8. Man In Creation
In reality, humans should not live according to the previous concepts, but be more of intuitively feeling beings. In this way they would form a necessary link for the further development of the whole of Creation.
Because humans unite in themselves the Ethereal of the Beyond and the Gross Material of this world, it is possible for them to survey both, to experience both simultaneously. To this end, they have a tool at their disposal that places them at the head of the entire Gross Material Creation: The intellect. With this tool they is able to steer, that is, to lead.
The intellect is the highest earthly entity and should be the steering wheel through earthly life, while the driving force is intuition, which comes from the Spiritual World. The ground of intellect is therefore the body, but the ground of intuition is the spirit.
The intellect is bound to space and time, like everything earthly, and is therefore only a product of the brain, which belongs to the gross material body. The intellect will never be able to operate without space and time, although it is in itself more ethereal than the body, but still too dense and heavy to rise above space and time. It is therefore completely earthbound.
Intuition (not feeling), however, is spaceless and timeless, and therefore comes from the Spiritual.
Equipped in this way, humans could be intimately connected with the most ethereal, even have contact with the Pure Spiritual itself, and yet live and work in the midst of all earthly, coarse matter. Humans alone are equipped in this way.
Man alone should and could give the healthy, fresh connection as the only bridge between the Ethereal World and Luminous Heights and the earthly Gross Material! Through him alone, in his uniqueness, the pure life could pulsate from the Source of Light down into the deepest coarse matter and from there up again in the most marvellous, harmonious interaction! He stands as a link between the two worlds, so that through him they are forged into one world.
However, humans did not fulfil this task. They separated these two worlds instead of keeping themselves firmly united. And that was now the Fall of Man! ––
Through the peculiarity just explained, man had indeed been appointed a kind of master of the Gross Material World, because the Gross Material World is dependent on his mediation, to the extent that it was compelled to suffer along with him, or could be lifted up by him, depending on whether the currents from the Source of Light and Life could flow purely through humanity or not.
Humans, however, interrupted the flow of this necessary alternating current for the Ethereal and the Gross Material worlds. Just as a good circulation of blood keeps the body fresh and healthy, so it is with the alternating current in Creation. An obstruction must bring confusion and illness, which ultimately turns into catastrophes.
This grievous human failure could occur because they not only utilized the intellect, which only comes from Gross Matter, as a tool, but completely subjugated themselves to it and made it ruler over everything. Thus they made themselves slaves to their tool and became only men of intellect, who are proud to call themselves materialist!
By submitting themselves entirely to the intellect, humans chained themselves to all coarse matter. Just as the intellect cannot comprehend anything beyond space and time, neither, of course, can humans who completely submitted themselves to it. Their field of vision, that is, comprehension, narrows with the limited ability of the intellect. The connection with the ethereal was thus severed, a wall which was erected became denser and denser. Now, since the Source of Life, the Primordial Light, God, is far above space and time, and still far above the ethereal, all contact must naturally be cut off by the bondage of the intellect. For this reason it is not possible for the materialist to recognize God.
Eating from the tree of knowledge was nothing more than the cultivation of the intellect. The associated separation from the ethereal was also the closing off of Paradise as a natural consequence. Humanity shut itself out by inclining entirely to the gross material through the intellect, thus degrading itself and forging itself into servitude either voluntarily or by its own choice.
But where did this lead? The purely materialistic, hence earth-bound, low-lying thoughts of the intellect with all their side effects of acquisitiveness and profit-seeking, lies, robbery and oppression, etc., had to bring about the inexorable interaction of homogeneous species, which first manifested spiritually and then also passed from this into the gross material, shaping everything accordingly, drove humans, and finally will discharge itself over everything with...destruction!
Do you now understand that the events of the last few years had to come? That it will still go on until destruction? A World Judgement which, according to the existing karmic laws (of fate), cannot be avoided. Like a thunderstorm that gathers and must finally bring discharge and destruction. But at the same time also purification!
Humanity did not serve as a necessary link between the ethereal and the gross material parts of Creation, did not let through the always refreshing, invigorating and stimulating necessary alternating current, but separated Creation into two worlds by withdrawing from the bond and chaining itself entirely to the Gross Material, thus both parts of the world had to gradually fall ill. The part that had to do without the stream of Light altogether, or received it too weakly through the few humans who still gave connection, of course much more seriously. This is the gross material part, which is therefore drifting towards a terrible crisis and in a short time will be shaken by violent fevers, until all that is ill in it is consumed and can finally recover under a new, strong influx from the Original Source.
But who will be consumed in the process?
The answer to this lies in the natural occurrence itself: Every perceived thought immediately takes on an ethereal form corresponding to the content of the thought through the Creative Force living in it, always remains connected with its producer as if by a cord, but is drawn off and out of it by the attraction of the homogeneous nature in all that is ethereal, and is driven by the Universe with the currents constantly pulsating through it, moving in an ellipse like everything in Creation. Thus the time comes when the thoughts that have become life and reality in the ethereal, together with the like species that have been attracted on the way, fall back to their origin and starting point, since they remain in contact with it in spite of their wandering, in order now to discharge themselves there, to be released.
The destruction will therefore primarily affect those who, through their thinking and intuiting, were producers and continuous nourishers, namely the materialists. It is inevitable that the damaging rebounding force will draw even wider circles and touches only approximate similarities of these people.
But then humans will fulfil what they are meant to do in Creation. They will be the connecting link, drawing from the Spiritual through their abilities, that is, allowing themselves to be guided by the purified intuitive perception, and transferring this into the Gross Material, that is, into the earthly, whereby they will use the intellect and the experiences they have gathered only as a tool to implement these pure intuitions in the gross material life, taking into account everything earthly, thereby continuously promoting, purifying, and uplifting all Gross Material Creation. This will also allow for healthier things to flow back in reciprocal action from the Gross Material into the Ethereal, and a new, unified and harmonious world will emerge. In the right fulfilment of their activity, however, humans will become the full and noble beings they have longed for; for through the right attitude towards the great Work of Creation, they too will receive quite different powers than before, which will enable them to experience lasting contentment and bliss on a permanent basis.
