53. I Am The Lord Thy God!

 
Where are the people who really live this highest of all Commandments? Where is the priest who teaches it purely and truthfully?
 
"I am the Lord your God, you should have no other gods before me!" These words are so clear, so absolute, that a deviation should not be possible at all! Christ also pointed this out repeatedly with great clarity and sharpness. It is therefore all the more regrettable that millions of people carelessly ignore this and devote themselves to cults that are sharply opposed to this highest of all Commandments. The worst part of all this is that they disregard this Commandment of their God and Lord with pious fervour, In the delusion that they are honouring God in this obvious transgression of His Commandment, that they are pleasing Him!
 
This great error can only remain alive in a blind faith in which all examination is switched off; for blind faith is nothing but thoughtlessness and spiritual indolence on the part of men who, like sluggards and late risers, seek ways to avoid awakening and rising as much as possible because it involves obligations the fulfilment of which they shy away. Any effort seems an abomination to them. Indeed, it is much more comfortable to have others work and think for them.
 
But whoever allows others to think for him gives them power over him, humiliates himself as a slave and thus makes himself subordinate. God, however, has given man the power of free decision, gave him the ability to think, to intuit, and he must therefore, give an account of everything that this free power of decision entails! He wanted a free humanity, not slaves!
 
It is sad, when out of laziness, people make themselves earthly slaves, but with terrible consequences as soon as they devalue themselves spiritually, to the extent that they become dull-witted followers of teachings that contradict the exact Commandments of their God. It is of no use to them to raise doubts here and there with the excuse to try to put to sleep, that the greatest responsibility must ultimately be borne by the person who has introduced aberrations into the teachings. This is true in itself, but in addition to this, the individual is still especially responsible for everything he thinks and does himself. In short, none of this can be mitigated.
 
Anyone who does not make use of the faculties of feeling and thinking that has been given to him to the fullest extent possible for him is guilty!
 
It is not a sin, but a duty, for any mature person to take full responsibility for himself, also to begin to think about what he has been taught. If he cannot reconcile his intuitions with any of it, he should not blindly accept it as right. As with a bad purchase, he will only harm himself. What he cannot hold with conviction, he should refrain from; otherwise his thoughts and actions will become hypocrisy.
 
He who refrains from doing this or that really good thing because he does not understand it, is by no means so rejected as those who, without conviction, give themselves up to a cult which they do not quite understand. All such lack of understanding which arises from his action and thought is hollow, and from such hollowness no good reciprocal effect arises of itself, because in hollowness there is no living reason for anything good. It becomes hypocrisy, which is tantamount to blasphemy, because it is an attempt to pretend to God that which does not exist. A lack of living intuitions! This makes the practitioners despicable, outcasts!
 
The millions of people, who in thoughtlessness pay homage to things that downright contradict the divine Commandments are, in spite of their, absolutely bound and completely cut off from spiritual ascent.
 
Only free conviction is alive and can thus create living things! But conviction can only be awakened through keen examination and awakened inner intuitive perception. Where there is the slightest lack of understanding, not to mention doubt, conviction can never arise.
 
Only full, complete understanding is synonymous with conviction, which alone has spiritual value!
 
It is downright painful to see the masses mindlessly making the sign of the Cross, bow and kneel in church. Such automatons must not be counted as thinking people. The sign of the Cross is the sign of Truth, and therefore a sign of God! A person incurs guilt, if he uses the sign of Truth while his inner being is not at the same simultaneously true in every respect at the moment he uses it, if his entire intuition is not fully attuned to the absolute Truth. It would be a hundred times better for such people if they would refrain from making the sign of the Cross and save it for those moments when they have attuned their whole soul to the Truth, and thus also to God Himself and His Will; for God, their Lord, is the Truth.
 
But it is idolatry and open transgression of the holiest of all Commandments of their God for them to pay homage to a symbol that belongs only to God!
 
“I am the Lord your God, you shall have no other gods before me!” is expressly stated. Concise, explicit and clear, without allowing even the slightest deviation. Christ also particularly emphasized this necessary adherence. He mentioned it on purpose and meaningfully, especially before the Pharisees, calling it the supreme Law, that is, the Law that must be broken or altered in any way under no circumstances. This designation also at the same time means that all other good and all other faith cannot attain their full value unless this supreme Law is observed in its entirety! That, in fact, everything depends on it!

Let us consider, for example, the veneration of the monstrance without prejudice! For many people there is a contradiction with the clear supreme Commandment.
 
Does man expect his God to descend into this replaceable wafer, as declaration that He allows divine honours to be bestowed upon it? Or that God will be forced down by the consecration of such a wafer? One is as inconceivable as the other. Just as little, however, can such a consecration create a direct link with God, for the path to it is neither so simple nor so easy. It cannot be reached at all by man and the human spirit as an ultimate goal.
 
If one person prostrates himself before a wooden figure, another before the sun, and the third before the monstrance, each one is thereby violating the supreme Law of God as soon as he sees the Divine, that is, the living God Himself in it, and therefore expects direct divine grace and blessing from it! In such a false assumption, expectation and perception would lie the actual transgression, blatant idolatry!
 
And such idolatry is often fervently practised by followers of many religions, albeit in different forms.
 
But every individual who exercises the duty of serious thinking which arises from his abilities, must come into conflict here, which he can only temporarily drown out with the injustice of blind faith, just as a idler, through the sleep of laziness, neglects his daily duties. The serious person, however, will absolutely feel that he must first and foremost seek clarity in everything that is to become sacred to him!
 
How often did Christ explain that people should follow his teachings in order to profit from them, that is, in order to be able to ascend spiritually and attain eternal life. The word “eternal life” expresses spiritual liveliness alone, not spiritual inertia. By referring to the afterlife of His teachings, He explicitly and clearly warned against a dull acceptance of these teachings as false and useless.
 
Experience, by its very nature, can only ever occur in conviction, never otherwise. Conviction, however, requires full understanding. Understanding, in turn, requires deep reflection and personal examination. One must weigh the teachings against one’s own intuitions. It follows from this that blind faith is completely wrong. Everything wrong, however, can easily lead to ruin, to descent, but never to ascent. Ascent is synonymous with liberation from all pressures. As long as pressure still weighs down somewhere, there can be no talk of liberation or redemption. The misunderstood, however, is the actual pressure that will not be released until the pressure point or gap is eliminated through full understanding.
 
Blind faith always remains synonymous with a lack of understanding, and therefore can never be conviction, nor can it bring liberation or redemption! People who have confined themselves to blind faith cannot be spiritually alive. They are like the dead and have no value.
 
When a person now begins to think correctly, to calmly and attentively follow all events and to string them together logically, he will come to the conviction of his own accord that God, in His Perfect Purity, cannot come to earth according to His own Creative Will!
 
The absolute Purity and Perfection, that is, the Divine, excludes a descent into the World of Matter. The difference is too great for a direct connection to be possible at all, without taking into account the necessary transitions, which depend on the type of material and the intermediary Essentiality. However, these transitions can only be taken into account through incarnation, as occurred with the Son of God!
 
Now that He has “returned to the Father”, that is, back to His origin, He now stands once again in the Divine and is thus completely separated from the earthly.

Any exception to this would mean a deviation from the Divine Will of Creation, which in turn would demonstrate a lack of perfection.
 
But since Perfection is inseparable from Divinity, there is no other possibility than that His Creative Will is also perfect, which must be taken as synonymous with inflexible. If human beings were also perfect, then by the very nature of their being, each one would have to and could only ever follow exactly the same path as the other.
 
Only imperfection allows for differences!
 
It is precisely in the fulfilment of the perfect Divine Laws that the Son of God, after “entering into the Father”, is, like the Father Himself, deprived of the possibility of being in the material world personally, that is, of coming down to earth. Not without incarnation in accordance with the Laws of Creation!
 
For these reasons, any divine worship of any material thing on earth must be tantamount to transgression of the supreme Law of God; since only the living God can be given divine honours, and He, precisely because of His Divinity cannot be on earth.
 
According to the perfection of God in His Will of Creation, the gross material body of the Son of God must also be purely earthly and therefore cannot be described or regarded as Divine.
 
Anything that is a contradiction to this logically testifies to doubts about the unconditional Perfection of God and must therefore also be false! This is indisputably an infallible measure for true faith in God.
 
Symbolism is an entirely different matter. Every symbol serves a good purpose as long as it is taken seriously as such; for the sight of it helps many people to achieve greater and more unified concentration. It will be easier for many people to direct their thoughts more calmly to the Creator upon catching sight of the symbols of their religion, regardless of the name by which He is understandable to them. It would therefore be wrong to doubt the high value of religious customs and symbolism, provided that nothing is allowed to rise to the level of worship and literal veneration.
 
Since God Himself cannot come to earth into Gross Matter, it is solely up to the human spirit to ascend the path to Spiritual Essentiality from which it originates. And to show this path, the Divine came down through incarnation, because in the Divine alone lies the Primordial Force from which the Living Word can flow forth. But humanity must not imagine that the Divine remained on earth, so that anyone, as soon as the wish arises, can be immediately pardoned in a very special way. For the attainment of pardon, there are the ironclad Laws of God in Creation, the unconditional observance of which alone can bring pardon! Let whoever wishes to reach the luminous Heights follow these Laws!
 
No one should compare the perfect God with an earthly king who, in his imperfect human judgement, can carry out arbitrary acts of grace in judgements pronounced by his judges of the same kind. Such a thing is not possible in the perfection of the Creator and His Will, which is one with Him!
 
The human spirit should finally get used to the idea that it has to stir itself energetically in order to receive pardon and forgiveness, and with this finally fulfil its duty, which it has been lazily overlooking. It must pull itself together and work on itself if it does not want to fall into the darkness of the damned! To rely on his Saviour means to rely on His Words. Make what He said come alive through action! Nothing else can help! Empty faith is of no use to Him. Believing in him means nothing other than believing him. Anyone who does not work diligently to pull themselves up by the rope given to them through the Word of the Son of God is hopelessly lost!

If man truly wants his Saviour, he must finally rouse himself to spiritual activity and work that is not solely directed towards earthly advantages and pleasures, and must strive upwards towards Him. He must not arrogantly expect Him to come down to him. The way to Him is given by the Word. God does not chase after humanity begging when it forms a false image of Him, turns away from Him and goes down false paths. It is not that easy. However, since such a nonsensical viewpoint has become ingrained in many people due to a false conception, man will have to learn to fear his God again, recognizing in the inevitable reciprocal effect of a comfortable or dead faith that His Will stands firm in perfection and cannot be bent. Those who do not align themselves with Divine Laws will be harmed or even crushed, as must ultimately happen to those who worship such idols, showing divine reverence to the ungodly! Man must come to the realization: The Saviour is waiting for them, but He will not come to fetch them!

The faith, or more correctly called the delusion, which the greater part of mankind carries within itself today, must fail and even lead to distress and ruin, because it is dead and harbours no true life!
 
Just as Christ once cleansed the temple of the money changers, so must humanity first be whipped up from all the lethargy of its thinking and feeling towards their God! But let those who do not wish to do otherwise sleep on peacefully, stretching themselves and believing that they are right when they think very little and that pondering is ultimately sinful. Terrible will be their awakening, which is nearer than they suspect. According to their lethargy, the measure will be meted out to them!
 
How can a man who believes in God, who has contemplated His Nature and His Greatness, and who knows above all how the perfect Will of God rests in Creation as the Laws of Nature, expect his sins to be forgiven through some imposed penance, completely contrary to the Divine Laws of absolute reciprocal effects? Even for the Creator, this would not be possible; for the Laws of Creation and development that have arisen from His Perfection, carry within them the self-acting reward or punishment of good or bad seeds sown by the human spirit through the ripening and harvesting process, in unalterable justice.
 
What God wills, each of His new Acts of Will, must always carry perfection within itself, and therefore cannot bring the slightest deviation from the previous Acts of Will, but must agree with them in every respect. Everything, absolutely everything, must always follow the same path through the perfection of God. Therefore, forgiveness other than through the fulfilment of the Divine Laws which lie in Creation and through which every human spirit must absolutely pass on its way if it wants to enter the Kingdom of God, is an impossibility, as is immediate forgiveness.
 
How can anyone with some thinking expect any deviations? It would be a downright diminution of his perfect God! When during His life on earth Christ said to this or that person: “Your sins are forgiven”, this was entirely correct; for in earnest petition and firm faith lies the guarantee that the person in question would live according to the teachings of Christ in the future, and thereby he had to encounter the forgiveness of sins, because he thereby correctly aligns himself to the Divine Laws of Creation and no longer act contrary to them.
 
If a person imposes penances on another at his own discretion, in order to then declare his sins to be forgiven, he thereby deceives himself and also the person seeking help from him, whether consciously or unconsciously, and unscrupulously sets himself far above the Godhead Itself!

If only people would finally take their God more naturally! He Whose Acts of Will first created living nature. Instead, in their blind delusion of faith, they have only created an illusion out of Him that is anything but. It is precisely in natural perfection or perfect naturalness as the Primordial Source of all being and the starting point of all living things, that God’s greatness is so immense and incomprehensible to the human spirit. But in the statements of many doctrines there is often violent distortion and entanglement, making pure faith unnecessarily difficult and sometimes completely impossible for humans, because they are forced to forego all naturalness. And how many incredible contradictions some teachings contain!
 
For example, many often have as their fundamental idea the omniscience and perfection of the Will and the Word of God that emerges from It! But this must also naturally imply an unchangeable invariability that cannot be shifted by a hair’s breadth, because perfection cannot be conceived otherwise. The actions of many religious leaders, however, show doubts in their own teachings, as they are in direct contradiction to them and obviously deny their foundations through their actions! For example, audible confession followed by penances, or the sale of indulgences through money or prayers, which are supposed to result in the immediate forgiveness of sins, and other similar practices are, upon calm reflection, a denial of the Divine Will resting in the Laws of Creation. Anyone who does not let his thoughts wander into unsteady, floating thoughts can find nothing but an absolute diminishment of God’s perfection.
 
It is only natural that the humanly erroneous assumption of being able to offer forgiveness of sins, along with other similar attacks on the perfection of the Divine Will, had to lead to gross aberrations. How long will the folly of people thinking they can make such an impure bargain with the righteous God and His unchangeable Will continue!

When Jesus, as the Son of God, once said to His Disciples: “Whose soever sins ye shall forgive, they are forgiven them”, He was not referring to a general and arbitrary authority to act.
 
That would have been tantamount to an overthrow of the Divine Will in the immutable force of the reciprocal action that inherently carry reward and punishment in incorruptible, thus divine and thus perfect Justice.
 
Jesus could never have done that, nor would He have done so, as He came to “fulfill” the Laws, not to overturn them!
 
By these words He meant the lawful process resting in the Creator’s Will, that a person can forgive another for what has been done to him personally! The right and the power to forgive belong to the one affected; for through his sincere forgiveness, the tip of the karma that would otherwise inevitably develop for the other person in the reciprocal action is broken off at the outset and deprived of its force, in which living process, at the same time, lies true forgiveness.
 
However, this can only originate from those who are themselves affected, towards the perpetrator or offender, and not otherwise. That is why there is so much blessing and liberation in personal forgiveness, as soon as it is sincerely meant and felt.
 
A person who is not directly involved is excluded from the threads of reciprocal action by the nature of their involvement and is also unable to intervene in a lively, thus effective manner because he is not connected. Only intercession is possible for him in such cases, but its effect remains dependent on the state of soul of the person directly involved in the matters in question. He himself must remain on the outside and therefore cannot bring forgiveness. This rests solely in God’s Will, which reveals itself in the Laws of just reciprocal actions, against which God Himself would never act, for they are perfect from the beginning, rising out of His Will.
 
It is in God’s Justice that whatever happens or has happened, only the injured party can forgive, on Earth or later in the Ethereal World; otherwise, the force of the reciprocal action must strike the perpetrator, with the effect of which, however, will then expiate the guilt. But this effect will then simultaneously also bring with the forgiveness of the affected party, in some way that is woven into the effect, or the affected party with this. Since the connecting threads remain unbroken for so long, it is impossible otherwise. This is not only an advantage for the perpetrator, but also for the affected party, since he could not fully enter into the Light without granting forgiveness. Relentlessness would have to hold him back.
 
Thus no person is able to forgive the sins of others in which he is not personally affected. The Law of Reciprocal Action would remain unaffected by anything that is not interwoven with it by a living thread, which only direct involvement can witness. Improvement alone is the living path to forgiveness!
 
“I am the Lord your God, you shall have no other gods before me!” should remain burned into every human spirit as if in flames as a natural protection against all idolatry!
 
Anyone who truly recognizes God in His greatness must regard all divergent actions as blasphemy.
 
A person can and should go to a priest for instruction, as long as he is able to give it to him. If, however, someone demands to diminish the perfection of God by any action or false way of thinking, he should turn away from him; for a servant of God is not at the same time an authorized representative of God who could have the right to demand and grant in His name.
 
Here, too, there is a very natural and simple explanation that shows you the right way forthright.
 
An authorized representative of God cannot be any human by nature, unless this person has directly come from the Divine, thus carrying the Divine within themselves! Only in this can authority lie.
 
But since humans are not Divine, it is also an impossibility that he can be God’s authorized agent or representative. The Force of God cannot be transferred to any human, because Divine Force lies solely in Divinity itself!

This logical fact excludes in its absolute simplicity any human choice of an earthly vicar of God or the proclamation of a Christ entirely. Every attempt in this regard must be stamped with the mark of impossibility.

Therefore, there can be neither a choice nor a proclamation by humans in such matters, but only a direct Mission from God Himself!
 
Human views are not carry weight in this matter. On the contrary, according to everything that has happened so far, they have always been far removed from reality and were not in harmony with God’s Will. It is incomprehensible to the thinking mind with what pathological exaltation people repeatedly try to reach beyond their actual value. They, who in their highest spiritual perfection are just able to reach the lowest level of consciousness in the Eternal Spiritual Essentiality! And yet a large number of people on earth today do not even differ much from the most highly developed animals in their feelings, thoughts and endeavours, apart from their great intellect.

Like insects, they scuttle and crawl around busily, as if it were a matter of reaching the highest goal in an eager chase and race. But as soon as their goals are examined more closely and attentively, the hollowness and futility of their feverish strivings, which are in fact not worthy of such zeal, soon become apparent. And out of the chaos of this swarm swings the insane arrogance of being able to choose, recognize or reject a Messenger of God. This would be a judgement of what they can never be capable of comprehending, unless this higher being condescends in a way that makes himself understandable to them. Presently, there is a widespread emphasis on science, reason, and logic, while simultaneously accepting the grossest absurdities that lie within so many currents of the times.
 
For thousands, it is not worth saying anything about it. They are so consumed in their knowledge that they have lost all ability to simply think on anything. It is only those who have retained enough naturalness who can develop their own sound judgment as soon as they are given the guidance to do so. Those who do not blindly follow one trend and then another, only to fall away just as quickly at the first doubt expressed by the ignorant.
 
It does not take much to come to the realization, upon calm reflection, that one type of species cannot arise from another that has nothing in common with the first. The simplest knowledge of the natural sciences suffices to find this. But since the offshoots of the Laws of Nature in the World of Gross Matter come from the Living Primordial Source of God, it is clear that they must also be found in the same unshakeable logic and rigour on the further path to Him, even purer and clearer the closer they stand to the starting point.
 
Just as the spirit of a human being cannot be transplanted into an animal on earth so that a living animal becomes a human being, just as it is impossible to transplant Divinity into a human being. Something other than what the origin provides can never evolve. While the origin certainly allows for various kinds and forms of composition in development, as can be observed through the grafting of trees or through cross-breeding, even the most astonishing results must remain within the basic substances provided by the origin.
 
A mixture between earthly humans and animal can only remain within the boundaries of the coarse material bodies, since these have their origin in the same materiality. The inner origin of human and animal cannot be bridged.
 
It is impossible to bring something in or out that stands above the actual origin, i.e., that was not contained in it, as is the case with the difference between the spiritual origin of humans and the Divine.
 
Christ came as the Son of God from the Divine-Inessential; He carried the Divine within Himself from His origin. But it would have been impossible for Him to transfer this Living-Divinity to another human, who can only come from the Spiritual-Essential. Accordingly, He was also unable to authorize anyone to perform acts that belong to the Divine alone, such as the forgiveness of sins. This can only take place in the effect of the Divine Principles of Will, which rest in Creation through the precisely self-balancing interactions, in which the unchangeable Justice of the Creator lives automatically in the perfection incomprehensible to the human spirit.
 
Therefore, the Son of God’s authority over human beings could only relate to matters corresponding to the origin of the human spirit, never to the Divine!
 
Of course, human origin can logically be traced back to God, but it does not lie in God Himself, but outside of the Divine; therefore, humans originate only indirectly from God. which is why man only comes indirectly from God. Therein lies the great difference.
 
Authority that belongs to the office of a governor, for example, could only inherently lie in the same direct lineage. This can easily be understood by anyone because a representative must possess all the abilities of the principal in order to act in their place in a task or an office. Therefore, an authorized representative must come directly from the Divine-Inessential, as Christ was.
 
If a person attempts this, nonetheless, even if in good faith, it again follows from the nature of the matter that his purpose can have no more far-reaching validity and no life than purely earthly. But those who see more in him are thereby following an error which will only become clear to them as such after their departure, and which leaves their entire time on earth lost for an ascent. Lost sheep following a false shepherd.
 
Just like this Supreme Law: “I am the Lord your God, you shall have no other gods before me”, so too are the other laws very often transgressed and disobeyed through lack of understanding.
 
And yet the Commandments are in reality nothing other than the declaration of the Divine Will, which has rested in Creation from the very beginning and which cannot be circumvented by a hair’s breadth.
 
How foolish, under this consideration, is the principle of so many people that “the end justifies the means”! which is contradictory to every Divine Principle, every perfection. What a great confusion this would have to cause in the Laws of Divine Will if they could be shifted in this way. Anyone who can form even a small concept of perfection has no choice but to reject such impossibilities from the outset. As soon as a person tries to form a correct image of the perfection of God, this will serve as a pull rod and make it easier for him to have a grasp all things in Creation! Knowing and keeping in mind the Perfection of God is the key to understanding the Work of God, to which humanity itself also belongs.
 
Then he recognizes the compelling force and serious warning of the word: “God will not be mocked!” In other words: His Laws fulfil themselves or have an unalterable effect. He lets the wheels run as he set them in motion at Creation. Human will change nothing of this. If he tries, the best he can achieve is that all those who blindly follow him will be torn apart with him. It is of no use to him if he believes otherwise.
 
Blessing can only come to those who are fully and completely align themselves with the Will of God, Who carries Creation in His Natural Laws. But this is only possible for those who know them correctly.
 
The teachings that demand blind faith are to be rejected as dead and therefore harmful; only those that call us, as through Christ, to come alive, that is, for reflection and examination, so that true understanding can grow into conviction, bring liberation and redemption!
 
Only the most reprehensible thoughtlessness can imagine that the purpose of human existence rests primarily in the pursuit of the acquisition of physical necessities and pleasures, in order to finally be relieved of all guilt and the consequences of his lazy negligence in earthly life through some external form and beautiful words in tranquillity. The passage through earthly life and the step into the afterlife at death is not like an everyday trip for which one only needs to buy the ticket at the last moment.
 
With such faith, man doubles his guilt! For any doubt about the incorruptible justice of the perfect God is blasphemy! Belief in the arbitrary and effortless forgiveness of sins, however, is an obvious testimony to the doubt in the incorruptible Justice of God and His Laws; moreover, it directly confirms the belief in the arbitrariness of God, which would be synonymous with imperfection and deficiency!
 
Poor, pitiable believers!
 
It would be better for them to still be unbelievers; then they could more easily and freely find the path they already think they have.
 
Salvation lies only in not shyly suppressing nascent thinking and the doubts it awakens about so many things; for therein stirs the healthy urge for Truth!

Wrestling with doubt, however, is the testing that must indisputably be followed by the discarding of dogmatic ballast. Only a spirit completely liberated from all misunderstanding is able to soar with joyful conviction to the Luminous Heights, to Paradise!