7. The Creation Of Man

“God created man in his own image and breathed into him his own breath!” These are two occurrences: the creating and the animating!

Both processes, like everything else, were strictly subject to the existing Divine Laws. Nothing can step outside the framework of these Laws. Divine Will can never contradict these immutable Laws which bear the Divine Will itself. Every revelation and promise is also made with regard to these Laws and must be fulfilled in them, not otherwise!

So also the incarnation of humans on earth, which was a progressive step in the mighty Creation, the transition of the gross material into a completely new, elevated stage of development.

To speak of the incarnation requires knowledge of the ethereal world; for the human being in flesh and blood is inserted as a supporting link between the ethereal and the gross material part of Creation, while his root remains in the pure spiritual.

“God created man in His own image!” This creating or being created was a long chain of development that took place strictly within the Laws woven into Creation by God Himself. Instituted by the Most High, these laws work ironclad, incessantly at the fulfilment of His Will, self-acting as a part of Him towards perfection.

So also with the making of man as the crowning glory of the whole work, in whom all species that lay in Creation were to unite. Therefore, in the gross material world, the earthly visible matter, the vessel was gradually formed in further development into which a spark from the pure spiritual, which was immortal, could be lowered. Through the constant striving to form, overtime, there came into being the most highly developed animal which, being able to think, already made use of various aids to sustain life and to defend itself. Even today we can observe lower species of the animal kingdom that make use of various aids to obtain and store their necessities of life, and which often show astonishing cunning in defence.

The highly developed animals mentioned earlier, which became extinct with the earth upheavals that took place, are today called “prehistoric men”. But to call them human ancestors is a great mistake! With the same right one could call the cows “partial mothers” of humans, since the largest number of children in the first months of their lives need the milk of the cows directly to build up their bodies, thus remaining viable and growing through their help. The noble and thinking animal “primitive man” has not much more to do with the real human being, for the gross material body of the human being is nothing more than the indispensable aid which he needs in order to be able to work in every direction in the gross material earthly world and to make himself understood.

The assertion that man is descended from apes is literally “throwing the baby out with the bathwater!” This is going far beyond the goal. A partial process has been elevated to the status of the purely factual. The main thing is missing!

It would be true if the human body were really "The Human Being". But in this way the gross material body is only his clothing which he takes off as soon as he returns to the ethereal world of matter.

How did the first incarnation take place?

After the climax in the gross material world with the most perfect animal, a change had to come for further development, if a standstill was not to occur, which could become a decline with its dangers. And this change was foreseen and came: When the spirit-sparks had gone forth, drawn through the Ethereal World, renewing and lifting all things, there stood at its boundary, at the moment when the gross material-earthly vessel had reached the climax of its development, the ethereal-spiritual man also, ready and willing to unite with the gross material in order to promote and uplift it.

While the vessel had been prepared in the World of Coarse Matter, the soul had developed so far in world of Ethereal Matter that it possessed sufficient strength to retain its independence on entering the vessel of coarse matter.

The connection of these two parts now meant a more intimate union of the World of Gross Matter with the World of Ethereal Matter up into the Spiritual.

Only this process was the birth of man!

The act of conception itself is still today a purely animal act among humans. Higher or lower intuitive feelings have nothing to do with the act itself, but they release spiritual impulses, the effects of which become of great importance in the attraction of essential homogeneity.

The act of conception itself is still today a purely animal act among humans. Purely animal is actually not the right term, but I want to describe it as purely coarse material.

Only in the middle of pregnancy, at a certain maturity of the expectant body, does the spirit intended for birth incarnate, which until then had been lingering in the vicinity of the expectant mother. The entry of the spirit triggers the first twitches of the tiny, developing physical body, and thus the first movements of the child. This is also when the pregnant woman experiences the peculiar feeling of bliss, and from this moment on, she will have completely different sensations: the awareness of the presence of the second spirit in her and the feeling of it. And depending on the nature of this new spirit, her own sensations will also vary. This is the process of every incarnation. But now back to the first incarnation.

Thus, the great stage in the development of Creation had come: On the one side in the World of Gross Matter stood the most highly developed animal, which was to provide the coarse material body as a vessel for the incoming human spirit; on the other side, in the Ethereal World, stood the developed human soul, waiting to connect with the coarse material vessel, in order to give a further impetus to the spiritualization of all that is gross material.

When procreation took place between the noblest pair of these highly developed animals, at the time of incarnation, it was not an animal soulthat was incarnated as before, but the human soul, ready and carrying the immortal spirit spark within itself. The ethereal human souls with predominantly positive abilities developed incarnated into male animal bodies, according to their nature, those with predominantly negative, more delicate abilities into female bodies closer to their nature.

This process refutes the assertion that humans, whose true origin lies in the Spiritual, descended from the animal “prehistoric man”, who could only provide the coarse material transitional body for them. Even today, the strongest materialists would not consider themselves to be directly related to an animal, although there is now, as there was then, a close physical relationship, that is, a coarse material homogeneity; while of the real ‘living’ man, that is, the actual spiritual “ego’” of man, stands in no similarity or derivative to the animal.

After the birth of the first human species on earth, these humans were in reality alone, parentless because, despite their high development, they could not recognize the animals as parents and was unable to have any community with them.

The woman should and could, in fact, have been more perfect than man by virtue of her more valuable spiritual qualities, if only she had endeavoured to refine the intuitions given to her more harmoniously, whereby she would have become a force with a revolutionary and highly promoting effect on all coarse material Creation. Unfortunately, however, it was precisely she who failed in the first place, surrendering herself to be the plaything of the strong powers of intuition allotted to her, which she also clouded and polluted through feeling and imagination.

What a profound meaning lies in the biblical account of the eating from the tree of knowledge! How the woman, prompted by the serpent, handed the apple to the man. This process in materiality could not have been expressed more pictorially.

The handing of the apple, initiated by the woman, was the woman becoming aware of her charms towards the man and the deliberate use of them. The taking and eating of the man, however, was his response to it with the awakening urge to draw the attention of the woman only to himself by beginning to make himself desirable through the accumulation of treasures and the appropriation of various values.

This marked the beginning of the cultivation of the intellect, with its by-products of greed, lies and oppression, to which humans finally submitted completely and thus voluntarily made themselves slaves to their tool. With the intellect as ruler, however, they inevitably chained themselves firmly to space and time according to its own nature, and thus lost the ability to grasp or experience something that is above space and time, like everything spiritual and ethereal. This was the complete separation from the actual Paradise and from the Ethereal World, which they brought upon themselves; for it became inevitable that they could no longer “understand” everything spiritual and ethereal, which knows neither space nor time, with their circle of vision of their faculty of comprehension, which was firmly bound to space and time by their intellect and thus narrowly limited.
Thus, for the intellectuals, the experiences and the vision of intuitive individuals, as well as the misunderstood lores, became “fairy tales”. The materialists, that is, those humans who are only capable of recognizing the coarse matter bound to space and time, laughed mockingly at the idealists, to whom the path to the Ethereal World was not yet completely closed due to their much larger, more expansive inner life, and called them dreamers, if not fools or even deceivers.

But, today, we are finally close to the hour when the next great stage in Creation will come, which is an unconditional upswing and brings what the first phase of incarnation should have already brought: The birth of the spiritualized complete human being!

The human being who will have a promoting and ennobling effect on the entire gross material Creation, which is the actual purpose of humans on earth. There will then be no more room for the materialist who is chained to time and space. They will be strangers in all lands, homeless. They will wither and perish like the chaff that separates from the wheat. Take care that you are not found too easily in this separation!

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