magnificence and power.
…It was not death in itself which led to the renewal of this power in the
spiritual aura of the earth; nor was it achieved by the tortures which
preceded the death of the Master. The power of love alone was able to
bring about the miracle!
That he, compelled to suffer torture and death, was able to forgive
humanity, was moved by forgiveness to his final breath, that alone was his
work of enduring redemption; for, in accord with spiritual law, every human
spirit on Earth, overcome by the beast and burdened with guilt, is released
from his enslavement through by the might of Love – if only he takes the
hand offered him in help; if only he will receive within himself that which in
the Luminary had gained form as “flesh and blood,” in order to unite the
beast to the Spirit within him.
…As a radiant beacon of incomprehensibly great Love, the word of the
Gospel shines through the ages:
LOVE!
Great Man
“Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do!”
Only a “Luminary of the First Light” could utter it, and yet none dared
what is condition to it, apart from one! – the “great Man of Love”…!
Even today, and till the end of the days of earthly humanity, this “great
Man of Love” is close to the souls which call upon him! Upon him, who
lives in spiritual form united with all those who, like him form that spiritual
chain binding the transient sensual with the ternal!!
“He who can comprehend, let him comprehend!”!
And on this martyr’s cross, which later was to give new significance to an
ancient sacred symbol belonging to long forgotten venerable cults, he
fulfilled the ultimate act of love – a mystery to all those who stood around
him, – and mystery still to all, with the exception of a few rare seers, to this
very day!!
…A stream of spiritual power was opened up here to every human spirit
through love, the love this book proclaims to you, a stream of power which
could only be disclosed by the sacrifice of one omnipotent in love.!
Here the ‘God’ of vengeance, – the most malicious demon among the
invisible powers within the physical cosmos – was vanquished by an
earthly man through the absolute eradication of every impulse for revenge:
– an act possible only to the highest form of spiritual love…!
Those who are his brothers, – completely at one in spiritual union with
him as he is with them – call him: ‘the Great Man of Love’, since none of
them accomplished before him that act of love to which he offered himself
freely in sacrifice, since none after him can accomplish a deed which could
compare in any way with his work of love, through which the spiritual ‘aura’
of this Earth was changed for all time and for all the inhabitants of this
Earth; ever since, every human being now is able to gain access to spiritual
regions which previously very few had had the strength to reach, and only
after agonizing struggles of overcoming their own selves.
LUKE !
24:2-7
2 And they found the stone
rolled away from the
sepulchre.!
3 And they entered in, and
found not the body of the
Lord Jesus.!
4 And it came to pass, as
they were much perplexed
thereabout, behold, two men
stood by them in shining
garments:!
5 And as they were afraid,
and bowed down their faces
to the earth, they said unto
them, Why seek ye the living
among the dead?!
6 He is not here, but is risen:
remember how he spake
unto you when he was yet in
Galilee,!
7 Saying, The Son of man
must be delivered into the
hands of sinful men, and be
crucified, and the third day
rise again.
LOVE!
Great Man
*** see MARK 16:1-8 ***
JOHN!
1:1-14!
1 In the beginning was the
Word, and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God.!
2 The same was in the
beginning with God.!
3 All things were made by
him; and without him was not
any thing made that was
made.!
4 In him was life; and the life
was the light of men.!
5 And the light shineth in
darkness; and the darkness
comprehended it not.!
6 There was a man sent from
God, whose name was John.!
7 The same came for a
witness, to bear witness of
the Light, that all men
through him might believe.!
8 He was not that Light, but
was sent to bear witness of
that Light.!
9 That was the true Light,
which lighteth every man that
cometh into the world.!
10 He was in the world, and
the world was made by him,
and the world knew him not.!
11 He came unto his own,
and his own received him
not.!
12 But as many as received
him, to them gave he power
to become the sons of God,
even to them that believe on
his name:!
13 Which were born, not of
GOLGOTHA!
Mystery
Eternal Love, ablaze as a fiery source of light surpassing comprehension
in the midst of primeval “Chaos” – eternal “Primal Light” – gives voice to
its Self as the “Primal Word”, perceiving itself in “echoes” of infinite
number, manifesting in unending forms of its Being.!
Thus “the ‘Word’ of the Lord goes to all the lands”, and in each of its
“Words” it becomes its own adoring “answer”, in each it is the burning
“sun”, propagating from itself its “planetary system” – the individuated
“Godhead” of the individual within the Spirit, whom it brings forth
propagating from itself…!
From this “heart of God”— the center of all Being’s radiant Light, from its
wellspring in formless “Chaos” which no human word comprehends unless
it were called: “Love in Being through itself” – originates the “plan of Man’s
salvation”, grounded in love for Eternity, shaping the unity in plurality of the
“Luminaries”, so that it might rescue what appeared lost, so that it might
bring back to his blessed certainty of consciousness that which had
dissipated itself and thereby abandoned conscious awareness of his own
form.
WSDOM JOHN!
The Message
The unknown author of this message had once written words with the
following meaning:!
“In the beginning is the Word, and the Word is in God, and God is the
Word.!
Everything is alive only in him, and without him is nothing alive: not even
the smallest things.!
In him all things have life and his life is the light of men.!
And the light shines in darkness, and the darkness cannot extinguish it.!
it is in the world and the world is made through him, but the world
recognizes it not.!
It is in his own, but his own receive it not.!
But as many as receive it to them, it gives power to become children of
God: !
Those who are born not of blood, neither of the will of woman, nor of the
will of man, but born of God, out of the fullness of grace and truth.”!
Once the continuity was not interrupted here by anything. It was merely
the author’s intention, to give a clear indication to his followers to whom he
addressed the message, of the sense by which what followed was to be
understood, in words which were closely linked to the then widespread
teaching of the ‘Logos’.
his name:!
13 Which were born, not of
blood, nor of the will of the
flesh, nor of the will of man,
but of God.!
14 And the Word was made
flesh, and dwelt among us,
(and we beheld his glory, the
glory as of the only begotten
of the Father,) full of grace
and truth.
ROYAL ART!
Luminary!
Speaks
The ‘beginning’: – Primal Being – begets from itself Primal Light, and
Primal Light begets the Word.!
But the Word has the Light of Life, and the Light shines forth in the Word
which begets the ‘Father’: the Primal Human Being of the Spirit – in the
deep silence of Eternity, which today is as it always was and always will
remain.!
What we proclaim from the Word was not conceived by human minds…!
It is eternal revelation and has nothing to do with imagined earthly
wisdom.!
What you receive here is Light from the Word!!
Within the Word are all of us to whom you owe these words united in
recognition and consciousness.!
Through the Word we create spiritually based order – within the chaos of
reflections which press and suppress one another on the surface of
continually churning waves of energy impelled to strive towards Being’s
outermost dimensions.!
When we teach, we teach to recognize ourselves.!
Only through teachings by human example can Spirit’s living Light be
shown to you without blinding your eyes with its primal radiance.
WORLDS!
Visions
IN PRICIPIO ERAT VERBUM…’ – In the beginning was the Word – a
sacred book says to you, and many seekers have already tortured their
poor brains with the useless question why the ‘Word’ is given such
importance here – why the wise man describes the origin of all becoming
as the ‘Word’?!
Yet this teaching was once made known in this form out of the most
profound ‘in-sight’. The eternally lasting emanation of the Sun of the
original Fire of Eternal Love expresses itself in Eternal Will to become,
becomes itself a rhythmically concentrated motion, becomes the Primal
Word which utters from itself from all Becoming, ordered according to
inherent measure and to inherent number! !
The word belonging to human language is but the remotest echo of this
‘Word’, which is ‘with God’ and is God from Eternity to Eternity!!
The wise man speaks of a ‘beginning’ which ever was and ever will be!!
This ‘beginning’ appears before your spiritual eye, and the ‘Word’ reveals
itself to you in rhythm and color, in form and sound as the first expression
of the Eternal Will to create.!
Tarry with feeling, and seek in yourself, in your innermost, to experience
the deepest being of this Primal Word from which everything became that
has ever become, and from which everything will become that can ever
become!
MORE LIGHT!
Comprehended
The ‘Living God’ of the awakening or awoken man on this Earth is like a
incomprehensibly small spark from the eternally radiant light of the ‘Word’
that is ‘God’ from Eternity to Eternity, and which is itself the Primal Light in
its self-expression as the Primal Word – just as it contains itself as eternal
‘Godhead’ ‘at the same time’.!
For the sake of ultimate clarity let us permit the comparison here with
one of the forces of the physical universe which humanity has put to its
service: Just as electric power can make a wire thin as a hair light up and
glow, yet the current from the same power which supplies a city, used at
its full strength, would destroy this wire in a moment, so too would the
capacity for comprehension of earthly man be destroyed in an instant,
were it capable of approaching unprepared the radiance of the eternal
‘Word’ and with it the Primal Light itself – the human power of
comprehension can very well bear that endlessly tender permeation which
produces in the deepest interior of the soul that ‘reflection of the Father’:
that illuminating star in which alone one's ‘Living God’ can be
comprehended by one here on this Earth, if it is not to destroy the
consciousness of the earth-born with the fullness of its radiation. !
If one who has finally woken up then walks upon the one path which truly
leads back to the original homeland of spiritual humanity, this star will
shine in front of one and becomes brighter and more radiant with every
achieved higher state, until eventually in the unnameable radiance of the
eternal ‘Word’: – in the eternal Primal Light which begets itself – one
becomes united with it for all Eternity.
LIVING GOD!
The Path
Just as the radiant sun of the bright midday makes the light of a small oil
lamp vanish in its own light, so what you today still call your
‘consciousness’ will be absorbed and vanish in new consciousness…!
You will then know why the wise man talks of ‘life’ as the ‘light’ of
humanity; you will understand the magnificent sense of the much
interpreted saying: !
“In the beginning was the Word…"
WORDS LIFE!
Light
One of my kind spoke to you of this Light, that shines ‘in darkness’ and
which the darkness can never comprehend, as of ‘Life’, – and indeed: his
words speak the truth!!
Only those who have found me within themselves as their own life can
also give witness to Light!!
In its originally begotten universal power this Light of the Spirit shall
eternally brighten your complete innermost self!!
You shall forever shine forth in the blaze of this Light, and your blaze shall
know no end! !
Just as a skillfully polished diamond can not irradiate its inner fire before
it is permeated with an earthly light, so too you cannot irradiate from your
innermost self as long as you love the darkness and conceal yourself from
me – from me: the eternal Light which is Life for all existence, blazing forth
abundantly and ceaselessly from within itself!
JOHN!
1:26-37
26 John answered them,
saying, I baptize with water:
but there standeth one
among you, whom ye know
not;!
27 He it is, who coming after
me is preferred before me,
whose shoe's latchet I am
not worthy to unloose.!
28 These things were done in
Bethabara beyond Jordan,
where John was baptizing.!
29 The next day John seeth
Jesus coming unto him, and
saith, Behold the Lamb of
God, which taketh away the
sin of the world.!
30 This is he of whom I said,
After me cometh a man
which is preferred before me:
for he was before me.!
31 And I knew him not: but
that he should be made
manifest to Israel, therefore
am I come baptizing with
water.!
32 And John bare record,
saying, I saw the Spirit
descending from heaven like
a dove, and it abode upon
him.!
33 And I knew him not: but
he that sent me to baptize
with water, the same said
unto me, Upon whom thou
shalt see the Spirit
descending, and remaining
on him, the same is he which
baptizeth with the Holy
Ghost.
WSDOM JOHN!
The Message
Only then did he begin to tell the story of the Baptist, which he had
already found in the old scriptures. He evaluated it in his own way, since he
not only knew himself opposed to the disciples of the Baptist, who were
still around at that time, but also wanted to show his own followers that
neither strict asceticism, once preached by the Baptist as an emissary of a
mystic sect, nor baptism by water, as advocated by the new cult which
called itself after the exalted Master, would bring salvation.!
He also wanted to refute the error – found in an older legend – that the
exalted Master had first been a pupil of the Baptist before he started to
teach himself.!
Therefore he has the Baptist’s disciples abandon him at the point when
he has to confess that, although he baptizes with water, Jehoshuah
baptized with the Spirit.!
“There was a man whose name was Jehochanan.and these things were
done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where Jehochanan was baptizing.!
Jehochanan saith: I baptize with water, but in the midst of you stands
one whom ye know not: He will baptize with the Spirit! i am not worthy to
unloose the latchet of his shoe.!
Again on the morrow Jehochanan was standing and two of his disciples.
And he looked upon Jehoshuah as he walked and said: This is the man! i
knew him not, but he who caused me to baptize with water, said unto me:
when you see a man on whom the Spirit descends and remains in him: he
is the one who will come to baptize with the Spirit.!
And Jehochanan bare witness saying: I saw the Spirit descending on him
like a dove and abiding on him, and the Spirit remained in him.!
And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jehoshuah.”!
The author of the ancient message had no intention for the form in which
he narrated events, to overlap with the accounts which sought to use his
text to confirm the belief, that the Baptist had recognized and proclaimed
the Master as ‘Messiah’.!
Much is missing here that is found in the same place in that version of
the text passed on to us. But those things missing are additions in the text
passed down to us made by the same minds who altered the original text,
so that the mention of the Baptist already appears in the words that are
introductory to the complete message.!
With many alterations they sought to bring the original text into line with
the earlier accounts they regarded as sacred.!
What in the early days of the new cult was called a ‘copy’ was nothing
other than a paraphrase. Every scribe who undertook to make a new copy
thought it completely right and proper to alter the text so that his own
34 And I saw, and bare
record that this is the Son of
God.!
35 Again the next day after
John stood, and two of his
disciples;!
36 And looking upon Jesus
as he walked, he saith,
Behold the Lamb of God!!
37 And the two disciples
heard him speak, and they
followed Jesus.
religious faith found support in it. !
Thus was the text of the complete message often reshaped until that text
emerged which takes on the basis of all recorded versions.
JOHN 1:14!
And the Word was made
flesh, and dwelt among us,
(and we beheld his glory, the
glory as of the only begotten
of the Father,) full of grace
and truth.
GOLGOTHA!
Mystery
The believing Christian sees in the Master, after whom he names himself,
the only “begotten Son of the Father”. But the Master himself, “full of
mercy and truth”, professes that in his Father’s house are “many
mansions”, that it was not for him to determine who would sit on his right
hand and on his left hand in his Father’s kingdom and that “the Father is
greater” than him.
MORE LIGHT!
Theosophy
Yet the ‘Son of God’ of the Gospels never thought of regarding his
human personality as the only bearer of this filial status on earth.!
Only his later exegetes misunderstood his words in this manner, twisting
and distorting their meaning.
MORE LIGHT!
Comprehended
The ‘Logos’ concept is derived from Gnostic insight. But here, in the
‘Word’ that is of God and is God, we are faced with nothing other than the
self-expression of the eternal, incomprehensible Primal Light in an
individualized spiritual form. This insight of spiritual reality entered the
teachings of Christianity where it was completely confused with the utterly
different status of ‘son of God’ of the Master from Nazareth, so that the
‘Anointed One’, the Christos of the Gospels, has been understood and
worshipped for almost two thousand years as: the Logos ‘become man’.
JOHN 1:21
And they asked him, What
then? Art thou Elias? And he
saith, I am not. Art thou that
prophet? And he answered,
No.
LIFE LIGHT!
Question
“Are you the one who has returned?”!
No! I am the one who has come for the first time.!
No bringer of light returns, !
Even though he might prophesy his return!
Whilst still on earth.
JOHN 2:3-4
3 And when they wanted
wine, the mother of Jesus
saith unto him, They have no
wine.!
4 Jesus saith unto her,
Woman, what have I to do
with thee? mine hour is not
yet come.
MAN!
Path of the
Woman
“Woman, what have I to do with thee?!” !
Yet this saying is uttered by the earthly phenomenon of every one who is
united with the Spirit and applies to every woman seeking help on Earth in
her earthly form; this help can only be given by one working in the realm of
the essential Spirit when he himself has cast off this earthly body.!
“Once I am lifted from the Earth, I will draw all men unto me!” –
JOHN!
2:15-16
15 And when he had made a
scourge of small cords, he
drove them all out of the
temple, and the sheep, and
the oxen; and poured out the
changers' money, and
overthrew the tables;!
16 And said unto them that
sold doves, Take these
things hence; make not my
Father's house an house of
merchandise.!
LOVE!
Great Man
And yet, my friend, you will never find the love the Master knew if you
only arouse sentimental feelings within yourself and call your feelings of
philanthropy coupled with pity – ‘Love’!!
This feeble image of supposed ‘love’ is hard to reconcile with: the Master
filled with contempt for the contemptible, who escorted by disciples, made !
a scourge to drive out the merchants defiling the temple, who kicked over
the money changers’ gold and who castigated his people’s priests with !
harsh words for which they could, in their lust for vengeance, never forgive
him! !
In order to harmonize such actions with their own lack of calling, it was
necessary to invent the idea of ‘divine indignation’; they then shamelessly
ascribed to the exalted Master’s ‘Father in heaven’ all those vicious
characteristics which according to fear-evoking, ancient priestly dogma
fulfilled the image of that dour tribal god which the exalted Master !
overcame spiritually with his powerful saying:!
“But I say unto you…!”
WSDOM JOHN!
Portrait of the
Master
*** see MATTHEW 19:17 ***
JOHN!
2:19-21
19 Jesus answered and said
unto them, Destroy this
temple, and in three days I
will raise it up.!
20 Then said the Jews, Forty
and six years was this temple
in building, and wilt thou rear
it up in three days?!
21 But he spake of the
temple of his body.
WSDOM JOHN!
Portrait of the
Master
Fully alive to his mission he declares that: the ‘Temple’ – the ruling
doctrine of the priests – might be brought down, and in ‘three days’ he
would dare to ‘rebuild’ it.!
Those who heard him speak these words knew very well what he was
speaking about, even though they made careful note so that they could
then find him guilty of blaspheming against the Temple.!
But he is not worried about being misunderstood when he knows that
every explanation would not produce the understanding he seeks.
JOHN!
3:5-6
5 Jesus answered, Verily,
verily, I say unto thee, Except
a man be born of water and
of the Spirit, he cannot enter
into the kingdom of God.!
6 That which is born of the
flesh is flesh; and that which
is born of the Spirit is spirit.
WSDOM JOHN!
Pure Teaching
Originally the human spirit in that innermost ‘kingdom of God’ is
propagated by God, eternally ‘born’. – But it left behind the spiritual, God-
born !
organism, – to use this image, – in the innermost realm of the Spirit, where
it merged once more with the power of the Godhead, so that an individual !
‘rebirth’ must occur if the human spirit is one day to find itself conscious
and active in that ‘kingdom of God’. !
Before that the human spirit is only aware of itself and his living God
even in the highest development through this earthly life. After the death of
the earthly body it finds itself only in those nether spiritual worlds whose
organism remained preserved for him in embryonic form also after his fall
into the beastly world of appearance. This embryonic organism is the only
spiritual form of existence which the human spirit still possesses here and
can develop through its attitude in earthly life. The author of the ancient
message has the Master speak only of this supreme and ultimate goal:!
‘EXCEPT A MAN BE BORN AGAIN OF THE WATER IN THE SPIRIT’ – OF
SPIRITUAL SEED – ‘HE CANNOT ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD.!
And for emphasis and elucidation he has the Master add:!
‘THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE FLESH IS FLESH; AND THAT WHICH IS
BORN OF THE SPIRIT IS SPIRIT.’!
This is to eliminate any doubt that the propagation of a real organism
takes place; as of the flesh, so too of the Spirit…
JOHN!
3:14-15
14 And as Moses lifted up
the serpent in the wilderness,
even so must the Son of man
be lifted up:!
15 That whosoever believeth
in him should not perish, but
have eternal life.
WSDOM JOHN!
Pure Teaching
Just as Moses raised the bronze serpent in the desert so that all who
looked upon it in faith be healed, so must the image of the ‘son of man’,
the Luminary, be ‘raised’ in earthly humans above all else, in faithful
awareness of the truth that it is the Primal Light itself, ‘speaking’ in its self-
utterance as the Primal Word the eternal originally begotten spiritual
human being, who, in his procreation from the Light, abides in the Primal
Word and becomes ‘Father’ to the Luminaries, so that through them the
human spirit on this Earth can hear once more of its original home and of
the path leading back to it.!
‘AND AS MOSES LIFTED UP THE SERPENT IN THE WILDERNESS,
EVEN SO MUST THE SON OF MAN’ – he who testifies from the realm of
the Spirit and the testimony he brings – ‘BE LIFTED UP; THAT
WHOSOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM, SHOULD NOT BE LOST’ – in the aeon
long night of unknowing – ‘BUT HAVE LIFE.’
JOHN 4:24!
God is a Spirit: and they that
worship him must worship
him in spirit and in truth.
LOVE!
Great Man
The pious ancient authors of the account found alien to them the thought
that spiritual matters can only be comprehended in the Spirit, just like
those who seek miracles in our days, though the Master emphasised that
God could only be sought ‘in the Spirit’.
WSDOM JOHN!
Pure Teaching
He spoke to people who did not come from renowned schools; they
were satisfied when he said of the Primal Light, which itself speaks as the
Primal Word:!
‘GOD IS SPIRIT: AND THEY THAT WORSHIP HIM MUST WORSHIP THE
TRUTH IN THE SPIRIT.’!
What he tirelessly sought to show his true followers was the way to reach
the kingdom of the Spirit, in which there are ‘many habitations’ – many
kinds of possible experience – depending on the level of perception to
which the human spirit, once awoken, may rise.
PATH PUPILS!
Necessary List
God is indeed Spirit, and those who ‘worship him’ should worship him ‘in
the spirit’ and thereby in ‘truth’; yet this Spirit which is God is, by analogy
with human cerebral experience, simply understood as a gigantically
intensified consciousness of the brain. Thus worship in the Spirit is not
understood as being very different from worship in thoughts.!
One has no inkling of the substantial eternal spirit; only as its illuminating
radiance can God become a living experience within ourselves.
HIGH GOAL!
Power of Love
I say to you that many of those you call deniers of God are truly secure
within God and experience God in love, though they do not speak like you
and may themselves not know that they are in Love and that God reveals
himself in them!!
For: “God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship the truth in
the Spirit!”!
The one who does not resolve to seek the Spirit within himself will not
find God in Eternity!
JOHN 5:19
Then answered Jesus and
said unto them, Verily, verily, I
say unto you, The Son can
do nothing of himself, but
what he seeth the Father do:
for what things soever he
doeth, these also doeth the
Son likewise.
MORE LIGHT!
Theosophy
There is an innermost secret realm of the Spirit and spiritual forces in the
spiritual region of our planet to which all who live on Earth owe what is !
best about them!!
There is an eternal pre-existence before the human spirit enters this
world of the visible and there is an eternal post-existence following the
‘death’ of the earthly body!!
There are spiritual ‘wonders’ which overshadow every oriental fairy-tale,
and yet are realities!!
Yet what can be said in human words about all these things, and what
has flowed through a sublime hierarchy of spiritual entities from the ‘Primal
Light’ down to the ‘Luminaries’ on Earth and through them into the
channels of human language, is ineffably little compared to what ‘those
who know through self-transformation’ owe to their experience, those who
are permitted to say of themselves, as did the Master of the Gospels:!
“All that the Father has is mine!”!
“I and the Father – are One!”!
The communality of the few who ‘know through self-transformation’ is
the manifestation of the eternal ‘Christos’ on this earth, and the Master of
the Gospels is one of the highest sons of this spiritual communality of the
Luminaries of the Primal Light who alone know the ‘Father’ and can
therefore do what the ‘Father’ teaches them to do.
WSDOM JOHN!
Pure Teaching
So that no one should believe that he acts, as the ‘son’ of the ‘Father’,
according to his own arbitrary will, he says:!
‘THE SON CAN DO NOTHING OF HIMSELF, BUT WHAT HE SEES THE
FATHER DO, FOR WHAT THINGS SOEVER HE DOES, THESE ALSO DOES
THE SON LIKEWISE.’
JOHN !
5:25
Verily, verily, I say unto you,
The hour is coming, and now
is, when the dead shall hear
the voice of the Son of God:
and they that hear shall live.!
WSDOM JOHN!
Pure Teaching
But the work of the Luminary is not only restricted to this outer world of
appearance belonging to the physical senses. He works as much in the
innermost realm of the Spirit – in the realm of causes – as on this earth, but !
also in those nether spiritual worlds entered by a human spirit when he
leaves this earth. He testifies to this work with these words:!
‘THE HOUR IS COMING AND NOW IS, WHEN THE DEAD (THROUGH
ME) SHALL HEAR THE VOICE OF THE SON; AND THEY THAT HEAR
SHALL LIVE.’!
For the Luminary can awake them—he can prepare them for new birth in
the Spirit which the Father brings about.
JOHN!
5:26
For as the Father hath life in
himself; so hath he given to
the Son to have life in
himself;
WSDOM JOHN!
Pure Teaching
Just as in the Luminary of the Primal Light the ‘Father’ comes, still during
this earthly life, to self-expression in the ‘son’, – so, the Luminary
experiences himself as the ‘son’ of the eternal ‘Father’, the supreme head !
of all Luminaries on earth, from whom and in whom each member of this
spiritual community lives in absolute union; and through the Luminary the
‘Father’, the primally begotten Human of Eternity in the Primal Word, is
recognized in his earthly human revelation.!
FOR AS THE FATHER HATH LIFE IN HIMSELF; SO HATH HE GIVEN TO
THE SON TO HAVE LIFE IN HIMSELF.’
JOHN !
6:33-35
33 For the bread of God is he
which cometh down from
heaven, and giveth life unto
the world.!
34 Then said they unto him,
Lord, evermore give us this
bread.!
35 And Jesus said unto
them, I am the bread of life:
he that cometh to me shall
never hunger; and he that
believeth on me shall never
thirst.
WSDOM JOHN!
Pure Teaching
*** see JOHN 6:53-58 ***
JOHN!
6:44
No man can come to me,
except the Father which hath
sent me draw him: and I will
raise him up at the last day.
WSDOM JOHN!
Pure Teaching
NO MAN CAN COME TO ME, EXCEPT THE FATHER WHICH HAS SENT
ME DRAW HIM UNTO ME, THAT I MAY AWAKE HIM AT HIS LAST DAY.’!
But no human Spirit can attain lasting life within the realm of the Spirit
unless it believes it will find this life. !
And of this belief alone, which must be confident trust, the Master once
spoke with respect to his teaching, which brought all the certainty from the !
spiritual world down to this Earth through the lips of a man.
JOHN!
6:53-58
53 Then Jesus said unto
them, Verily, verily, I say unto
you, Except ye eat the flesh
of the Son of man, and drink
his blood, ye have no life in
you.!
54 Whoso eateth my flesh,
and drinketh my blood, hath
eternal life; and I will raise
him up at the last day.!
55 For my flesh is meat
indeed, and my blood is
drink indeed.!
56 He that eateth my flesh,
and drinketh my blood,
dwelleth in me, and I in him.!
57 As the living Father hath
sent me, and I live by the
Father: so he that eateth me,
even he shall live by me.!
58 This is that bread which
came down from heaven: not
as your fathers did eat
manna, and are dead: he that
eateth of this bread shall live
for ever.
WSDOM JOHN!
Pure Teaching
THIS IS THE BREAD WHICH COMES DOWN FROM HEAVEN, THAT A
MAN MAY EAT THEREOF, AND NOT DIE.’!
And the Master said of the same ‘body’ of one born in the Spirit that this
‘body’ was as ‘real’ in the spiritual world of appearance as ‘flesh’ and
‘blood’ !
in this earthly form of appearance, so that only those who possessed this
spiritual body could have conscious life in the Spirit.!
‘EXCEPT YE HAVE THE FLESH OF THE SON OF MAN AND HIS BLOOD
WITHIN YOU, YE SHALL HAVE NO LIFE IN YOU.’!
Everything which is found in this passage in the message handed down to
us, where the words about the ‘bread’ are mingled with those about the !
‘flesh’ and ‘blood’, is a later distortion and deliberate addition.!
The saying about the spiritual ‘body’ was found to be well suited to
support the new cult, which had arisen from the cultic traditions of mystical
religious communities as known all over the east in those days. !
Thus the Master’s words were altered in such a way that they seemed to
speak of his own, earthly flesh and blood, and not of that which bore his
spiritual consciousness in the innermost realm of the Spirit, in the way that
flesh and blood here on Earth bore his earthly consciousness.!
This particular religious conviction was repeated in many paraphrases in
the account while linking it at the same time closely to the sayings about
the ‘bread of heaven’ in similar paraphrasing.
JOHN!
6:60
Many therefore of his
disciples, when they had
heard this, said, This is an
hard saying; who can hear it?
LOVE!
Great Man!
The few he had nonetheless chosen often had to suffer hard words for
the sake of the narrowness of their hearts; and only rarely did he trust their !
power to comprehend.
JOHN!
6:68
Then Simon Peter answered
him, Lord, to whom shall we
go? thou hast the words of
eternal life.
MORE LIGHT!
Theosophy
The pious of his time called the spiritual master from Nazareth a ‘glutton
and a wine bibber’ for they could not understand that a man who was
‘from God’ thus would live with ‘sinners’ without despising the gifts of this
earth.!
They knew nothing of the fact that in him ‘the kingdom of heaven’ in
which he spiritually lived – had come into their presence, in the midst of
this life on earth, and the recognition of Cephas-Peter was foreign to them:!
“Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of life!”!
Yet the ‘Son of God’ of the Gospels never thought of regarding his human
personality as the only bearer of this sonship on earth. Only his later
exegetes misunderstood his words in this manner, twisting and distorting
their meaning.
JOHN!
7:15
And the Jews marveled,
saying, How knoweth this
man letters, having never
learned?
GOLGOTHA
Dreadful
Enemies
The heard-hearted said of him: “How knoweth this man the scriptures
having never ‘learned’?”!
They did not suspect that he carried a deeper source of wisdom within
him than even the “scriptures” could reveal to the scribes. They had to
serve as slaves to reason, since they found nothing in themselves but
reason, – nothing which could have bestowed brighter light and purer
clarity
JOHN!
7:16-17
16 Jesus answered them,
and said, My doctrine is not
mine, but his that sent me.!
17 If any man will do his will,
he shall know of the doctrine,
whether it be of God, or
whether I speak of myself.
WSDOM JOHN!
Pure Teaching
Again and again it is emphasized that the Luminary of the Primal Light, in
whom is found on Earth the supreme capacity for spiritual experience in a
man of this Earth – who can unite supreme spirituality with the beast –
teaches not his own earthly human wisdom, but speaks from the fullness
of knowledge revealed to him by the ‘Father’.!
‘MY TEACHING IS NOT MINE, BUT HIS THAT SENT ME. IF ANY MAN
WILL DO HIS WILL, HE SHALL KNOW OF THE TEACHING, WHETHER IT
BE OF GOD, OR WHETHER I SPEAK OF MYSELF.’!
Any confirmation of the teaching of the Luminary presupposes that the
pupil does not just recognize the immeasurable significance inherent in the
fact that a mortal man can testify of the innermost realm of the Spirit, but
also that he acts according to the spiritual laws which the Luminary has
come to reveal, only in accordance and harmony with the ‘will’ of his
‘Father’.
JOHN!
7:28
Then cried Jesus in the
temple as he taught, saying,
Ye both know me, and ye
know whence I am: and I am
not come of myself, but he
that sent me is true, whom
ye know not.
WSDOM JOHN!
Pure Teaching
From his conscious self-experience as spiritual ‘son’ of the eternal
spiritual ‘father’ in the Primal Word: – from his consciousness within the
spiritual world !
of appearance – the Master proclaims the pure teaching.!
‘YE BOTH KNOW ME AND KNOW WHENCE I AM; BUT I CAME NOT OF
MYSELF’ – My earthly origin entitles me not to teach and speak to you as I
do – BUT ‘HE THAT SENT ME IS TRUE, WHOM YE KNOW NOT.’!
‘IF I BEAR WITNESS OF MYSELF, MY WITNESS IS TRUE, FOR I KNOW
WHENCE I CAME AND WHITHER I GO.’!
‘YEA, HE THAT SENT ME IS WITH ME AND DOES NOT FORSAKE ME,
BECAUSE I ALWAYS DO WHAT PLEASES HIM.’
JOHN!
7:38
He that believeth on me, as
the scripture hath said, out of
his belly shall flow rivers of
living water.
WSDOM JOHN!
Pure Teaching
WHO BELIEVES IN ME, FROM HIS BELLY SHALL FLOW STREAMS OF
LIVING WATER.’ !
He shall of himself continue to propagate the spiritual in the spiritual
world of appearance, for here we speak about the ‘body’ of one born in the !
Spirit.
JOHN!
8:14!
Jesus answered and said
unto them, Though I bear
record of myself, yet my
record is true: for I know
whence I came, and whither I
go; but ye cannot tell whence
I come, and whither I go.
WSDOM JOHN!
Pure Teaching
*** see JOHN 7:28 ***
GOLGOTHA!
Mystery
“If I bear witness of myself, then my witness is true, for I know whence I
come and whither I go; but ye know not whence I come or whither I go.” !
Even until today contemplation and belief will not comprehend him
purely in his most unique essence, unless he who contemplates and
believes knows “whence” the Master came and “whither” he went, knows
that here stands before him one of the “Luminaries of the Primal Light”,
revered in wonder by his “brethren” until this very hour, as the greatest
“Man of Love” among them, departed from their circle and returned to it, in
order, in invisible form, not to leave the spiritual aura of the Earth before
the last human spirit, here living in the beast, has come into the Light. –
JOHN !
8:15
Ye judge after the flesh; I
judge no man.
WSDOM JOHN!
Portrait of the
Master
Nothing that is human was foreign to him; he was very familiar with the
struggle of man’s spiritual nature against the rebellious lusts of the beast in
man. !
“Ye judge according to the appearance; I judge no man, for the Father
judgeth no man.”
JOHN !
8:23
And he said unto them, Ye
are from beneath; I am from
above: ye are of this world; I
am not of this world.
WSDOM JOHN!
Portrait of the
Master
But he is not worried about being misunderstood when he knows that
every explanation would not produce the understanding he seeks. !
In full consciousness of his special spiritual status among the men of his
time he can declare with supreme authority: !
“Ye are from beneath; I am from above. Ye are old this world; I am not of
this world.”!
Yet he also knew, like no one of those close to him, from where he got
his elevated dignity, knew of the many years of spiritual training, knew of
the bitter struggle within himself to which he finally owed the certainty
enabling him now to speak and to teach ‘unlike the scribes.’!
The high mystery of his mission was known only to a few, and even
those few failed to comprehend it, apart from the one he ‘loved’. Only this
one knew of his Master’s spiritual growth and of the deepest foundation of
his right to teach.!
When after the Master’s death ‘the flock was scattered’ this disciple
gathered around him those of like mind. He imparted his knowledge to
those who proved themselves worthy of his teaching.
JOHN!
8:26
I have many things to say
and to judge of you: but he
that sent me is true; and I
speak to the world those
things which I have heard of
him.
WSDOM JOHN!
Pure Teaching
*** see JOHN 7:28 ***
JOHN!
8:28
Then said Jesus unto them,
When ye have lifted up the
Son of man, then shall ye
know that I am he, and that I
do nothing of myself; but as
my Father hath taught me, I
speak these things.
WSDOM JOHN!
Pure Teaching
And once more, to show that confirmation is only attained by those who
in the same way trust the Luminaries of the Primal Light, as those who had
to trust in the miracle-working serpent of Moses if they wanted to be
healed, the author of the ancient message has the Master say these
words:!
‘WHEN YE HAVE LIFTED UP THE SON OF MAN, THEN SHALL YE
KNOW THAT I AM HE, AND THAT I DO NOTHING OF MYSELF’ – as an
earthly man, according to my human willfulness – ‘BUT AS MY FATHER
HAS TAUGHT ME, I SPEAK THESE THINGS.’
JOHN!
8:29
And he that sent me is with
me: the Father hath not left
me alone; for I do always
those things that please him.
WSDOM JOHN!
Pure Teaching
*** see JOHN 7:28 ***
JOHN !
8:42-47
42 Jesus said unto them, If
God were your Father, ye
would love me: for I
proceeded forth and came
from God; neither came I of
myself, but he sent me.!
43 Why do ye not
understand my speech?
even because ye cannot hear
my word.!
44 Ye are of your father the
devil, and the lusts of your
father ye will do. He was a
murderer from the beginning,
and abode not in the truth,
because there is no truth in
him. When he speaketh a lie,
he speaketh of his own: for
he is a liar, and the father of
it.!
45 And because I tell you the
truth, ye believe me not.!
46 Which of you convinceth
me of sin? And if I say the
truth, why do ye not believe
me?!
47 He that is of God heareth
God's words: ye therefore
hear them not, because ye
are not of God.
GOLGOTHA!
Spiritual
Guidance
The true spiritual guide knows without being asked where the seeker
requires clarity. But he is also required to observe time and situation, which
for the seeker offer the conditions allowing him to assimilate complete
clarification. For not at every time and in every place is the soul capable of
really assimilating without distortion the picture which rays of spiritual light
continually impress upon it.!
Certainly one must also not expect spiritual guidance from one of the
Luminaries of the Primal Light on Earth whilst being caught up in
arrogance that one is in possession of infallibly correct knowledge, and
that the guide naturally has to submit to this extraordinary “logical”
knowledge.!
Again, one must not consider that one has reached genuine spiritual
guidance if it is simply to be enjoyed on the side, as a pastime; if one is so
far from the spiritual that real Spirit is confused with cerebral acrobatics; if
one believes it attainable even without guidance; if one essentially is of a
mind to deliver the expected guidance as material to pedantic dialectics. !
Only “whoever is of God hears God’s word”, and the fullness of the light
of the “Word” which is “with God” and is “God” is only communicated
when a truly spiritual guide appears in the life of a soul.
LOVE!
Great Man
*** see JOHN 2:15-16 ***
JOHN !
8:55
Yet ye have not known him;
but I know him: and if I
should say, I know him not, I
shall be a liar like unto you:
but I know him, and keep his
saying.
GOLGOTHA!
Occult Practice
“If I were to speak from myself I would be a liar, but I have not spoken of
myself, even as the Father has said unto me, so I speak!”!
None of those who speaks from truth says what he teaches of himself,
and no one is entitled to show the path to unity in the Spirit if he does not
carry the Father alive within himself: if he does not live fully conscious in
unison with his “living God”.
JOHN!
9:4!
I must work the works of him
that sent me, while it is day:
the night cometh, when no
man can work.
THE SECRET!
Rocky Island
There is no real redemption for earthly humans apart from: in the body
and bodily experienced through the living substantial Spirit formed just like
his body!!!
Only when he recognizes his identically formed spiritual life within his
whole self-awareness through the earthly body, has he ‘reached the spirit’.
Only then may he allow his thoughts, without fear of deception, to
construct the high dome which shall crown the temple of the Spirit and be
visible from far and wide.!
Prior to this everything he wants to build is at best only an interesting
façade blown down by the first storm wind. And when he must return this
earthly body to the Earth he will not know where to shelter; for what he has
built could only be seen by earthly eyes and vanishes with the earthly body
from his human consciousness which, not yet united with his spirituality, is
hereafter surrounded by illusions.!
So might the exalted Master then truly say: !
‘Work while it is day; the night cometh when no man can work’.!
This ‘night’ is nothing other than the lack of ability without the body’s
resonance to hear the voice of one’s own eternal spirit, in the way as would
be possible here on Earth. For that ‘temple’ which is to be built is like, to
use a different image, a symphony which needs not only the composer and !
its orchestra but also the listener capable of hearing it.
GOLGOTHA!
Growth of the
Soul
Anyone seeking to divert the strivings of his soul, commonly described
as “religious”, who sees for example his “religion” in art, in aesthetic
sensibility, in the scientific urge for knowledge or in joy in “Nature”, has
become a slave to this finer physical organism and is in great danger of
becoming a murderer of his soul. !
Even if part of his soul’s powers continues to be active in him, he will not
be able to round them into an individual soul within himself; and when at
some time together with the physical body also its finer powers are
withdrawn from him, he will have to spend epochs, which amount to
millennia in earthy computation, in an oppressive, tortuous half-
consciousness, until his exalted helpers are able to “re-awaken” his soul to
life. Once, “awoken”, he will then begin to truly live in that one place where
only those can live in full clarity of consciousness, whose powers of the
soul became united into the individual soul. !
Therefore it is said: !
“Work while it is day; the night cometh, when no man can work.”!
But it comes only for those who failed to understand how to increase the
powers of the soul entrusted to him.
MORE LIGHT!
True Service
There is only one thing which needs to be done: to offer up willingly and
without reservation, in service to ourselves, all the powers of the soul, all
the abilities to experience the body, every impulse and every feeling, to the
Spirit–the Living God within us. Only in this way is it possible for the eternal
divine Spirit to unite gradually with our human consciousness and to
bestow again upon us from itself these powers, impulses, feelings and
abilities to experience as willing servants–once we are been prepared to
master them from the illuminated core of our Being which begets us
eternally.!
This is the ‘true service of God’ which each must accomplish who wants
to take his earthly human consciousness with him to the other side, not
only for vast stretches of time but for all Eternity!!
“Work while it is day, for the night comes when no man can work!”!
Here in this life on Earth it is possible for us to ‘work’. But after leaving
the physical world one finds oneself in the situation one has created for
oneself and must remain passive until, without one’s influence, perhaps in
a shorter period of time, perhaps only after millennia–speaking in earthly
terms–one’s soul has been purified to the extent that substantial spiritual
essences at one with God manage to awaken within the consciousness of
the true inheritance of one’s divine essence, of one’s Living God. Only then
can the reversal of the will occur through which one surrenders all one’s
powers for the use of one’s ‘Living God’, through which can only then be
brought about within the unison of one’s consciousness with the eternal
consciousness of the divine Spirit, a unison which even no ‘act of grace’
by the Godhead can ever bring about in any other way!!
But by now one’s earthly human consciousness has long since vanished,
like a dream vanishes. Although ‘saved’, one’s life on this Earth with all !
its striving, its happiness and its toil cannot be remembered for Eternity;
one has not attained for oneself the prize of the victor, the expansion of
consciousness of one who has passed through the outermost realms of
divine self-revelation!
WORDS LIFE!
Light
“Work while it is day, the night cometh”–for all who have not worked
while here on earth–“when no man can work” because they are for an
incalculable time prey to that darkness which they had failed to escape
during their time on Earth on account of their lethargic self-satisfaction and
the delusion that the conscious experience of their own value was riches
enough for them not to need me: the essential Light.
HORT CONC!
Nothing To Say
The night when no man can work’ is only ‘night’ to those who do not
strive to use the spiritual help of their earthly bodies; only of this kind is it
said that ‘no man’ is able to ‘work’ in the dark night. It is not at all easy to
see through one’s dreams in the bright light of day and perceive that the
dreamed reality is only ‘reality’ for the dream playing within it. It is far easier
to come to this realization when the earthly body can still offer earthly
resonance to the feeling of the eternal than after the death of the body
which definitely removes this possibility.!
Those one must leave to dream on, since they are still far from being
tired of sleeping and, of course, suspect nothing of these things and do
not want to have any suspicion of what might waken them up. They feel
too comfortable in their dreaming which they call their ‘wakeful thinking’ to
be even capable of feeling the slightest urge within them to exchange their
condition for another. In the belief that all darkness must be illuminated by
the thinking of their brains, they suspect error and illusion wherever
illumination is impossible for the knowledge of their dreams, because only
the awakened feeling ability of the soul can apprehend the substantial light
of the eternal Spirit. !
And none so self-assured in their dreams are aware of how valuable their
earthly bodies could become, if they could only use them as temporal
intensifiers of feeling through which it becomes so much easier for the soul
to bring the very delicate feelings of the Spirit to the consciousness of the
brain.
CULT MAGIC!
Magic !
Recognition
Contrary to those fables which prophesy for the human spirit easier
recognition after departing the body of the earthly animal, I must declare
that for the human spirit which masters the powers of the animal of this
Earth while still in this earthly life, innermost experience—which alone
grants recognition of the ultimate reality—is much easier; indeed, without
this earthly body the human spirit must fulfill indescribably more difficult
things, if it is to reach its fixed inescapable goal.
JOHN !
10:9
I am the door: by me if any
man enter in, he shall be
saved, and shall go in and
out, and find pasture.
MORE LIGHT!
Theosophy
*** see PSALMS 118:22 ***
JOHN!
10:29
My Father, which gave them
me, is greater than all; and
no man is able to pluck them
out of my Father's hand.
WSDOM JOHN!
Pure Teaching
He experiences this life [of the Spirit] himself and can testify of it:!
‘WHAT MY FATHER GAVE UNTO ME IS GREATER THAN ALL; AND NO
MAN IS ABLE TO PLUCK IT OUT OF MY FATHER’S HAND.’
JOHN !
10:30
I and my Father are one.!
WSDOM JOHN!
Pure Teaching
Like the exalted Master, every Luminary of the Primal Light must testify:!
‘I AND THE FATHER ARE ONE. HE THAT SEES ME SEES THE FATHER’.!
For the ‘Father’ in the Primal Word has no other self-representation on
this Earth than the Luminary of the Primal Light. The ‘Father’ has prepared
the Luminary for himself as self-representation. While the Luminary still
lived in an earthly form the ‘Father’ has begotten of himself a spiritual form
for him which allowed him to live consciously in the spiritual world of
appearance without withdrawing from this earthly world.!
He has truly become the ‘Father’s’ ‘son’ ‘born’ within the Primal Word!
MORE LIGHT!
Theosophy
*** see JOHN 5:19 ***
THE SECRET!
Santo Spirito
For this man at the center of the ancient accounts was a member of this
spiritual union of those at one with God. What he taught, he taught in !
the way the ‘Father’ had commanded, – the ‘Father’ of these Luminaries,
whom each of his ‘sons’ knows and of whom each can say:!
‘I and the Father are one!’!
‘Whoever sees me, sees the Father!’
GOLGOTHA!
Foolish
Inventions
No less difficult was it for them to follow him when he said:!
“I and the Father are one! Whoever sees me, sees the Father!”!
But:!
“The Father is greater than I!”!
Such sayings come almost fearfully near to reality with the result that
they had to appear most dubious to “those of little faith”, particularly as
they could still not yet know how beautifully Christian “theology” would be
able to interpret such sentences.!
If one wishes to comprehend the sentences for oneself, then one must
very consciously forget such interpretations.
JOHN!
11:25-26
25 Jesus said unto her, I am
the resurrection, and the life:
he that believeth in me,
though he were dead, yet
shall he live:!
26 And whosoever liveth and
believeth in me shall never
die.
RESURRECT!
Resurrection
There once lived one who received the ‘ministry’ from his ‘father’, of
whom he said that he was ‘greater’ than him, and he said these words:!
“I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me though he were
dead yet shall he live: and whosoever believeth in me shall never die!”!
Truly he was not talking about a rigid avowal but of himself and of what
he was himself, and his word was clear enough when he said: that he
knew ‘his own’ as his own knew him!!
Still most do not know who he was who was permitted to speak in this
manner – who are ‘his own’ to whom he belonged and who is the ‘father’ !
who gave him his ministry…
JOHN!
12:8
For the poor always ye have
with you; but me ye have not
always.
WSDOM JOHN!
Portrait of the
Master
He seeks no honors, but when he is honored he feels worthy of it. If a
narrow mind among his followers moans about waste because precious !
ointment has been used to refresh the Master’s feet instead of being sold
to alleviate the plight of the poor, he calmly says:!
“FOR THE POOR YE ALWAYS HAVE WITH YOU; BUT ME YOU HAVE
NOT ALWAYS.”!
In saying this he is far from foreseeing – as later interpretation would
have it – his imminent death, but merely remarking that he did not often
tarry in the same place.
JOHN!
12:27
Now is my soul troubled; and
what shall I say? Father, save
me from this hour: but for
this cause came I unto this
hour.
WSDOM JOHN!
Portrait of the
Master
Yet in hours of attachment to the Earth he does not in any degree shy
away from revealing the deepest anxiety of his soul; his elevated insight
apparently threatens to abandon him.!
“NOW IS MY SOUL TROUBLED; AND WHAT CAN I SAY? FATHER, SAVE
ME FROM THIS HOUR!”
JOHN!
12:31
Now is the judgment of this
world: now shall the prince of
this world be cast out.
PATH TO GOD!
Great Struggle
One of those who broke free of this invisible ruler’s powerful chains
spoke to you of him as the ‘prince of darkness’, – but you did not know of !
whom he spoke, and still you do not know…!
The one described as the ‘prince of darkness’ in the precise conception
of that exalted master is indeed a ‘prince’ of the cosmic night, even if his
dominion was much reduced by the same man whose lips first came up
with that designation. – –!
We speak here of a real being in the invisible physical cosmos to which
all things on Earth of a physical nature are physically subjected until it one !
day disintegrates itself along with this planet: – to dissolve into
unconscious cosmic power!
JOHN!
12:32!
And I, if I be lifted up from
the earth, will draw all men
unto me.
MAN!
Path of the
Woman
*** see JOHN 2:3-4 ***
JOHN !
12:44-50
44 Jesus cried and said, He
that believeth on me,
believeth not on me, but on
him that sent me.!
45 And he that seeth me
seeth him that sent me.!
46 I am come a light into the
world, that whosoever
believeth on me should not
abide in darkness.!
47 And if any man hear my
words, and believe not, I
judge him not: for I came not
WSDOM JOHN!
Pure Teaching
But it is not for himself alone that he would be in everlasting life,
therefore he says:!
‘HE THAT BELIEVES ON ME, BELIEVES NOT ON ME, BUT ON HIM THAT
SENT ME.!
I AM COME A LIGHT INTO THE WORLD, THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVES
ON ME SHOULD NOT ABIDE IN DARKNESS.!
FOR I HAVE NOT SPOKEN OF MYSELF; BUT THE FATHER WHICH
SENT ME, HE GAVE ME A COMMANDMENT, WHAT I SHOULD SAY AND !
WHAT I SHOULD SPEAK.!
AND I KNOW THAT HIS COMMANDMENT IS LIFE EVERLASTING.!
WHATSOEVER I SPEAK THEREFORE, EVEN AS THE FATHER SAID
UNTO ME, SO I SPEAK.’
words, and believe not, I
judge him not: for I came not
to judge the world, but to
save the world.!
48 He that rejecteth me, and
receiveth not my words, hath
one that judgeth him: the
word that I have spoken, the
same shall judge him in the
last day.!
49 For I have not spoken of
myself; but the Father which
sent me, he gave me a
commandment, what I
should say, and what I
should speak.!
50 And I know that his
commandment is life
everlasting: whatsoever I
speak therefore, even as the
Father said unto me, so I
speak.
LOVE!
Redeeming
Light
In every Luminary of the Primal Light is the ‘Father’, eternally continuing
propagating his ‘son’, the Luminary, – in truth of one being with his light-
filled nature, for whom the earthly body is but an external vehicle to effect
on Earth what needs the form of the Earth for appearing in the life of a man
of this earth! !
Thus the Master of Nazareth could say in truth to his pupils: !
“He who sees me, sees the Father”, and !
“No man cometh unto the ‘Father’ except through me”:!
through that which is life in me as the spiritually propagated ‘son’ of the
‘Father’…
MORE LIGHT!
Theosophy
“He who seeks will find, and he who knocks, it will be opened unto him,”
– but only constant perseverance when seeking and knocking within one’s
own inner being leads to the goal which the Master of the Gospels showed
to his chosen ones when he said:!
“Whoever believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me!”!
“For I have not spoken of myself, but the Father which sent me, he gave
me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. And I
know that his commandment is life eternal: whatsoever I speak therefore,
even as the Father said unto me, so I speak!”!
In these words he speaks for everyone who knows the ‘father’, whether
revealed on Earth in India, China, Tibet, or in modern Europe. The words of !
everyone who teaches as the ‘father’ commands him to teach, lead to true
‘theo-sophia’ which is identical to the originally imparted mysterious and !
spiritual ‘Christianity’ from the eternal ‘Christos’ in the Primal Light whose
most sublime temple on Earth was found only in the ‘innermost east’ long
before the Master of Nazareth, as one belonging to it, taught how to
experience eternal love.
GOLGOTHA!
Occultist
Practices
“If I were to speak from myself I would be a liar, but I have not spoken of
myself, even as the Father has said unto me, so I speak!”!
None of those who speaks from truth says what he teaches of himself,
and no one is entitled to show the path to unity in the Spirit if he does not
carry the Father alive within himself: if he does not live fully conscious in
unison with his “living God”.
JOHN!
13:3
Jesus knowing that the
Father had given all things
into his hands, and that he
was come from God, and
went to God;
GOLGOTHA!
Mystery
The power of love alone was able to bring about the miracle! !
That he, compelled to suffer torture and death, was able to forgive
humanity, was moved by forgiveness to his final breath, that alone was his
work of enduring redemption; for, in accord with spiritual law, every human
spirit on Earth, overcome by the beast and burdened with guilt, is released
from his enslavement through by the might Love – if only he takes the hand
offered him in help; if only he will receive within himself that which in the
Luminary had gained form as “flesh and blood,” in order to unite the beast
to the spirit within him.!
Only the one to whom “the Father had given everything” could bring
such “forgiveness” encompassing all humanity!
JOHN !
13:13
Ye call me Master and Lord:
and ye say well; for so I am.
MORE LIGHT!
Theosophy
The ancient records of his life and death have him keep silent about
Pilate’s question: who he was; yet to those who had recognised the things
‘flesh and blood could not reveal’ he gives in his sovereignty confirmation
and says to them:!
“You call me Master, and you say well, for so I am!”
JOHN!
13:20
Verily, verily, I say unto you,
He that receiveth
whomsoever I send receiveth
me; and he that receiveth me
receiveth him that sent me.
WSDOM JOHN!
The Paraclete
*** see JOHN 14:16-20 ***
JOHN !
13:23
Now there was leaning on
Jesus' bosom one of his
disciples, whom Jesus loved.
WSDOM JOHN!
Portrait of the
Master
The high mystery of his mission was known only to a few; even those few
failed to comprehend it, apart from the one he ‘loved’.!
Only this one knew of his Master’s spiritual background and of the
deepest foundation of his right to teach.!
When, after the Master’s death, ‘the flock was scattered’, this disciple
gathered around him those of like mind. He imparted his knowledge to
those who proved themselves worthy of his teaching.
JOHN !
14:2
In my Father's house are
many mansions: if it were not
so, I would have told you. I
go to prepare a place for
you.
GOLGOTHA!
Mystery
The believing Christian sees in the Master, after whom he names himself,
the only “begotten Son of the Father”. But the Master himself, “full of
mercy and truth”, professes that in his Father’s house are “many
mansions”, that it was not for him to determine who would sit on his right
hand and on his left hand in his Father’s kingdom and that “the Father is
greater” than him.
THE SECRET!
Sea Journey
But he also said once that he would send one who bore the seal of his
mission. And that he can be taken in by those who could accept him as an !
emissary from the house of his ‘Father’ of which he said that it had many
mansions….
MORE LIGHT!
On the 3 Levels
But he was truly ‘son of God’, precisely like his spiritual brothers born
from the pure spirit; he did not hide the fact that there were ‘many’
mansions in his father’s house.
JOHN!
14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am
the way, the truth, and the
life: no man cometh unto the
Father, but by me.
WSDOM JOHN!
Pure Teaching
And in the incontrovertible certainty that he is, within the world around
him, the only one who knows what is needed for an earthly human ‘on its
last day’ in this world of appearance to be ready for eternal ‘birth’ in the
spiritual world of appearance, he speaks the mighty words:!
‘I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE. NO MAN COMES UNTO
THE FATHER BUT BY ME!’!
For the spiritually begotten, which he calls the ‘son’ and as such
experiences himself as a Luminary of the Primal Light, is for every spirit of
man the same; in it alone the spirit of man attains intransient life within the
world of Spirit.
GOLGOTHA!
Mystery
Of all who live on earth, only someone who has “found his way back” to
where he once came from as spiritual form, can give true witness to this !
“reality”.!
“No man can come to the Father but through me!” !
The one who once uttered this word belongs to the few who had
experienced the real “from face to face” long before they assumed the
corporeal apparel of an earthly animal, in which they can teach in person
what the “Father” has them tell.
THE SECRET!
Sea Journey
I too, my good friend, cannot lead you to wakeful knowledge through
awareness unless I lead you on the same path which the exalted Master of
Nazareth taught us to walk after he changed himself into the ‘way’ and was
permitted to say that he was ‘the way, the truth and the life’. !
Thus I intend to show you this path today and give you the light-filled
teaching as to how you can, as soon as possible, follow the high path
leading you to the gate to wakeful experience of yourself in the Spirit.
MORE LIGHT!
Theosophy
*** see PSALMS 118:22 ***
MORE LIGHT!
On the 3 Levels
“No man comes to the Father except through me!” So it was that one of
our kind who had truly become ‘path’ could speak long ago – yet he was
not understood, and they made of him, – in accordance with the general
notion of his time, – a god who had become man. !
But he was truly ‘son of God’, precisely like his spiritual brothers born
from the pure spirit; he did not hide the fact that there were ‘many’
mansions in his father’s house.
WORLDS!
To Conclude
You loving one - you who would find light and enlightenment in this book
– know that light and enlightenment has never come to anyone through !
reading and thinking!!
The teaching I have to impart to you here is Life, Way and Truth, but you
can only receive it if you allow it to become Life, Way and Truth within
yourself.
ABOVE EVERY!
John14:6
“I am the Way,!
The Truth and the Life!”!
Those who found the Father!
Found him only through me!!
Only in me!
Can you raise yourself to the eternal!!
Only in me!
Do you find your true ‘I’! – –!
I am the Word!
That only speaks itself!!
I am the Grace,!
The Redemption!
And the Light!
LOVE!
Redeeming !
Light
*** see JOHN 12:44-50 ***
JOHN!
14:9-11!
9 Jesus saith unto him, Have
I been so long time with you,
and yet hast thou not known
me, Philip? he that hath seen
me hath seen the Father; and
how sayest thou then, Shew
us the Father?!
10 Believest thou not that I
am in the Father, and the
Father in me? the words that
I speak unto you I speak not
of myself: but the Father that
dwelleth in me, he doeth the
works.!
11 Believe me that I am in
the Father, and the Father in
me: or else believe me for the
very works' sake.!
ETERNL REAL!
Differentiation
The Father loves me,!
As I love myself!
In the Father.!
Here Love loves!
Itself in itself,!
Incomparable!
With physical urge,!
Even urge and Love!
Are originally connected.!
Thus I love the Father,!
As he himself loves !
Himself in me,!
To whom he gives life from himself!
For Eternity.!
Yet my Love!
Lives only through the life!
From which the Father!
Gives himself the Son.
very works' sake.!
LIFE LIGHT!
One Within the
Other
The ‘Father’!
lives within ‘Primal Being’,!
and as ‘Primal Light’!
pours itself into ‘Primal Word’,!
from out of which the Father,!
Self-begotten, lives his Self,!
And raises up all who are ‘luminous’ within him!
to Primal Light.!
In the same way!
All live one within the other!
who in the Father!
live out of the Father,!
and all are given in the Father!
Being, and Light, and Word.
JOHN!
14:12
Verily, verily, I say unto you,
He that believeth on me, the
works that I do shall he do
also; and greater works than
these shall he do; because I
go unto my Father.
WORDS LIFE!
Retreat
I have given myself to you as my most precious possession, for truly: I
possess myself! – – but you still do not know that you have greater things
within you than the greatest things you can imagine, for still you have not
come to yourself.!
Everything you imagine as being above you, you carry within yourself! – –!
Alas, if only you would try to teach your upwardly gazing eyes to look into
yourself!! –!
If you would only learn to find yourself in the innermost part of your inner
self so that you can encounter me within yourself!
JOHN !
14:13-14
13 And whatsoever ye shall
ask in my name, that will I
do, that the Father may be
glorified in the Son.!
14 If ye shall ask any thing in
MORE LIGHT!
On the 3 Levels!
PRAYER!
Mystery
*** see: MATTHEW 7:7-8 ***
glorified in the Son.!
14 If ye shall ask any thing in
my name, I will do it.
PRAYER!
Mystery
In his innermost being he who prays will experience what the great
Master’s words meant when he once said to those he considered
sufficiently prepared:!
“Whatever you ask the ‘Father’ for in my name, he will give unto you!”!
Radiantly will be revealed to those who pray the meaning of the words of
praise:!
“Hallowed be thy name!” – and they will finally know why the Master
once taught to ask in his ‘name’, for:!
“Everything the Father has is mine!”!
Thus those who pray in this way will also know in the clearest light of the
Spirit that ‘whatever’ one can ask of the ‘Father’ in the ‘name’ of his self-
revelation is already given and offered from all Eternity, though requiring
the act of ‘asking’ in order to take on a temporal ‘manifestation’, – in !
order to bring about a temporal perception…!
Yet no one will learn to ‘pray’ in such a way except those who are able to
unite their own will completely with the will of the ‘Father’! –!
For those, however, who then know how to ‘pray’, being at one with the
eternal ‘Father’s’ will, all their asking, – whatever they ask for – will be
asking for ‘wings’: – for those wings which will indeed “carry them higher
than the wings of an eagle”!
JOHN!
14:16-20!
JOHN !
14:25-27
16 And I will pray the Father,
and he shall give you another
Comforter, that he may abide
with you for ever;!
17 Even the Spirit of truth;
whom the world cannot
receive, because it seeth him
not, neither knoweth him: but
ye know him; for he dwelleth
with you, and shall be in you.!
18 I will not leave you
comfortless: I will come to
you.!
19 Yet a little while, and the
world seeth me no more; but
ye see me: because I live, ye
shall live also.!
20 At that day ye shall know
that I am in my Father, and
ye in me, and I in you.!
25 These things have I
spoken unto you, being yet
present with you.!
26 But the Comforter, which
is the Holy Ghost, whom the
Father will send in my name,
he shall teach you all things,
and bring all things to your
remembrance, whatsoever I
have said unto you.!
27 Peace I leave with you,
my peace I give unto you:
not as the world giveth, give I
unto you. Let not your heart
be troubled, neither let it be
afraid.
WSDOM JOHN!
Paraclete
Many sayings which the author of the ancient message attributes to the
Master are found in letters written down in the Master’s own hand. Here
almost the complete text of the letter has survived, although it was later
torn apart and inserted into certain passages to satisfy the demands of the !
new cult’s belief. !
The author of the original text of the ancient message once transferred
the text of the Master’s sayings into his own original in the following way:!
‘YET A LITTLE WHILE AND THE WORLD WILL SEE ME NO MORE. !
ON THAT DAY YOU SHALL BE ABLE TO ASK ME NO MORE
QUESTIONS. YET I SHALL NOT ABANDON YOU AS ORPHANS.!
I SHALL PRAY TO THE FATHER, AND HE WILL SEND YOU ANOTHER
TO HELP YOU FROM THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH: ONE WHOM THE WORLD
CANNOT TAKE HOLD OF, FOR IT SEES HIM NOT AND KNOWS NOTHING
OF HIM.!
BUT YOU SHALL RECOGNIZE HIM, FOR HE WILL STAY WITH YOU
AND BE IN YOU.!
HE SHALL TEACH YOU ALL THINGS AND REMIND YOU OF ALL I SAID
TO YOU.!
HE WILL NOT SPEAK OF HIMSELF’ – IN THE SAME WAY I SAID TO
YOU THAT I DO NOT SPEAK OF MYSELF – ‘BUT HE WILL SPEAK WHAT
HE HEARS AND MAKE IT KNOWN TO YOU.!
HE WILL CONFIRM ME TO YOU, FOR HE WILL TAKE OF WHAT IS MINE
AND MAKE IT KNOWN TO YOU.!
ALL THAT THE FATHER HAS IS MINE.!
AND SO I SAY UNTO YOU: HE WILL TAKE OF WHAT IS MINE.!
WHOEVER RECEIVES HIM I SHALL SEND, RECEIVES ME; AND
WHOEVER RECEIVES ME, RECEIVES HIM THAT SENT ME.!
ON THAT DAY YOU SHALL KNOW THAT I AM IN MY FATHER.!
LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED.!
BE NOT AFRAID.!
I LEAVE YOU IN PEACE.!
I GIVE UNTO YOU MY PEACE WHICH THE WORLD CANNOT GIVE.’!
He speaks of nothing else here than that the Luminary promises to send
another teacher after his earthly death; this teacher comes from the
exalted circle of the Luminaries of the Primal Light who no longer live in an
earthly body but in spiritual form. Thus they could reach perfection under
his spiritual guidance without concern that he might be assailed by men
and separated from his pupils, as happened to the Master himself.!
had previously heard from his own mouth.
He expressly says in the same passage that this spiritual teacher, who
they will be capable of hearing only in their innermost selves, similarly ‘not
of himself’, and reveals to them the same things they had previously heard!
from his own mouth.!
He will take from the same treasure of ancient wisdom that every one
who is a ‘son’ of the ‘Father’, receives from the Father’s insight, and
confirm him, the Master himself, through it.!
As the exalted Master himself became a God to the believers of the new
cult soon after his death, so too had this spiritual brother of the Master to !
become a God.
GOLGOTHA!
OccultPractice
*** see JOHN 16:12 ***
WORDS LIFE!
Peace
Your soul seeks peace, – that peace the world cannot give!!
They will have the peace in me that ‘the world’ cannot give, – the peace
which only those can win who, victorious in themselves, finally win me!
JOHN!
14:24
He that loveth me not
keepeth not my sayings: and
the word which ye hear is not
mine, but the Father's which
sent me.
RESURRECT!
Resurrection
The world has still not recognized the profundity of his words when he
said:!
“He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which you
hear is not mine, but the Father’s who sent me!” !
Yet his existence was his ‘teaching’ and his life was the solution of all the
mysteries hidden in man’s earthly existence! !
Only those capable of loving what came to manifest itself on Earth can
experience this solution within themselves!
JOHN!
14:28
Ye have heard how I said
unto you, I go away, and
come again unto you. If ye
loved me, ye would rejoice,
because I said, I go unto the
Father: for my Father is
greater than I.
GOLGOTHA!
Mystery
*** see JOHN 14:2 ***
JOHN!
14:30
Hereafter I will not talk much
with you: for the prince of
this world cometh, and hath
nothing in me.
PATH TO GOD!
Great Struggle
*** see JOHN 12:31 ***
JOHN !
16:12-13
12 I have yet many things to
say unto you, but ye cannot
bear them now.!
13 Howbeit when he, the
Spirit of truth, is come, he
will guide you into all truth:
for he shall not speak of
himself; but whatsoever he
shall hear, that shall he
speak: and he will shew you
things to come.!
GOLGOTHA!
Occult
Practices
In the parables he describes only what is necessary as a “practice”: the
focussing of consciousness on the stimuli of the soul’s powers, and the
subsequent action which the will owes to these stimuli.!
To his own disciples, however, he also showed the working of spiritual
laws…!
Despite this he utters the word: “I would have had much more to say to
you, but you can not yet bear it”; he tells those he instructs that for each
one who is truly prepared comes “the Spiritof truth”, the true divine spark
of Spirit into the true Self of the soul: – the “living God”, – who teaches
them “all truth”, who only takes from “his own” even if he will once speak
from another mouth.!
This saying remains rich in mystery in its double significance, because
everything the Anointed One himself gave was from the sea of spiritual
treasures of the “living God”, whom he carried in himself and with whom
he was consciously united, as with those “like him” whom he saw come
after him.
WSDOM JOHN!
Paraclete
Sometimes he wished for his death to come, at other times he hoped to
still live for a long time so that he could continue to stand by his pupils and !
give them at a later time those things they could ‘not yet bear’.
JOHN!
16:15
All things that the Father hath
are mine: therefore said I,
that he shall take of mine,
and shall shew it unto you.
MORE LIGHT!
Theosophy
*** see JOHN 5:19 ***
PRAYER!
Mystery
*** see: JOHN 14:13-14 ***
WSDOM JOHN!
Paraclete
*** see: JOHN 14:16-20 ***
JOHN !
16:23
And in that day ye shall ask
me nothing. Verily, verily, I
say unto you, Whatsoever ye
shall ask the Father in my
name, he will give it you.
MORE LIGHT!
On the 3 Levels!
PRAYER!
Mystery
*** see: JOHN 14:13-14 ***
JOHN!
18:36
Jesus answered, My
kingdom is not of this world:
if my kingdom were of this
world, then would my
servants fight, that I should
not be delivered to the Jews:
but now is my kingdom not
from hence.
WSDOM JOHN!
Great Man
He spoke of his exalted mission, and they deluded themselves into
thinking that he sought to re-establish the external dominion of their
kingdom on Earth, even though he had announced long before that he
ruled over a kingdom whose eternal might was ‘not of this Earth’.
JOHN!
18:37-38
37 Pilate therefore said unto
him, Art thou a king then?
Jesus answered, Thou
sayest that I am a king. To
this end was I born, and for
this cause came I into the
world, that I should bear
witness unto the truth. Every
one that is of the truth
heareth my voice.!
38 Pilate saith unto him,
What is truth? And when he
had said this, he went out
again unto the Jews, and
saith unto them, I find in him
no fault at all.
FREEDOM!
Consciousness
He who undertakes a search for the consciousness of his reality within
himself can only attain the goal he seeks if from the start he follows the
path reality has laid out for him in his earthly existence.!
It is not now appropriate to ask the question, with allusion to what Pilate
asked, “What is reality?” !
We will leave that simply to the ‘know-it-alls’ who end up as fools!
JOHN!
19:26
When Jesus therefore saw
his mother, and the disciple
standing by, whom he loved,
he saith unto his mother,
Woman, behold thy son!
WSDOM JOHN!
Portrait of the
Master
*** see: JOHN 13:23 ***
JOHN!
19:30
When Jesus therefore had
received the vinegar, he said,
It is finished: and he bowed
his head, and gave up the
ghost.
LOVE!
Primordial Fire
All humanity yet to live on this earthly orb will demand accountability
from all of us when the cosmic “It is finished!” will resound through all
those spheres which once provided refuge to spiritual humans after they
had separated from the Godhead and given themselves up as precious
game driven to an unknown fate! –
JOHN!
20:12
And seeth two angels in
white sitting, the one at the
head, and the other at the
feet, where the body of
Jesus had lain.
LOVE!
Great Man
*** see LUKE 24:2-7 ***
JOHN!
20:29
Jesus saith unto him,
Thomas, because thou hast
seen me, thou hast believed:
blessed are they that have
not seen, and yet have
believed.!
GOLGOTHA!
Occult Practice
This “faith” is not certainty won through experience that one can do
something, but the power through which one can indeed do it! !
There is an indescribably fine irony in the punning saying which the
Master of Nazareth directed at doubting Thomas: “Thomas, because thou
hast seen thou hast believed” (found the account to be correct), “blessed
are they who have not seen” (have not certainty through experience), “and
yet have believed.”!
It is a wonderful pun by the master on the word “believe”, whereas he
uses it firstly in the everyday sense but in the end he alludes to the
doctrine he had been proclaiming for years.!
Whether the saying is “historical” or not, it shows more than many others
the superiority of the Master’s way of teaching, how he could stimulate the
intelligence of his disciples even with puns and irony.
ACTS !
2:1-4
1 And when the day of
Pentecost was fully come,
they were all with one accord
in one place.!
2 And suddenly there came a
sound from heaven as of a
rushing mighty wind, and it
filled all the house where
they were sitting.!
3 And there appeared unto
them cloven tongues like as
of fire, and it sat upon each
of them.!
4 And they were all filled with
the Holy Ghost, and began to
speak with other tongues, as
the Spirit gave them
utterance.
LOVE!
Great Man
Not even that mass awakening which took place in Jerusalem at the
‘Jewish festival of Pentecost’ was able to strip away all veils from the souls
of those who now believed in the Master since they had ‘seen’ him
repeatedly after his death.!
These souls were too confined for the ‘Spirit of Truth’, once promised by
the Master, to be able to bring them to perfection from within themselves.!
Thus Paul, that true man of love, called the ‘Apostle to the Gentiles’ and
‘preacher unto nations’, had a difficult task when he, who once truly
experienced in himself the ‘Spirit of Truth’ in deepest trembling and
thereafter knew who the exalted Master was, met those who were all too
confined, yet daring to call themselves disciples of the ‘Anointed One’!!
And yet even the former pupil of the Pharisees, having become a witness
to Christ, had not shaken off all his prejudices. In good faith he was to
mingle with the Master’s teaching some old elements with which he was
familiar. Nevertheless, he saw much more clearly than those others, calling
themselves ‘messengers’ of a teaching which was once described by the
Master himself as ‘glad tidings’.!
Unfortunately the teaching turned out to be far from glad. In the course
of centuries it gained power over souls, self-righteously basing itself on !
the Master’s words about ‘glad tidings’!
ACTS !
4:11
This is the stone which was
set at nought of you builders,
which is become the head of
the corner.
MORE LIGHT!
Architects!
MORE LIGHT!
Theosophy
*** see PSALMS 118:22 ***
ROMANS!
8:19
For the earnest expectation
of the creature waiteth for the
manifestation of the sons of
God.
RESURRECT!
Omnipotence
Furthermore, it is necessary to know the incontrovertible fact that any
possibility of diverting the direction of earthly causal events by God is
given only through the human spirit: Any influence of God on human
existence on earth, and man’s readiness to clear the way for this
possibility, takes place within the conscious attitude of the human will or
through passive devotion in prayer. !
All creatures await redemption through the children of God!
1CORINTH!
2:9
But as it is written, Eye hath
not seen, nor ear heard,
neither have entered into the
heart of man, the things
which God hath prepared for
them that love him.
BEYOND!
Skill of Dying
It was no empty saying that was used by a wise man long ago when,
almost overpowered by the majesty of what he beheld, he found the
words:!
“Eyes have not seen, nor ears heard what God has prepared for those
that love him!”!
But to ‘love God’ means: – to ‘love’ all the toils and troubles of the earth,
to accept them so willingly, as though we had willed and sought all things
in exactly the way they came into our lives! –!
To ‘love God’ means: – to love the Earth and all things living on it, –
exactly as they are, – even though they may be contrary to our wishes! –!
To ‘love God’ means: – to love oneself, and for one’s own sake to accept
joyfully all the burdens given us to bear on the long and difficult path which
leads us out of error and confusion finally to ourselves, so as we are
eternally in God! – –
LETTERS!
Life In the Light
When Paul, the tent-maker from Tarsus, – this most powerful man among
those men from Asia Minor, who can only be understood by men today
with timid and distant reverence, was the first to apply the teachings of
Jesus to himself and to his own experience, – dares to state:!
“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard the things God has prepared for them
that love him!” – he has summed up all true spiritual experience in the
clearest way.!
Yet the interpretation of what this man of knowledge said has actually
been reversed and subordinated to the folly which thinks that what is
reserved for those who love God is a real banquet of the senses of a kind
which is raised far above what is similar within earthly experience.!
However: !
In the light knowledge and what is known!
Is united with one who knows,!
Whatever seems separated in the earthly sphere!
Is no longer distant!
In space and time,!
For everything is at the same time!
and in the same place!
In Eternity…!
How these things mysteriously come about!
No language can make comprehensible!
For never can words illuminate!
Things only to be experienced as light-filled life!
MORE LIGHT!
Comprehended
You see the host of stars at night and cannot comprehend what it
contains, and yet this whole cosmic universe with its countless solar
systems is but the most insignificant witness to a power and its inherent
will, to a power to which you also owe your existence and whose higher
revelation can be yours in its most very own essence, if you should walk
the path which love and mercy keep open for you!!
“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, the things which God has prepared for
them that love him!”!
Nothing of a physical earthly nature can comprehend the eternal!!
May my words teach you to love everything divine!!
Only when you recognize the divine, inasmuch as you are capable of it in
contemplation, will you love it! Otherwise you will only love a fetish which
you have created for yourself in you imagination.!
Only when you feel, while meditating, the upward pull of the power of the
divine within you, will you recognize eternal Love within you through which
you can accomplish everything useful for your spiritual salvation!!
Only then will you learn to use yourself that incomparable power which
masters all powers—Love, freed from every object of love!!
This divinely living, oscillating primal power from the spiritual ‘world’
through which alone the life of humans on this Earth can be freed from all
fetters!!
This supreme power through which you can free yourself from the
servitude in which you are kept by the invisible forces of the cosmic
physical nature in which you live, forces which are far below you and yet
are currently more powerful than you, until primal Love as such makes you
the unconquerable lord of your life! !
Then you will learn to understand the meaning of the saying:!
“God is love, and he who abides in love, abides in God, and God in him!”
1CORINTH!
2:10
But God hath revealed them
unto us by his Spirit: for the
Spirit searcheth all things,
yea, the deep things of God.
PATH PUPILS!
Whom I Accept
With ‘lucid-feeling’ inner senses one gropes towards the soul in whose
manifestations a power is sensed which is vastly superior to what the brain !
knows about itself.!
We are bound to dismiss the saying of Paul that the Spirit penetrates all
things, even the ‘depths of the Godhead’, if by this statement one thinks !
about a ‘spirit’ as consisting merely of the products of activity by brain
cells. !
Unfortunately it became a secret a long time ago that this saying refers
to the substantial, eternal Spirit which creates the brain from itself but is
completely independent from it…!
It is as impossible to apprehend this ‘spirit’ through cerebral thinking as
with earthly animal senses. !
We must be ‘in’ it if we want to know, to find out and to discover in it;
and we can enter it because we are – even physically – vivified by it:
because it ‘lives’ in us, even if we can not yet live in it…!
But we can never enter ‘the Spirit’ with the help of some kind of
functioning of the brain!
MORE LIGHT!
To Those Tired
Someone once said to you: “The Spirit searches all things, even the
depths of the Godhead!” But in your dreams you have the audacity to
search the Spirit too. You give it desirable attributes and name it—
impressed by your wisdom, and lacking all reverence in your supposed
reverence—your ‘God’! !
Those denying him are still trapped in their delusion, for their denial is
delusion just as is the dreamt up belief of the others. Thoughts create the !
idol, and thoughts destroy what is thought, without even touching reality
from afar.
HIDDEN
MYSTERIES!
Mysteries of
the Future!
(Note: This
book is not part
of the 32-
volume Hortus
Conclusus)
What could be called "universal consciousness" is always only a
conscious awareness of the moment, the consequence of all the myriad
moments before it, — the generator of all the myriad moments after it.!
"But the Spirit searches all things; even the depths of the Godhead," and
so it is possible for the Spirit, through calculation, through deduction, and
in deepest self-contemplation through the realization of its own law, to
unveil future events in advance, but the longing for such knowledge is
reserved only for spirits far from God, and that highest Reality, which
recognizes itself as the Primal Light, as the primal source of all being and
the crown of all existence, – from Eternity to Eternity always perceiving
itself only as the fully conscious awareness of the moment, – knows no
urge to search within itself for the past, nor to destroy, through knowledge
of the future, the absolute harmony of all-encompassing perception that
the moment offers it. !
Take note, those who are able to hear! Many false conclusions have been
drawn from erroneous basic premises about "God" and "the Divine"
because people have placed a mental image before Reality in order to
worship it as an idol, and then, when it proved powerless, they quarreled
with it or even declared it to have lost its idolatrous glory.!
Only when this image that was created to be worshipped is destroyed for
all time can "God" speak to humanity again in its Reality!!
But then humans will also learn to live each moment to the fullest, and
any urge to explore the future will leave them.
1CORINTH!
7:37,38
37 Nevertheless he that
standeth stedfast in his
heart, having no necessity,
but hath power over his own
will, and hath so decreed in
his heart that he will keep his
virgin, doeth well.!
38 So then he that giveth her
in marriage doeth well; but
he that giveth her not in
marriage doeth better.
MARRIAGE!
Holiness
It is an ancient madness which says that ‘marriage is good’ but ‘not
marrying’ is ‘better’. He who – vulnerable to such folly – first expressed it
certainly had a sublime insight into many spiritual mysteries; thus a great
spiritual burden has been placed on the consciences of all later
generations…!
It is time for the delusion of the wise man to finally lose its power!!
It is time for marriage, commonly considered to be a ‘sacrament’, or in
plain words—as a means to secure one’s salvation—though the unmarried !
state is declared to be incomparably ‘holier’, finally to be lifted out of its
defilement which is expressed by the notion that: the mature woman,
alienated from the most sacred fulfillment of her womanhood, is superior to
every woman who has attained the dignity of motherhood; and that the
sterile selfish man who consumes his masculine power within himself and
robs the Earth of the worth of his blood, is superior to the man who on this
Earth has become the father of new life!
1CORINTH!
12:1-13
GOLGOTHA!
Spiritual
Guidance
Countless are those nowadays seeking spiritual guidance, countless also
those who believe they are living under “spiritual guidance”, whilst they are
only subject to influences which originate in the wide field of “medial”
manifestations.!
Once more we need to learn to “discern the spirits”!!
Not every voice perceived within us is the voice of a spiritual guide, the
voice of divine guidance!!
…On the nature of these invisible entities, experimentation can give no
clarity. It is particularly childish stupidity to suppose that the outpourings of
these beings, obtained through a medium, or the details they give about
themselves, are sufficient to give reliable information about their nature. !
…But anyone who knows the sources causing errors, and the potential for
deceptions, also clearly recognizes that there are virtually no safeguards
during “spiritualistic” manifestations against one being duped in the most
brazen fashion by the invisible communicators.!
Truly the “discerning of the spirits” of which Paul the Apostle speaks, as
of a gift from the Spirit of God, is indeed something different from such
unduly credulous receptiveness!
LIVING GOD!
On the Spirit
You live in a world which understands the ‘spiritual’ as: – the work of the
intellect. What this world describes as ‘spirit’ is concept and thought – or
even: – the virtuosity of making startling connections between remote
phenomena through fleetness of thought.!
To the ‘Spirit’ which as substantial reality illuminates the world, however,
everything man of these days calls ‘spirit’ – is but a tool of earthly, all too
earthly perception.!
The world you live in has knowledge only of the Spirit’s tools and owning
them believes it thereby also comprehends the Spirit in itself.!
In this way the ‘spirit of the world’ has blinded the ‘eye of your soul’!!
…Spirit is not anything conceived by thought! Spirit is not the power of
thinking! Spirit is substantial, living light, being from itself!!
All infinities are filled with this Spirit, and everything lives from it; but
earthly humans cannot find it, apart from: – in oneself.!
It is and lives within you, conscious of itself, just as it pervades all things,
conscious of itself, in the endless universe!
RESURRECT!
Inner Voices
Those who were truly willing to hear genuine spiritual inner voices and
thus lived under guidance from on high, never strove to hear those voices;
rather they had been engaged in years of work on themselves so as to
weed out error within themselves and to overcome their shortcomings.!
Thus eventually they reached the point where it was possible for exalted
spiritual love to make known itself to them in their innermost beings.!
These spiritual voices of love alone are a true source of joy to human
beings on Earth!!
These inner voices alone can lead him to his highest goal!!
They come without being called or summoned, once the spiritual seeker
is within their reach.!
Yet the voices of invisible lemuroid beings in this physical world can be
heard by all men, even those on the lowest spiritual plane…!
Only rejection and complete disregard can protect against them;
everyone must really make sure one provides oneself with this protection!
1CORINTH!
13:1
Though I speak with the
tongues of men and of
angels, and have not charity,
I am become as sounding
brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
LOVE!
Introduction
There have been so many who believed they lived in love because they
were incapable of hatred.!
Yet this incapability is absolutely no guarantee of knowing love!!
Hatred is the opposite pole to love; it is the same power inverted;
whoever is incapable of hatred, though one knew a long time ago that only
folly results from hatred, will never find the love within one of which Paul,
truly a man of love, said:!
“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not
love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.”
LOVE!
Primordial Fire
That man of love who became the greatest herald of the Master’s
teaching spoke of this love when he said of himself: “If I have not love, I
am become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal!” – It is true that both
give off a sound when they are struck from without, yet they lack any inner
life which could produce a sound from within itself.!
But the love of which we speak here continually acts from within itself
and does not need a stimulus from without!
1CORiNTH!
14:34
Let your women keep silence
in the churches: for it is not
permitted unto them to
speak; but they are
commanded to be under
obedience, as also saith the
law.
MORE LIGHT!
Theosophy
In our own times it has seemed to the world to be a requirement of
justice for women to be equal to men, and the warning of a genuine
spiritual pupil of the Master—a pupil who had received his knowledge
through ‘spiritual transmission—that women should ‘keep silent’: a woman
should not teach the congregation since she cannot become knowing
either through ‘spiritual transmission’ or ‘through self-transformation’, has
been mocked and ridiculed as an “outdated and unworthy view of the
essence of the feminine.”!
With the complete weight of responsibility imposed by the burden of
knowledge, however, all those who have gained ‘knowledge’ through
‘spiritual transmission’ or self-transformation are bound to confirm what St.
Paul said, despite all reverence for women founded upon sacred awe for
the ‘essence of the feminine’, which even today holds true and can never
lose validity in millennia to come!
EPHESIANS!
2:20
And are built upon the
foundation of the apostles
and prophets, Jesus Christ
himself being the chief
corner stone;
MORE LIGHT!
Architects!
MORE LIGHT!
Theosophy
*** see PSALMS 118:22 ***
1THESSAL!
5:5
Ye are all the children of light,
and the children of the day:
we are not of the night, nor of
darkness.
MORE LIGHT!
Theosophy
*** see MATTHEW 7:6 ***
2 TIMOTHY!
4:3-4
3 For the time will come
when they will not endure
sound doctrine; but after
their own lusts shall they
heap to themselves teachers,
having itching ears;!
4 And they shall turn away
their ears from the truth, and
shall be turned unto fables.
THE SECRET!
Southern Night
But those who came later falsified his (Paul's) words when they no longer
fitted into their doctrinal structure, which had been erected, according to
their own style with the help of all sorts of old temple ruins on the
foundations of the Nazarene’s teaching. – – –!
He himself warned of those who came later: – ‘For the time will come
when they will not endure sound doctrine but after their own lusts shall
they heap to themselves teachers having itchy ears; and they will turn
away their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto fables.’!
But I haven’t come here to you to demonstrate to you now the
contradictions in your holy scriptures, so gravely disfigured by countless
clever copyists right from the beginning. Today anyone can read into them
what he thinks is good to read into them…
HEBREWS !
6:20!
!
7:1-3!
7:15-17!
20 Whither the forerunner is
for us entered, even Jesus,
made an high priest for ever
after the order of
Melchizedek.!
1 For this Melchizedek, king
of Salem, priest of the most
high God, who met Abraham
returning from the slaughter
of the kings, and blessed
him;!
2 To whom also Abraham
gave a tenth part of all; first
being by interpretation King
of righteousness, and after
that also King of Salem,
which is, King of peace;!
3 Without father, without
mother, without descent,
having neither beginning of
days, nor end of life; but
made like unto the Son of
God; abideth a priest
continually.!
15 And it is yet far more
evident: for that after the
similitude of Melchizedek
there ariseth another priest,!
16 Who is made, not after
the law of a carnal
commandment, but after the
power of an endless life.!
17 For he testifieth, Thou art
a priest for ever after the
order of Melchizedek.
MORE LIGHT!
Architects!
MORE LIGHT!
Theosophy
…A ‘master’ of this sublime circle—a genuine ‘Mahâtma’, – in the true
sense of the word: a ‘great man of the soul’ or: a ‘great soul’, – can be
born anywhere on earth, not only in India, China or Tibet. It is also
completely irrelevant whether he connects with the center-point of ‘all the
brothers on Earth’ in the earlier or later years of his life, whether he passes
as a young or an old man through the spirals of spiritual schooling which
one day awaken him to be the legitimate successor and heir to a master
who has passed away.!
Such a master, though passed away, continues to remain near the Earth
through his union with the spirit of his successor to whom he transmits his
already accomplished mastery.!
Only then is he who is born to be a master also de facto a ‘master’; only
then is he aware of his priesthood ‘in the order of Melchizedek’.!
*** see MATTHEW 28:20 ***!
HEBREWS!
12:6
For whom the Lord loveth he
chasteneth, and scourgeth
every son whom he
receiveth.
COMFORT!
Manner of Folly
I regard it as a crude blasphemy if one equates shamelessly an eternal
‘God’, of whom it is claimed that he is love, with the invisible vampires who
sup on human vitality in the confused spheres of this Earth – when it is
said& in an unwittingly blasphemous way:!
“Those whom God loves he chastises.”!
If the father of this saying were not a wise man’s folly, it should be
condemned as a crime against humanity!–•!
“He whom God loves he chastises!”!
Only a few become aware of the crude blasphemy contained in these
words of consolation…
RESURRECT!
Omnipotence
“He whom God loves he chastises!”!
Only a few become aware of the crude blasphemy contained in these
words of consolation…!
It is truly a dreadful ‘God’ who can give no other expression to his love;
but it is also only a ‘God’ by the grace of human thought, found neither
within cosmic space nor in the realm of the Spirit, only in human brains!
MORE LIGHT!
To Those Tired
You say: ‘He who God loves, he chastises,” and your ‘God’—created by
you from conscious energies with a single purpose—has been forced by !
yourselves into tormenting you, the more ardently you love the picture
created by your imagination which fashioned him…
1PETER !
2:7
Unto you therefore which
believe he is precious: but
unto them which be
disobedient, the stone which
the builders disallowed, the
same is made the head of
the corner,
MORE LIGHT!
Architects!
MORE LIGHT!
Theosophy
*** see PSALMS 118:22 ***
1PETER !
5:8
Be sober, be vigilant;
because your adversary the
devil, as a roaring lion,
walketh about, seeking
whom he may devour:
MORE LIGHT!
Architects
He is ‘Lucifer’, the fallen Luminary which stood before the throne of the
eternal one; truly it is no ‘invention of power crazy priests’ that there is, as
long as the Earth is inhabited by humanity, a ‘hell’, that this planet is
surrounded by a host of ‘devils’ who are none other than the fallen ‘sons of
God’ who cannot find peace after their fall until the abyss of chaos
consumes the last spark of their consciousness.!
“The devil walks about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.”!
Among people living on this Earth these fallen ones have found
accomplices by familiarizing their disciples with all the fakir arts they once
abjured themselves.!
They keep them in the delusion that they had not ‘fallen’ but had risen
above their former brothers; now it was clear to them that the commitment
to eternal laws they had put upon themselves was a pious deception.!
Everything regarded on Earth as infernal, evil and vicious, they explain to
their pupils as permitted, and so they have kept till this very day within the
interior of Asia, a satanic distortion of the spiritual community of Light, – a
quagmire of horrific abominations whose venomous miasmas infect all
lower human races and have equally claimed many unconscious victims in
the western hemisphere. Here are included the secret societies, fraternities
and arcane sects spread throughout Asia and other parts of the earth, for
whom humans are seen for religious reasons as something which should
not be, and which strive typically first and foremost for the extinction of the
white race.
1JOHN!
4:1
Beloved, believe not every
spirit, but try the spirits
whether they are of God:
because many false prophets
are gone out into the world.!
GOLGOTHA!
Spiritual
Guidance!
LIVING GOD!
On the Spirit
*** see 1CORINTHIANS 12:1-13 ***
1JOHN!
4:16
And we have known and
believed the love that God
hath to us. God is love; and
he that dwelleth in love
dwelleth in God, and God in
him.
MORE LIGHT!
Comprehended
*** see 1CORINTHIANS 2:9 ***
HIGH GOAL!
Power of Love
It has been said: “God is love; and he that dwells in love dwells in God
and God in him!”!
But ‘love’ became for you too closely related to desire; it became the
fond feeling of desire-filled emotions. Instead of living in ‘God’, you have
erected unto yourselves the idol before which you kneel and which truly
cannot help you. Those clever ones, from whom this trickery could not be
hidden, turned away from it; now they are called ‘deniers of God’ by you,
since they boldly question and deny the ‘divinity’ of your idol!…
LOVE!
Primordial Fire
The love, however, of which the ‘great man of love’ speaks, the love this
book proclaims to you, is a spiritual and at the same time earthly primal
power which is interwoven into all life. It must flood through you in the
same way as when the lower form of the same power floods you with an
all-conquering shiver when you feel the flames of earthly passion burning
inside you! !
In this ‘earthly’ love you still desire to possess, for here love still seeks
the object of its passion, but in its ‘heavenly’ form love becomes the object
that is longing for itself, so that all feelings of desire leave you! !
In the ‘earthly’ form of love there is a continual desire to hold, to hold tight
– a grasping externally and drawing it closer.– In its ‘heavenly’ form,
however, there is an inner glow, a radiance and emanation of warmth, – an
overflowing from within flooding everything without…!
Only this exalted form of love brings about all the real spiritual miracles
of inner awakening. All that you are still trying to attain, believing in the
eventual efficacy of some mysterious method or training, will be brought
about ‘of itself’ within you.
RESURRECT!
Omnipotence
One can understand all too well if many suffering people explain all
accounts of the otherworldly divine as an illusion, deception and idle
dreams rather than continuing to believe in a ‘God’ which tortures them
‘out of love’…!
But how different is eternal reality compared with this anthropomorphic
concept of God!!
Only one thing corresponds in reality with the content of this concept:
that God is ‘love’, and he who remains ‘in love’, remains in God and God in
him.!
The true light of God dissolves that illusion which attaches to the
godhead crude material ‘omnipotence’, just as the light of the earth’s sun
dissolves the clouds of mist over marshland!!
…Any possibility of diverting the direction of earthly causal events by God
is given only through the human spirit—any influence of God on human
existence on earth, and man’s readiness to clear the way for this
possibility, takes place within the conscious attitude of the human will or
through passive devotion in prayer.
REVELATION!
3:15
I know thy works, that thou
art neither cold nor hot: I
would thou wert cold or hot.
LIVING GOD!
Will Find Light
“I would thou wert cold or hot! – So then because thou art lukewarm, I
will spew thee out of my mouth!”!
Thus spoke the ‘eternal’ law at all ages; even today it has not altered its
words…!
Those remaining spiritually in the dark still do not have the will to reach
the light!
REVELATION!
13:10
He that leadeth into captivity
shall go into captivity: he that
killeth with the sword must
be killed with the sword.
Here is the patience and the
faith of the saints.
LOVE!
Primordial Fire
The signs of the times should in truth be interpreted differently than the
fancies which sceptics dream up, like acrobats juggling baubles of
thought, in their search for the crowd’s applause!!!!
‘Patience and the faith of saints’ are needed here!!
Not those who deem themselves ‘holy’ because they slide out of any
guilt and responsibility like slithering worms, but those on Earth who truly
suspect salvation, those who have in every age been the ‘salt of the Earth’.
REVELATION!
19:9!
22:15
And he saith unto me, Write,
Blessed are they which are
called unto the marriage
supper of the Lamb. And he
saith unto me, These are the
true sayings of God.!
For without are dogs, and
sorcerers, and
whoremongers, and
murderers, and idolaters, and
whosoever loveth and
maketh a lie.
MORE LIGHT!
On the 3 Levels
Nothing that is impure can attain eternal life in the pure Spirit!!
“For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers,
and whosoever loves and makes a lie.”!
“Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the
Lamb!”!
Thus it has been written for two thousand years, and the one who wrote it
knew the provenance of the call to write; thus it is necessary to know, that
little of what is attributed to him was actually written by him.He spoke, like
so many others who were called, about the same things I speak of today
using different imagery.!
The community of the Spiritwhich revealed itself to him has always made
use of symbols appropriate to the times. Different in all peoples and
religions are the forms of their revelation; yet those who have been reached
in only one form have sure ground beneath their feet! !
They walk the path prepared by the Spirit, whatever name they give to
this path to the Spirit.
REVELATION!
21:3
And I heard a great voice out
of heaven saying, Behold,
the tabernacle of God is with
men, and he will dwell with
them, and they shall be his
people, and God himself
shall be with them, and be
their God.
LIVING GOD!
Tabernacle of
God with Men
Since primeval times, when the first animal men became bearers of
spiritual man, the location of the activity of the ‘brothers’ on this Earth has
been where the highest mountain range of the Earth rises high,
inaccessible to all those they themselves have not spiritually guided into
their midst.!
Here in truth is the ‘tabernacle of God with men’ on Earth!!
Here the realm of the Spirit reaches into the physical events of this Earth
through the powers of purest spiritual substance!!
From here radiate rays of purest spiritual substance to all inhabitants of
this Earth!
