48. World Events

 
There is no greater danger to a cause than to leave a gap that many people feel needs to be filled. It is no use trying to ignore it, because such a gap hinders all progress and, as soon as a building is erected over it, it will one day collapse, even if it is built with the greatest skill and with really good materials.
 
This is how the various Christian religious communities present themselves today. With tenacious energy, they close their eyes and ears to some parts of their teachings that make them feel illogical. They try to pass over them with empty words instead of really taking a serious look inside themselves. They are well aware of the danger that the short-term bridges they have built over such chasms by a doctrine of blind faith may one day no longer be sufficient, and they fear the moment when this light construction must be recognized by the enlightened. They also know that it will then no longer be possible to persuade anyone to tread such a deceptive path, as a result of which the solid further construction and path that will then follow must also remain empty. They also know that a single breath of fresh air must sweep away such artificial constructions. But for lack of anything better, they try to hold on to the swaying plank despite all the dangers. They are even much more prepared to defend it by all means and to destroy anyone who would dare to bring about a firmer transition in the Truth itself. Without hesitation they would try to repeat the same process that took place on this earth almost two thousand years ago, which still casts its shadow to this day, and which they themselves made the focal point of their teachings and beliefs as a great indictment against the blindness and pernicious stubbornness of people. It was the bearers of the religions and the scholars of that time who, in their dogmatic narrow-mindedness and their weakness betraying arrogance, were not able to recognize the Truth and the Son of God, closed themselves off from it and hated and persecuted Him and His followers out of fear and envy, while other people opened themselves more easily to knowledge and felt the truth of the Word more quickly. Despite the fact that today's leaders of the Christian religious communities emphasize the suffering of the Son of God, they themselves have learned nothing from this fact and have derived no benefit from it. It is precisely the present-day leaders of these communities based on Christ's teachings, as well as those of the newer movements, who would again try to render harmless anyone who could jeopardize the wavering transitions through questionable gaps or chasms in their teachings and interpretations through the truth itself. They would persecute him with their hatred, which is born out of fear, and even more out of vanity, just as it was once before.
 
They would lack the greatness to bear the fact that their knowledge was not sufficient to recognize the Truth itself and to fill in the gaps in order to pave the way for people to understand and grasp it more easily.
 
And yet humanity can only ascend through full understanding, never through blind, ignorant faith!
 
One such gap caused by false tradition is the concept of the "Son of Man". It is held on to pathologically, similar to the Pharisees, who did not want to open up to the Truth that confronted their traditional, rigid teachings through the Son of God. Christ only spoke of Himself as the Son of God. The illogicality of calling Himself the Son of Man at the same time was far from His mind. Even if, out of their own doubts, people have tried in all directions with the greatest skilfulness and ingenuity to explain this obvious contradiction between the Son of God and the Son of Man, which is felt by every calmly thinking person, it cannot be claimed, despite all efforts, that a union has been found. The most favourable of all interpretations had to show again and again a dual nature that remained side by side but could never appear as one.

This is also entirely in the absolute nature of things. The Son of God cannot become the Son of Man simply because He had to be born through a human body in order to be able to walk on earth.

It is known to every Christian that the Son of God only came on a Spiritual Mission, and that all His Words concerned the Spiritual Realm and were therefore meant spiritually. Accordingly, His repeated reference to the Son of Man cannot be interpreted differently from the outset! Why should this be an exception? Spiritually, however, Christ was and remained only the Son of God! When he spoke of the Son of Man, He could not mean Himself. There is something much more profound in all this than is reflected in today's interpretations of the Christian religions. The open contradiction would have long since stimulated more serious reflection if dogmatic bracketing had not obscured everything. Instead, without the most serious examination, which is absolutely necessary for such drastic matters, people resorted to a convulsive adherence to the traditional word and thus put on blinkers that prevented a free view. The natural consequence is that such interpreters and teachers, although standing in the Creation of their God, are not even able to recognize it correctly, which alone offers the prospect of coming closer to the Creator Himself, the starting point of the Work.
 
First and foremost, Christ taught full naturalness, that is, to fit in with the Laws of Nature, i.e. Creation. However, only those who know the Laws of Nature can fit in. The Laws of Nature in turn carry the Will of the Creator within them and can therefore also provide the path to recognizing the Creator Himself. Whoever now knows the Laws of Nature, however, also experiences how immovably they interlock; therefore knows that this working is unalterable in its constant, forward-driving consistency, as is therefore also the w\Will of the Creator, God the Father.
 
Any deviation would have to mean a change in the Divine Will. A change, however, would indicate imperfection. But since the Original Source of all being, God the Father, is only uniform and perfect, even the smallest deviation within the Laws of Nature, that is the Laws of Evolution, must simply be impossible and excluded from the outset. This fact means that religious science and natural science must also be one in every respect, with complete clarity and consistency, if they are to reflect the Truth.
 
That natural science today still has a very low limit of knowledge in relation to the whole of Creation is not denied, since it has kept only to the Gross Material World, because the intellect in the present sense is only able to approach that which is bound to space and time. The only unforgivable mistake is that the disciples of this science mockingly try to deny anything beyond this as non-existent, with the exception of a few scholars who have transcended mediocrity and become more far-sighted, and who disdain to cover up ignorance with conceit.
 
Religious science, however, reaches much further, but nevertheless also remains dependent on the Laws of Nature that reach beyond what is bound to space and time, which, coming from the Primordial Source, run into the earthly-visible without interruption and without changing their nature. For this reason, religious doctrines must not contain either gaps or contradictions if they are really to correspond to the Truth, i.e. the Laws of Nature or the Divine Will, if they are to contain the Truth. Doctrines that serve as a guide and guide responsibility must not allow themselves the freedom of blind faith!
 
The error of the concept of the Son of Man therefore weighs heavily on the followers of the true teachings of Christ, because they calmly accept erroneous traditions and drag them on, despite the fact that in many people, at times, a contrary intuition quietly admonishes them.
 
It is precisely the immutability of Divine Will in its perfection that excludes arbitrary intervention by God in Creation. But it is also what, after the splitting off of Lucifer through his wrong actions: The Mystery of Lucifer), is not simply able to eliminate him, but must also permit an abuse of the Laws of Nature, of Divine Will, by human beings, because a free decision is reserved for the human spirit through its origin from the Eternal Spiritual Essentiality. In the events of Ethereal and Gross Material Creation, it is precisely the immutable perfection of the Creator's Will that must show itself in the form of being constrained! But only inferior and small human spirits can see a limitation of Power and Greatness in this realization. Such a view would merely be the product of their own limitation.
 
The immensity of the whole confuses them, because it is actually only possible for them to imagine a picture of it if it has a narrower boundary – according to their understanding.
 
Whoever, however, really endeavours to recognize his Creator in His work, will have received a convincing notion of the far-reaching processes on the sure path of the Laws of Nature, the beginnings of which lie in the Primordial Source, i.e. the starting point of all events, in order to run from there through Creation like immovable tracks, on which all further life must then unroll according to the position of the points. The setting of the points, however, is done automatically by the human spirit in its journey through the Material World. Unfortunately, the majority can be induced by Lucifer's principle to set the wrong course, and so their life then rolls more and more downwards according to the unalterable Laws of further development, which run through the Matter like railway tracks, towards a final destination determined by their attitude.
 
The setting of the course of the free decision can now be precisely observed or intuited from the origin, whereupon the further course can be clearly recognized, because after a decision has been made, it only has to run along the corresponding lines of Law anchored in Creation. This circumstance makes it possible to foresee many an event, because the Laws of Nature or Creation never deviate in their course of development. Millennia play no role in this. The great revelations, which are shown spiritually to the gifted in pictures and come to the knowledge of mankind through transmission, then arise in these foresighted, unconditional final goals. One thing, however, cannot be predicted with certainty: the earthly time at which such revelations and promises will be fulfilled!
 
This happens at the hour in which such a course of life, rolling along its chosen tracks, arrives at a pre-declared intermediate station or the final destination. The fate of the human being as well as of the people and ultimately of humanity as a whole can be compared to a train waiting on a single-track railway in front of tracks leading in all directions. It is the human being who sets a switch as he pleases, jumps on and gives it steam, that is, he animates it. When he turns into the track he has chosen, it is only possible to name the individual stops and the final destination, but not the exact hour of arrival, as this depends on the speed of travel, which can vary according to the nature of the human being; for the human being animates the engine and, depending on his own nature, will drive it forward in a calm uniformity or in a storming passion or alternately in different ways. However, the closer such a train of individuals, peoples or humanity approaches a stop on its track or destiny, the more certain the approaching arrival can be seen and signalled. But the railway network also has a number of connecting lines that can be used to change direction during the journey by changing points and thus reach a different final destination from the first one. Of course, it is then necessary to slow down when approaching such a turnout, to stop and change the turnout. The slower driving is the thinking, the stopping is the decision of the human being, which is always possible for him up to a final decision point, and the switching is the act following this decision.
 
The Divine Will, which runs like rails through the World of Matter in the fixed Laws of Nature, can also be called the nerves in the Work of Creation, which allow the starting point, the Creative Source, to feel or report every unevenness in the enormous body of the work.
 
This sure overview, looking out to every end on the basis of the immovable Laws, causes the Creator to attach promises to His Revelations which announce Helpers coming from Him in good time for the time of the approaching most dangerous bends, intermediate or final stops! These Helpers are equipped by Him to open the eyes of the human spirits rolling on these wrong tracks by proclaiming the Truth shortly before the arrival of inevitable catastrophes and dangerous turns, so that they will be able to set a different course in time to avoid the increasingly dangerous places and also escape the ruinous final destination through a new direction. Woe to the person in this world and the afterlife who overlooks and misses the last of all changeover points and thus the possibility of a better direction! He is hopelessly lost.
 
Since the Creator cannot shake the perfection of His Will, He will also keep exactly to the best Laws when helping. In other words: His Will is perfect from the very beginning. Each of His new Acts of Will, naturally, also be perfect. This implies that every new Act of Will on His part must also bear exactly the same Laws as the previous ones. The consequence of this is again the exact insertion into the evolutionary process of the Ethereal and Gross Material Worlds. Any other possibility is excluded once and for all by the perfection of God. In the foresight already explained, the promise of the incarnation of the Son of God arose in order to induce humanity to change its course by proclaiming the Truth. The act of conversion is reserved to the human spirits themselves in accordance with the Laws. This, however, makes it impossible to foresee the nature of the decision; for only the paths already chosen by the human spirits, in which they have set the course according to their free decision, can be precisely surveyed in all their stops and turns up to the final destination. Excluded from this, according to logical naturalness, are the turning points at which a free decision of mankind is decisive; for this right, too, is just as immovable as everything else due to the Natural Law of origin and evolution through God's perfection, and since the Creator grants this right to the human spirits through their origin from Spiritual Essentiality, He does not require to know in advance what their decision will be. He can only know the consequence of such a decision right up to the end, because it must then take effect within this Will, which rests in the Laws of Ethereal and Gross Material Creation. If it were otherwise, the cause for this to happen could only be a lack of perfection, which is absolutely impossible.

This is why man must therefore always be fully aware of his immense responsibility, that he is truly independent in his basic conclusions. Unfortunately, however, he believes himself to be either a completely dependent servant or, overestimating himself, a part of the Divine. The reason for this probably lies in the fact that in both cases he believes himself to be exempt from responsibility. In the one case as too low and dependent a creature, in the other as far above it. But both are wrong! He may regard himself as a steward who is entitled to free decision in certain matters, but also to full responsibility, who therefore has great trust and should not deceive it by bad stewardship.
 
It is precisely this perfection that makes it necessary for the Creator to reckon with the failure of humanity to reach a decision when providing direct help to humanity that is making the wrong decisions. For such cases, out of His Wisdom and Love, which are also lawful and natural as belonging to Him, He has further ways of help ready, which then follow the first way, which may have been cut off by humanity's failure, as a continuation.
 
Thus, even before the time of the incarnation of the Son of God in the Eternal Kingdom of the Father, another Messenger was prepared for the eventuality that mankind might fail despite the Father's great sacrifice of Love. If the Son of God, with His Pure Divine disposition, were not heard in such a way that mankind, in response to His warning, would change their course in the direction He pointed out to them, but would remain in their previous course leading to destruction, then another Messenger was to go forth who could be closer to mankind in their innermost being than the Son of God, in order to serve them once again in the last hour as a warner and guide, if –– they wanted to listen to His call of Truth. This is the Son of Man.
 
Christ, as the Son of God, knew about this. When He recognized the overgrown and withered soil of humanity's souls in the course of His work, he realized that His earthly life would not bear the fruit that should have ripened if humanity had willed well. He grieved deeply over this, for He realized, on the basis of the Laws of Creation so well known to Him, which carried the Will of his Father, the inevitable progress to the inevitable end which had to follow the nature and will of mankind. And then He began to speak of the Son of Man, of His coming, which would become necessary as a result of the events that were taking place. The further He fulfilled His great Mission, which, depending on the decision of mankind, left two ways open, either a great following of His teachings with a subsequent ascent avoiding all that would bring ruin, or a failure and further storming along a downward path that must lead to ruin, the more clearly He saw that the decision of the great majority of mankind was tending towards failure and thus towards ruin. As a result, His statements about the Son of Man took the form of direct promises and announcements, saying: "But when the Son of Man comes..." and so on.
 
By this He meant the time shortly before the danger of doom, which had to fulfil itself from the failure of mankind towards His Mission as the final goal of the persistently pursued direction according to the Divine Laws in the Material World. He suffered greatly at this realization.
 
Any tradition that claims that Jesus, the Son of God, also called himself the Son of Man is false. Such illogicality lies neither in the Divine Laws, nor can it be expected of the Son of God as the knower and bearer of these Laws. The disciples did not know about this, as was evident from their own questions. The error that has survived to this day emanated from them alone. They thought that the Son of God referred to Himself by the term Son of Man, and from this assumption they passed this error on to posterity, which also did not take a more serious look at the illogicality of it than the disciples themselves, but simply passed it over, partly out of timidity, partly out of convenience, although in the correction the All-Love of the Creator only emerges even more clearly and powerfully. Walking in the footsteps of the Son of God, that is, taking up and carrying on His Mission, the Son of Man will face mankind on earth as the second Envoy of God the Father, in order to tear them back from their present course by proclaiming the Truth, and to bring them to the voluntary decision of a different attitude, which leads away from the points of perdition that now await them.
 
Son of God – Son of Man! That there must be a difference is surely not so difficult to discover. Each of these words has its sharply defined, strictly pronounced meaning, which a blending and merging into one must constitute inertia of thought stamps. Listeners and readers of the lectures will be aware of the natural development which, starting from the Primordial Light, God the Father, reaches down to the Gross Material World body. The Son of God came from the Divine Unessentiality, quickly passing through Spiritual Essentiality and the Ethereal World, to incarnate in the Gross Material World. That is why He must rightly be called the Incarnate Part of God or the Son of God. The rushing through Spiritual Essentiality, in which the human spirit first has its starting point, did not allow Him to gain a foothold there, as well as in the ethereal part of Creation that followed, in such a way that His Divine Essentiality could take strong protective coverings of these various kinds with it, but these coverings, which otherwise served as armour, remained thin. This had the advantage that the inner Divine shone through more easily and strongly, that is, broke through, but also the disadvantage that it could be fought all the more quickly and attacked more furiously in the Light-hostile lower regions of the earth due to its conspicuousness. The strong, only faintly concealed Divinity in the earthly-coarse-material shell had to remain a stranger among men, as too distant. Figuratively speaking, one could say that His Divine Essence was not sufficiently armed and equipped for the lower gross-material-earthly world due to the lack of absorption from Spiritual Essentiality and the Ethereal. The gulf between the Divine and the earthly remained only weakly bridged.
 
Since men did not respect or cherish this gift of Divine Love, but out of the natural instinct of all that is darker, opposed the luminous Son of God with hostility and hatred, a second Envoy had to come in the Son of Man, who is better equipped for the Gross Material World.
 
The Son of Man is also a Envoy of God and emerged from the Divine Essentiality. But before His Mission into the Gross Material World He was incarnated into the Eternal Pure Spiritual Essentiality, thus closely connected with the spiritual species from which the seed of the human spirit originates! Thus the Divine Essential core of this second Messenger comes closer to the human spirit in its origin, whereby it also gains more protection and direct force against it.
 
In the Highest Heights of the same species of the human spirit there lives for all that exists a perfect ideal of what the further development out of the Spiritual-Essential can carry within itself. Thus also the Eternal, Pure-Spiritual, Essential ideal of all that is feminine, as the Queen of Womanhood, as it were, with all Her living virtues. Every female spiritual germ carries within itself the unconscious longing to strive for this pure, living ideal in its noblest form. Unfortunately, this unconscious longing often degenerates into vanity during the journey through the World of Matter, which, in self-deception, is intended to replace much that has not come to life but is nevertheless longed for. But this longing becomes more conscious as one ascends to the Light, still in the Ethereal World. As soon as the lower desires begin to fall away, it bursts forth more and more forcefully in order finally to revitalize and strengthen the virtues. The magnet and focal point of this noble longing for the feminine virtues is the Queen of Womanhood in the Eternal Realm of the Father, the Pure-Spiritual-Essential. The Divine-Essential core of the second Envoy of God was now lowered into this Spiritual-Essential ideal of femininity and raised by Her as a Spiritual-Essential Mother in the Eternal Realm of God the Father, with the Castle of the Holy Grail as the Home of His spiritual youth. It was only from here that His mission into the Gross Material World took place, at a time when He could step onto the battlefield at the right hour to show the earnest seekers of God who asked for spiritual guidance the right way into the Father's Kingdom, and at the same time to provide protection from the attacks of the downward-striving spirits who were hostile to them.
 
Since, in contrast to the Son of God, He spent His spiritual youth in Spiritual Essentiality, that is, in the origin and starting point of the human spirit, He is at the same time rooted not only in Divine Essentiality, but also firmly in Spiritual Essentiality, thus coming closer to humanity in His nature and, in the combination of origin and youth, is truly God-man! Emerging from the Divine-Essential and also from the Pure-Spiritual-Essential, the primordial beginning of humanity. For this reason, in contrast to the Pure Son of God, He is called the Son of Man, to whom the path to Divine Unessentiality is open through His origin! This is why He carries Divine Force and Power within Him and is thus well-equipped to fight the whole of humanity as well as Lucifer.

Therefore watch that you recognize Him as soon as the time for Him has come, for He will also bring the time for you!