45. The Mystery Of Lucifer

A grey veil rests over everything connected with Lucifer. It is as if everything shies away from lifting the corner of this veil. In reality, the shying away is only the inability to penetrate the realm of darkness. The inability, however, is again quite simply in the nature of things, because here too the human spirit is not able to penetrate so far, but is limited by its nature. Just as it cannot reach the Highest Heights, it cannot penetrate to the deepest depths, nor will it ever be able to.
 
Thus the imagination created substitutes for what was missing, beings in various guises. One speaks of the devil in the most adventurous forms, of the fallen and expelled archangel, of the embodiment of the evil principle, and what else there is. Nothing is understood of the actual nature of Lucifer, even though the human spirit is struck by him and is often whirled into the midst of a tremendous conflict, which can be described as a battle.
 
Those who speak of a fallen archangel, and also those who speak of the embodiment of the evil principle, come closest to the fact. But here, too, there is a wrong attitude that gives everything an incorrect image. An embodiment of the evil principle suggests the highest summit, the final goal, the living-body-becoming of all evil, i.e. the crowning, the perfect conclusion. Lucifer, on the other hand, is the origin of the wrong principle, the starting point and the driving force. It must not be called the evil principle that he brings about, but the wrong principle. False taken as the term wrong, not evil. The sphere of action of this wrong principle is Material Creation. In the World of Matter alone do the effects of the Light and the effects of the darkness, that is, the two opposite principles, meet and have a lasting effect on the human soul as it passes through the World of Matter for its evolution. Whichever the human soul devotes itself more to according to its own wishes is decisive for its ascent to the Light or its descent to the darkness.
 
There is a huge gulf between the Light and the darkness. It is filled by the work of Material Creation, which is subject to the transience of forms, that is, the decomposition of the respective existing forms and new formation.
 
Since, according to the Laws which the Will of God the Father places in Creation, a cycle can only be regarded as completed and accomplished when it returns to its origin at its end, the course of a human spirit can only be regarded as fulfilled when it returns to the Spiritual Realm which is in closest proximity to the Primordial Light, because its seed has proceeded from this Spiritual Essentiality. If it allows itself to drift away towards the darkness, it runs the risk of being drawn beyond the outermost circle of its normal course towards the depths and then no longer finding its way back to ascend. But neither is it able to step out of the densest and deepest ethereal darkness even deeper beyond its outermost boundary out of the World of Matter, as it could do upwards into the realm of the Spiritual Essentiality, because this is its starting point, and is therefore drawn away in the mighty cycle of Material Creation in a long-lasting way into decomposition, because its ethereally dark, therefore dense and heavy garment, or also called the otherworldly body, holds it down. The decomposition then dissolves his spiritual personality as such, which he has gained in the course of Creation, so that he suffers spiritual death and is reduced into spiritual primordial seeds.
 
Lucifer himself stands outside of Material Creation, so he is not dragged into the decomposition, as the victims of his principle are; for Lucifer is eternal. He comes from a part of the Divine Essentiality. The discord began after the beginning of the creation of the World of Matter. Sent out to support the Spiritual Essential in the World of Matter and to promote its evolution, he did not accomplish his mission in the sense of God the Father's Creative Will, but chose paths other than those marked out for him by this Creative Will, out of a desire to know better, which came to him during his work in the World of Matter.
 
Abusing the force given to him, he introduced the principle of temptation instead of the principle of supportive help, which is synonymous with serving love. Serving love in the Divine sense, which has nothing in common with slavish service, but merely envisages spiritual ascent and thus the eternal happiness of one's neighbour and acts accordingly.
 
The principle of temptation, however, is tantamount to laying snares through which creatures that are not sufficiently stable within themselves quickly stumble, fall and are lost, while others admittedly grow stronger in vigilance and force in order to then blossom powerfully to spiritual heights. Everything weak, however, is doomed to destruction from the outset. The principle knows no kindness, no mercy; it lacks the Love of God the Father, thus therefore also the most powerful uplifting force and the strongest support there is.
 
The temptation in Paradise described in the Bible shows the effect of the onset of the Lucifer principle by pictorially depicting how it searches for the strength or steadfastness of the human couple through temptation, in order to immediately and mercilessly push them into the path of destruction at the slightest wavering.
 
Steadfastness would have been synonymous with a joyful attitude towards the Divine Will, which lies in the simple Laws of Nature or Creation. And this Will, the Divine Commandment, was well known to the human couple. Not wavering would have been at the same time a recognition of and adherence to these Laws, whereby this is the human being can only utilize them properly and without limitation and thus become the actual “Lord of Creation” because he “goes with them”. All forces then become subservient to him if he does not oppose them and work automatically in his favour. Therein lies the accomplishment of the Creator's Commandments, which want nothing more than the unclouded and uninhibited upholding and cultivation of all of the possibilities of developmental that lie in His Glorious Work. This simple observance is, in a broader sense, a conscious co-operation in the recovering evolution of Creation or the Realm of Matter.
 
Whoever does not do this is an obstacle that must either be ground into the right shape or fall victim to crushing between the wheels of the world's gears, i.e. the Laws of Creation. He who does not want to bend must break, because no stagnation can arise.

Lucifer does not want to wait in kindness for the gradual maturing and strengthening, does not want to be a loving gardener who tends, supports and cares for the plants entrusted to him, as he must, but with him literally "the goat became the gardener". He sets out to destroy everything that is weak and works relentlessly in this way.
 
He despises the victims who succumb to his temptations and snares and must perish in their weakness.
 
He is also disgusted with the baseness and meanness which these fallen victims put into the effects of his principle; for it is only human beings who make these the disgusting depravity in which they present themselves, and thus they only incite Lucifer the more to see them as creatures that deserve only destruction, not love and care.
 
And the principle of self-expression, which follows the principle of temptation as a natural consequence, contributes not a little to the realization of this destruction. Enjoying life to the full takes place in the lower regions of darkness, but in so-called psycho-analysis it is already taken up earthly by various practitioners on the assumption that to “let oneself go” also matures and liberates on earth.
 
But what dreadful misery the exercise of this principle must bring about on earth! What mischief it must cause, because on earth, unlike in the regions of darkness, there are not only similar things together, but even darker and lighter things living side by side and together. Just think of sexual life and the like. If such a principle is unleashed on mankind in practice, there must only be a Sodom and Gomorrah in the end, from which there is no way out, but where only horror of the greatest kind can bring an end.
 
Quite apart from this, however, one can already see numerous victims of similar teachings wandering around today, whose low self-confidence, all personal thinking in general, has been completely torn apart and destroyed where they had confidently expected help. They stand there like people who have had all their clothes torn from their bodies by design so that they are then forced to put on the new clothes handed to them. Unfortunately, in most cases, those who have been stripped of their clothes are no longer able to see why they must put on new ones. Through the systematic intrusion into their most personal things and rights, over time they also lose the sense of shame that sustains personal self-awareness, without which there can be nothing personal, which is part of the personal itself.
 
No new, solid building can be erected on such torn ground. With a few exceptions, these people remain independent, which increases to the point of helplessness at times, as they have been deprived of what little support they had before.
 
The two principles of self-expression and temptation are so closely connected that temptation must necessarily precede self-expression. It is therefore the regular observance and propagation of the Lucifer principle.
 
No tearing down is necessary for the true soul doctor. He heals first and then erects further. The true principle gives conversion to false desires through spiritual realization!

The application of this loveless principle, however, had to separate Lucifer more and more from the loving Will of the Almighty Creator due to the nature of the matter, which led to his own separation or expulsion from the Light and thus to Lucifer's ever deeper fall. Lucifer is one who has separated himself from the Light, which is synonymous with an outcast.
 
The rejection also had to take place according to the existing Primordial Laws, the Irrevocable, Holy Will of God the Father, because no other outcome is possible.
 
Since only the Will of God the Father, the Creator of all things, is omnipotent, which is also firmly rooted in the Material Creation and its evolution, Lucifer is certainly able to send his principle into the World of Matter, but the effects will only ever be able to move within the Primordial Laws laid down by God the Father and must mould themselves in their direction.
 
Thus, by pursuing his wrong principle, Lucifer can certainly give an impetus to paths that are dangerous for humanity, but he is not able to force these is the human being to do anything as soon as they do not decide to do so voluntarily.
 
Lucifer can indeed only entice. Man as such, however, stands more firmly than he does in the World of Matter and is therefore much more secure and powerful than Lucifer's influence can ever affect him. Every human being is so protected by this that it is a tenfold disgrace for him if he allows himself to be lured by this force, which is weaker than his own. He must bear in mind that Lucifer himself stands outside the world of matter, while he is firmly rooted in familiar ground. Lucifer is forced to use only his auxiliaries, which are composed of human spirits who have fallen into temptation.
 
However, every upwardly striving human spirit is not only completely equal to them, but far superior in strength. A single serious act of will is enough to make an army of them disappear without a trace. Provided, of course, that their enticements find no echo or appeal to which they can cling.
 
Lucifer would be completely powerless if humanity made an effort to recognize and obey the Primordial Laws laid down by the Creator. Unfortunately, however, human beings are increasingly supporting his principle through their current behaviour and will therefore also have to perish for the most part.

It is impossible for any human spirit to fight a battle with Lucifer himself, for the simple reason that he is unable to reach him because of their different nature. The human spirit can only ever come into contact with those who have fallen through the wrong principle and who basically have his nature.
 
Lucifer's origin means that only he who is of the same origin can approach and confront him personally, for only such a one is able to penetrate to him. He must be a Messenger of God, coming and accomplished from the Divine Unsubstantiality, armed with the holy earnestness of His Mission, and trusting in the Source of all Force, in God the Father Himself.

This task has been assigned to the promised Son of Man.
 
The battle is personal, face to face, not just symbolic in a general sense, as many scholars would have us believe from the promises. It is the accomplishment of the promise in Parsifal. Lucifer had misused the “Holy Spear”, the Force, and thus inflicted a painful wound on the Spiritual Essentiality in humanity as its spark and offshoot through his principle. It is taken from him in this battle. Then in the “right hand”, i.e. when the genuine Grail principle of pure, strict love is realize ed, he heals the wound previously inflicted by him in the wrong hand, i.e. by misapplication.
 
Through the Lucifer principle, i.e. through the wrong use of Divine Force, synonymous with the “Holy Spear” in the wrong hand, a wound is inflicted on the Spiritual Essentiality that cannot close! This is aptly illustrated by this thought in the legend; for the process really does resemble an open wound that will not close.
 
Consider that the human spirits, as unconscious spirit-seeds or sparks, flow or leap from the lowest edge of the Spiritual Essentiality into the Creation of the World of Matter, in the expectation that these outflowing particles, after their course through the World of Matter, will awaken to personal consciousness and return, evolved, to Spiritual Essentiality in completion of the cycle. Similar to the circulation of the blood in the gross material body! The Lucifer principle, however, now diverts a large part of this spiritual circulatory current, whereby much of the Spiritual Essentiality is lost. As a result, the necessary circulation cannot be closed, and the effect is like the lasting weakening drainage of an open wound.
 
If, however, the “Holy Spear”, i.e. the Divine Force, comes into the right hand, which stands in the Will of the Creator and shows the right path to the Spiritual Essentiality wandering through the World of Matter as a vitalizing factor, which leads it upwards to its starting point, into the Luminous Kingdom of God the Father, it is no longer lost, but flows back into its origin like the blood to the heart, whereby the wound in the Spiritual Essentiality, which has so far weakened and flowed away, is closed. Thus, healing can only take place through the same spear that struck this wound.
 
For this to happen, however, the spear must first be wrested from Lucifer and come into the right hand, which takes place in the personal battle of the Son of Man with Lucifer!
 
The battles which then follow, involving the Ethereal and the Gross Material, are only the after-effects of this one great battle, which must bring the promised binding of Lucifer, heralding the beginning of the Millennial Kingdom. They signify the eradication of the consequences of the Lucifer principle.
 
This is directed against the reign of Divine Love, the blessings of which are bestowed upon human beings in their course through the World of Matter. If humanity were simply to strive after this Divine Love, it would immediately be completely immune to all Lucifer's temptations and he would be stripped of all the terrors that the human spirit weaves around him.
 
The colourful imagination of human brains has also given rise to the monstrous, ugly figures that people mistakenly try to attribute to Lucifer. In reality, for the simple reason of his different nature, no human being has been able to see him, not even the spiritual eye, which is often already able to recognize the ethereality of the beyond during life on earth.
 
Lucifer, on the contrary, is to be called proud and beautiful, supernaturally beautiful, of sombre majesty with clear, large, blue eyes, which, however, bear witness to the icy expression of a lack of love. He is not just a concept, as one usually tries to make him out to be after other futile interpretations, but he is personal.
 
Mankind must learn to understand that its own nature sets a limit which it can never cross, not even in its thinking, of course, and that messages from beyond this limit can only come by way of grace. But not through mediums, who cannot change their essence through their non-earthly states, just as as not through science. It is precisely through chemistry that science has the opportunity to find that differences in species can form insurmountable boundaries. These laws, however, emanate from the origin and are not to be found only in the Work of Creation.