Secrets of Creation · Chapter 01 · The Gospel of Nature and the Mission of Man on Earth (January 22, 1872)

Chapter 01

The Gospel of Nature and the Mission of Man on Earth (January 22, 1872)

01] My dear son, you have written a long letter to your spiritual sister (she is a learned Catholic theological writer) from the standpoint of your knowledge, to which she as a woman cannot answer you. And it was precisely in this predicament between "not being able" and "nevertheless caring" that she turned to My scribe, asking him to ask Me for guidance and advice, so that it would happen to you appropriately.

02] Well then, you say in your letter that you want an answer and an evaluation from a Master, so I take it upon Myself to enter into a theological dispute with you so that you may recognize your Master who, like all living beings of all creation, is able to answer your questions.

03] But before I go over to the actual content of your letter, I must first help you to clear up your doubts whether this word that I am giving you here were not directly from me, but either only a human work or a word dictated under the influence of a higher spirit.

04] Though you yourself confess in your own letter that not everything you write has grown on your own ground; even the light-filled and comprehensively newly revealed Great Gospel of John, which you have just read, you do not accept this "concoction" entirely as mine, you believe it to be for apprentices, not for those deeply initiated in the doctrine, as you call it. It is only too sweet, at most for children, laymen and immature people, but not for men! Here you are greatly mistaken! and to correct this error in you and to establish the truth that everything that you have just now read is only from me and from no one else, this shall be My first, whereupon the approach to your long letter will follow, to also shine for you as the morning sun, which shall guide you through the material life to the spiritual heaven.

05] Behold, My Son, in you lives a spirit which elevates your soul above the animal soul ,which elevates you as a free man, while the animal is led towards its destiny by the bonds of instinct.

06] This Spirit now, a spark out of me, which I, according to Moses, breathed into the first man and through which I created man, apart from his outward appearance, according to My image - it is this Spirit who is the mediator between me, My spirit kingdom and man.

07] By means of this spirit I speak to man within his heart, I admonish, advise and comfort him as something that cannot be denounced despite some aversion; which is why you call it "conscience" because it is something certain.

08] Through this voice I announced My will to the prophets in the Old Testament, and it is through this very voice that I now direct and guide mankind to its approaching goal, the sifting; for the time has come when the wheat will soon be separated from the chaff, as indicated by the great political, secular and spiritual upheavals that are manifesting all over your earth.

09] For this purpose of My direct communication a man of simple character served me, who more than many others had become accustomed to listening to his inner voice, who learned to distinguish the imagination of his mind from My voice of love, and so was able to put on paper all that is destined, not only for the small circle of readers who now know these writings, but for the whole of humanity as the future system of religion based solely on My own statements during My walk on Earth, in order to lead back the cults and the whole doctrinal edifice of religion to what I once gave to My apostles, simple men of the people; for you can well imagine that I did not descend to your earth without a reason to give you the example of greatest humiliation and sacrifice. This communication to men and women devoted to Me has always been repeated at intervals after My ascension; there have always been many such clairvoyants; the messages left by them are, of course, always appropriate to the time and understanding of the people living with them, so that their language differed in different centuries. For example, the books that are intended especially for children are written in a different style than those that, perhaps dealing with the same subject, are written for adult men.

10] If the people were in their infancy, they received children’s tales and stories behind which the true wisdom was concealed, and if the people were in their manhood, they received proclamations appropriate to an advanced spirit. But always it was one and the same source, always it was My direct communication, which was slowly affecting men, preparing them from one level to the other. In the present time, after the aforementioned scribe has been recalled by me, I have again chosen another one for Myself, who possesses the qualities to benefit me and mankind through these communications. Through that one you receive here these lines, which may well bring your good qualities and your zealous search for light to bear, not only proclaiming to you My will, but at the same time also narrowing the great stream of knowledge, which you deduce from your (theological and philosophical) studies, to restrain yourself in a certain limited streambed and thus through a regulated course of your life flow slowly back to the sea of eternal light, eternal happiness, and bliss.

11] Behold, you have quoted many passages from the Old and New Testaments to justify your spiritual direction and your personal outlook, so also I will begin with a saying from My earthly life, which fits best here in particular, and the most important and first is: "If you do not become like these (namely the children), you will never enter the kingdom of heaven!

12] Behold, this saying is the first one which I recommend to you for your consideration; become a child and leave the adults food to the side, stay with the simplest, and do not search far away for what is so close to you.

13] Behold, you have quoted the Trinity, the story of creation, the personality of Christ, His birth, and many others from the ancient Fathers of the Church; you have quoted these explanations, which were often very perceptive, as evidence of the only theme, namely the divinity of Christ, the existence of God, His Spirit realm and many more. When you read these explanations in the ancient books of the Church Fathers, they seemed very witty, and true, but why? Because they were in agreement with the laws of your reason. But I have to tell you that all these old writers and elucidators of My Word, both of the Old and the New Testament, were only gnawing worms, as it were, who penetrated through the rough and material shell of the Tree of Life, having buried themselves inside it, Because they suspected something better, something finer still lies behind and underneath this shell, and they too, like the gnawing worms, the further they penetrate into it, the more spiritualized they become themselves through the ever finer nourishment. But they fared like the gnawing worms of a tree: They could not get too high into the tree because the food no longer appealed to them, and so all research and explanations in general were always only from the same sphere, the doubts of a searching soul did not completely illuminate and the seekers only drifted around in circles, around a center that everyone suspected, but no one was able to reach.

14] Since I see things from a completely different point of view and see further than all the interpreters of the Bible, I will advise you to read My own book, namely the book of My visible and invisible nature, instead of opening again a book of a prophet or an old church father, there I will show you the same, what you wanted to prove by Bible explanations where you can find it again and again, that I, God, am Love, Wisdom is My Son and the Holy Spirit is the union of both for the execution of creation.

15] Behold, My child, I created the entire universe with all its living beings because I, as love itself, wanted to be loved by others; for love without object is an impossibility. So, My love, this unlimited divine love that cannot be grasped by you creatures, created beings and worlds, material and spiritual great realms, where intelligent beings, rejoicing in the creations, learn to love the Creator and thus in this way should return My love to Me.

16] This divine unlimited love also had to have a purpose, a why, an "up to here and no further", and this limiting factor was wisdom. Thus love paired with wisdom were the factors that matured the ideas for creation, and the spirit of preservation crowned the work with the stamp of infinity, because what a God created must also be divine, and what an infinite being called into being will also be infinite.

17] Thus the great Tri-unity was founded, which always expresses itself in the material world by three things, namely, length, width and thickness - or form, content and density, or as in the case of man spirit, soul and body, and in every created thing an outer, inner and innermost.

18] To this Tri-unity all things pay homage, all products of the earth, both within and without it.

19] Thus, it was Love that created everything, maintains everything and perfects everything; without this love no sun can shine, without love there would be no warmth, no life. It is the great driving force that everything strives to achieve its goals. Behold My whole creation, wherever you look at a product, you will recognize from its perfection in the smallest as well as in the greatest that the Creator, always remaining constant, embraces everything with equally loving arms.

20] Fly up into those spaces where millions of years are not enough to send you a ray of light from there, or descend to the smallest atoms in the infinite ether and everywhere you will find the same loving Creator.

21] Behold, your small earth orbits around the sun, this one with all its planets and comets orbits around another, larger, in union with other solar systems; this central sun with its entourage again around a still larger one, and so on until the entire cosmos is filled, and well organized, as it is partially revealed to you in the night sky.

22] Just as this big starry firmament constitutes only one system for itself, so there are still millions of them, of which you know some under the name nebulae. If you now follow these worlds of stars and continue to discover new ones, you will in the end come upon another realm, where all these former entities have their spiritual counterparts, and where little by little the whole of creation, always spiritualizing, will finally merge into this realm to create a new cycle of creations, but only spiritually.

23] Now, in that spirit kingdom where everything finds itself in its highest potency, there is also My seat; from there I reign, from there I sent My Son, the wisdom, down to this small grain of sand, so that He may serve all spirits and beings as an example of what love is capable of when it is a high, great purpose. Not considering all other suns and worlds, where human beings of sizes never imagined by you, gifted with physical and spiritual powers, live in a world full of wonders, My own divinity had to condescend to the greatest humiliation on a star which is smaller than a grain of sand in the sea, and the inhabitants of which, comparatively speaking, are like infusorians as regards to their body size and yet carry within them the greatest spirit in physical expansion, just as with you, where the nerve, ending in the smallest points, is capable of the greatest feelings, be it pleasure or pain.

24] I once descended upon this dark earth (as divine wisdom, as a teacher), deprived Myself of all that is divine, began as a tender child in the most meager position and concluded this earthly life by the most dishonorable death on the cross. This was done out of love, in order to show My spirits what a spiritual being must do, so it shall once be like me.

25] I came to your earth to proclaim, as you yourself say, the dawn of a new breaking day, the Day of Love, the Day of Peace and Reconciliation, the Day of validating My Divine Spirit spark placed in you.

26] Understand this self-sacrificing love without any ulterior motives! Consider it, so that your heart too may be widened, expanding over all mankind, and let you see only erring children in your fellow-men. May this love warm you up and be the basis for all your actions! Then you will be reborn again, you will again be a child who, trusting in his Father, accepts from Him all that may come, because he knows that the Father does not punish, does not take revenge, but only forgives and forgets.

27] Consider Me as an eternally loving God, as the gentle and humble Jesus, follow My footsteps and you will discover the voice of this love everywhere in material nature; it will always tell you the same thing in the warm ray of sunlight, in the gentle whispering of a mild spring air and in the ray of light touching your eye, coming from stars millions and millions of miles away: God is love!

28] On your walks through nature, the birds in the air and the flowers of the earth will shout out to you:" Become yourself - what we are, namely creatures who fulfill their purpose perfectly!" When this love once pervades your breast, when you have understood the great word of My love for you, then spread your arms out towards the whole world. Everything will seem rosier, more peaceful to you; you will discover harmonies where previously you hardly perceived individual notes, born again you will see Me and your fellow human beings in a completely different light; because the book of My creation has become readable and comprehensible to you. Only then you will experience that you already carry this image of love in your own breast, but could not understand it, did not know how to interpret it. Then you will probably leave your church fathers alone, you will always remember their aspirations with honor; but they will not be able to suppress My Book of Life!

29] And why did I create all nature? Why did I endow it with so many charms? It is precisely so that through it my children learn first to respect me, the giver, as the creator and then learn to love me as father. See how a dewdrop on a leaflet reflects the whole world surrounding it, so your inner being should reflect the whole harmony of My creation through the heavenly peace which is then in it, and then you will feel what it means: "To the pure all things are pure".

30] Thus, equipped with this great love for your fellow human beings, take good care of the souls of those who have been entrusted to you, in this sense become a real "pastor". When in this sense you offer your sacrifice of the Mass to Me, the "Dominus nobiscum" (the Lord be with us) - and "pax nobiscum" (peace be upon us) will become a true blessing for your community, if you have also taught them to develop the spiritual from the material, the spiritual from the practical life, and thus to improve themselves.

31] So you are in the right place as a priest, as a worker in My Vineyard, and I will reward you with the same measure and weight, just as all those whom you will lead to Me, that is to say, they will all find the Father, the loving Jesus, as a Savior who will take away their burden and heal their wounds.

32] So take My creation as the great gospel, see in it how through My Love everything is wisely arranged, how everything there is destined to show man as the ultimate goal of all creations upon each globe, sun or comet, in the smallest as well as in the greatest, My Love, Wisdom, and Creative Spirit, which produced all these miracles in order to awaken the same impulse among the intelligent thinking beings, which constitutes His only self within the Creator and Lord of all creatures.

33] Out of love I created these worlds, so that this love might return to me through the understanding of what has been created. Behold, the great tree of life, like the tree visible to you on your earth, has its roots in the material; there, as with any other tree, the root seeks to extract from the surrounding soil what is necessary to build its own individuality. This absorbed energy conducts the soul of the tree upwards, from darkness to light, from cold to warmth, from the coarse to the finer, lighter air of the earth. The more these juices rise higher, are processed in the bark, in the cell tissue, the more they leave what’s solid behind, the more they push forward the finer parts, the more the influence of the earth recedes and the more powerful the influence of light, air and warmth asserts itself; the products of the process become ever finer, ever lighter, everything pushes forward to the closer, more direct influence of the substances from My Heavens; the wood of the trunk is already softening in the branches, the preparations for the development of the leaf, the blossom and the final goal: the fruit, are being accelerated. Everything emerges one from the other, all the way to the fruit reaching its destination, it then has to begin a similar cycle for other purposes and under different forms by means of metabolism in order to reach another, more spiritual level.

34] And just as the whole plant kingdom goes this way, so also the human soul in its own kind goes along the same path, should it ever want to come to me.

35] Also the soul shall absorb the spiritual from ordinary life (matter), to refine and spiritualize it, to always ascend upwards to blossom, to fruit; so that, after the time of its time of trial life on Earth is over, it can easily begin the further and greater journey in the hereafter under other circumstances.

36] If you wanted to contemplate My nature with spiritual eyes, how many hints and spiritual correspondences you would see there, for what I actually have destined the material world, and especially you human beings. Everything that you see physically in nature is spiritually expressed in the life course of humanity, of peoples and of the individuals.

37] In nature, alongside birth and death, you see the struggle for light, for freedom, for perfection, you see incidentally emergence and decay, eternal metabolism, eternal struggle, always a spiritual result arising from material destruction. Humanity since its beginning has followed the same path as the sap of a tree from night to light, and so became its cultural movement, so was the cycle of spiritual stages that made them mature, to prepare and make necessary My descent. Thus mankind moves forward between origin and decay, between struggle, defeat and victory, towards the goal to which I have created them.

38] Thus the nations, each according to their spiritual maturity, so the individual human being, traversing between joys and sufferings, wrong and right views, between delusion and truth. Such was also My own short way of life on earth; among contempt, struggle and suffering, among revenge, hate and persecution, always raising the banner of spiritual freedom and the divine dignity of man - lifting high above all the calamities of earthly life, I sealed My mission with My glorious resurrection! I exclaimed on the cross to men and nations, "It' is finished!" Yet this had value and meaning only for me, in that I had to leave it to the individual man to bring about this accomplishment in the future; supporting them in their striving to do so.

39] As I had to go through all these bitter battles during My years of apprenticeship and carried My cross willingly, so also now men, each one for themselves and all of them together, must also be led to victory and glorious resurrection through battles and suffering.

40] Consider the current world events, the confusion of opinions in religious terms, everything is pressing for purification, for certainty, everything wants from night to light! So you should also learn to read in My great book, learn to recognize that everywhere, in the material and spiritual realm, there is only one law and one goal which pushes forward all that has been created; the goal is to extract a spiritual value from everything that one does, sees, speaks and experiences, and to relate everything to me; because everything came from me and to me everything wants to return!

41] You have built prayer houses for your God, have introduced there a ceremonial cult prescribing in what way this God should be worshiped; learn now to recognize from My words to you that I am not in those prayer houses, not in those ceremonies, unless you take me there in your hearts.

42] My house of prayer is the whole creation which, involuntarily, always calls out to you:" God is love! So as soon as man has learned the language of My nature, he will also appear in a house specially built for praying with more devotion and not for the sake of habit; even the priest celebrating mass will perform his own function as a messenger more devoutly when he remembers the Creator, who lavishes a thousand graces on him with every breath. The priest will understand only then what responsibility he has to bring his subordinates forward spiritually; knowing My love in its entirety, he will often look up to me with shame, when in the most beautiful and sincere desire of his soul to want the best, his hopes are not realized! However, he knows that what I said as a man in the garden of Gethsemane, must also apply to him. He too must cry out: “Not mine, but thy will be done, O Lord."

43] The renunciation which lies in these words will give him back his confidence in me and strengthen his consciousness; for he knows that the love which manifests itself in all nature and brings only blessings in spite of destruction and annihilation, under misery and misfortune; this love cannot waver, cannot fail!

44] And when he raises his gaze to the starry sky so often in the evening after laborious work, when he sees these thousands and thousands of flames of love floating in the great ether like light drops of oil on the water, when this immense book of My great creation shows itself, then when he, crushed by this greatness, is forced to shout: Lord! What am I that you remember me! Then I lower the ray of stillness into his heart by answering him: “You are and shall become, ‘My child’, a child of this great Creator! Therefore open your heart, expand it so that the thought of My creation, the thought of My infinite love finds its place there! Also you too should spread out your arms, embrace spiritually all that is created - everything is a product of My love, everything has at least one spark of myself in it! Honor My creation, and you thus honor Me - and yourself!"!

45] Let this all-embracing love enter into your heart, let this great thought of the universal take a seat in your heart, and you will see clearly all that lies veiled in clear language, in the parable or in veiled correspondence in the Old and New Testaments, to see standing with eternally indelible letters in all that is created and even in your own self, and you will be able to read again and recognize what all of these many words mean, namely: “God is love”, out of love he created you and through love he wants to lead you back to himself.

46] Consider this and become a child, My child! This is your task, which I have given you to solve as a test on this earth! Amen!