29. Worship Of God

  
It can rightly be said that humankind has not yet fully come to understand the naturalness of wholehearted worship of God, let alone put it into practise. Just look at the worship of God as it has been practised up to the present day! All one sees is pleading, better still, begging! Only here and there do prayers of thanksgiving occasionally arise, truly streaming from the heart. Yet, as a major exception, this always ever happens when someone receives a very special gift unexpectedly, or is suddenly saved from a great danger. The unexpected and the sudden must be there for them if they are to ever rise, for once, to a prayer of thanksgiving.

Even the most extraordinary things may fall into their laps undeservedly, but the giving of thanks will never, or only very rarely, occur to them as long as everything proceeds in a calm, normal manner. Even if they and their loved ones are noticeably blessed with health and have no earthly worries, they will hardly ever to raise themselves to a serious prayer of thanksgiving.

To trigger the strongest emotion in oneself, humans unfortunately always need a very special impetus. They will never do so voluntarily when all is going well. They may perhaps mention it here and there, or even go to church to murmur a prayer of thanks on that occasion, but being present with their whole soul, even for a single minute, does not occur to them at all. It is only when real distress approaches that they quickly remember that there is One Who can help them. Fear finally drives them to stammer out a prayer! Even then, it is always only a plea, never veneration.
 
Such are those who consider themselves to be good and call themselves believers! And there are a few them on earth! Praiseworthy exceptions!
 
Now, picture the pitiful image before your eyes! After proper contemplation, how does it appear to you, humans? How much more pathetic can such individuals stand before their God! Yet this is unfortunately the reality! You can twist and turn these facts as much as you like, but they remain as soon as you make an effort to get to the bottom of the matter, omitting any embellishment. Surely this must make you feel a little uneasy, as neither requests nor thanks belong to worship.
 
Worship is veneration! But you will not truly find this anywhere on earth! Consider the festivals or celebrations that are meant to serve for the glory of God, where, for once, there is a refraining from requesting and begging. There are oratorios*! Look for the singers who sing in worship of God! Watch them prepare themselves in the hall or in the church. They all want to achieve something in order to please the audience. God is quite indifferent to them in this. Precisely, He, to Whom it should be directed! Look at the conductor! He craves applause wants to show people what he can do.
 
Then look further. Behold the proud buildings, the churches and cathedrals, which are meant to honour God … to the glory of God. The artist, the architect, the master builder, strive only for earthly recognition; every city flaunts these buildings … for its own glory. They must even serve to attract strangers. But not for the worship of God, but rather so that money will flow into the area through increased traffic! There is only a desire for outward appearances wherever you look! And all under the pretence of worshipping God!
 
Sure, here and there may still be someone who, in the forest or atop elevations, finds their soul rising or even fleetingly commemorates the greatness of the Creator of all the beauty around them, though this stands very far in the background. Their souls rise, not in jubilant flight upwards, but ... dispersed and literally unfold in the pleasure of enjoyment.

Such a thing must not be confused with soaring heights. It should be regarded no differently to the satisfaction of a glutton at a richly laden table. The rising of the soul of this kind is mistaken for worship; it remains empty, rhapsody, a personal sense of well-being that the experiencer takes for thanks to the Creator. It is purely an earthly occurrence. Many nature enthusiasts consider exactly this kind of intoxication to be true worship of God, and in this they also consider themselves far superior to those who do not have the opportunity to enjoy these beauties of the earth’s formations. It is a crude Pharisaism that originate only in one’s own sense of well-being. A glittering sham gold, devoid of any real value.

When such individuals one day have to search their souls for treasures to use for their ascent, they will find their inner shrine completely empty; for the supposed treasure was merely a beauty frenzy, nothing more. It lacked true reverence for the Creator. –
 
True worship of God is not expressed in rhapsody, mumbled prayers, begging, kneeling, or wringing of hands, nor in blissful shuddering, but in joyful action! In jubilant affirmation of this earthly existence! Savouring every moment! To savour means to make use of. In other words, to experience! Not in games and dances or other time-wasting activities that harm body and soul, which the intellect seeks and needs as compensation and to whip up its activity, but in looking up to the Light and Its Will, which only promotes, uplifts, and ennobles everything that exists in Creation!
 
A fundamental prerequisite for this, however, is a precise knowledge of God’s Laws in Creation. These show humans how they must live if they wish to be healthy in body and soul. They show them the exact path to the Spiritual Realm and make them clearly recognize the horrors that will arise if they oppose these Laws!
 
Since the Laws of Creation are self-acting and living, ironclad, immovable, with a Force against which human spirits are completely powerless, it is only natural that everyone’s most urgent need should be to recognize these Laws completely – the effects of which they are exposed to in every case and against which they are completely defenceless!
 
Yet humanity is so limited that it tries to carelessly overlook such a clear and simple necessity, even though there is nothing more obvious! As is well known, humanity never arrives at the simplest thoughts. Every animal is, strangely enough, smarter than humans. It fits into Creation and is supported within it, as long as humans do not try to prevent it from doing so. Humans, however, want to rule over something whose independent functioning they are, and always will, subject to. In their conceit they imagine that they already control forces when they merely learn to utilize the smallest offshoots of radiation for their purposes, or if they utilize the effects of air, water, and fire on a very small scale! They fail to consider that they must first learn and observe in order to utilize already existing qualities or forces that already exist in their own nature. They must try to adapt themselves if they are to succeed! They alone! This is not domination or conquest, but submission and adaptation to the existing Laws.
 
Humans should finally have realized that only learning to fit in can bring them benefit! They should advance gratefully in this respect. But no! They only boast and behave even more presumptuously than before. Precisely where they once, in a serving way, bowed to the Divine Will in Creation and thereby immediately gained visibly results, they childishly try to present it as though they were a victor, a victor over Nature.

Where they once humbly bowed to the Divine Will in Creation and thereby immediately gained visible benefits, they now seek to childishly portray themselves as victors! Conquerors over Nature! The ridiculous attitude reaches the summit of all stupidity in that they thereby blindly overlook what is truly great; for with the right attitude they would indeed be a victor... over themselves and their vanity, since, in the light of reason, they first bowed in learning before what already exists in all notable achievements. Only in this do they succeed. All inventors and everyone who is truly great have incorporated their thoughts and volition into the existing Laws of Nature. Whatever tries to resist or even work against these Laws is crushed, ground down, shattered. It is impossible for it to ever truly come to life.
 
Just as it is with experiences on a small scale, so it is with the whole human existence – it is no different with oneself.
 
Those who must traverse not only the short time on earth, but also the whole Creation, absolutely need the knowledge of the Laws to which the entire Creation remains subject, and not just the visible environment closest to all humans on earth! If they do not know these Laws, they will be stopped and hindered, injured, thrown back, or even crushed because, in their ignorance, they could not go with the currents of force of the Laws; they positioned themselves so wrongly that they had to push them downwards instead of upwards.
 
A human spirit appears ridiculous rather than great and admirable when it stubbornly and blindly tries to reject the facts which it must recognize daily in their effects everywhere, as soon as it is required to use them not only in its activities and all technology, but also fundamentally for itself and its soul! During its earthly existence and activity, it always has the opportunity to recognize the unconditional proficiency and equality of all significant impacts, provided it does not carelessly or even maliciously close itself off and sleep.
 
In the whole of Creation there is no exception in this, not even for a human soul! It must submit to the Laws of Creation, if their operation is to become a benefit to it! And humanity has so far completely overlooked this simple matter of fact in the most reckless manner.
 
It seemed so simple, and precisely for that reason, it became the most difficult thing for them to understand. And overcoming this difficulty became, with time, utterly impossible for them. Thus, today they stand before ruin, before a mental breakdown that will inevitably shatter everything they have built up.
 
Only one thing can save them: a complete knowledge of Gods Laws in Creation. This alone can bring them forward again, upwards, and with them everything they seek to build in the future.
 
Do not say that, as a human spirit, you cannot so easily discern the Laws in Creation, as it is difficult to distinguish truth from misconceptions. That is not true! Whoever makes such speeches only seeks to mask the indolence within themselves, does not want the indifference of their soul becoming apparent, or want to excuse themselves privately, for their own reassurance.
 
But it is of no use, for all those who are indifferent and indolent are now rejected! Only those who gather all their strength and use it without reserve for the achievement of what is most necessary for their soul can still have any prospect of salvation. All half-heartedness counts as nothing. Every hesitation, every procrastination is already complete failure. Humanity has no more time left, because it has already waited until the point that marks the final boundary.
 
Of course, this time it will not be made so easy for them, nor will they find it so easy, since by their earlier carefree dawdling in these matters, they have deprived themselves of any capacity to even believe in the profound seriousness of a necessary final decision! And this very point is the greatest weakness, and it will be the inevitable downfall of so many!
 
For thousands of years much has been done to make God’s Will and the lawful order in Creation, clear to you, at least as far as you need it in order to be able to ascend to the Primordial Creation from which you came, so that you may find your way back to there! Not through the so-called earthly sciences, nor through the churches, but through the servants of God, the prophets of old, and later through the Message of the Son of God Himself. However simple as it was given to you, you have only spoken of it so far, but you have never made the seriously endeavoured to understand it correctly, let alone to live by it! In your sluggish opinion, this was asking far too much of you, even though it is your only salvation! You want to be saved without making any effort yourselves! If you think about it, you must come to this sad realization.
 
You have turned every Message of God into a religion! For your convenience! And that was wrong! Because you built a religion on a quite special, elevated level, separate from the activities of everyday life! And therein lay the greatest mistake you could make; for in doing so you also placed the Will of God apart from everyday life, or, which is the same thing, you placed yourselves apart from the Will of God, instead of uniting with It and placing It in right at the heart of your daily life with its hustle and bustle! To become one with It! You should naturally and practically absorb every Message of God and incorporate it into your work, your thinking and your whole life! You must not turn it into something that stands alone, as it happens now, in which you only occasionally enter during hours of rest! Where, for a short time, you seek to give yourself up to contrition, to thanks, or to recuperation. In this way you prevent it from becoming something self-evident to you, something inherent to you like hunger or sleep.
 
Understand correctly at last: You are meant to live in the Will of God, so that you may find your bearings on all paths that lead to your good! The Messages of God are only valuable indications that you need, the knowledge and observance without which you are lost! You must not therefore place them in a glass shrine to contemplate them as if they were something sacred, shuddering in bliss only on Sundays, or to take refuge in this place in distress, in fear, in order to draw strength from there!

Unfortunate ones, you must not worship the Message, but use it! You should grasp it wholeheartedly, not just in a festive attire, but with the firm grasp of working life, which never mistreats, never humiliates, but honours everyone! A jewel shines for more purer and more brightly in the sweaty and soiled calloused hand than in the well-cared-for fingers of lazy idlers who spend their time on earth in contemplation alone!
 
Every Message of God should be received by you, that is to say, become a part of you! You must strive to grasp its meaning!
 
Do not regard it as something separate, something that remains outside of you, something you are accustomed to approach with timid reserve. Embrace the Word of God into yourselves, so that each of you know how to live and how to walk, in order to reach the Kingdom of God!
 
Therefore, awaken at last! Learn the Laws of Creation. But no earthly cleverness will help you to do this, nor will the limited knowledge of technical observation suffice here – such meagre knowledge is insufficient for the path your soul must take! You must raise your gaze far beyond the earth and recognize where the path leads you after this earth-life, so that you may simultaneously gain the awareness of why and also for what purpose you are on this earth. And again, just as you are in this life, whether poor or rich, healthy or ill, in peace or conflict, joy or suffering, you will learn to recognize the cause and the purpose of it all, and in this, you will become happy and light, grateful for the experiences you have had so far. You will learn to value every single second and, above all, make use of it. Use it for the ascent to joyful existence, to great, pure happiness!
 
And because you yourselves have become far too confused and entangled, the Message of God once came to your rescue through the Son of God, after the warnings of the prophets had fallen on deaf ears. The Message of God showed you the way, the only way, to your salvation from the quagmire that was already threatening to suffocate you! The Son of God sought to guide you to it through parables! Those who were willing to believe and those who were searching received them with open ears, but that was as far as it went for them. They never sought to live by them.
 
Religion and everyday life always remained two separate things for you as well. You always stood beside them, instead of within them! The workings of the Laws in Creation explained in the parables remained completely incomprehensible to you because you did not seek for them there!

Now, in the Grail Message, the same interpretation of the Laws comes once again, in a form more understandable for the present time! They are, in fact, exactly the same which Christ once brought, in a form appropriate for that era. He showed how you humans should think, speak, and act in order to mature spiritually to ascend in Creation! Humanity did not anything more than that. There is not a single gap to be found in that former Message. The Grail Message now conveys exactly the same, only in a form suited to today.
 
Whoever finally align themselves in thought, speech, and action is practising the purest worship of God, for this only lies only in action!
 
Whoever willingly submits to the Laws always does what is right! By doing so, they demonstrate their reverence for the Wisdom of God, joyfully submits to His Will, which lies within the Laws. They are thereby supported and protected by their effect, freed from all suffering and lifted up into the Realm of the Luminous Spirit, where in jubilant experience the Omniscience of God is visible to all without blurring, and where the worship of God consists in life itself! Where every breath, every feeling, every act is borne by joyful gratitude and thus exists as lasting joy. Born out of happiness, sowing happiness and therefore reaping happiness! Worship of God in life and experience lies solely in the observance of the Divine Laws. Only in this way is happiness be guaranteed.

So it shall be in the coming Millennial Kingdom of a thousand years, which will be called the Kingdom of God on Earth! Thus shall all followers of the Grail Message become beacons and guides among humanity.
 
Whoever cannot or will not do this has failed to understand the Message once again. Grail service is to be true, living worship of God. Worship of God is the foremost service to God, which does not consist in outward things, does not show itself only outwardly, but is living in every person even in the most withdrawn hours and reveals itself in their thinking and in their actions as something self-evident, as a matter of course.
 
Whoever does not want to voluntarily profess this will not experience the approaching time of the Kingdom of God. They will either be destroyed or forced into unconditional obedience by Divine Force and earthly power for the good of all humanity, which is blessed to finally find peace and happiness in this Kingdom!