64. What is it that separates so many people from the Light today?
Like deep night, the ethereal darkness rests over this earth! For a very long time already. It holds the earth in a suffocating embrace, so dense and firm that every rising perception of light resembles a flame which loses its power without oxygen and, quickly fading, collapses into itself. Terrible is this ethereal state, which is currently manifesting in its worst effects. Whoever were permitted to witness this event for just five seconds, horror would rob them of all hope of rescue! ––
And all of this has been brought about through the guilt of humankind itself. By the guilt of inclining toward what is base. In this, humanity has been its own greatest enemy. Now, even the few who are once again earnestly striving upwards run the risk of being dragged down with the rest into the abyss, toward which the others are now maturing with sinister speed.
It equates to an entwining, which is inevitably succeeded by a death-dealing absorption. An absorption into the sultry, viscous mire, wherein all sinks without a sound. It is no longer a wrestling, but merely a quiet, wordless, sinister strangulation.
And humanity does not recognize it. Spiritual inertia leaves it blind to this ruinous happening.
Yet the swamp constantly sends forth its poisonous emanations, which slowly weary those who are still strong and alert, so that they too, falling asleep, sink down powerless with the rest.
This is what it looks like on this earth now. It is no picture that I unfold, but life itself! Since all ethereality takes on form, created and animated by the intuitions of humanity, such a happening truly unfolds continually. And this is the environment that awaits humanity when they must leave this earth and cannot be guided upwards to the brighter and more beautiful realms.
But the darkness is closing in ever more.
Therefore the time approaches when this earth must, for a span of time, be left under the dominion of darkness, without immediate help from the Light, because humanity has brought this upon itself through its own volition. The consequences of the will of the majority were bound to bring about this end. It is the time that John was once permitted to behold, when God veils His face. ––
Night is all around. Yet in the highest distress, when everything, even that is better, threatens to sink with it, the dawn is now also breaking simultaneously! But the dawn first brings the travail of a great cleansing, which is inevitable before the salvation of all earnest seekers can begin; for to all those who strive for what is base, a helping hand cannot be offered! They shall plunge into those dreadful depths where they can only hope for an awakening through torments which must bring them to a loathing of themselves. Those who until now, mocking and seemingly with impunity, were able to create obstacles for those striving upward, will become silent and more thoughtful, until at last they plead – begging and whimpering – for the Truth.
It will not be so easy for them then; they will be led irresistibly through the millstones of the iron Laws of Divine Justice, until, through their experience, they come to the recognition of their errors. ––
On my travels, I could recognize that a blazing torch flew among the indolent human spirits with My Word, which explains that no human being can claim the Divine as their own, at a time when so much effort is directed towards discovering God within oneself, and thereby ultimately becoming a god oneself!
Unrest has therefore awakened many times over with My Word; humanity wants to rebel against it, for it wishes only to hear lulling and comforting words that seem pleasant to them!
Those who thus rebel are merely cowards who would prefer to hide from themselves, merely to remain in the twilight, where one can dream so beautifully and peacefully, according to one’s own desires.
Not everyone can bear to be exposed to the Light of Truth, which clearly and mercilessly reveals the flaws and stains on one’s garment.
Through smiles, mockery or hostility, such people seek to prevent the coming Day, which will clearly expose the clay feet of their untenable edifice of the idol ‘Ego’. Such foolish people are merely playing at masquerades with themselves, which will be inexorably followed by the grey Ash Wednesday. After all, they only want to idolize themselves in their false views, and in this, they feel earthly well-being and comfort. From the very outset, they regard the One who disturbs them from this indolent repose as an enemy!
Yet all their rebelling is of no avail to them this time!
This self-idolization, which shows itself in the assertion that the Divine is within man, is a filthy groping towards the Sublimity and Purity of your God, by which you profane the Most Holy, to Whom you look up in the most blissful trust! ––
Within your innermost being stands an altar which is intended for the worship of your God. This altar is your ability to perceive intuitively. If this is pure, it has a direct connection with the Spiritual Realm, and through this, with Paradise! Then there are moments in which you, too, can fully perceive the proximity of your God, as often happens in the deepest pain and the highest joy!
You then perceive His proximity in the same manner as the Eternal Beings of Pure Spirit in Paradise permanently experience it, with whom you are closely connected in such moments. The powerful vibration caused by the stirring of great joy or deep sorrow pushes everything earthly and base far into the background for seconds at a time, and thereby the purity of intuitive perception is set free; it thus immediately forms a bridge to the homogeneous purity that animates Paradise!
This is the highest bliss of the human spirit, the crown of all Creation. The Eternal Ones in Paradise live in this state permanently. It brings the glorious certainty of being safe and secure. They are then fully conscious of the proximity of their great God, in Whose Force they stand, yet at the same time they accept it as a matter of course that, even at their highest summit, they are never capable of beholding God.
Yet this does not depress them; rather, in the recognition of His unapproachable greatness, they find exultant gratitude for His ineffable Grace, which He has always which exercised in view of the presumptuous creature.
And even earthly human can already enjoy this bliss. It is quite correct when it is said that, in solemn moments, earthly humans feel the proximity of their God. However, it becomes a sacrilege if, out of this wonderful bridge of becoming conscious of the Divine proximity, one wishes to make the assertion of having a spark of Divinity within oneself.
Hand in hand with this assertion also goes the belittling of Divine Love. How can one measure God’s Love by the standard of human love? Moreover, even place its value beneath this human love? Look at the people who imagine Divine Love as the highest ideal to be merely quite silently enduring, and moreover, all-forgiving! They want to recognize the Divine in that it puts up with all manner of misbehaviour from far lower creatures, as is only the case with the greatest weakling, or with the most cowardly of humans, whom one despises on that account. Do reflect upon what a monstrous disgrace is anchored within this!
Humans want to sin with impunity, only to ultimately afford their God a joy by allowing Him to forgive their guilt without any atonement of their own! To assume such a thing requires either boundless narrow-mindedness, culpable laziness, or the recognition of one’s own hopeless weakness regarding a good volition towards striving upwards: yet one is just as reprehensible as the other.
Visualize Divine Love! Crystal clear, radiant, pure, and great! Can you imagine it being so sweetish-weak, so degradingly yielding, as humans would so dearly like it to be! They want to construct a false greatness where they desire weakness, presenting a false image merely to deceive themselves further, to soothe themselves over their own fallibility, which leaves them willingly at the service of the darkness. Where is the freshness and the power that unconditionally belongs to the crystal purity of Divine Love? Divine Love is inseparable from the greatest severity of Divine Justice. It is even one and the same. Justice is Love, and Love, in turn, lies only in Justice. In this alone also lies Divine Forgiveness.
It is correct when the churches say that God forgives everything! And really forgives! In contrast to humans, who still consider unworthy even those who have atoned for some small guilt and thereby burden themselves doubly with guilt because they do not act according to God’s Will. Here, human love lacks justice.
In contrast to humans, who permanently considers unworthy even someone who has already atoned for some minor guilt, and who burdens himself with double guilt through such thoughts, because in this he does not act according to the Will of God. Here, human love lacks justice.
The churches are right to say that God forgives everything! And He truly does forgive! In contrast to human beings, who even regard those who have atoned for some minor fault as permanently unworthy, and who burden themselves with double guilt through such thoughts, because in doing so they are not acting in accordance with God’s will. Here, human love lacks justice.
The working of the Divine Will in Creation purifies every human spirit of its guilt, either through personal experience or through voluntary improvement, as soon as it strives upwards.
When it returns from these millstones in materiality to the Spiritual Realm, it stands pure in the Kingdom of its Creator; it matters not what it has ever done wrong! Just as pure as one who has never failed. Yet its path leads through the working of the Divine Laws beforehand, and in this fact lies the guarantee of Divine Forgiveness, of His Grace!
Do we not often hear today the horrified question: How could these years of such distress happen with God’s Will? Where is Love in this, where is Justice? Humanity asks, the nations ask, often families and individual! Should this not rather be proof to them that God’s Love is indeed different from what so many would like to think? Just try for once to think the all-forgiving Love of God through to its logical conclusion, in the way people convulsively endeavour to present it! Without one’s own atonement, enduring everything and ultimately still forgiving magnanimously. It must yield a miserable result! Does humanity think itself so valuable that its God should suffer as a result? Even more valuable, then, than God? What immense presumption lies in this attitude of humankind? —
With calm reflection, you must stumble over a thousand obstacles and can only come to a conclusion if you diminish God, make Him imperfect.
But He was, and is, and remains perfect, regardless of how human beings position themselves towards this.
His Forgiveness lies in Justice. Nothing else. And in this unshakeable Justice alone also lies the great Love so long misunderstood!
Break yourselves of the habit of measuring this by earthly standards. God’s Justice and God’s Love apply to the human spirit. Materiality has absolutely no say in this. After all, it is shaped only by the human spirit itself, and without spirit, it has no life.
Why do you so often torment yourselves with purely earthly trifles which you perceive as guilt, but which are not guilt at all?
Only what the spirit wills in an action is decisive for the Divine Laws in Creation. This spiritual volition, however, is not the activity of thoughts, but the innermost intuitive perception, the actual willing within an individual, which alone can set the laws of the Beyond into motion, and indeed sets them into motion automatically.
Divine Love cannot be dragged down by humans; for within it, in Creation, also rest the immutable Laws of Divine Will, which is borne by Love. And these Laws take effect according to how humans align within them. They can lead humans upward toward the proximity of their God, or form a partition wall that can never be shattered, unless it be through the ultimate fitting-in of humans, which is synonymous with obeying, in which alone they can find their salvation, their happiness. It is a single mold; the great Work shows no flaws, no fissure. Every fool, every simpleton who wishes otherwise will smash their heads against it.—
Divine love takes effect only in what benefits every human spirit, not in what gives it earthly joy and seems pleasant. It goes far beyond that because it governs the entirety of existence. —
Many a person now thinks very often: If tribulation is to be expected, destruction, in order to bring about a great cleansing, then God must be so just as to send out preachers of repentance beforehand. Humanity must surely be warned beforehand. Where is the John who proclaims what is to come?
They are wretched ones in an emptiness of thought that fancies itself great! Only arrogance of the greatest hollowness hides behind such cries. They would only stone him anyway, or throw him into prison!
Open your eyes and your ears! Are the increasing number of natural events and catastrophes not enough of serious warnings? Do not the conditions in Russia and China speak a grave language? Even the Germans from the neighbouring border regions send their laments often enough under the scourge of their enemies – our enemies! Yet people pass lightly over all this suffering, dancing past the distress and terror of their neighbour! They do not want to see and do not want to hear! —
A preacher of repentance also went ahead, already 2,000 years ago; the Word Incarnate followed close in his footsteps. Yet people have endeavoured zealously to wipe away the pure radiance of the Word once more, to obscure it, so that its attracting power might gradually fade.
And all who seek to unearth the Word from the tangled undergrowth must soon perceive how messengers from the darkness trying convulsively to prevent any joyful awakening!
Yet no event today repeats itself as it did in the times of Christ! Back then, the Word came! Humanity had its free will and at that time decided mainly on rejection, on refusal! From then on, they were subject to the Laws which automatically linked themselves to the free decision made back then. On their self-chosen path, humans subsequently found all the fruits of their own volition.
Soon the circle will close. It accumulates more and more powerfully and dams up like a wall that will soon collapse over humanity, which lives on unsuspectingly in spiritual apathy, completely unaware. In the end, at the time of fulfilment, they naturally no longer have free choice!
They must now reap what they sowed back then, and also on their later wrong paths.
All those who once rejected the Word in the times of Christ are reincarnated on this earth again today for the reckoning. Today, they no longer have the right to a prior warning and a second decision. In the two thousand years, they had time enough to change their minds! Even those who have received false interpretation of God and His Creation, without striving to grasp it more purely, has in truth not accepted it at all.
Indeed, false belief is even worse, for it prevents one from grasping the Truth.
But woe to those who falsifies or alters the Truth in order to gain followers because it is more pleasant for humanity in a more convenient form. They not only burden themselves with the guilt of falsification and misguidance, but they also bear all responsibility for those whom they were able to attract by making the Truth more convenient or more acceptable. They will not be helped when their hour of retribution comes. They will plunge down into depths that can never release them, and rightly so! — John, too, was permitted to behold this and to warn against it in his Revelation.
And once the great purification begins, this time there will be no time for humans to rebel, or even to resist what is happening. The Divine Laws, of which humanity so readily forms a false picture, will then take effect relentlessly.
Precisely during the most dreadful of times, such as the earth has never yet experienced, humanity will finally learn that Divine Love is far removed from the softness and weakness which people presumptuously sought to attribute to it.
It is precisely during the most terrifying period the earth has ever experienced that humanity will finally learn that God’s Love is a far cry from the softness and weakness that people have presumptuously attributed to it.
More than half of humanity today does not even belong on this Earth!
For thousands of years now, this humanity has sunk so low and lived so deeply in darkness that, through its impure desires, it has built many bridges to dark spheres lying far below this earthly plane. There dwell those who have sunk to the lowest depths, whose ethereal weight has never allowed them the possibility of ascending to this earthly plane.
This provided protection for all living on earth, as well as for these dark ones themselves. They are separated by the natural Law of Ethereal gravity. Down there, they can give free rein to their passions and all manner of baseness without causing harm. On the contrary. Their unchecked indulgence there affects only those of a homogeneous nature, just as the indulgence of others also affects them. They thus suffer mutually, which leads to maturation, but not to further guilt. For through suffering, revulsion towards oneself may one day awaken, and with that revulsion also the desire to escape from this realm. Over time, this desire leads to agonizing despair, which may ultimately bring about the most fervent prayers, and thus a sincere will to improve.
That is how it was meant to be. Yet, because of humanity’s wrong volition, things turned out differently!
Through their dark inclinations, humanity formed bridges into the realm of darkness. In doing so, they extended a hand to those living there, enabling them, through the law of like attracting like, to ascend to Earth. Here, of course, they also found the opportunity for reincarnation again, which, according to the normal course of world events, was not yet intended for them.
For on the earthly plane, where through the mediation of coarse matter they are able live alongside those who are more luminous and better, they cause nothing but harm and thereby burden themselves with new guilt. This they cannot do in their lower regions; for to those of their own kind, baseness brings only benefit, because in it they ultimately come to recognize only themselves and learn to abhor that which contributes to their betterment.
Humans have now disrupted this normal course of all development through the base use of their free will, with which they formed ethereal bridges to the realm of darkness, so that those who had sunk into it could be cast onto the earthly plane like a horde, and now joyfully populate a major part of it.
Since luminous souls must withdraw where darkness gains a firm foothold, it was easy for these darker souls, who came to the earth plane unjustly, to sometimes incarnate even in places where otherwise only a luminous soul would have entered. They find support through someone in the surroundings of the expectant mother, enabling them to assert themselves and displace the lighter soul, even if the parents themselves are of a higher nature.
This also explains the mystery of how so many ‘black sheep’ have been able to be born to good parents. However, if an expectant mother pays closer attention to herself and her immediate surroundings, and to the company she keeps, this cannot happen.
Thus it is an Act of Love when the final outworking of the Laws, in full Justice, sweeps away those who do not belong on this earth, casting them back into the realms of darkness to which they belong by their own nature. In this way, they can no longer hinder the ascent of the more luminous ones, nor burden themselves with new guilt, but may yet mature through the revulsion born of their own experiences. –– ––
The time will come, inevitably, when an iron grip seizes the hearts of all humanity and spiritual arrogance is eradicated from every human creature with relentless severity. Then, too, all doubt will disappear that now hinders the recognition that the Divine is not within humans, but far above them. That it stands only as the purest image on the altar of one’s inner life, to which one looks in humble prayer. ––
It is not an error, but a sin, for a human spirit to claim to be Divine. Such presumption must must bring them down, for it is tantamount to an attempt to wrest the sceptre from the Hand of their God, to drag Him down to human level, which they have not even fulfilled up to now because they have always wanted to be more, striving towards heights they can never reach, not even comprehend.
In so doing, they carelessly overlooked all reality, rendering themselves not only completely useless in Creation, but worse still – harmful!
In the end, through their own false attitude, it will be shown to them with terrifying clarity that in their present deeply fallen state, they do not even represent the shadow of Divinity. The entire treasure of earthly knowledge which they have laboriously accumulated over the millennia will then prove to be nothing before their horrified gaze. Helpless, they will experience in themselves how the fruits of their one-sided earthly endeavour become useless, at times even a curse. Then let them call upon their supposed divinity – if they can! –– ––
Compellingly it will thunder towards them: Down upon your knees, creature, before your God and Lord! Do not attempt, blasphemously, to elevate yourself to God! –– ––
The self-conceit of the indolent human spirit goes no further. –– ––
Only then can this humanity even begin to think of an ascent. That will then also be the time in which whatever does not stand on the right foundation will plunge. Sham existences, the false prophets, and the associations that form around them will collapse within themselves! With this, the previous false ways will then become evident.
Many a self-satisfied individual will then probably also recognize with horror that they are standing before an abyss and, having been misled, are sliding rapidly downwards, while proudly believing that they were ascending and already approaching the Light! That they opened safety gates without also having behind them the full power of defence. That they drew dangers upon themselves which, in the natural course of events, would otherwise have been passed them by. Blessed are they who then find the right way to turn back!
