45. The Mystery Of Lucifer

A grey veil rests over all that stands in connection with Lucifer. It is as though everything recoils when lifting the corner of this veil. In truth, this recoiling is only the inability to penetrate the realm of darkness. Yet this inability in turn lies quite simply in the nature of the matter, for here too the human spirit cannot penetrate so far; a boundary is set by its very nature. Just as it cannot ascend to the Highest Heights, so it cannot also penetrate to the deepest depth, nor will it ever be able to do so.
 
Thus the imagination created substitutes for what was missing, beings in various forms. People speak of the devil in the most adventurous forms, of the fallen and cast-out archangel, of the embodiment of the evil principle, and much else besides. Of the actual nature of Lucifer one understands nothing, although the human spirit is struck by him and thereby often whirled straight into a mighty inner conflict, which may well be called struggle.

Those who speak of a fallen archangel, and likewise those who speak of the embodiment of the evil principle, come closest to the fact. Yet here, too, there is a false attitude that lends everything an incorrect picture. An embodiment of the evil principle suggests the highest summit, the final goal, the embodiment in a living body of all that is evil, in other words, the culmination, the perfect conclusion.

Lucifer, on the contrary, is the origin of the false principle, the starting point and the driving force. Nor should it be called the evil principle that he brings about, but the false principle. False, understood as incorrect in concept, not evil. The sphere of action of this incorrect principle is the World of Matter. In the material creation alone do the effects of the Light and the effects of the Darkness, that is, the two opposite principles, converge, and there they act continuously upon the human soul as it passes through the World of Matter for its evolution. Whichever of these the human soul surrenders itself to more, according to its own desires, is decisive for its ascent to the Light or its descent into the Darkness.
 
The chasm is immense that lies between the Light and the Darkness. It is filled by the creation of matter, which is subject to the transitoriness of forms, that is, to the disintegration of each existing form and its renewed formation.

Since a cycle, according to the Laws which the will of God the Father places into Creation, can only be considered completed and fulfilled when it returns to its origin at its end, so also the course of a human spirit can only be regarded as fulfilled when it returns to the Realm of Spiritual Essentiality, which stands closest to the Primordial Light, because its seed germinated from this Spiritual Essentiality. If it allows itself to be drifted away toward the Darkness, it runs the danger of being drawn out past the outermost circle of its normal course toward the depth, and then no longer being able to find its way back up.

But neither can it pass out of the densest and deepest ethereal darkness, beyond its outermost boundary, farther out of the World of Matter, as it could do upward into the Realm of the Spiritual Essentiality, because this is its starting point; it is therefore continuously dragged along in the mighty cycle of the material Creation until the very end, into disintegration, because its ethereally dark, therefore dense and heavy garment, also called the ethereal body, holds it down. The disintegration then also dissolves its spiritual personality as such, which was gained during its course through Creation, so that it suffers spiritual death and is converted into primordial spiritual seed.
 
Lucifer himself stands outside the material Creation, and is thus not dragged down into the disintegration as is the fate of the victims of his principle; for Lucifer is eternal. He originates from a part of the Divine Essentiality. The rift set in after the inception of all that is material. Sent forth to support Spiritual Essentiality in the World of Matter, and to further its evolution, he did not fulfill this, his mission, in accordance with the creative Will of God the Father; instead, he chose paths other than those marked out for him by this Creative Will, out of a self-willed desire to know better, which arose within him during his activity within Materiality.
 
Abusing the power granted unto him, he introduced the principle of temptation in place 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 servitude, but solely envisions spiritual ascent and therewith the eternal happiness of one's neighbour and acts accordingly.
 
The principle of temptation, however, is tantamount to laying snares, through which creatures not sufficiently stable within themselves quickly stumble, fall and are lost; whereas others, it is true, grow strong thereby in vigilance and might, so as to then powerfully blossom forth to spiritual heights. All that is weak, however, is from the very outset hopelessly doomed to destruction. The principle knows no kindness, no mercy; it lacks the Love of God the Father, and therewith also the most colossal buoyant force and the strongest support in existence.
 
The temptation in Paradise depicted in the Bible demonstrates the effect of the Lucifer principle being set in motion, in that it pictorially portrays how, through temptation, it seeks to test the strength or steadfastness of the human couple, in order to immediately and mercilessly thrust them into the path of destruction at the slightest wavering.
 
Steadfastness would have been equivalent to a joyful attunement to the Divine Will, which lies within the simple Laws of Nature or Creation. And this Will, the Divine Command, was well known to the human couple. Remaining unwavering would have been at the same time an acknowledgment and observance of these Laws, through which humankind can first properly and unrestrictedly make them useful to themselves, thus becoming the true 'lords of Creation' because they 'go with them'. All forces then become subservient to them if they do not oppose them, and work automatically to their benefit. Therein then lies the fulfillment of the Creator’s commandments, which desire nothing more than the unimpeded and unrestricted maintenance and nurturing of all developmental possibilities inherent in His magnificent Work.

This simple observance is, in a broader sense, a conscious co-operation in the recovering evolution of Creation or the World of Matter. Whoever does not do this is an obstacle that must either be moulded into the right form or fall victim to being crushed between the cogs of the world’s machinery, that is, the Laws of Creation. Whoever does not want to bend must break, for there can be no stagnation.

Lucifer does not want to wait patiently for the gradual maturing and strengthening; does not wish, as he should, be a loving gardener who tends, supports and cares for the plants entrusted to him, but with him, quite literally ‘the fox is put in charge of the henhouse.

He aims at the destruction of all that is weak and works in this way without mercy. At the same time, he despises the victims who succumb to his temptations and snares, and wills that they perish in their weakness.

He also feels disgust for the baseness and vulgarity that these fallen victims pour into the execution of his principle; for only humans reduce it to the disgusting depravity in which it manifests, and in so doing, they only incite Lucifer all the more to see them as creatures who deserve nothing but destruction, not love and care.

And the principle of uninhibited living-to-the-full, which attaches itself to the principle of temptation as a natural consequence, contributes in no small measure to carrying out this destruction. This living-to-the-full plays out in the lower regions of darkness, but in so-called psychoanalysis (soul-exploration), it is already being adopted on earth by various practitioners under the assumption that giving free rein to oneself also matures and liberates on earth.

Yet what horrific misery the practice of this principle must bring upon the earth! What disaster it must cause, because on earth, unlike in the regions of darkness, it is not only those of a like nature who are gathered together, but the darker and the brighter live side by side and intermingle. Consider only, for example, sexual life and the like. If such a principle is unleashed on humanity 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.
 
Aside from this, one already sees today numerous victims of similar teachings wandering aimlessly about, whose scant self-awareness, indeed all personal thinking, has been completely torn apart and destroyed in the very place where they had trustingly expected help. They stand there like people from whom all their clothes have been systematically torn from their bodies so that they are then forced to put on the new clothes offered to them. In most cases, however, those who have been stripped of their clothes are, unfortunately, no longer able to understand why they should put on new ones. Through the systematic intrusion into their most personal affairs and rights, they also lost, over time, the sense of shame that preserves personal self-consciousness, without which nothing personal can exist.

On such a deeply disrupted ground, no new, firm structure can then be erected. With few exceptions, these individuals remain dependent, which intensifies at times into a state of helplessness, since they were also deprived of the little support they still possessed before.

The two principles of living-to-the-full and of temptation are so closely linked that living-to-the-full must unconditionally be preceded by temptation. It is therefore the systematic compliance with and spreading of the Lucifer-principle.

For the true physician of the soul, no tearing down is necessary. He heals first and then continues to build up. The true principle brings about a reversal of false desire through spiritual knowledge!

The application of this loveless principle, however, naturally had to separate Lucifer more and more from the loving Will of the Almighty Creator, bringing about his own severing or expulsion from the Light, and with it, Lucifer’s ever-deeper fall. Lucifer is one who has severed himself from the Light, which is synonymous with being an outcast.

The expulsion also had to take place according to the existing Primordial Laws, the Irrevocable, Holy Will of God the Father, because any other occurrence is impossible.

Since now the Will of God the Father, the Creator of all things, alone is omnipotent, which is also firmly rooted in material Creation and its evolution, Lucifer may well send his principle into materiality, but the effects will always only be able to move within the Primordial Laws established by God the Father, and must shape themselves in their direction.

Thus, through the pursuit of his incorrect principle, Lucifer can indeed give an impulse towards paths that are dangerous for humanity, but he cannot forcibly compel humans into anything once they do not voluntarily decide to do so themselves.

Lucifer can, in reality, only entice. Humans as such, however, stand more firmly in material Creation than he does, and consequently also much more securely and powerfully than the influence of Lucifer can ever strike them. All humans are so protected by this that it is a tenfold disgrace for them if they allow themselves to be enticed by this power, which is weaker in comparison to them. They should consider that Lucifer himself stands outside of materiality, while they, with firm feet, are rooted in ground and soil that is fully familiar to them. Lucifer is forced to use only his auxiliary troops for the applications of his principle, which are composed of human spirits who have fallen in the temptations.

To these, however, every upward-striving human spirit is, in turn, not only fully equal, but far superior in strength. A single, earnest act of will is sufficient to make a host of them vanish without a trace. Provided that these find no echo or response whatsoever in their enticements to which they can cling.

Lucifer would be completely powerless if humankind made the effort to recognize and follow the Primordial Laws placed into Creation by the Creator. Unfortunately, however, through their current way of living, humans support his principle more and more, and for that reason, the greatest part of them will also have to perish.

It is impossible for any human spirit to wage a battle with Lucifer himself, for the simple reason that it is unable to advance as far as him, due to the different nature of their species. The human spirit can only ever come into contact with those who have fallen through the false principle, who basically share his own nature.

The origin of Lucifer dictates that only someone who is of the same origin can approach and confront him personally; for only such a one is able to advance as far as him. It must be an Envoy of God, coming and filled with Divine Inessentiality, armed with the holy earnestness of His Mission, and trusting in the Origin of all Power, in God the Father Himself.

This task is assigned to the prophesied Son of Man.
 
The battle is personal, face to face, and not merely symbolic in a general sense, as many researchers wish to deduce from the prophecies. It is the fulfillment of the prophecy in Parsifal. Lucifer had misused the 'Holy Spear' – the Force – and through his principle, had thereby inflicted a painful wound upon the Spiritual Essentiality within humankind, in its sparks and offshoots. It will be taken from him in this battle. Then, in the 'right hand', that is, during the execution of the genuine Grail Principle of pure, strict Love, it heals the wound previously inflicted by it while in the wrong hand, meaning through incorrect application.
 
Through the Lucifer principle, that is, 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 vividly reflected in appropriate form by this thought in the legend; for the process truly resembles an open wound that will not close.

Consider that human spirits, as unconscious spiritual seed-grains or sparks, flow down or leap across from the lowest edge of Spiritual Essentiality into the World of matter, in the expectation that after their course through materiality, these outflowing parts will awaken to personal consciousness, develop, and return to Spiritual Essentiality in the completion of the cycle. Similar to the circulation of blood in the physical body! The Lucifer-principle, however, now diverts a large portion of this spiritual circulatory stream, causing much of the Spiritual Essentiality to be lost. Consequently, the necessary cycle cannot be closed, and its effect is like the continuous, debilitating drainage of an open wound.

But if the “Holy Spear”, that is, the Divine Force, now comes into the right hand, which stands in the Will of the Creator and shows the right path to the Spiritual-Essential traveling through materiality as an animating factor, guiding it upward to its point of origin into the luminous Kingdom of God the Father, then it is no longer lost. Instead, it flows back to its source like blood to the heart, whereby the wound that has hitherto caused a debilitating draining within Spiritual Essentiality is closed. Thus, healing can only be brought about by the very same spear that inflicted 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 subsequent battles that follow, extending into subsequent realms of Ethereal Matter and Coarse Matter, are merely the after-effects of this one great battle, which must bring about the promised binding of Lucifer that heralds the beginning of the Millennium. They signify the eradication of the consequences of the Lucifer-principle.

This principle is directed against the ruling of Divine Love, the blessings of which are bestowed upon humans during their course through materiality. If humanity would simply strive after this Divine Love, it would immediately be completely immune to any temptations of Lucifer, and he would be stripped of all his terrors, which the human spirit weaves around him.

It is also from the colourful imagination of human brains that the monstrous, ugly shapes have sprung, which people mistakenly endeavour to attribute to Lucifer. In reality, no human eye has ever been able to behold him, for the simple reason of the difference in their essential species – not even the spiritual eye, which is often capable of perceiving ethereal materiality of the Beyond even during earthly life.

Contrary to all popular conceptions, Lucifer is to be called proud and beautiful, super-earthly beautiful, of a dark majesty with clear, large, blue eyes, which, however, bear witness to the icy expression of a total lack of love. He is not merely a concept, as people usually try to present him after other futile interpretations, but he is personal.

Humanity must learn to understand that a boundary is set for them by their own essential nature, which they can never cross, naturally not even in thought, and that messages from beyond this boundary can only come by way of Grace. But not through mediums, who cannot alter their essential nature through unearthly states either, and just as little through science. It is precisely science that has the opportunity, through chemistry, to find that a difference in species can form insurmountable boundaries. These laws, however, originate from the Source, and are not only to be found within the Work of Creation.