The Ten Commandments
The First Commandment
I am the Lord, your God! You should have no other gods before Me!
Anyone who can read these words correctly will probably already see in them the judgement of many who do not observe this most noble of all commandments.
"You shall have no other gods!" Many a human being imagine far too little under these words. They have made it too easy for themselves! Among idol worshippers, one probably thinks first and foremost only of those people who kneel before a row of wooden figures, each of which represents a particular god, perhaps also thinks of devil worshippers and similar aberrants, whom he reflects on with pity at best, but he does not think of himself. Just take a look at yourselves and see if you might be one of them after all!
One has a child, who really is more important to him than anything else, for whom he could make any sacrifice, and over whom he forgets everything else. Another places earthly enjoyment far above everything, but would not, even with the best of intentions in the world, be willing to give up this enjoyment for anything, if such a demand were to come to him that would grant him a voluntary decision. A third again loves money, a fourth power, a fifth a woman, another earthly honour, and all again in all, in the end, only ... himself!
This is idolatry in the truest sense. This is what the first commandment warns against! Forbids it! And woe to those who do not obey it literally! This transgression is immediately avenged by the fact that such a person must always remain earthbound when he passes over into the afterlife. In reality, however, he has only bound himself to earth by his attachment to something that is on earth! He is thereby prevented from ascending further, loses the time granted him for this purpose, and runs the risk of not coming out of fine dense matter in time in a resurrection from it into the luminous realm of free spirits. Then he will be carried away into the inevitable decomposition of all worlds of matter that serves to purify it for its resurrection and its new formation. This, however, is the ethereal and spiritual death of the human soul of all personal consciousness, and thus also the destruction of its form as well as its name for eternity!
The observance of the commandment is to protect against this dreadful thing! It is the most noble commandment because it is one that remains most necessary for the human being! Unfortunately, he tends far too easily to surrender to any inclination that finally enslaves him! But what he allows to become an inclination, he makes into a golden calf, which he places in the highest place, and thus also into an idol or idolatrous god next to his God, even very often above Him!
Unfortunately, there are only too many "inclinations" that man has created for himself and which he likes to make his own in the greatest carelessness! An inclination is a preference for something earthly, as I have already mentioned. There are, of course, many more. But he who acquires an inclination "hangs on", as the word correctly expresses it. He is thus attached to the gross matter when he enters the afterlife for his further evolution, and cannot easily detach himself from it again, is therefore inhibited, held back! One can also call it a curse that remains upon him. The process is the same, no matter how it is expressed literally.
If, however, in his existence on earth, he places God above all, not only in his imagination or only literally, but in his intuition, thus truly and genuinely in reverent love that binds him as to an inclination, he will, through the bond in the same effect, immediately strive further upwards when he comes into the afterlife; for he takes the reverence and love for God with him, it holds and carries him at last to his proximity, to Paradise, the Primordial Creation, the abode of the Pure Spirits, freed from all burdens, the bond of which leads only to God's Luminous Truth!
Therefore, pay strict attention to the observance of this commandment. In this way you will be saved from many strokes of fate of an unfortunate kind, which you might not have enough time to redeem!
"You shall have no other gods!" Many a human being imagine far too little under these words. They have made it too easy for themselves! Among idol worshippers, one probably thinks first and foremost only of those people who kneel before a row of wooden figures, each of which represents a particular god, perhaps also thinks of devil worshippers and similar aberrants, whom he reflects on with pity at best, but he does not think of himself. Just take a look at yourselves and see if you might be one of them after all!
One has a child, who really is more important to him than anything else, for whom he could make any sacrifice, and over whom he forgets everything else. Another places earthly enjoyment far above everything, but would not, even with the best of intentions in the world, be willing to give up this enjoyment for anything, if such a demand were to come to him that would grant him a voluntary decision. A third again loves money, a fourth power, a fifth a woman, another earthly honour, and all again in all, in the end, only ... himself!
This is idolatry in the truest sense. This is what the first commandment warns against! Forbids it! And woe to those who do not obey it literally! This transgression is immediately avenged by the fact that such a person must always remain earthbound when he passes over into the afterlife. In reality, however, he has only bound himself to earth by his attachment to something that is on earth! He is thereby prevented from ascending further, loses the time granted him for this purpose, and runs the risk of not coming out of fine dense matter in time in a resurrection from it into the luminous realm of free spirits. Then he will be carried away into the inevitable decomposition of all worlds of matter that serves to purify it for its resurrection and its new formation. This, however, is the ethereal and spiritual death of the human soul of all personal consciousness, and thus also the destruction of its form as well as its name for eternity!
The observance of the commandment is to protect against this dreadful thing! It is the most noble commandment because it is one that remains most necessary for the human being! Unfortunately, he tends far too easily to surrender to any inclination that finally enslaves him! But what he allows to become an inclination, he makes into a golden calf, which he places in the highest place, and thus also into an idol or idolatrous god next to his God, even very often above Him!
Unfortunately, there are only too many "inclinations" that man has created for himself and which he likes to make his own in the greatest carelessness! An inclination is a preference for something earthly, as I have already mentioned. There are, of course, many more. But he who acquires an inclination "hangs on", as the word correctly expresses it. He is thus attached to the gross matter when he enters the afterlife for his further evolution, and cannot easily detach himself from it again, is therefore inhibited, held back! One can also call it a curse that remains upon him. The process is the same, no matter how it is expressed literally.
If, however, in his existence on earth, he places God above all, not only in his imagination or only literally, but in his intuition, thus truly and genuinely in reverent love that binds him as to an inclination, he will, through the bond in the same effect, immediately strive further upwards when he comes into the afterlife; for he takes the reverence and love for God with him, it holds and carries him at last to his proximity, to Paradise, the Primordial Creation, the abode of the Pure Spirits, freed from all burdens, the bond of which leads only to God's Luminous Truth!
Therefore, pay strict attention to the observance of this commandment. In this way you will be saved from many strokes of fate of an unfortunate kind, which you might not have enough time to redeem!
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The Second Commandment
You should not misuse the name of the Lord your God!
The name awakens and gathers the concept in man! Whoever defiles a name and dares to debase it, thereby devalues the concept! Be mindful of this at all times!
But this clear commandment of the Lord is the least respected of all the ten commandments, and is thus the most transgressed. A thousandfold are the types of these disrespects. Even man thinks that many of these transgressions are quite harmless, only slight sayings, they nevertheless remain transgressions of this sharply given commandment! It is precisely these thousandfold, supposedly harmless transgressions that degrade the holy name of God, and with it the concept of God, which is always closely connected with the name, robbing it of its sacredness before men, even before children, and defiling its sanctity by making it a commonplace, by reducing it to a common idiom. People do not shy away from making themselves ridiculous in the process. I will not cite one of the many speeches; for the name is far too high and noble for that! But every person needs to pay attention to it even for one day, he will be dismayed at the vast accumulation of transgressions of the second commandment by men of both sexes, great and small, even down to children, who are scarcely able to form a proper sentence. For as the old sang, so do the young chirp! For this reason, the distortion of God is the first thing that the young learn in the apparently harmless transgression of God's Laws.
But the effect of this is the worst of all transgressions! It has literally spread devastatingly among all mankind, not only among Christians, but also among Mohammedans, Jews, and Buddhists, everywhere the same is heard tot he point of weariness. What then can the name "God" mean to man! It is devalued, is not even respected as the smallest of coins! Much worse than a worn-out garment. And this otherwise so clever man of the earth thinks it harmless, sins in it more than a hundred times in one day! Where is the deliberation! Where is the slightest stir of feeling? You, too, are completely numbed to it; listen calmly when the holiest of all concepts is thus trampled into the dirt of everyday life! But do not be mistaken! The account of guilt in the afterlife is mercilessly taxed for every one who has sinned in it! And it is not so easy to atone for this, because it has such far-reaching bad consequences, which must be avenged down to the third and fourth generation, if there is not a man in this generation who comes to understand and puts a stop to these evil doings.
Therefore, try to fight the harmful habit in your familiar circles. But, first of all, cut your own karmic threads with all the energy that is still in you, so that the debt account does not become larger than it already is. Do not believe in an easy redemption, because up to now you did not think anything wrong of it! The harm is therefore exactly the same! And the sin against the commandment remains unconditionally! You knew it well. If you did not make a real effort to realise its consequences, it is your fault! Therefore, Therefore nothing can possibly be reckoned with you! Listen and act, so that you will be able to redeem much while you are still on earth.
Otherwise, the mire that awaits you when you enter the beyond is frightening, and which obstructs your ascent.
But not the individual alone, but also the authorities openly showed their resistance against this commandment and also against the Word of God through many centuries, by forcibly demanding oaths from people, forcibly urging them to transgress, under threat of severe earthly punishments, if they did not comply with the demand. But the punishment in the afterlife is much more severe, and falls on all those who demanded the oath, not on those who had to take it under pressure. Christ also said again expressly, "Let your speech be yea or nay; for that which is above is of evil! “
And yet the authorities had the power to give the decisive weight to the yes or the no, by punishing it in the case of deception in court just as they punished perjury! In doing so, they would be able to raise the value of the words in court to that level which they needed for a verdict. It was not necessary, therefore, to lead people to the transgression of the commandment of God! Now, in return, they will have their judgment in the afterlife. More severe, more rigorous, than they have ever mocked interaction. There is no escape from it!
Even worse, however, were the churches and their representatives, who subjected their fellow men to the worst tortures under invocations of God, and finally burned them again under invocations of God, if they had not already been subjected to the torments before. The Roman emperor Nero, well known to all, and notorious for his cruelty, was not so bad in his tortures of Christians, not so damnable as the Catholic Church with its immense register of sins against the laws of God! Firstly, he did not murder and torture so much, and secondly, he did not do it under such hypocritical invocations of God, which in this way must rank among the greatest blasphemies possible to be perpetrated by a human being!
It is of no use for these same churches to condemn today that which, alas, was then all too long perpetrated by them; for they did not leave it voluntarily!
And still today it is not much different in mutual, only quieter contempt and in a different, more modern form! In this, too, only its form has changed with time, not the living core! And this core alone, which one so gladly conceals, counts before the judgment of God, never the outer form!
And this present form, only apparently harmless, was born of the same unspeakable arrogance of spirit on the part of the representatives of all the churches, as before. And where there is not the damnable arrogance, there is an empty conceit based on the earthly power of the churches. These vices often enough result in the most untoward animosities, which are still interwoven with earthly calculations of spreading influence, if not even to the point of longing for a great political importance.
And all this with the name "God" on their lips, so that once again I would like to cry out to the Son of God: "By your actions, you have stamped my Father's houses as murder pits in your honour! Servants of the Word of God you call yourselves, but you have become servants of your own arrogance!"
Every Catholic thinks himself far better before God than a Protestant, without there being any reason for it; but every Protestant thinks himself more knowledgeable, more advanced, and therefore nearer to his God than the Catholic! And these are all those who claim to be followers of Christ, to be educated according to His word.
Fools are both parts, who base themselves on something that does not count at all before God's Will! These all sin far more against the second commandment than the followers of the other religions, for they abuse the name of God not only in word but in deed, in their whole way of life, even in their so-called "worship".
They give to every thinking and well observing person only a chilling example of forms without content, of empty thinking. It is precisely in their boundless conceit of wanting to make themselves and their surroundings believe that they have a place in heaven ahead of those of other faiths that they most profoundly desecrate the concept of God. The outward appearance of church customs, a baptism, and so many other things, do not do it! The inner man alone is to stand before the judgment! Mark this, you arrogant ones, to whom it has already been proclaimed that on the Day of Judgment they will parade proudly, with flags and splendid robes, in order joyfully to get their reward. But they never reach the kingdom of the spirit at the feet of the throne of God, because they receive the reward due them before they get there. A breath of ice shall blow them away like chaff that has no value, for they lack pure humility within themselves and true love for their neighbour!
They are, by their ways, the worst abusers of the name "God," the worst transgressors of the second commandment!
They all served Lucifer, not God! And thereby mocked all God's commandments! From the first to the last! But especially this second one, whose transgression here is the blackest defilement of the concept of God in the name!
Beware of still easily going beyond the commandment! Pay close attention to yourselves and your surroundings. Remember, if you faithfully obey nine commandments and do not obey one of them, you will be lost in the end. When a commandment is given by God, therein already lies the proof that it must not be taken lightly, that it must be fulfilled in indispensable necessity! Otherwise it would never have been given to you.
Do not dare to pray unless you are able to resonate with your whole soul in the words, and beware of presenting thoughtless babblers to your God; for you would thereby be guilty of an abuse of God's name before Him. Consider carefully before you ask Him for anything, whether it is urgently needed! Do not become entangled in formal prayers, which at certain times have become the custom in all religious practices. This is not only abuse, but blasphemy of the name of God! In joy or distress, a burning feeling without words is worth much more than a thousand word-prayers, even if this feeling lasts only a fraction of a moment. For such feeling is then always genuine, and not hypocrisy! Therefore, never misuse the term God. It is a sacred moment when the spirit of man wants to throw itself before the steps of the Throne of God in supplication or thanksgiving! This must never become habitual chatter! Not even by the servants of a church!
The man who manages to use the name God on all possible and impossible occasions of the day has never had the slightest idea of the concept of God! He is an animal, but not a man! For, as a human spirit, he must have the capacity to feel God's wonders within him, even if it were only once in his earthly life! But this one time alone would be enough to take away from him absolutely all desire for the careless transgression of the second commandment! He will then eternally feel the need to pronounce the name "God" only kneeling down in the highest purity of his whole inner being!
Who has not this, he is far from being worthy even of God's word, how much less to enter God's kingdom! How much less to enjoy His blessed nearness! For this reason it is forbidden to make an image of God the Father in the image of men. Every attempt to do so must lead to a pitiful diminution, for neither the spirit of man nor the hand of man is capable of seeing even the smallest part of reality in a visionary way and of capturing it in an earthly way. The greatest work of art in this could only mean profound degradation. One eye alone, in its ineffable brilliance, indicates all. – So sublime is the greatness, incomprehensible to you, which you sum up in the word "God," and which, in reckless presumption, you often venture to use as the most common of empty and thoughtless phrases! You will have to give an account of this action of yours!
But this clear commandment of the Lord is the least respected of all the ten commandments, and is thus the most transgressed. A thousandfold are the types of these disrespects. Even man thinks that many of these transgressions are quite harmless, only slight sayings, they nevertheless remain transgressions of this sharply given commandment! It is precisely these thousandfold, supposedly harmless transgressions that degrade the holy name of God, and with it the concept of God, which is always closely connected with the name, robbing it of its sacredness before men, even before children, and defiling its sanctity by making it a commonplace, by reducing it to a common idiom. People do not shy away from making themselves ridiculous in the process. I will not cite one of the many speeches; for the name is far too high and noble for that! But every person needs to pay attention to it even for one day, he will be dismayed at the vast accumulation of transgressions of the second commandment by men of both sexes, great and small, even down to children, who are scarcely able to form a proper sentence. For as the old sang, so do the young chirp! For this reason, the distortion of God is the first thing that the young learn in the apparently harmless transgression of God's Laws.
But the effect of this is the worst of all transgressions! It has literally spread devastatingly among all mankind, not only among Christians, but also among Mohammedans, Jews, and Buddhists, everywhere the same is heard tot he point of weariness. What then can the name "God" mean to man! It is devalued, is not even respected as the smallest of coins! Much worse than a worn-out garment. And this otherwise so clever man of the earth thinks it harmless, sins in it more than a hundred times in one day! Where is the deliberation! Where is the slightest stir of feeling? You, too, are completely numbed to it; listen calmly when the holiest of all concepts is thus trampled into the dirt of everyday life! But do not be mistaken! The account of guilt in the afterlife is mercilessly taxed for every one who has sinned in it! And it is not so easy to atone for this, because it has such far-reaching bad consequences, which must be avenged down to the third and fourth generation, if there is not a man in this generation who comes to understand and puts a stop to these evil doings.
Therefore, try to fight the harmful habit in your familiar circles. But, first of all, cut your own karmic threads with all the energy that is still in you, so that the debt account does not become larger than it already is. Do not believe in an easy redemption, because up to now you did not think anything wrong of it! The harm is therefore exactly the same! And the sin against the commandment remains unconditionally! You knew it well. If you did not make a real effort to realise its consequences, it is your fault! Therefore, Therefore nothing can possibly be reckoned with you! Listen and act, so that you will be able to redeem much while you are still on earth.
Otherwise, the mire that awaits you when you enter the beyond is frightening, and which obstructs your ascent.
But not the individual alone, but also the authorities openly showed their resistance against this commandment and also against the Word of God through many centuries, by forcibly demanding oaths from people, forcibly urging them to transgress, under threat of severe earthly punishments, if they did not comply with the demand. But the punishment in the afterlife is much more severe, and falls on all those who demanded the oath, not on those who had to take it under pressure. Christ also said again expressly, "Let your speech be yea or nay; for that which is above is of evil! “
And yet the authorities had the power to give the decisive weight to the yes or the no, by punishing it in the case of deception in court just as they punished perjury! In doing so, they would be able to raise the value of the words in court to that level which they needed for a verdict. It was not necessary, therefore, to lead people to the transgression of the commandment of God! Now, in return, they will have their judgment in the afterlife. More severe, more rigorous, than they have ever mocked interaction. There is no escape from it!
Even worse, however, were the churches and their representatives, who subjected their fellow men to the worst tortures under invocations of God, and finally burned them again under invocations of God, if they had not already been subjected to the torments before. The Roman emperor Nero, well known to all, and notorious for his cruelty, was not so bad in his tortures of Christians, not so damnable as the Catholic Church with its immense register of sins against the laws of God! Firstly, he did not murder and torture so much, and secondly, he did not do it under such hypocritical invocations of God, which in this way must rank among the greatest blasphemies possible to be perpetrated by a human being!
It is of no use for these same churches to condemn today that which, alas, was then all too long perpetrated by them; for they did not leave it voluntarily!
And still today it is not much different in mutual, only quieter contempt and in a different, more modern form! In this, too, only its form has changed with time, not the living core! And this core alone, which one so gladly conceals, counts before the judgment of God, never the outer form!
And this present form, only apparently harmless, was born of the same unspeakable arrogance of spirit on the part of the representatives of all the churches, as before. And where there is not the damnable arrogance, there is an empty conceit based on the earthly power of the churches. These vices often enough result in the most untoward animosities, which are still interwoven with earthly calculations of spreading influence, if not even to the point of longing for a great political importance.
And all this with the name "God" on their lips, so that once again I would like to cry out to the Son of God: "By your actions, you have stamped my Father's houses as murder pits in your honour! Servants of the Word of God you call yourselves, but you have become servants of your own arrogance!"
Every Catholic thinks himself far better before God than a Protestant, without there being any reason for it; but every Protestant thinks himself more knowledgeable, more advanced, and therefore nearer to his God than the Catholic! And these are all those who claim to be followers of Christ, to be educated according to His word.
Fools are both parts, who base themselves on something that does not count at all before God's Will! These all sin far more against the second commandment than the followers of the other religions, for they abuse the name of God not only in word but in deed, in their whole way of life, even in their so-called "worship".
They give to every thinking and well observing person only a chilling example of forms without content, of empty thinking. It is precisely in their boundless conceit of wanting to make themselves and their surroundings believe that they have a place in heaven ahead of those of other faiths that they most profoundly desecrate the concept of God. The outward appearance of church customs, a baptism, and so many other things, do not do it! The inner man alone is to stand before the judgment! Mark this, you arrogant ones, to whom it has already been proclaimed that on the Day of Judgment they will parade proudly, with flags and splendid robes, in order joyfully to get their reward. But they never reach the kingdom of the spirit at the feet of the throne of God, because they receive the reward due them before they get there. A breath of ice shall blow them away like chaff that has no value, for they lack pure humility within themselves and true love for their neighbour!
They are, by their ways, the worst abusers of the name "God," the worst transgressors of the second commandment!
They all served Lucifer, not God! And thereby mocked all God's commandments! From the first to the last! But especially this second one, whose transgression here is the blackest defilement of the concept of God in the name!
Beware of still easily going beyond the commandment! Pay close attention to yourselves and your surroundings. Remember, if you faithfully obey nine commandments and do not obey one of them, you will be lost in the end. When a commandment is given by God, therein already lies the proof that it must not be taken lightly, that it must be fulfilled in indispensable necessity! Otherwise it would never have been given to you.
Do not dare to pray unless you are able to resonate with your whole soul in the words, and beware of presenting thoughtless babblers to your God; for you would thereby be guilty of an abuse of God's name before Him. Consider carefully before you ask Him for anything, whether it is urgently needed! Do not become entangled in formal prayers, which at certain times have become the custom in all religious practices. This is not only abuse, but blasphemy of the name of God! In joy or distress, a burning feeling without words is worth much more than a thousand word-prayers, even if this feeling lasts only a fraction of a moment. For such feeling is then always genuine, and not hypocrisy! Therefore, never misuse the term God. It is a sacred moment when the spirit of man wants to throw itself before the steps of the Throne of God in supplication or thanksgiving! This must never become habitual chatter! Not even by the servants of a church!
The man who manages to use the name God on all possible and impossible occasions of the day has never had the slightest idea of the concept of God! He is an animal, but not a man! For, as a human spirit, he must have the capacity to feel God's wonders within him, even if it were only once in his earthly life! But this one time alone would be enough to take away from him absolutely all desire for the careless transgression of the second commandment! He will then eternally feel the need to pronounce the name "God" only kneeling down in the highest purity of his whole inner being!
Who has not this, he is far from being worthy even of God's word, how much less to enter God's kingdom! How much less to enjoy His blessed nearness! For this reason it is forbidden to make an image of God the Father in the image of men. Every attempt to do so must lead to a pitiful diminution, for neither the spirit of man nor the hand of man is capable of seeing even the smallest part of reality in a visionary way and of capturing it in an earthly way. The greatest work of art in this could only mean profound degradation. One eye alone, in its ineffable brilliance, indicates all. – So sublime is the greatness, incomprehensible to you, which you sum up in the word "God," and which, in reckless presumption, you often venture to use as the most common of empty and thoughtless phrases! You will have to give an account of this action of yours!
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The Third Commandment
You should keep the Sabbath day holy!
Who takes the trouble to understand a commandment? If one looks at the children, the adults, how they carelessly treat the commandments of their God, horror could, or should, come to every seriously thinking person. The commandments are taught to children at school where they are superficially discussed. This is the human being who is when he has absorbed the wording and can give some information about it, as long as there is a danger that he will be questioned about it. When he then leaves school and enters professional life, this wording is soon forgotten, and with it the meaning. The best proof that he was not really interested in what his Lord and God was demanding of him. But he does not even demand anything with it, but in love gives to all human beings what they urgently need! After all, it was noticed from the Light how much people lost their way. So God, like an educator, faithfully showed them the path that would lead them to eternal existence in the Luminous Realm of the Spirit, thus to their happiness. Whereas non-observance must lead to one’s unhappiness and ruin! For this very reason it is not really right to speak of commandments. Rather, they are well-intentioned pieces of advice, showing the right way through this World of Matter, and which the human spirits themselves have wished to know. But even this so beautiful thought has no effect on man. He has literally become too bogged down in his own trains of thought and does not want to see or hear anything else except what he has built up for himself in the form of views that his little earthly knowledge has allowed him to construct. He does not feel how the World of Matter carries him further and further to the limit where, for the last time, either - or stands for him, as the decision that now remains decisive for his whole being, according to which he must go his chosen path to the end without being able to turn back from it again. Even if he finally comes to realization. It then becomes too late and only contributes to increasing the agony for him.
In order to help him gain knowledge in time, despite his aberrations, God gave mankind the third commandment, the advice to keep the Sabbath holy! If this commandment had been fulfilled, every human being in the course of time would have gradually awakened the longing to strive towards the Light, and with this longing the path would finally have revealed itself which would have brought him up to the fulfilment of his wishes, which would have increasingly condensed into prayer. Then man would have stood differently today at the turning point of the World! Fully matured, ripe for the Kingdom that must now come.
So, you, hear and act, that the fulfilment of the commandment may prepare your way. You must keep the Sabbath day holy! You! It is clearly written in the Words that you must consecrate the day of rest, make it holy for yourself! A Sabbath day is a time of rest, that is, when you rest from the work which your path on earth imposes upon you. But by no means do you consecrate the hours of rest, the day of rest, if you only want to care for your body. Nor if you seek diversion in games, drink or dance. The hours of rest should lead you to a quiet contemplation of your thoughts and intuitions, to review your life on earth up to now, especially the past working days of the last week, and to make use of them for your future. You can always look back over six days, what lasts longer is easily forgotten. It will not fail to happen that your intuitions will slowly float higher and you become a seeker after the Truth. Once you are really a seeker, a path will be shown to you. And as you walk a new path here on earth, unknown to you until then, only examining, exploring, so you should also carefully take step by step on the new spiritual paths that open up to you, in order to always keep firm ground under your feet. You must not jump, because then the danger of falling is greater. Through such thinking and intuiting in the solemn hours of your earthly existence you will never lose anything, but only gain.
No one sanctifies an hour of worship by going to church if he does not at the same time want to think in the time of rest about what he heard there, in order to absorb it properly and live in it. The priest cannot sanctify your day if you do not do it of your own accord. Weigh again and again whether the actual meaning of God's Word is completely in harmony with your work. By this means the Sabbath day will then be sanctified by you; for it has acquired, through quiet contemplation, the content for whose purpose it was instituted. Every Sabbath day thus becomes a landmark on your path, which retroactively gives the days of your gross material activity the value which they should have for the maturing of your soul. Then they are not lived in vain and you are constantly making long-lasting progress. To rest on the Sabbath day does not mean to fritter time away. As soon as you neglect this, you miss your time which was allowed you for maturing, and after the turning point for the World, which now slowly closes its rays around you; there is only a short time left to make up for what you have neglected, provided that you use all the strength you have left for it. Sanctify, therefore, the Sabbath day! Be it in your home or, better still, in nature, which helps you to become awake in thoughts and intuition! Fulfil the commandment of the Lord. It is for your benefit!
In order to help him gain knowledge in time, despite his aberrations, God gave mankind the third commandment, the advice to keep the Sabbath holy! If this commandment had been fulfilled, every human being in the course of time would have gradually awakened the longing to strive towards the Light, and with this longing the path would finally have revealed itself which would have brought him up to the fulfilment of his wishes, which would have increasingly condensed into prayer. Then man would have stood differently today at the turning point of the World! Fully matured, ripe for the Kingdom that must now come.
So, you, hear and act, that the fulfilment of the commandment may prepare your way. You must keep the Sabbath day holy! You! It is clearly written in the Words that you must consecrate the day of rest, make it holy for yourself! A Sabbath day is a time of rest, that is, when you rest from the work which your path on earth imposes upon you. But by no means do you consecrate the hours of rest, the day of rest, if you only want to care for your body. Nor if you seek diversion in games, drink or dance. The hours of rest should lead you to a quiet contemplation of your thoughts and intuitions, to review your life on earth up to now, especially the past working days of the last week, and to make use of them for your future. You can always look back over six days, what lasts longer is easily forgotten. It will not fail to happen that your intuitions will slowly float higher and you become a seeker after the Truth. Once you are really a seeker, a path will be shown to you. And as you walk a new path here on earth, unknown to you until then, only examining, exploring, so you should also carefully take step by step on the new spiritual paths that open up to you, in order to always keep firm ground under your feet. You must not jump, because then the danger of falling is greater. Through such thinking and intuiting in the solemn hours of your earthly existence you will never lose anything, but only gain.
No one sanctifies an hour of worship by going to church if he does not at the same time want to think in the time of rest about what he heard there, in order to absorb it properly and live in it. The priest cannot sanctify your day if you do not do it of your own accord. Weigh again and again whether the actual meaning of God's Word is completely in harmony with your work. By this means the Sabbath day will then be sanctified by you; for it has acquired, through quiet contemplation, the content for whose purpose it was instituted. Every Sabbath day thus becomes a landmark on your path, which retroactively gives the days of your gross material activity the value which they should have for the maturing of your soul. Then they are not lived in vain and you are constantly making long-lasting progress. To rest on the Sabbath day does not mean to fritter time away. As soon as you neglect this, you miss your time which was allowed you for maturing, and after the turning point for the World, which now slowly closes its rays around you; there is only a short time left to make up for what you have neglected, provided that you use all the strength you have left for it. Sanctify, therefore, the Sabbath day! Be it in your home or, better still, in nature, which helps you to become awake in thoughts and intuition! Fulfil the commandment of the Lord. It is for your benefit!
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The Fourth Commandment
You should honour father and mother!
God once gave this commandment to mankind through Moses. But it has caused unspeakable struggles of the soul. How many a child, how many an adult, has struggled hard not to violate this commandment in the gravest way. How can a child honour a father who degrades himself to a drunkard, or a mother who, through her moods, unbridled temper, lack of self-control and so much more make the hours very bitter for the father and the whole house by her whims, and make it impossible for a calm mood to arise? Can there be any honour in a child honour for parents when it hears them harshly insulting, deceiving, or even beating each other? Many a marital conflict has often made the commandment a torment to the children, making it impossible for them to fulfil it. After all, it would only be hypocrisy for a child to claim to honour a mother who behaves much more kindly towards strangers than towards her own husband, the child's father. If it notices in her the tendency to superficiality, if it sees her sink in the most ridiculous vanity to the spineless slave of every fashionable folly, which so often can no longer be reconciled with the concept of serious, high motherhood, which robs all beauty and sublimity of motherly dignity ... whereupon must a child then still find voluntary reverence for the mother? What is there in the one word: "Mother! "What does it demand. A child who is not yet poisoned must unconsciously perceive within himself that a human being with a mature, serious spirit will never come to the decision to expose his or her physical body merely for the sake of fashion. How then can there be any sacredness in the mother for the child! Natural reverence for the mother sinks impulsively to the empty form of a customary duty, or, depending on the upbringing, to the self-evident social politeness, thus to hypocrisy, which lacks any stirring of the soul. It is precisely this soul-stirring that contain warm life! Which is indispensable to a child and accompanies it like a safe shield as it grows up and steps out into life, protecting it from all kinds of temptations, and remaining inwardly a strong refuge for it if, it ever encounters any doubts. Even in old age! The word “mother” or “father” should always awaken a warm, intimate feeling, from which the image, in full purity, stands worthy before the soul, warning or approving, as a guiding star in the entire existence on earth!
And what a treasure is now taken from every child if it cannot honour its father or mother with all its soul!
But this torment of the soul, however, is again only caused by the incorrect conception of the commandment on the part of human beings. Incorrect was the previous view because it limited the meaning and made it one-sided, whereas nothing that God sends can be one-sided. But what was even more incorrect was to have distorted this commandment by supposing to improve it according to human understanding, and to have made it even more precise by adding: "Thou shalt honour thy father and thy mother!" This made it personal. This was bound to lead to error, for the commandment in its proper form is only: “You shall honour your father and mother!"
It does not mean individual, specific persons, whose nature cannot be determined or foreseen from the outset. Such absurdities never occur in the Divine Laws. Under no circumstances does God demand to honour something that does not necessarily deserve to be honoured!
On the contrary, this commandment comprises a concept of fatherhood and motherhood instead of personality. It does not, therefore, address the children first, but the parents themselves, demanding of them that they honour fatherhood and motherhood! The commandment imposes an unconditional duty on parents to be fully aware of their high task at all times, and thus also to keep in mind the responsibility that lies therein.
In the beyond and in the Light, one does not live with words but in concepts.
For this reason, it may happen that when these words are reproduced, a restriction of these concepts occurs, as is visible in this case. But woe to those who do not respect this commandment, who do not make the effort to know it correctly. It is no excuse that it has been so often misinterpreted and misperceived. The consequences of not obeying the commandment were already apparent at the time of conception and the entry of the soul. Things would be quite different on this earth if people had understood and fulfilled this crucial commandment. Completely different souls could then be incarnated, for whom it would not have been possible to allow a decline in morality and ethics to such a degree as it is today! Look at the murders, look at the wild dances, look at the orgies into which everything wants to escalate today. As if it were the crowning of the triumph of sultry currents of darkness. And behold the uncomprehending equanimity with which one accepts and even promotes the decline as something right or something that has always existed.
Where is the person who strives to recognize the Will of God correctly, who seeks to grasp the extensive greatness while soaring high, instead of stubbornly forcing this great Will over and over again into the miserable limitation of the earthly brain, which he made the temple of the intellect. He thus forces his own gaze to the ground like a slave walking in chains, instead of raising it upward with the gleam of joy to meet the ray of knowledge.
Do you not see how poorly you place yourselves in every conception of all that comes to you from the Light? Whether it be the commandments, the promises, the Message of Christ, or even the whole of Creation! You want to see nothing, recognize nothing! You do not seek to really understand anything! You do not take it as it is, but try desperately to reshape everything again and again into the lower views to which you have surrendered for millennia. Free yourselves at last from these traditions. The force to do so is at your disposal. At any moment. And without you having to make sacrifices. But with a jerk, with an act of will, it must be thrown from you! Without holding anything back any of it in an amorous glance. As soon as you try to make an intermediary connection, you will never become free from what has been up to now, but rather it will draw you back again and again tenaciously. It can only be easy for you if you separate everything old with one cut and thus step in front the new without the old burden. Only then will the gate open for you, otherwise it will remain firmly closed. And that only requires a really serious volition. It happens in a moment. Just like awakening from sleep. If you do not immediately rise from your bed, you will become tired again, and the joy of the new day's work will slacken, if it is not completely lost.
You should honour father and mother! Let this now be a holy command to you. Honour fatherhood and motherhood! Who realizes today what great dignity lies in this. And what force to ennoble humanity! People who unite here on earth should be clear about this for once, then every marriage will really be marriage, anchored in the spiritual! And all fathers and mothers will be honourable according to the Divine Laws!
For children, however, this commandment will become sacred and alive through their parents. They will not be able to do otherwise than to honour the father and mother from the soul, no matter the nature of these children. The very nature of their parents will compel them to do so. And woe then to the children who do not completely fulfil the commandment. A heavy karma would be laid upon them; for the reason for it is then also fully given. But in the reciprocal action, observance will soon become a matter of course, joy and necessity! Go therefore and observe the commandments of God more seriously than you have done so far! That means, observe and fulfil them! So that you may be happy!
And what a treasure is now taken from every child if it cannot honour its father or mother with all its soul!
But this torment of the soul, however, is again only caused by the incorrect conception of the commandment on the part of human beings. Incorrect was the previous view because it limited the meaning and made it one-sided, whereas nothing that God sends can be one-sided. But what was even more incorrect was to have distorted this commandment by supposing to improve it according to human understanding, and to have made it even more precise by adding: "Thou shalt honour thy father and thy mother!" This made it personal. This was bound to lead to error, for the commandment in its proper form is only: “You shall honour your father and mother!"
It does not mean individual, specific persons, whose nature cannot be determined or foreseen from the outset. Such absurdities never occur in the Divine Laws. Under no circumstances does God demand to honour something that does not necessarily deserve to be honoured!
On the contrary, this commandment comprises a concept of fatherhood and motherhood instead of personality. It does not, therefore, address the children first, but the parents themselves, demanding of them that they honour fatherhood and motherhood! The commandment imposes an unconditional duty on parents to be fully aware of their high task at all times, and thus also to keep in mind the responsibility that lies therein.
In the beyond and in the Light, one does not live with words but in concepts.
For this reason, it may happen that when these words are reproduced, a restriction of these concepts occurs, as is visible in this case. But woe to those who do not respect this commandment, who do not make the effort to know it correctly. It is no excuse that it has been so often misinterpreted and misperceived. The consequences of not obeying the commandment were already apparent at the time of conception and the entry of the soul. Things would be quite different on this earth if people had understood and fulfilled this crucial commandment. Completely different souls could then be incarnated, for whom it would not have been possible to allow a decline in morality and ethics to such a degree as it is today! Look at the murders, look at the wild dances, look at the orgies into which everything wants to escalate today. As if it were the crowning of the triumph of sultry currents of darkness. And behold the uncomprehending equanimity with which one accepts and even promotes the decline as something right or something that has always existed.
Where is the person who strives to recognize the Will of God correctly, who seeks to grasp the extensive greatness while soaring high, instead of stubbornly forcing this great Will over and over again into the miserable limitation of the earthly brain, which he made the temple of the intellect. He thus forces his own gaze to the ground like a slave walking in chains, instead of raising it upward with the gleam of joy to meet the ray of knowledge.
Do you not see how poorly you place yourselves in every conception of all that comes to you from the Light? Whether it be the commandments, the promises, the Message of Christ, or even the whole of Creation! You want to see nothing, recognize nothing! You do not seek to really understand anything! You do not take it as it is, but try desperately to reshape everything again and again into the lower views to which you have surrendered for millennia. Free yourselves at last from these traditions. The force to do so is at your disposal. At any moment. And without you having to make sacrifices. But with a jerk, with an act of will, it must be thrown from you! Without holding anything back any of it in an amorous glance. As soon as you try to make an intermediary connection, you will never become free from what has been up to now, but rather it will draw you back again and again tenaciously. It can only be easy for you if you separate everything old with one cut and thus step in front the new without the old burden. Only then will the gate open for you, otherwise it will remain firmly closed. And that only requires a really serious volition. It happens in a moment. Just like awakening from sleep. If you do not immediately rise from your bed, you will become tired again, and the joy of the new day's work will slacken, if it is not completely lost.
You should honour father and mother! Let this now be a holy command to you. Honour fatherhood and motherhood! Who realizes today what great dignity lies in this. And what force to ennoble humanity! People who unite here on earth should be clear about this for once, then every marriage will really be marriage, anchored in the spiritual! And all fathers and mothers will be honourable according to the Divine Laws!
For children, however, this commandment will become sacred and alive through their parents. They will not be able to do otherwise than to honour the father and mother from the soul, no matter the nature of these children. The very nature of their parents will compel them to do so. And woe then to the children who do not completely fulfil the commandment. A heavy karma would be laid upon them; for the reason for it is then also fully given. But in the reciprocal action, observance will soon become a matter of course, joy and necessity! Go therefore and observe the commandments of God more seriously than you have done so far! That means, observe and fulfil them! So that you may be happy!
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The Fifth Commandment
You should not kill!
Beat your breast, O man, and praise aloud that you are not a murderer! For to kill is to murder, and according to your conviction you have never transgressed the Commandment of the Lord. You can stand proudly before Him and, without fear or anxiety, look forward with hope to the opening of this very page of your book of life.
But have you ever considered that within you there is also the act of killing, and that killing is synonymous with murder?
There is no difference in this. You make the distinction only in your way of expression, your language; for the Commandment does not say one-sidedly: Thou shalt not kill any life on Gross Material life earth! But in a broad and comprehensive way: You must not kill!
For example, a father had a son. The father was driven by a short-sighted earthly ambition that his son should study at all costs. But in this son rested gifts that urged him to do other things, whereby studying would be of no use to him at all. So it was quite natural that the son felt no desire for studying, which had been forced upon him, nor was he able to summon up the strength necessary to do so joyfully. The son was obedient. He laboured to fulfil his father’s will at the expense of his health. For since it was against the son’s nature, against the gifts he carried within him, it was quite natural that the physical body would also suffer. I do not want to follow the case any further here, which is repeated so many times in life on earth that it would go into the hundreds of thousands and even more. But it is irrefutable that the father, through his ambition or stubbornness, tried to kill something in this son that was given to him on earth to develop! In many cases it really succeeds in killing it, since development later in life is hardly possible in that the healthy vital force for it was disrupted in the best years, carelessly wasted on things alien to the boy’s nature.
The father thus severely violated the Commandment: You must not kill! Quite apart from the fact that with his actions he deprived human beings of something that could perhaps be of great benefit to them through the boy! However, he must consider that the boy is or may be spiritually akin to him or to the mother, but nevertheless remains before the Creator a separate individual, who is obliged to develop the gifts he received on earth for his own good. Perhaps, by God’s Grace, he was even granted the opportunity to redeem a heavy karma by inventing something that would be of great benefit to humanity in a certain sense! This guilt of prevention weighs especially heavy on the father or mother who placed their narrow earthly views above the great threads of destiny, and thus abused their power of parenthood.
It is no different when parents are able to let the petty earthly calculations of their intellect prevail in the marriages of their children. How often is a most noble feeling of their child stifled ruthlessly, whereby not only is the child given the worldlessness*, but at the same time unhappiness of the soul, which remains more incisive for the child’s being than all the money and earthly goods.
Of course, parents should not give in to every dream or wish of a child. That would not be fulfilling their parental duty. But the serious examination is required, which must never be one-sidedly earthly! However, it is precisely this selfless examination that is seldom or not at all applied by parents. There are cases of a thousand kinds. It is not necessary for me to speak more about this. Think about it for yourselves, lest you violate this so grave Word of God in the Commandment! Undreamt-of paths will open up for you!
But then there is also the child who can also stifle the parents’ hopes, which is only reasonable! If it does not develop the gifts within itself as is necessary to achieve great things, as soon as the parents have accommodatingly allowed it to choose the path it has asked for. Then, too, it comes to the killing of noble feelings in its parents, and it will have transgressed the commandment in a crude way!
Then too, if a person somehow deceives true friendship, or trust that someone gives him. He kills and thereby injures something in the other that really holds life! It is a violation of God’s Word: You must not kill! Brings him evil fate, which he must resolve.
You see that all Commandments are only the best friends for people, to protect them faithfully from evil and suffering! Therefore love them and respect them as a treasure that brings you only joy! ––
But have you ever considered that within you there is also the act of killing, and that killing is synonymous with murder?
There is no difference in this. You make the distinction only in your way of expression, your language; for the Commandment does not say one-sidedly: Thou shalt not kill any life on Gross Material life earth! But in a broad and comprehensive way: You must not kill!
For example, a father had a son. The father was driven by a short-sighted earthly ambition that his son should study at all costs. But in this son rested gifts that urged him to do other things, whereby studying would be of no use to him at all. So it was quite natural that the son felt no desire for studying, which had been forced upon him, nor was he able to summon up the strength necessary to do so joyfully. The son was obedient. He laboured to fulfil his father’s will at the expense of his health. For since it was against the son’s nature, against the gifts he carried within him, it was quite natural that the physical body would also suffer. I do not want to follow the case any further here, which is repeated so many times in life on earth that it would go into the hundreds of thousands and even more. But it is irrefutable that the father, through his ambition or stubbornness, tried to kill something in this son that was given to him on earth to develop! In many cases it really succeeds in killing it, since development later in life is hardly possible in that the healthy vital force for it was disrupted in the best years, carelessly wasted on things alien to the boy’s nature.
The father thus severely violated the Commandment: You must not kill! Quite apart from the fact that with his actions he deprived human beings of something that could perhaps be of great benefit to them through the boy! However, he must consider that the boy is or may be spiritually akin to him or to the mother, but nevertheless remains before the Creator a separate individual, who is obliged to develop the gifts he received on earth for his own good. Perhaps, by God’s Grace, he was even granted the opportunity to redeem a heavy karma by inventing something that would be of great benefit to humanity in a certain sense! This guilt of prevention weighs especially heavy on the father or mother who placed their narrow earthly views above the great threads of destiny, and thus abused their power of parenthood.
It is no different when parents are able to let the petty earthly calculations of their intellect prevail in the marriages of their children. How often is a most noble feeling of their child stifled ruthlessly, whereby not only is the child given the worldlessness*, but at the same time unhappiness of the soul, which remains more incisive for the child’s being than all the money and earthly goods.
Of course, parents should not give in to every dream or wish of a child. That would not be fulfilling their parental duty. But the serious examination is required, which must never be one-sidedly earthly! However, it is precisely this selfless examination that is seldom or not at all applied by parents. There are cases of a thousand kinds. It is not necessary for me to speak more about this. Think about it for yourselves, lest you violate this so grave Word of God in the Commandment! Undreamt-of paths will open up for you!
But then there is also the child who can also stifle the parents’ hopes, which is only reasonable! If it does not develop the gifts within itself as is necessary to achieve great things, as soon as the parents have accommodatingly allowed it to choose the path it has asked for. Then, too, it comes to the killing of noble feelings in its parents, and it will have transgressed the commandment in a crude way!
Then too, if a person somehow deceives true friendship, or trust that someone gives him. He kills and thereby injures something in the other that really holds life! It is a violation of God’s Word: You must not kill! Brings him evil fate, which he must resolve.
You see that all Commandments are only the best friends for people, to protect them faithfully from evil and suffering! Therefore love them and respect them as a treasure that brings you only joy! ––
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*The state of nature from which one has been forever severed.
The Sixth Commandment
You should not commit adultery!
The very fact that there is another commandment, which goes as follows: "Do not lust after your neighbour's wife! "shows little of what this sixth commandment was intended to mean, by what earthly law defines it to be.
“You should not commit adultery" can also be, "You should not break the peace of a marriage! " Peace, naturally, means harmony. At the same time it also implies what the condition of a marriage should be in the first place; since where nothing can be broken or can be disturbed, the commandment, which does not conform to earthly conceptions and determinations but to the Will of God, has no validity.
Marriage is therefore only in actuality where harmony and peace reign. Where one always seeks only to live for the other and to give him joy. One-sidedness and this frequent seductive, deadly boredom are completely and forever excluded from the outset, as is the dangerous longing for distraction or the conceitedness of not being understood! The murder weapons of every happiness! It is precisely these evils that cannot exist in a true marriage at all, which each one truly lives for the other, because not wanting to be understood and also the longing for distraction are simply the consequences of profound egoism that seeks to live only for oneself, but not for the other.
With true love of the soul, the mutual joyful giving of oneself is something quite natural, and in this also reciprocally, a shortcoming of one party is entirely excluded. Provided, of course, that the level of education of those who are united is not too great a gap.
This is one condition required of the Law of Attraction of Homogeneous Species in the great Universe, which must be fully met if happiness is to be complete.
But where there is no peace, where harmony is not to be found, the union does not deserve to be called marriage; it is then not a marriage for them, but only an earthly union, which as such has no worth before God and therefore cannot bring blessing in this sense in which it is to be expected in a true marriage.
With this sixth commandment, therefore, true marriage according to God’s Will is a strict prerequisite! Any other is unprotected. But woe to anyone who dares in any manner to cause disturbance in a true marriage! For the triumph, which here on earth is obtained from it, takes a quite different form in the Ethereal World than is expected! In horror he would want to escape from it, when he has to cross over into the region where it awaits him.
It is adultery in the broadest sense of the word, even where an attempt is made to separate two people who have true spiritual love, as very often parents do to their children when one or another earthly circumstance is not as they wish! And woe to the woman, woe to the man, whether young or old, who, out of envy or dalliance, consciously brings strife or even quarrel between such a pure loving couple! Let pure love between two humans be sacred before each other; let it inspire reverence and respect, but not lust. For it is under the protection of God’s Will!
If the feeling of such impure desire seek to arise, then the person should turn and look only with a clear eye among those humans who have not yet joined their soul in marriage.
If he seeks with earnestness and patience, then he will definitely find someone who suits him in the manner God intended, one with whom he then also becomes happy, without first incurring guilt on himself, which can never bring or grant happiness!
This great mistake of these people is that often they initially pursue a weak emotional impulse, hold it forcibly within themselves, nurse it with contrived fantasies, until it strengthens satisfactorily and torments them as well, driving them to sin. Thousands of human spirits need not have got lost, if only they would always pay attention to the beginning of this, which, if it is not produced by the calculating intellect, arising from degrading dalliance, which in turn has its origin in the corrupt customs of earthly family and, above all, social life. These are indeed often entirely marriage markets, rarely cleaner than the barefaced slave trade in the East. Therein lies a breeding ground of the germs for adultery.
Parents, beware, lest you fall into the guilt of adultery against your children out of intellectual calculation! Countless are already entangled in it. It will require far too much time to free yourself again from the entanglement. You, children, be careful not to disturb the peace between your parents, or you too will be guilty of adultery. Consider this carefully. Otherwise you make yourselves an enemy of your God, and there is no such enemy who would not ultimately have to fall to destruction in unspeakable torment, without God lifting a finger! You should never destroy the peace and harmony between two people.
Hammer this into your head, that it may always stand as a warning before the eye of your soul. —
“You should not commit adultery" can also be, "You should not break the peace of a marriage! " Peace, naturally, means harmony. At the same time it also implies what the condition of a marriage should be in the first place; since where nothing can be broken or can be disturbed, the commandment, which does not conform to earthly conceptions and determinations but to the Will of God, has no validity.
Marriage is therefore only in actuality where harmony and peace reign. Where one always seeks only to live for the other and to give him joy. One-sidedness and this frequent seductive, deadly boredom are completely and forever excluded from the outset, as is the dangerous longing for distraction or the conceitedness of not being understood! The murder weapons of every happiness! It is precisely these evils that cannot exist in a true marriage at all, which each one truly lives for the other, because not wanting to be understood and also the longing for distraction are simply the consequences of profound egoism that seeks to live only for oneself, but not for the other.
With true love of the soul, the mutual joyful giving of oneself is something quite natural, and in this also reciprocally, a shortcoming of one party is entirely excluded. Provided, of course, that the level of education of those who are united is not too great a gap.
This is one condition required of the Law of Attraction of Homogeneous Species in the great Universe, which must be fully met if happiness is to be complete.
But where there is no peace, where harmony is not to be found, the union does not deserve to be called marriage; it is then not a marriage for them, but only an earthly union, which as such has no worth before God and therefore cannot bring blessing in this sense in which it is to be expected in a true marriage.
With this sixth commandment, therefore, true marriage according to God’s Will is a strict prerequisite! Any other is unprotected. But woe to anyone who dares in any manner to cause disturbance in a true marriage! For the triumph, which here on earth is obtained from it, takes a quite different form in the Ethereal World than is expected! In horror he would want to escape from it, when he has to cross over into the region where it awaits him.
It is adultery in the broadest sense of the word, even where an attempt is made to separate two people who have true spiritual love, as very often parents do to their children when one or another earthly circumstance is not as they wish! And woe to the woman, woe to the man, whether young or old, who, out of envy or dalliance, consciously brings strife or even quarrel between such a pure loving couple! Let pure love between two humans be sacred before each other; let it inspire reverence and respect, but not lust. For it is under the protection of God’s Will!
If the feeling of such impure desire seek to arise, then the person should turn and look only with a clear eye among those humans who have not yet joined their soul in marriage.
If he seeks with earnestness and patience, then he will definitely find someone who suits him in the manner God intended, one with whom he then also becomes happy, without first incurring guilt on himself, which can never bring or grant happiness!
This great mistake of these people is that often they initially pursue a weak emotional impulse, hold it forcibly within themselves, nurse it with contrived fantasies, until it strengthens satisfactorily and torments them as well, driving them to sin. Thousands of human spirits need not have got lost, if only they would always pay attention to the beginning of this, which, if it is not produced by the calculating intellect, arising from degrading dalliance, which in turn has its origin in the corrupt customs of earthly family and, above all, social life. These are indeed often entirely marriage markets, rarely cleaner than the barefaced slave trade in the East. Therein lies a breeding ground of the germs for adultery.
Parents, beware, lest you fall into the guilt of adultery against your children out of intellectual calculation! Countless are already entangled in it. It will require far too much time to free yourself again from the entanglement. You, children, be careful not to disturb the peace between your parents, or you too will be guilty of adultery. Consider this carefully. Otherwise you make yourselves an enemy of your God, and there is no such enemy who would not ultimately have to fall to destruction in unspeakable torment, without God lifting a finger! You should never destroy the peace and harmony between two people.
Hammer this into your head, that it may always stand as a warning before the eye of your soul. —
The Seventh Commandment
You should not steal!
The thief is regarded as one of the most despicable of all creatures. A thief is anyone who takes something that belongs to someone else without that person’s consent!
Therein lies the explanation. In order to obey the commandment correctly, a person has nothing more to do than to always clearly distinguish what belongs to others! That’s not difficult, everyone will immediately say to themselves. And with that he has already dismissed it. Certainly, it is not difficult, indeed all ten commandments are basically not difficult to obey, if one only wants to do the right thing. But the condition still remains that one knows them correctly. And many lack this. In order to comply, have you for once really thought about what is someone else’s property that you are not allowed to take?
This is his money, his jewellery, his clothes, perhaps also his house and farm with cattle and everything that goes with it. But this commandment does not say that it only applies to earthly material goods! There are a set of values that are even more precious! Another person’s property also includes his reputation, his public image, his thoughts, his character, even the trust that he enjoys from others, if not from everyone, at least here and there! Once we have got thus far, then many a soul’s pride will become a little more timid in the face of the commandment. For, ask yourself: Have you never tried, perhaps in good faith, to shake or completely undermine the trust that one person has in another by issuing a warning of caution? In doing so, you have quite literally stolen from the person in whom that trust was placed! Because you have taken it from him! Or you had attempted to do so.
You have also stolen from your neighbour even if you know something about his circumstances and pass on this knowledge without the consent of the person concerned. You can see from this how deeply entangled in the net of guilt are all those people who try to make a business out of such things or who do this kind of business at all, such as so-called credit agencies or the like. Because of all the consequences of this activity of constant violation of God's Law, the self-entanglement in these moves creates such an enormous net that these people can never break free again and remain exposed to damnation; for they are all more heavily burdened than earthly material burglars and thieves. Those who support and encourage such ‘business people’ in their sinful trade are equally guilty and recipients of stolen goods. Every upright and honest thinking person, whether a private citizen or a businessperson, has the right and the duty to demand immediate clarification and, if necessary, to obtain conclusive documents from a person who approaches him with any kind of request, so that he can decide for himself how far he can trust him to fulfil his wishes. Anything less is unhealthy and reprehensible.
At the same time, the fulfilment of this commandment has the effect of awakening intuition more and more, developing and revealing its capabilities. Man thus receives the right knowledge of human nature, which he lost only for convenience. Little by little he loses what is the dead, machine-like man and becomes a living human being again. Real personalities will emerge, while the present mass-bred animal will have to disappear.
Take the trouble to think deeply about this, and see to it that in the end you do not find the commandment much transgressed in the pages of your debt book!
Therein lies the explanation. In order to obey the commandment correctly, a person has nothing more to do than to always clearly distinguish what belongs to others! That’s not difficult, everyone will immediately say to themselves. And with that he has already dismissed it. Certainly, it is not difficult, indeed all ten commandments are basically not difficult to obey, if one only wants to do the right thing. But the condition still remains that one knows them correctly. And many lack this. In order to comply, have you for once really thought about what is someone else’s property that you are not allowed to take?
This is his money, his jewellery, his clothes, perhaps also his house and farm with cattle and everything that goes with it. But this commandment does not say that it only applies to earthly material goods! There are a set of values that are even more precious! Another person’s property also includes his reputation, his public image, his thoughts, his character, even the trust that he enjoys from others, if not from everyone, at least here and there! Once we have got thus far, then many a soul’s pride will become a little more timid in the face of the commandment. For, ask yourself: Have you never tried, perhaps in good faith, to shake or completely undermine the trust that one person has in another by issuing a warning of caution? In doing so, you have quite literally stolen from the person in whom that trust was placed! Because you have taken it from him! Or you had attempted to do so.
You have also stolen from your neighbour even if you know something about his circumstances and pass on this knowledge without the consent of the person concerned. You can see from this how deeply entangled in the net of guilt are all those people who try to make a business out of such things or who do this kind of business at all, such as so-called credit agencies or the like. Because of all the consequences of this activity of constant violation of God's Law, the self-entanglement in these moves creates such an enormous net that these people can never break free again and remain exposed to damnation; for they are all more heavily burdened than earthly material burglars and thieves. Those who support and encourage such ‘business people’ in their sinful trade are equally guilty and recipients of stolen goods. Every upright and honest thinking person, whether a private citizen or a businessperson, has the right and the duty to demand immediate clarification and, if necessary, to obtain conclusive documents from a person who approaches him with any kind of request, so that he can decide for himself how far he can trust him to fulfil his wishes. Anything less is unhealthy and reprehensible.
At the same time, the fulfilment of this commandment has the effect of awakening intuition more and more, developing and revealing its capabilities. Man thus receives the right knowledge of human nature, which he lost only for convenience. Little by little he loses what is the dead, machine-like man and becomes a living human being again. Real personalities will emerge, while the present mass-bred animal will have to disappear.
Take the trouble to think deeply about this, and see to it that in the end you do not find the commandment much transgressed in the pages of your debt book!
The Eight Commandment
Thou should not bear false witness against thy neighbour!
If you attack a person and strike him so that he suffers wounds, and perhaps even rob him, then you know that you have harmed him and are subject to earthly punishment. You do not think that at the same time you have given yourself up to the threads of reciprocity, which are not subject to arbitrariness, but are justly triggered down to the smallest stirrings of the soul, which you do not respect at all, for which you have no perception at all. And this reciprocal action is in no way related to earthly punishment, but works quite independently of it, but so inescapably for the human spirit that it can no longer find a place in all Creation to protect and hide it.
When you hear of such a savage act of assault and violence, you are outraged. You are shocked and horrified by the suffering of those close to you! And yet you are little disturbed when you hear, here and there, that a person is cast in a bad light by cunning, malicious words in his absence, and often only by very expressive gestures, which say more than words can express.
But remember: A gross material attack is much easier to repair than an attack on the soul, which suffers from the undermining of reputation.
Therefore, avoid all waylayers of ill repute, as you would gross material murderers!
For they are just as guilty and very often even worse! As little pity as they have for the souls they themselves have hounded, so little shall a hand be offered to them for help in the afterlife when they plead for it! Cold and ruthless is the sinister urge within them to disparage others, people who are often strangers to them; cold and merciless will be the place that awaits them in a hundredfold strength as soon as they have to leave their earthly body!
They remain the outlaws in the afterlife and are themselves deeply despised, even by robbers and thieves; for a common, malicious and even more despicable train runs through the whole class, from the so-called coffee sister* to the depraved beings who, even under oath, are not afraid to bear false witness against a neighbour whom they would have had reason enough to thank for many things!
Treat them like poisonous vermin, for they do deserve no less.
Because the whole of humanity completely lacks the lofty, unified goal of entering the Kingdom of God, they have nothing to say to each other when they are together in twos or threes, and so they indulge in talks about others as a cherished custom, the wretchedness of which they are no longer able to see, because the concept of it has been permanently lost in the constant practice.
They shall continue to sit together in the afterlife and pay homage to their favourite topics, until the time granted for the last opportunity for ascent, which might have perhaps brought them salvation, has passed, and they are drawn into the eternal decomposition, wherein all gross and ethereal forms of matter are purified of whatsoever poison that human spirits carried into them, who are not worthy to keep a name!
*Women who hosted private, social coffee gatherings in their homes usually in the mornings or afternoons, much like a ritual.
When you hear of such a savage act of assault and violence, you are outraged. You are shocked and horrified by the suffering of those close to you! And yet you are little disturbed when you hear, here and there, that a person is cast in a bad light by cunning, malicious words in his absence, and often only by very expressive gestures, which say more than words can express.
But remember: A gross material attack is much easier to repair than an attack on the soul, which suffers from the undermining of reputation.
Therefore, avoid all waylayers of ill repute, as you would gross material murderers!
For they are just as guilty and very often even worse! As little pity as they have for the souls they themselves have hounded, so little shall a hand be offered to them for help in the afterlife when they plead for it! Cold and ruthless is the sinister urge within them to disparage others, people who are often strangers to them; cold and merciless will be the place that awaits them in a hundredfold strength as soon as they have to leave their earthly body!
They remain the outlaws in the afterlife and are themselves deeply despised, even by robbers and thieves; for a common, malicious and even more despicable train runs through the whole class, from the so-called coffee sister* to the depraved beings who, even under oath, are not afraid to bear false witness against a neighbour whom they would have had reason enough to thank for many things!
Treat them like poisonous vermin, for they do deserve no less.
Because the whole of humanity completely lacks the lofty, unified goal of entering the Kingdom of God, they have nothing to say to each other when they are together in twos or threes, and so they indulge in talks about others as a cherished custom, the wretchedness of which they are no longer able to see, because the concept of it has been permanently lost in the constant practice.
They shall continue to sit together in the afterlife and pay homage to their favourite topics, until the time granted for the last opportunity for ascent, which might have perhaps brought them salvation, has passed, and they are drawn into the eternal decomposition, wherein all gross and ethereal forms of matter are purified of whatsoever poison that human spirits carried into them, who are not worthy to keep a name!
*Women who hosted private, social coffee gatherings in their homes usually in the mornings or afternoons, much like a ritual.
The Ninth Commandment
Thou should not lust after your neighbour's wife!
This commandment is sharply and clearly directed directly against the bodily-animal instincts that man.... unfortunately... often let arise all too much as soon as he is given the opportunity to do so!
Here we have also touched on the crux of the matter, which is the greatest pitfall for people, to which almost everyone succumbs as soon as they come into contact with it: Opportunity!
The impulse is merely awakened and guided by thoughts! Man can very easily observe in himself that the impulse does not stir, cannot stir, if the thoughts for it are missing! He is completely dependent on it! Without exception!
Do not say that the sense of touch can also arouse desire; for that is false. It is only a delusion. The sense of touch only awakens the thought, and this then the impulse! And in order to awaken thoughts for this purpose, the opportunity that presents itself is the strongest aid which men must fear! For this reason, therefore, it is also the greatest defence and the greatest protection for all people of both sexes, if the opportunity to do so is avoided! It is the lifeline in the present distress, until the whole of humanity will be so strengthened in itself that it will be able to keep the hearth of its thoughts pure as a healthy matter of course, which unfortunately is no longer possible today! At that point, then, a transgression of the commandment is absolutely out of the question.
Until then, many storms must roar over humanity, but the anchor will hold if every striving person makes a strict effort never to give the opportunity for the seductive seclusion of two sexes!
Let this be impressed on everyone’s spirit in flaming letters; for it is not so easy to free oneself again spiritually from the transgression, since the other party also comes into question in the process! And there is seldom a possibility of simultaneous ascent.
“Do not lust after your neighbour’s wife!” This does not only mean a wife, but the female sex in general! So also the daughters! And since it is clearly stated: “Do not let yourself lust!” only the physical urge is meant, not an honest courtship!
There can be no error in these clear words. This is the strict law of God against seduction or rape. As well as the defilement by the thoughts of a secret desire! This alone, as the starting-point of the full evil of a deed, is a transgression of the commandment, which entails punishment by means of a karma, which must be triggered in some indispensable way before the soul can be free of it again. Sometimes, this event, mistakenly regarded by man as a trifle, is even decisive for the nature of the next incarnation on earth, or for his future fate in this earthly existence. Therefore, do not take too lightly the power of thought to which responsibility naturally attaches itself in equal measure! You are liable for the most careless thinking, for it already causes damage in the ethereal world. The world which has to receive you after this earthly life.
But if the craving goes as far as seduction, that is, to a gross material act, then fear the retribution if you are no longer able to make up for it physically and spiritually on earth!
Whether the seduction is carried out in the most flattering manner or in the strictest demand, whether in the end the consent of the female side is obtained, the interaction cannot be deterred by this, it has already begun at the time of desire, and all prudence, all arts contribute to its intensification. The last consent then does not annul it!
Therefore, be on your guard, avoid every opportunity, and do not indulge carelessly in it! First and foremost, keep the hearth of your thoughts pure! Then you will never violate this commandment!
Nor does it count as an excuse if a person tries to delude himself that the probability of marriage exists! For that would be the grossest untruth imaginable. A marriage without soul-love is not valid before God. Soul-love, indeed, remains the best protection against the transgression of the commandment, since a truly loving person always wants only the best for the beloved other and can therefore never make impure wishes or demands, against which the commandment is directed above all!
Here we have also touched on the crux of the matter, which is the greatest pitfall for people, to which almost everyone succumbs as soon as they come into contact with it: Opportunity!
The impulse is merely awakened and guided by thoughts! Man can very easily observe in himself that the impulse does not stir, cannot stir, if the thoughts for it are missing! He is completely dependent on it! Without exception!
Do not say that the sense of touch can also arouse desire; for that is false. It is only a delusion. The sense of touch only awakens the thought, and this then the impulse! And in order to awaken thoughts for this purpose, the opportunity that presents itself is the strongest aid which men must fear! For this reason, therefore, it is also the greatest defence and the greatest protection for all people of both sexes, if the opportunity to do so is avoided! It is the lifeline in the present distress, until the whole of humanity will be so strengthened in itself that it will be able to keep the hearth of its thoughts pure as a healthy matter of course, which unfortunately is no longer possible today! At that point, then, a transgression of the commandment is absolutely out of the question.
Until then, many storms must roar over humanity, but the anchor will hold if every striving person makes a strict effort never to give the opportunity for the seductive seclusion of two sexes!
Let this be impressed on everyone’s spirit in flaming letters; for it is not so easy to free oneself again spiritually from the transgression, since the other party also comes into question in the process! And there is seldom a possibility of simultaneous ascent.
“Do not lust after your neighbour’s wife!” This does not only mean a wife, but the female sex in general! So also the daughters! And since it is clearly stated: “Do not let yourself lust!” only the physical urge is meant, not an honest courtship!
There can be no error in these clear words. This is the strict law of God against seduction or rape. As well as the defilement by the thoughts of a secret desire! This alone, as the starting-point of the full evil of a deed, is a transgression of the commandment, which entails punishment by means of a karma, which must be triggered in some indispensable way before the soul can be free of it again. Sometimes, this event, mistakenly regarded by man as a trifle, is even decisive for the nature of the next incarnation on earth, or for his future fate in this earthly existence. Therefore, do not take too lightly the power of thought to which responsibility naturally attaches itself in equal measure! You are liable for the most careless thinking, for it already causes damage in the ethereal world. The world which has to receive you after this earthly life.
But if the craving goes as far as seduction, that is, to a gross material act, then fear the retribution if you are no longer able to make up for it physically and spiritually on earth!
Whether the seduction is carried out in the most flattering manner or in the strictest demand, whether in the end the consent of the female side is obtained, the interaction cannot be deterred by this, it has already begun at the time of desire, and all prudence, all arts contribute to its intensification. The last consent then does not annul it!
Therefore, be on your guard, avoid every opportunity, and do not indulge carelessly in it! First and foremost, keep the hearth of your thoughts pure! Then you will never violate this commandment!
Nor does it count as an excuse if a person tries to delude himself that the probability of marriage exists! For that would be the grossest untruth imaginable. A marriage without soul-love is not valid before God. Soul-love, indeed, remains the best protection against the transgression of the commandment, since a truly loving person always wants only the best for the beloved other and can therefore never make impure wishes or demands, against which the commandment is directed above all!
The Tenth Commandment
Thou should not covet thy neighbour's house, nor his estate, nor his cattle, nor anything that is his!
He who seeks to make a profit through honest work and honest trade can calmly await the call of this commandment at the time of the great reckoning, for it will pass him by without striking him. It is actually so easy to fulfil all commandments, and yet ... just take a good look at all people and you will soon realize that even this observance of the commandment, which is actually quite natural for a human being ... does not happen, or only very rarely, and then not with joy but only with much effort.
Like an insatiable desire, it races over all people, whether white, yellow, brown, black or red, to envy the other fellow human being for what he himself does not possess. Or, to put it even better: to envy him everything! In this envy rests the forbidden desire! The transgression of the commandment is thus already complete, and becomes the root of many evils, which quickly cause man to fall, from which he often never rises again.
Strangely enough, the average person rarely appreciates what he calls his own, but always only what he does not yet possess. The darkness diligently scattered covetousness, and unfortunately the souls of men gave themselves up all too willingly to create the most fertile soil for the sad seed. Thus, with the passing of time, the desire for the possession of others became fundamental to all action and activity among the greater part of humanity. Beginning with simple desire, through cunning and the art of persuasion, it increased to boundless envy, constant dissatisfaction and blind hatred.
Every path to satisfaction was just about considered right, if it was not too obviously opposed to earthly laws. God’s commandment remained unheeded in the growing acquisitiveness! Everyone believed they were truly honourable as long as they were not called to account by the earthly court. But it did not cost them much trouble to avoid this; for they used the greatest caution and the keenest sagacity of mind when it was their intention to ruthlessly harm their fellow-men as soon as it became necessary, in order to gain some cheap advantage. They did not think of the fact that in reality this would cost them much more than all earthly means! So-called cleverness became the trump card! Prudence in today's terms, however, is in itself nothing more than the blossoming of cunning, or a heightening of it. It remains strange that everyone is suspicious of the clever, but respectful of the prudent! The general basic attitude produces absurdity. The clever man is a bungler in the art of satisfying his desire, while the prudent man has become a master at it. The bungler cannot clothe his desire in beautiful forms, and reaps only pitying contempt for it. But the most envious admiration flows from souls that pay homage to the same desire! Envy in this too, because on the soil of mankind today even admiration of the same kind cannot be without envy. Men are not aware of this strong driving force behind the many evils; they no longer know that this envy in its many forms dominates and guides all their thoughts and actions at the present time! It sits in individuals as well as in whole peoples, directs states, begets wars as well as parties, and eternal strife wherever even two persons have to discuss something!
Where is obedience to the tenth commandment of God, one would like to warn the states! In the most pitiless lust each of the earthly states strives only for the possession of the other! They do not shy away from the murder of individuals, nor from mass murder, not even from the enslavement of whole peoples, only to use it to elevate themselves to greatness. The beautiful speeches about self-preservation or self-protection are only cowardly excuses, because they themselves clearly feel that something must be said to somewhat mitigate, to excuse these monstrous crimes against the commandments of God!
But it is of no use to them, for the pen that engraves the non-observance of God's commandments in the book of world events is inexorable, and the karmic threads which are tied to each individual are unbreakable, so that not even the smallest impulse of his thinking and doing can be lost without being detached!
Whoever can survey all these threads can see what a terrible judgment has now been conjured up! Confusion and the collapse of what has been built up up to now are only the first slight consequences of this most disgraceful rapes of the tenth commandment of God! No one can be merciful to you as soon as the whole effect begins to befall you more and more. You have not deserved it otherwise. It is only what you force upon yourselves that comes with it!
Tear the dishonest desire completely out of your soul! Remember that even a state is only made up of individuals! Leave behind all envy and hatred of people who, in your opinion, possess much more than you do! There is a reason for it! But that you are incapable of recognizing the reason, for that you alone bear the whole blame, in that you have voluntarily forced upon yourselves the tremendous narrowing of your conceptual faculty, which was not intended by God and which had to appear as the consequence of your unfortunate love of reason!
Whoever does not want to be satisfied in the new kingdom of God here on earth with the position which is given to him through the effect of his own karmic threads created by him, is also not worthy of being given the opportunity to release old burdens of debt hanging on him relatively easily and at the same time still to mature spiritually in order to find the way up to the home of all free spirits, there where only light and joy reign!
In the future, every dissatisfied person will be swept away inexorably as a useless disturber of the peace that is finally desired, as an obstacle to healthy advancement! If, however, there is still a good seed in him, which strongly guarantees an early repentance, he will remain conquered by a new, earthly law for his own good and for his ultimate salvation until a realization arises in him of the unconditional rightness of God’s wise will; correctness also for him, who up to now has only been able to recognize out of the short-sightedness of his soul and out of self-willed stupidity that the bed in which he now lies on earth was made for him alone as an unconditional consequence of his whole being up to now, of several lives on the other side and also on earth, but is not the blind arbitrariness of a coincidence! At last he will realize that he needs for himself just that, and only that, which he has experienced and where he stands, also the conditions into which he was born with all that goes with it!
If he works diligently on himself, he will rise not only spiritually but also earthly. If, however, he wants to defiantly force himself to take a different path, recklessly and to the detriment of his fellow human beings, this can never serve him to any true advantage.
He must not say that the knowledge for this should and must be given to him by God, so that he follows it and changes in it! It is only presumption and a new sin if he expects or even demands that it should first be proved to him that he is in error with his view, so that he can believe, convinced of the contrary! It is he alone who has made himself quite impossible for knowledge, and who has deviated from the right course on which he stood in the beginning! The possibilities of knowledge were already given to him by God on the way he had asked to be allowed to go! Now that he has badly buried them in his own evil will, God, as his servant, should open this pit for him again! Childish behaviour! It is precisely this presumption, this desire, that will now be most difficult for man to redeem the blasphemies committed with it! I say to you: It is easier for a robber to be freed from guilt than for a human soul to dare to demand that God should make up for man’s greatest guilt by a new gift of knowledge. It is precisely that which man, in the most rebellious manner against God’s will, has laid upon himself as the heaviest burden of sin!
It will be a hard struggle for human souls before they will be able to detach themselves from the usual transgressions of the tenth commandment of God, that is, to change in order to finally really live according to it in thought, speech and deed! But for all those who are unable to do so, suffering and destruction await them here on earth and in the hereafter!
Amen!
Like an insatiable desire, it races over all people, whether white, yellow, brown, black or red, to envy the other fellow human being for what he himself does not possess. Or, to put it even better: to envy him everything! In this envy rests the forbidden desire! The transgression of the commandment is thus already complete, and becomes the root of many evils, which quickly cause man to fall, from which he often never rises again.
Strangely enough, the average person rarely appreciates what he calls his own, but always only what he does not yet possess. The darkness diligently scattered covetousness, and unfortunately the souls of men gave themselves up all too willingly to create the most fertile soil for the sad seed. Thus, with the passing of time, the desire for the possession of others became fundamental to all action and activity among the greater part of humanity. Beginning with simple desire, through cunning and the art of persuasion, it increased to boundless envy, constant dissatisfaction and blind hatred.
Every path to satisfaction was just about considered right, if it was not too obviously opposed to earthly laws. God’s commandment remained unheeded in the growing acquisitiveness! Everyone believed they were truly honourable as long as they were not called to account by the earthly court. But it did not cost them much trouble to avoid this; for they used the greatest caution and the keenest sagacity of mind when it was their intention to ruthlessly harm their fellow-men as soon as it became necessary, in order to gain some cheap advantage. They did not think of the fact that in reality this would cost them much more than all earthly means! So-called cleverness became the trump card! Prudence in today's terms, however, is in itself nothing more than the blossoming of cunning, or a heightening of it. It remains strange that everyone is suspicious of the clever, but respectful of the prudent! The general basic attitude produces absurdity. The clever man is a bungler in the art of satisfying his desire, while the prudent man has become a master at it. The bungler cannot clothe his desire in beautiful forms, and reaps only pitying contempt for it. But the most envious admiration flows from souls that pay homage to the same desire! Envy in this too, because on the soil of mankind today even admiration of the same kind cannot be without envy. Men are not aware of this strong driving force behind the many evils; they no longer know that this envy in its many forms dominates and guides all their thoughts and actions at the present time! It sits in individuals as well as in whole peoples, directs states, begets wars as well as parties, and eternal strife wherever even two persons have to discuss something!
Where is obedience to the tenth commandment of God, one would like to warn the states! In the most pitiless lust each of the earthly states strives only for the possession of the other! They do not shy away from the murder of individuals, nor from mass murder, not even from the enslavement of whole peoples, only to use it to elevate themselves to greatness. The beautiful speeches about self-preservation or self-protection are only cowardly excuses, because they themselves clearly feel that something must be said to somewhat mitigate, to excuse these monstrous crimes against the commandments of God!
But it is of no use to them, for the pen that engraves the non-observance of God's commandments in the book of world events is inexorable, and the karmic threads which are tied to each individual are unbreakable, so that not even the smallest impulse of his thinking and doing can be lost without being detached!
Whoever can survey all these threads can see what a terrible judgment has now been conjured up! Confusion and the collapse of what has been built up up to now are only the first slight consequences of this most disgraceful rapes of the tenth commandment of God! No one can be merciful to you as soon as the whole effect begins to befall you more and more. You have not deserved it otherwise. It is only what you force upon yourselves that comes with it!
Tear the dishonest desire completely out of your soul! Remember that even a state is only made up of individuals! Leave behind all envy and hatred of people who, in your opinion, possess much more than you do! There is a reason for it! But that you are incapable of recognizing the reason, for that you alone bear the whole blame, in that you have voluntarily forced upon yourselves the tremendous narrowing of your conceptual faculty, which was not intended by God and which had to appear as the consequence of your unfortunate love of reason!
Whoever does not want to be satisfied in the new kingdom of God here on earth with the position which is given to him through the effect of his own karmic threads created by him, is also not worthy of being given the opportunity to release old burdens of debt hanging on him relatively easily and at the same time still to mature spiritually in order to find the way up to the home of all free spirits, there where only light and joy reign!
In the future, every dissatisfied person will be swept away inexorably as a useless disturber of the peace that is finally desired, as an obstacle to healthy advancement! If, however, there is still a good seed in him, which strongly guarantees an early repentance, he will remain conquered by a new, earthly law for his own good and for his ultimate salvation until a realization arises in him of the unconditional rightness of God’s wise will; correctness also for him, who up to now has only been able to recognize out of the short-sightedness of his soul and out of self-willed stupidity that the bed in which he now lies on earth was made for him alone as an unconditional consequence of his whole being up to now, of several lives on the other side and also on earth, but is not the blind arbitrariness of a coincidence! At last he will realize that he needs for himself just that, and only that, which he has experienced and where he stands, also the conditions into which he was born with all that goes with it!
If he works diligently on himself, he will rise not only spiritually but also earthly. If, however, he wants to defiantly force himself to take a different path, recklessly and to the detriment of his fellow human beings, this can never serve him to any true advantage.
He must not say that the knowledge for this should and must be given to him by God, so that he follows it and changes in it! It is only presumption and a new sin if he expects or even demands that it should first be proved to him that he is in error with his view, so that he can believe, convinced of the contrary! It is he alone who has made himself quite impossible for knowledge, and who has deviated from the right course on which he stood in the beginning! The possibilities of knowledge were already given to him by God on the way he had asked to be allowed to go! Now that he has badly buried them in his own evil will, God, as his servant, should open this pit for him again! Childish behaviour! It is precisely this presumption, this desire, that will now be most difficult for man to redeem the blasphemies committed with it! I say to you: It is easier for a robber to be freed from guilt than for a human soul to dare to demand that God should make up for man’s greatest guilt by a new gift of knowledge. It is precisely that which man, in the most rebellious manner against God’s will, has laid upon himself as the heaviest burden of sin!
It will be a hard struggle for human souls before they will be able to detach themselves from the usual transgressions of the tenth commandment of God, that is, to change in order to finally really live according to it in thought, speech and deed! But for all those who are unable to do so, suffering and destruction await them here on earth and in the hereafter!
Amen!
