52. The Development Of Creation

I have already pointed out once that the recorded story of the genesis of Creation must not be understood in an earthly sense. Also that the Creation story in the Bible does not relate to the earth. The creation of the earth was merely a natural consequence, arising from the further development carried out in the first Creation by the Creator Himself. It is almost inconceivable how scriptural researchers could make such an illogical and gap-filling leap, assuming that God in His Perfection, instantaneously created the gross material earth.

The “word” in the Scriptures does not need to changed, in order to come closer to the truth of what happened. On the contrary, the word of the Creation story expresses this truth much more clearly than all the incomplete and false assumptions. It is only the erroneous interpretations that have led to so many people being unable to understand.
 
They quite correctly sense the error made in wanting to place the Paradise referred to in the Bible on the gross material earth, which is so far removed from the Divine. After all, it is not unknown that the Bible is primarily a spiritual book. It gives explanations about spiritual proceedings, in which human beings are only mentioned, where they are directly related to the clarification of these spiritual things, where they are explained.
 
Finally, it is also understandable to commonsense because, of course, it is natural that the description of Creation recorded in the Bible does not concern the earth, so distant from the Creator. Hardly anyone would dare to dispute the fact that this direct Creation of God, which is described as the first, can only be found in His immediate vicinity, since it originated first from the Creator Himself and must therefore be closely connected with Him. No calm or clear-thinking person will expect that this first and actual Creation to have taken place on the earth, of all places, which is the furthest from the Divine, and which only in the subsequent course of evolution came into being.
 
There could therefore be no talk of a Paradise on earth. What God created personally, as Creation story clearly meant, naturally remained directly connected with Him and also entailed only His immediate proximity. It is equally easy to explain and natural to conclude that everything created or originated from such close proximity to the Creator also remains most similar to the Creator’s own perfection. And that alone is Paradise, the Eternal Kingdom of God!
 
But to depict Paradise on the gross material earth is bound to give rise to doubters. The idea of an “expulsion” from the earthly Paradise, whereby those cast out must after all have to remain on the same earth, shows so much that is unhealthy, is so recognizable and grossly earthly that it can almost be called grotesque. A dead image that bears the stamp of a convulsive dogma brought about that no sensible person wants anything to do with.
 
The less perfect, all the more further away from Perfection. Even the spiritual beings created out of Perfection cannot be earthmen either, but have to be closest to this Perfection, and therefore the most ideal role models for human evolution. They are the eternal spiritual beings who never came into materiality and therefore do not become earthmen either. They are radiant ideal figures that attract like magnets, but also have a strengthening effect on all the abilities of the human spirit germs that later have become conscious spirits.

Paradise, which is mentioned as such in the Bible, should therefore not be confused with the earth.
 
For a more detailed explanation, it is still necessary to once again give a complete picture of all that exists, in order to make it easier for the seeker to find the way into the Eternal Kingdom of God, Paradise, from which he originated in his spiritual primeval beginnings.
 
Man should picture to himself the Divine as the supreme and highest. God Himself as the starting point of all that exists, as the Primordial Source of all Life, is in His absolute Perfection Inessential, without form. In assuming Form, He cloaks Himself temporarily in the mantle of the Divine-Essential that subsequently follows. After God Himself existing in His very own Inessentiality, follows this Circle of the Divine-Essential. It is from this Circle that the first to take on form came into being. To it also includes the four Archangels second and third, a small number of Elders. The latter are not able to enter the Realm of Divine Inessentiality, but are vitally important for the further development of the Spiritual-Essential, just as later the Conscious-Essentials are of great importance for the development of the World of Matter. Lucifer was sent from the Divine-Essential in order to be a direct support for Creation in its self-activating further development.
 
The Son of God, though, came out of the Divine-Inessential as a part of It, Who after His Mission of help, must again return to the Divine Inessentiality, to be reunited as One with the Father. The Son of Man also comes from the Divine Inessentiality, directly from God. His separation came about through connection to the Conscious-Spiritual-Essential, through the obligation by which He would eternally remain separated and yet again be directly connected with the Divine-Essential, in order to remain the Eternal Mediator between God and His Work. After Lucifer who came from the Divine-Essential failed in his mission, a stronger one had to be sent in his stead, to enchain him and help Creation. That’s why the Son of Man, coming from the Divine Inessential, was appointed to do this.
 
At the border of the Divine-Essential’s closure is this Paradise, the Eternal Kingdom of God. It is the origin of the Primordial Conscious-Spiritual-Essential, which consists of the Created Eternal Spiritual Beings, also referred to as spirits. These are the perfect ideal forms, after which all that the human spirits in their most perfect development can and should strive. They pull like a magnet all those who strive upwards. The force of this self-acting connection makes itself felt to the seekers and upward-striving ones in an often inexplicable longing, which drives them steadily on in seeking and striving upward.
 
It’s these spirits who were never incarnated in the World of Matter, whom God Himself, the Primordial Source of all Being and Life, also created as the Primordial Pure Spirits, who therefore also come closest to His own perfection. They are also the ones who are really and truly in His image! It must not be overlooked that the story of Creation explicitly states: After His Image. This reference is neither without significance; because they can only be created after His Image, not in conformity with His own Image, thereby corresponding to the way He shows Himself, since the Pure Divine is itself the only single thing without a form.
 
In order to show Himself, God must, as already mentioned, first cloak Himself in the Divine Essentiality. But even then He cannot be seen by Spiritual Beings, but only by Divine-Essentials, and that as well only in a tiny way, since all that is Pure Divine must in its perfect purity and clarity dazzle what is non-divine. Even the Divine-Essentials are not able to look into God’s Face! The difference between the Divine-Inessential and the Divine-Essential is still far too great.
 
In this Paradise of the Conscious-Spiritual-Essential now also lives the Unconscious-Spiritual-Essential at the same time. It holds the same basic components of the Conscious-Spiritual-Essential, and therefore contains the germs for it. In these germs, however, reside life, and life in the entire Creation urges development in accordance with the Divine Will. Towards development into consciousness. This is a completely natural and healthy process. However, becoming conscious is only able to emerge from the unconscious through experience, and this urge for further development through experience finally thrust such maturing or urging germs of the Unconscious-Spiritual-Essentiality automatically from, or out, as one wants to call it, out over the boundary of the Spiritual-Essentiality. Since the exit or repulsion of a germ is not able to take place upwards, it means that it must occur on a downward path that is free to it.
 
And this is natural, for in the awaking urge of the seed germs towards consciousness it necessitated an expulsion from Paradise, from the Spiritual-Essential!
 
This in fact is also what is meant in the Bible as the expulsion from Paradise. Metaphorically, it is rendered quite correctly, when it is said: By the sweat of your brow you shall eat your bread. This means, in the tumult of experiences by which at the same time arises the need to defend and to win over the opposing influences of the lower environment into which he penetrates as a stranger.
 
This ejection, expulsion or eviction from Paradise is by no means a punishment, but an absolute, natural and automatic necessity as each spirit-germ approaches a certain maturity through the urge to develop self-consciousness. It is the birth out from the Unconscious-Spiritual-Essential into the Essential and then Matter for the purpose of development. Thus a progress, not a regression!
 
It is also a quite correct depiction in the Creation story when it says that human spirit felt the desire to “cover his nakedness” after the concept of good and evil had awoken in him, the slow onset of self-consciousness.
 
As the urge to become conscious became stronger, it is automatically ejected or expelled from the Primordial Creation, Paradise, in order to pass through the Essential to enter the World of Matter. As soon as the spirit seed steps out of the realm of the Spiritual-Essential, it would “stand naked” as such in the lower, different and denser environment. In other words, “uncovered”. It would therefore not only feel the need, but the absolute necessity to cover itself protectively with the nature and substance of its surroundings, kind of a cloak sharing, to accept the cloak of essentiality, the ethereal and finally also the gross material body.
 
Only with the acceptance of the gross material cloak or body does the absolutely necessary sexual drive awaken, and with it physical shame.
 
The greater this feeling of shame, all the more noble is the instinct and the higher stands the spiritual man. The more or less pronounced physical shame of the earthly man is the direct measure of his inner spiritual value! This standard is infallible to every human being and easily recognizable. By strangling or unharnessing the feeling of shame outwardly, the much finer and quite different sense of spiritual shame is also smothered simultaneously, and by this the inner man is rendered worthless.
 
It is an unmistakable indicator of a deep fall and certain decline when mankind, under the falsehood of progress, wants to “raise” itself over the jewel of shame, which is so beneficial in every respect! Be it under the guise of sport, health care, fashion, child rearing, or under many other welcome pretexts. The decline and fall is then unstoppable, and only horrors of the greatest kind can bring individuals to their senses, of all those who thoughtlessly allowed themselves to be dragged down this path.

From that instant resulting in the spirit-germ being cast out naturally, its course through Essentiality and the World of Matter of the more distant Creation resulted not only in one, but more and more urgent necessities of existence in these lower circles of Creation for its further development and upliftment, which in turn, have a retroactively strengthening and solidifying effect on this germ for its own development to self-consciousness, not only contributing to it, but making it possible in the first place.
 
It is a gigantic creating and weaving, fortified a thousand-fold, but despite all the lively self-activity, interlocking so logically compelling with reciprocal effects, a single course of such a spirit-germ up to its completion appears like a part of a colourful carpet, which a purposeful artist fashioned, either in the ascending self-consciousness, or leading downward in subsequent disintegration in order to protect others.

So much of what lies in the laws working silently and surely in the marvellous Creation, one could write a treatise on each of the thousands of processes in human existence, but it would come back repeatedly to one great fundamental feature: the Perfection of the Creator as the starting point, Whose Will is the Living, Creative Spirit. The Holy Spirit! Everything spiritual is but His Work!
 
Since man originates from Spiritual-Essential Creation, it so happens that he carries within himself a particle of this spirit which, even though it brings with that the freedom of decision and with it the responsibility, for all that, is not synonymous with the Divine Itself, as is often erroneously presumed and explained.

All the effects of the Divine Will in Creation, which works in a helpful and supportive way as the Laws of Nature, must then form themselves into a wonderful coordinated song of jubilation for those who are knowing onlookers. Into a single feeling of gratitude and joy flowing through millions of channels to this starting point.
 
The eternally repeating development of Creation, which brings with it the respective expulsion of the spirit germ from Paradise at a certain maturity, is also displayed visibly everywhere in earthly events, as the image of the same happenings is everywhere.
 
This expulsion that develops in the natural evolutionary process can also be called the process of an automatic detachment. Exactly how a ripe apple or any ripe fruit falls from the tree decomposes under the Creative Will in order to immediately free the seed, which only then bursts through the shell through the outside influences directly atop of it, to become a germ and a turn into a tender plant. This in turn awakens only to resistance under rain, storms and sunshine and can only grow into a strong tree in this way. Hence the expulsion of the mature spirit-germs from Paradise as a necessary consequence of evolution, as well as the essential, the material and finally earthly creation in which the main features are only a consequence of the Spiritual-Essential Creation, in which certainly the main features of the actual Creation are always replicated, but always with the necessary difference that the effect manifests itself differently depending to the type of being and substance. In the gross material-earthly, too, the process of the soul’s passing through all spiritual and ethereal substance is repeated, and as soon as the time of maturity comes for it, the soul is again cast out. This is earthly death, which signifies the self-acting expulsion or rejection from the gross material and thus the birth into the ethereal. Here, too, fruit falls off as from a tree as it were. In calm weather only the ripe ones, but in storms and tempests also unripe ones. Ripe fruits are those whose crossing over with ripened inner seed to the Ethereal World takes place at the right hour. These are spiritually “ready” for the afterlife, therefore take root quickly and are able to grow up safely.
 
Unripe fruits, however, are those whose falling off or death, with the associated decomposition of the protective gross material body up to that point, exposes the still unripe seed laid bare in the afterlife, and thus prematurely exposes it to all influences, whereby it must either wither away or is forced to ripen further prior to it taking root (settling) in the soil (conditions) in the afterlife and by this is able grow upwards.
 
So it goes on and on. From stage of development to stage of development, if rot does not occur in between, decomposing the insufficiently matured seed, which thereby is lost as such, and with it, naturally, the living growth dormant in it to become a self-acting, fruit-bearing tree contributing to its development.
 
One who looks around attentively can often observe closely the basic image of everything that happens in Creation in his immediate surroundings, since the smallest things always reflect the greatest. ––
 
Next to follow this Paradise of Spiritual-Essential downwards is the realm of all the Essentials. The Essential Realm itself is again segmented into two parts. First of all is the Conscious-Essential. This segment is the collective of the elementals and Nature beings, to which the elves, gnomes, mermaids etc. belong. These elemental and Nature beings were the necessary preparation for further development on the path to the creation of matter; for matter could only emerge in connection with the Essentials.
 
The elemental and Nature beings had to co-operate creatively in the emerging World of Matter, as is still the case today.
 
Second in the realm of the Essentiality is the Unconscious-Essential. The life of the animal soul comes from this Unconscious-Essential. Attention must be paid here to the difference between the Realm of the Spiritual-Essential and the Realm of the Essentials. Only everything spiritual carries free decision-making in itself from the very beginning, which also consequently brings responsibility. Not so with the deeper standing Essentials.
 
A further consequence of this subsequent development was the emergence of matter. This breaks down into the ethereal, which consists of many subdivisions, and into the gross material, which begins with the finest mist, which is visible to the earthly eye! But a Paradise on earth as the outermost offshoot of the gross material is not to be thought of. To come to earth one day will be a reflection of the real Paradise, under the Hand of the Son of Man, at the beginning of the Kingdom of Millennial, just as an earthly image of the Castle of the Holy Grail will arise simultaneously, the archetype of which stands at the highest height of the real Paradise, as the only true Temple of God so far.