2. Awake!

Awaken, you people, from your leaden sleep! Recognize the unworthy burden you carry, which weighs upon millions with unspeakable pressure. Cast it off! Is it worth carrying? Not for a single second!
 
What does it hold? Empty chaff that flutters shyly at breath of Truth. You have wasted your time and strength for nothing. Break the chains that hold you down and free yourselves at last!
 
Anyone who remains inwardly bound will be eternally a slave, even if they are a king.
 
You bind yourselves with everything you aspire to learn. Consider: By learning you constantly force yourselves into alien forms devised by others, you willingly align yourselves with alien convictions; you only making your own what others have experienced within themselves, for themselves. Remember: One thing does not benefit all! What benefits one person may harm another. Each individual has their own path to perfection. The tools for this are the abilities they carry within themselves. They must adhere to these and build on them! If they do not, they will remain a strangers to themselves, always standing beside what they have learnt, which can never come alive within them. Any gain for them is thus excluded. They vegetate, progress is impossible.
 
Take heed, you who earnestly seek the Light and Truth:
 
Each individual must experience the path to the Light within themselves; they must discover it for themselves if they want to walk on it safely. Only by experiencing and feeling all the changes within oneself can one fully grasp something!
 
Suffering and joy constantly knock on the door, to encourage, to stir a spiritual awakening. For a few seconds, a person is often becomes detached from the trivialities of everyday life, and in happiness as in pain, feels an instinctive connection with the spirit that permeates all living things.
 
And everything is indeed life, nothing is dead! Blessed are those who embrace and hold onto such moments of connection, who swing upwards on them. In doing so, they must not cling to rigid forms, but each should develop themselves from within.
 
Have pity on the scoffers and all those who are still alienated from spiritual life. Do not be angry with them when they become sarcastic; they are only to be pitied. Like drunkards, like sick people, they stand before the great work of Creation, which offers us so much. Like the blind, they grope their way through earthly existence, unable to see all the splendour around them!
 
The poorest are confused and asleep; for, how can a person, still claim that only what they see exists? That where they can perceive nothing with their eyes, there is no life? That they cease to be with the death of their body simply because they have not yet, in their blindness, been able to convince themselves of the contrary through their eyes? Do they not already know from many things by now how narrowly limited the capacity of the eye is? Do they not yet realize that this relates to the capacity of their brain, which is bound to space and time? That for this reason, they cannot recognize everything that rises above space and time with their eyes? Has no logical reasoning been clear to any of these scoffers? Spiritual life, or the Beyond as we also call it, is after all only something that stands entirely above the earthly division of space and time, which therefore requires a similar way of recognizing it.
 
But our eye does not even see what can be divided into space and time. Consider water droplet: every eye bears witness to its absolute purity, yet viewed through a magnifying glass, harbours millions of living creatures that fight and destroy each other mercilessly within it. Are there not sometimes bacilli in the water, in the air, that have the power to destroy human bodies, and which are not visible to the naked eye? But they become visible using precise instruments. Who would then dare to assert that you see nothing new, nothing still unknown, as soon as these instruments are sharpened further? Intensify them a thousandfold, a millionfold, and what you find will not come to an end, but rather, ever worlds will reveal themselves to you that you could not see before, nor feel, yet they were present. Logical thinking leads to the same conclusions regarding everything that the sciences have been able to gather so far. There is a prospect of further development, but never of an end.
 
So what is the Beyond? Many get carried away by the word. The Beyond is simply everything that cannot be recognized using earthly means. Now earthly means are eyes, the brain, and everything else of the body, as well as instruments which help the parts to exercise their activity even more sharply and precisely, to extend them further. One could therefore say: the Beyond is what lies beyond the recognition ability of our physical eyes. But there is no separation between this World and the Beyond! No gulf either! It is all unified, like the whole of Creation. One Force flows through this World and the Beyond, everything lives and works from this one Life stream, and is thus inextricably connected. From this, the following becomes understandable. If one part of it is diseased, the effect must be felt in the other part, just as in a body. Diseased substances from this other part then flow over to the diseased part through the attraction of similarity, thus intensifying the disease even more. Now, if such a disease becomes incurable, the necessary compulsion arises to forcibly remove the diseased part, if the whole is not to suffer permanently. Any danger demands healthy interaction, which is sometimes made difficult or even unthinkable by the wrong attitude.
 
Change yourselves on this account! There is no this world and the next, only a uniform existence! The concept of separation was invented solely by humans because they cannot see everything and consider themselves the centre and main point of the environment visible to them. But their sphere of activity is larger. With the error of separation, however, they only restrict themselves, forcibly hinders their progress, and gives room to the unbridled imagination, which brings forth monstrous images. Is it surprising that as a result, many have only a disbelieving smile, others pathological praise that becomes slavish or degenerates into fanaticism? Who can still be astonished by the timid fear, even dread and terror that are nurtured in some? Away with it all! Why this torment? Overthrow this barrier that humanity’s error sought to erect, but which never existed! The previously wrong position also gives you a false foundation upon which you strive in vain to build up true faith, that is, inner conviction, without end. In doing so, you come up against points, cliffs, which must make you waver, doubt, or force you to shatter the entire structure yourself, perhaps then despondingly or resentfully giving up everything. The damage is entirely yours because, for you, it is not progress but standing still or going backwards. Thus the path you must eventually take will be extended.
 
Once you have finally perceived Creation as a whole, as it truly is, making no separation between this world and the Beyond, then you have the straight path; the actual goal comes closer, and the ascent gives you joy, gives you satisfaction. You will also be able to feel and understand the interactions pulsating warmly with life throughout the whole, united existence much better, as all activity is driven and sustained by the One Force. The Light of Truth will dawn upon you!
 
You will soon realize that, for many, it is only comfort and indolence that are the cause of mockery, simply because it would require effort to overturn what has been learned and thought so far and to build up something new. For others, it interferes with their accustomed way of life and therefore becomes inconvenient for them. Let such people alone; do not argue, but helpfully offer your knowledge to those who are not satisfied with transient pleasures, who seek more in earthly existence than merely filling their bodies like animals. Share with those the knowledge that becomes you, then do not bury the talent, for in giving, your knowledge also becomes reciprocally richer, stronger.
 
There is an Eternal Law at work in the Universe: only in giving can one also receive when it comes to lasting values! This is so profoundly deep and pervades the whole of Creation like a sacred legacy from its Creator. To give selflessly, to help where it is needed, and to have understanding for the suffering of one’s neighbour as well as for his weaknesses, is to receive, because it is the simple, true path to the Highest!
 
And this earnest wanting immediately brings you help, strength! As with a flaming sword, with a single, sincere and deeply felt wish for the good, the wall that your thoughts had previously erected as an obstacle will now be cut through from the other side, which is still invisible to you, because you are, after all, one with the Beyond, which you feared, denied or longed for, and are closely and indissolubly connected to it.
 
Give it a try; for your thoughts are the messengers you send out that return heavily laden with what you have thought, whether good or evil. It happens. Remember that your thoughts are things, that they form themselves spiritually, that they often become structures that outlast the earthly life of your body. Then much will become clear to you. Thus it is also quite right to say: For their works follow them! Thought creations are works that await you one day! They form light or dark rings around you that you must traverse in order to enter the spiritual world. No protection, no intervention can help there because you have self-determination. Therefore, the first step towards everything must be taken by you. It is not difficult; it lies in the expression of your will through your thoughts. Thus, you carry both heaven and hell within yourself.
 
You can decide, but you are then unconditionally subject to the consequences of your thoughts, of your will! You create the consequences yourself, so I call out to you: Keep the hearth of your thoughts pure, you will create peace and be happy!
 
Keep in mind that every thought you generate and send out attracts all like kind on its way, or clings to others, thereby becoming stronger, ever stronger, and finally hits a target: a brain that perhaps forgets itself only for a few seconds, giving such floating thought-forms space to penetrate and work. Just think of the responsibility that will fall upon you when that thought eventually becomes an action, through someone it was able to influence! This responsibility is already triggered by the fact that every single thought maintains a constant connection with you, just as if by an unbreakable thread, only to return with the power it has gained along the way, either burdening or uplifting you, depending on the kind you have generated.
 
Thus, we exist in the world of thought, and with the respective way of thinking, we also give space to the thought-forms similar to it. Therefore, do not waste the power of thought; instead, gather it for defence and for sharp thinking, which goes out like spears and act upon everything. Create from your thoughts the sacred spear that fights for good, that heals wounds and promotes the whole of Creation!
 
To act and to advance, therefore, adjust your thinking accordingly! To do this, you must shake many a pillar that supports traditional views. Often it is a concept which, wrongly grasped, does not allow the true path to be found. He must go back to the point where he started. A ray of light collapses the entire edifice that he has laboriously erected for decades, and then, after a brief or long stupor, he sets to work anew! He must, since there is no standstill in the Universe. Let us take the concept of time, for example:
 
Time passes! Times change! People everywhere say that, and an image comes to mind involuntarily: We see times passing us by in flux!
 
This image becomes commonplace and also lays a firm foundation for many, on which they continue to build, directing all their research and pondering towards it. But it is not long before they encounter obstacles that are in contradiction to each other. Everything does not seem to fit anymore, despite their best intentions. They become lost, leaving gaps that cannot be filled, despite all their pondering. Many a person then thinks that faith must be used as a substitute at such points when logical thinking has no basis. But that is wrong! A person should not believe in things they cannot understand! They must seek to understand them; otherwise, they open the door wide to error, and with error, truth is always devalued.

Belief without understanding is merely indolence, laziness of thought! This does not lead the spirit upwards, but presses it down. Therefore, let us look upwards, let us examine, let us investigate. The urge to do so is not in us for nothing.
 
Time! Does it really pass? Why do we encounter obstacles when we try to think further about this principle? It is very simple: the basic idea is wrong, because time stands still! We, however, rush towards it! We rush into time, which is eternal, and search for Truth within it. Time stands still. It remains the same, today, yesterday, and in a thousand years! Only the forms change. We dive into time, drawing from the bosom of her record to further our knowledge, within the collections of time! For nothing has been lost to her, everything she has preserved. She has not changed because she is eternal. You too, oh human, remain the same, whether you appear young or old! You remain who you are! Have you not already felt this yourself? Can you not clearly distinguish between your body and your 'ego'? Between the body, which is subject to change, and you, the spirit, which is eternal?

You seek the Truth! What is Truth? What you still feel to be truth today, you will recognize as errors tomorrow, only to later discover grains of truth in those errors! For even revelations change their forms. So your unceasing search continues, and it is through this change that you will mature!
 
Truth, however, always remains the same, it does not change; for it is eternal! And since it is eternal, it can never be grasped purely and truly through earthly senses, which only know changes of form! Therefore, become spiritual! Free yourself from all earthly thoughts, and you will have the Truth, you will be in the Truth, outshone constantly by its pure light, around you; for it surrounds you completely. You swim in it as soon as you become spiritual.
 
Then you will no longer need to laboriously learn sciences, nor fear any errors, but will already have the answer to every question in the Truth itself. Moreover, you will then have no more questions because, without thinking, you know everything, encompass everything, because your spirit lives in pure Light, in Truth!
 
So, become spiritually free! Break all the bonds that hold you down! If obstacles come your way, cheerfully meet them, for they signify the way to freedom and strength for you! See them as gifts from which you will gain advantages, and you will easily overcome them.
 
They are either put in front of you so that you can learn from them and develop, increasing your tools for ascent, or they are repercussions of a debt that you can resolve and free yourself from. In either case, they move you forward. So move through them briskly; it is for your salvation!
 
It is foolish to speak of blows of fate or trials. There is progress in every struggle and every suffering. It gives humanity with the chance to erase the shadows of past transgressions, because not a cent can be remitted from it to the individual, because the cycle of Eternal Laws is immovable, even in the Universe in which the Creative Will of the Father is revealed, He Who thus forgives us and erases all darkness.
 
The slightest deviation from this would have to throw the world into ruin, so clearly everything is set up and so wisely.
 
But will those who now have much to make up for from the past, will they not then despair, will they not dread the redemption of the debt?
 
They can begin confidently and joyfully, can be without worry as soon as they honestly want to! For a balance can be created by the counter-current of a force of goodwill which, like other thought-forms, comes alive in the Spiritual Realm and becomes a strong weapon, capable of stripping away every burden of darkness, every heaviness, and leading the “ego” towards the Light!
 
The power of the will! A power undreamed of by so many, which, like a never-failing magnet, attracts similar forces to itself in order to grow like an avalanche. And, united with spiritually similar forces, works backwards, reaches the starting point again, thus hits the origin, or rather, the producers, and lifts them high up to the Light or pushes them deeper down into the mud and filth! This depends on the way in which the originator first intended it. Those who are aware of this continual interaction that lies within the whole of Creation, which triggers and unfolds with unshakeable certainty, knows how to use it, should love it, should fear it! To them, the invisible world around them gradually comes to life, as they feel its effects with a clarity that dissolves all doubt. They should sense the strong waves of restless activity acting upon them from the great Universe as soon as they pay but a little attention to it, and at last feel they are the focal point of strong currents, like a lens that captures the sun’s rays, unites them at one point, and generates a force there that has an igniting effect, which can flow scorching and destroying, yet also healing and invigorating, a blessing that can also spark a blazing fire! And we too are such lenses, able to send out these invisible currents of power that strike us through our will, gathered into one power, for good or evil purposes, to bring blessing or also destruction to humanity. We can, and shall, ignite blazing fires within souls, fires of enthusiasm for the good, the noble, for perfection!
 
This only requires a force of will that makes humans, in a certain sense lord of Creation, determiner of their own destiny. Their own will brings them destruction or redemption! They create the reward or the punishments for themselves, with inexorable certainty.
 
Now do not fear that this knowledge of the Creator will drive you away, weaken your previous faith. On the contrary! Knowledge of these Eternal Laws, which we can utilize, makes entire work of Creation appears even more sublime to us; it forces the deeper investigators to their knees in reverence before its greatness!
 
Then, humanity will then never wish for evil. They will gladly reach for the best support there is for them: Love! Love for the entire wonderful Creation, love for their neighbour, to lead them up to the glory of this enjoyment as well, this consciousness of power!