20. The Final World Judgement

 
The World! When people use this word, they often do so thoughtlessly, without forming a picture of what this world they refer to actually is. However, many who try to imagine something specific, see in their mind’s eye countless world bodies of the most diverse compositions and sizes, moving along their paths in space and arranged into solar systems. They know that the sharper and more far-reaching the instruments are constructed, that ever more and new celestial bodies can be seen. The average person then comes to terms with the word “infinite”, which is the beginning of the error of a false conception.
 
The World is not infinite. It is Creation, that is, the Work of the Creator. Like every work, this work stands beside the Creator and as such is limited.
 
So-called advanced people are often proud of their realization that God rests in the whole of Creation, in every flower, every rock; that the driving forces of Nature are God: everything that is unfathomable and can be felt but cannot really be grasped. A perpetually acting Primordial Force, an eternally self-renewing Source of Power, the Inessential Primordial Light.  In the consciousness that they find God everywhere, that they encounter Him everywhere as an all‑pervading driving Force, always directed toward the one goal of further development toward perfection, they consider themselves to have progressed tremendously.
 
This, however, is only correct in a certain sense. We encounter only His Will in the whole of Creation, and thus His Spirit, His Force. He Himself stands far above Creation. Creation as His work, as the expression of His Will, was already bound, from the moment it came into being, to the unalterable Laws of Evolution and Dissolution, because what we call the Laws of Nature is the Creative Will of God, which in its activity is constantly forming and dissolving worlds. This Creative Will is uniform throughout the whole of Creation, to which the Ethereal World and the Coarse Material World belong as one. And this entire Creation, as a Work, is not only limited like every work, but also transient! The unconditional and immovable uniformity of the Primordial Laws, in other words, of the Primordial Will, means that in the smallest process on the Gross Material Earth there always occurs exactly what must take place in every event, including the most tremendous events of the whole of Creation and in the act of creating itself.
 
The strict form of the Primordial Will is plain and simple. Once recognized, it can easily be discerned in everything. The complexity and incomprehensibility of so many processes lie only in the manifold interweaving of the detours and side paths that have been formed through the various human volitions.
 
The Work of God, the World, is therefore, as Creation, subject to the Divine Laws which are constant and perfect in everything, also originated from them, and is therefore limited.

The artist, for example, is also in his work, pours himself into it, and yet as a person stands beside it. The work is limited and perishable, but the artist’s ability is not. The artist, or the creator of the work, can destroy his work, which contains his volition, without being affected himself by this. He will still always remain the artist. We recognize and find the artist in his work and become familiar with him without needing to have seen him personally. We have his works; his volition lies in them and has an effect on us; he confronts us in them, and yet may himself be living on his far away from us.
 
The self-creating artist and his work give only a faint reflection of the relationship of Creation to the Creator.
 
Eternal and without end, thus infinite, is only the cycle of Creation in its constant coming-into-being, passing away, and forming anew.
 
All revelations and promises are also fulfilled in this process. At last, the “Last Judgement” will also be fulfilled for the earth!
 
The Last Judgement, or the Final Judgement comes once for every celestial body, but it does not happen simultaneously throughout Creation.
 
It is a necessary occurrence in that particular part of Creation which, in its cycle, reaches the point at which its disintegration must begin in order to form anew on its further course.
 
But this eternal cycle does not refer to the orbit of the earth and other stars around their suns, but to the vast, mighty circle that all solar systems must in turn travel, while each of them still carry out their own particular movements.
 
Again, on the basis of the consistency of Natural Laws, the point at which the disintegration of each celestial body must begin is precisely determined. It is a quite specific point at which the process of decomposition must begin, independent of the state of the celestial body concerned and its inhabitants. The cycle irresistibly drives every world body towards this point; without delay the hour of disintegration will be fulfilled, which, as with everything in Creation, this signifies only a transformation and an opportunity for further development.

Then the hour of ‘either-or’ arrives for everyone. Either they will be raised up towards the Light if they strive towards the spiritual, or they remain chained to materiality, to which they cling when, out of conviction, they acknowledge only the material as valuable. In such a case, in the lawful consequence of their own volition, they cannot rise from materiality and will then, on the last stretch of the way, be drawn with it into disintegration. This is then spiritual death! Equivalent to being erased from the Book of Life. This process, which is quite natural in itself, is also referred to as eternal damnation, because those who are drawn into disintegration must ‘cease to be’, they are pulverized and mixed into the primordial seed, still impregnating it with spiritual forces even after dissolution. Never will they be able to become ‘personal’ again. It is the most dreadful fate that can befall a human. They are considered a “rejected stone” that cannot be used for a spiritual building and must therefore be ground down.
 
This separation of spirit from matter, which also occurs through the natural processes and Laws, is the so-called “Last Judgement”, which is connected with great upheavals and transformations.
 
That this dissolution does not take place on one earthly day is reasonable easy for everyone to understand; for in world events a thousand years are like a day.
 
But we are well in the midst of the beginning of this period. The earth is now reaching the point at which it will deviate from its previous course, something that must also make itself very perceptibly felt on the coarse material level. Then the separation among all of humanity will begin more sharply, which has already begun in recent times, but which has only so far been expressed in ‘opinions and convictions’.
 
Every moment of existence on earth is therefore precious, now more than ever. Those who earnestly seek and want to learn should strive with all their effort to pull themselves out of base thoughts that must chain them to the earthly. Otherwise, they run the risk of remaining bound to materiality and being drawn with it towards complete dissolution. However, those who strive towards the Light will gradually be loosened from materiality and, at last, be lifted up to the homeland of all that is spiritual.
 
Then the division between light and darkness will finally be accomplished and the Judgement fulfilled.

‘The World’, meaning the entire Creation, will not perish; only the individual celestial bodies of the world will only be drawn into the process of dissolution once their course reaches the point at which the dissolution, and thus also the preceding separation must begin. The beginning of this has already been set in motion for the earth, and everything will now soon roll forward with giant strides.
 
The execution is set in motion by the natural effect of the Divine Laws, which have existed in Creation from the very beginning, which brought about Creation itself and which also today and in the future unceasingly carry the Will of the Creator. In an eternal cycle, it is a constant creating, sowing, ripening, harvesting and decaying, in order to take on other forms again, freshly strengthened in the change of connection, hastening towards the next cycle.
 
In this cycle of Creation, one might imagine a giant funnel or cave, ethereal in nature, from which an unstoppable stream of likewise ethereal primordial seed constantly wells out, moving in circular motions towards new union and development. Exactly as science already knows and has correctly recorded. Dense, coarse material mists form through friction and merging, and from these again emerge world-bodies, which, by immutable laws, arrange themselves in a consistent sequence to form solar systems and, revolving within themselves, must follow the great cycle that is eternal in unison. Just as in development, shaping, ripening, and harvesting or decay follow from the seed in events visible to the earthly eye – a transformation, a disintegration that serves for further development, in the case of plant, animal and human bodies – so it is also in the great world events. Coarse, visible celestial bodies, which carry with them a far larger, more ethereal environment with them that is not visible to the earthly eye, are subjected to the same events in their eternal orbit, because the same laws are active within them.
 
Even the most fanatical doubter cannot deny the existence of the primordial seed, and yet it cannot be seen by any earthly eye because it is of a different substance, ‘the beyond’. Let us again simply call it ethereal.
 
It is also not difficult to understand that the world that first forms from it is naturally just as ethereal and cannot be seen with the earthly eyes. Only the coarsest precipitation that later results from it, originating from and dependent on the Ethereal World, gradually forms the Coarse Material World with its gross material bodies, and only this can be observed with earthly eyes and all additional coarse‑material aids, from its very smallest beginnings. Whether they are molecules, electrons or anything else, they will always belong to the coarsest precipitations of the Ethereal World, which long before had its finished forms and life long before.
 
It is no different with the enveloping of actual humans in their spiritual nature, to which I myself will still speak. During their wanderings through the various worlds, their garments, mantles, shells, bodies or tools, no matter what one wishes to call the covering, must always consist of the same kind of substance as the respective environment into which they enter. This allows them to make use of it as a protection and as a necessary aid, if they wish to have the possibility to act directly and effectively in it. Since the coarse material world proceeds from the Ethereal World, it follows that all events in the Coarse Material World have an effect on the Ethereal World.
 
This great ethereal environment was created from the primordial seed. It runs alongside the eternal cycle and is finally being driven towards and sucked into the back of the aforementioned giant funnel, where decomposition takes place, in order to be ejected on the other side as primordial seed for a new cycle.

As with the activity of the heart and the circulation of blood, the funnel is like the heart of Creation. Thus, the process of disintegration affects the whole of Creation, including the ethereal part, since everything dissolves again into primordial seed in order to form anew. Nowhere is arbitrariness to be found in this process; everything develops out of the inherent coherence of the Primordial Laws, which do not allow any other way. At a certain point in the great cycle the moment therefore comes, for everything created, coarse or ethereal, the moment comes when the disintegration process prepares itself independently from what has been created and ultimately breaks forth.
 
This Ethereal World is the transitional abode of the earthly departed, the so-called ‘beyond’. It is closely connected with the Coarse Material World, which belongs to it and being one with it. Humans, At the moment of departure, humans enter the ethereal environment, similar to the Coarse Material World, while leaving their coarse material body behind.

The Ethereal World, or the Beyond, belongs to Creation and is subject to the same Laws of constant development and disintegration. With the onset of decay, there is once again a separation of the spiritual from the material, in a completely natural way. Depending on their spiritual state in the Coarse Material World as well as in the Ethereal World, the spiritual self, the actual ‘ego’, must either ascend or remain bound to the World of Matter.

An earnest yearning for Truth and the Light will make everyone spiritually purer and therefore more luminous through the associated change, such that this circumstance must naturally loosen them more and more from the dense materiality and drive them upwards in accordance with their purity and lightness. However, those who believe only in materiality bind themselves through their conviction and remain chained to it, whereby they cannot be driven upward. Through the voluntary decision of each individual, a separation occurs between those striving for the Light and those bound to the darkness, according to the existing natural Laws of Spiritual Gravitation.
 
This separation is the Last Judgement!
 
It is therefore clear that there is indeed a definite end to the possibilities of developmental of earthly departed ones in the purification process of the so-called beyond. A final decision! Dwellers in both worlds are either ennobled to such an extent that they can be lifted up to the Regions of Light, or they remain bound in their lower nature through to their own volition, and are thereby finally hurled down into “eternal damnation”. They are torn towards disintegration, together with the materiality from which they cannot free themselves, suffering the painful process of decomposition, and thereby ceasing to be personal. They flutter apart like chaff in the wind, pulverized, and thus deleted from the Golden Book of Life!

Hence this so-called Last Judgement, that is, the Final Judgement, is therefore also a process that takes place in a completely natural way as a result of the Laws that govern Creation, in such a way that it could not come otherwise. Here, too, humans only ever receive the fruits of what they themselves have willed, what they thus bring about by their convictions.
 
The knowledge that everything that takes place in Creation works itself out in the strictest consistency, that the guiding principle for human destinies is always given by humans themselves through their wishes and desires, and that the Creator does not intervene in an observing way to reward or punish, does not diminish the greatness of the Creator but can only give cause to think of Him as far more exalted. His greatness lies in the perfection of His Work, which compels a reverent upward gaze, since the greatest love and most incorruptible justice must lie in the mightiest as well as in the smallest events without distinction. Great also are all humans, as such, placed in Creation as masters of their own destiny! Through their will, they are able to lift themselves out of the work, thereby contributing to its higher unfolding, or drag it down and become entangled in it to the point that they can no longer escape and go with it towards disintegration, whether in the Coarse Material World or in the Ethereal World.

Therefore, wrestle yourselves free from all bonds of base feelings; for it is high time! The hour approaches when the time granted for this will have expired! Awaken in yourselves the longing for the pure, the true, the noble! ––
 
Far above the eternal cycle of Creation hovers like a crown in the middle, a ‘Blue Island’, the abode of the blessed, of the purified spirits who are already allowed to dwell in the Regions of Light! This Island is separated from the World. It therefore does not take part in the cycle but, despite its height above the circling Creation, it forms the anchorage and the centre of the outgoing spiritual forces. It is the Island that bears on its height the much-praised city with streets of gold, the heavenly Jerusalem. Here, nothing is subject to change any more. No ‘Last Judgement’ to fear. Those who can dwell there are ‘at home’. Lastly, on this Blue Island, as the highest point, there stands, inaccessible to the steps of the uncalled, the... Grail castle, so much mentioned in poetry!
 
Shrouded in legend, as a longing of countless souls, it stands there in the Light of the greatest glory and holds the sacred Vessel, the symbol (emblem) of the Pure Love of the Almighty, the Grail!
 
The purest of the spirits, who are closest to the Throne of the Most High, are the appointed guardians. They are the bearers of Divine Love in its purest form, which is essentially different from what people on earth think of, even though they experience it daily and hourly. This Castle forms the gate to the steps of the Throne of the Most High. No one can approach the steps without having passed through the Grail Castle. Strict is the watch at the golden gate, sharp and unrelenting, so that the purity of the Grail is preserved, whereby it can pour blessings upon all seekers.
 
Through revelations, the tidings of the Castle came down in many stages from the Blue Island through the Ethereal World, until it finally penetrated, in deepened inspiration through some poets, also among humans of the Coarse Material Earth. As it was passed on from level to level downward, the truth also suffered various unintentional distortions thereby, so that the final rendition could only remain a repeatedly clouded reflection, which became the cause of many errors.
 
If now a part of the great Creation cries out in dire distress, and if suffering and fervent supplication rise up to the Creator, a servant of the Vessel is sent out to intervene in the spiritual need as a bearer of this Love. What only floats in the work of Creation as legend and myth then enters into Creation as a living reality! Such missions, however, do not occur often. Each time they are accompanied by incisive changes and great upheavals. Millenia usually lie between them. Those thus sent bring Light and Truth to the erring, Peace to the despairing, extending their hands with their message to all seekers, gathering all believers to offer them new courage and strength and lead them through all darkness up to the Light.
 
They come only for those who long for help from the Light, not for the scoffers or the self-righteous. The next coming of such a messenger of the Grail should be a sign to all who seek to rouse themselves with all their might to what is good and noble, as it is a reminder of the inevitable judgement that, as the Last Judgement, must come one day. Blessed are those who by then are no longer bound to materiality by their limited intellect, so that they can be lifted up to the Light.