Secrets of Creation · Chapter 03 · Essence of Electricity (October 23, 1870)

Chapter 03

Essence of Electricity (October 23, 1870)

01] After I have given you yesterday evening a brief explanation of magnetism as I understand it and also want you to understand it in the same sense, worthy of My children, so today I want to add another to yesterday's enlightenment, namely about electricity, a force from which you and your so-called scholars know the effects in part, but do not know what it actually is, and how I would like you to understand it.

02] Now, to get to the bottom of this force too, we must start from the first idea of a creation in general, then confirm the necessary continuance of a driving force; then we must pursue this force in its individual effects and, at the end, lead it back to that from where it emanated as an expressive force and as spiritual potency and now constitutes one of My main qualities as God and Creator.

03] See now then, little children, to whom I have already told so much about My building of creation (in the volume "Life Secrets", especially in the works about creation revealed by J. Lorber) - but since this construction is infinite in its extension, it can only partially be understood by you finite ones and some things can only be suspected, from which it follows that as much as I would also initiate you into the secrets of My creation, after millions of years you could only partially comprehend the miracles of My works.

04] But as a father, as I want to be and am, is not to have any secrets from his children, so that the more the children are forced to love and respect him, I will from time to time let you take a look at this workshop of My infinite power, so that you may more and more recognize who he is, who distributes so many graces to you and what it means to be taught by God, when some people on your earth wonder what he is, when he can boast of being the disciple of this or that great scholar or artist!

05] All the more must you imagine yourselves when you consider that I, the Lord of all created things, have lowered myself in My fatherly love to teach you as disciples!

06] But since pride is not the first principle in My school, but only humility is set up as such, I therefore want to tell you some more things about My great creation and hope that you will not be proud of what you have learned, but only become ever more humble.

07] Now we return to our electricity. So listen:

08] When in infinite space My first ideas began to materialize and worlds upon worlds were created, there was only the law of attraction and repulsion that forced them to rotate around their axis and revolve around their central suns.

09] At that time there were only two forces that did all this, the attraction and the repulsion.

10] One energy tended to take possession of everything, the other wanted to drive everything out into infinity. Thus, from the conflict of these two forces, the only engine of everything that is created and exists, the rotating movement came into being; and so by these forces the whole universe was populated with worlds, their formation was initiated by these forces, and still now these two forces are the main carriers of all life and everything created and will remain so as long as I am the one who in reality directs everything and leads to the general ultimate goal!

11] The first of these powers, as I already said in yesterday's dictation, is love.

12] Love wants to seize everything and not allow itself to be separated from it at any price, wants to have everything with it; the consequence of this would be a finite crushing, a death, and that out of love - thus no life!

13] So in order to put this mighty instinct of My ego into its just limits, wisdom was added, which did not hinder the attraction of love, but only allows it to a certain degree and again conditions the removal and release.

14] Now, by this attracting and letting go the first thing that is necessary in My creation was created: the movement! But what is movement? Movement is - life!

15] So it was the active life that was the product of two forces which always produced the benevolent effect in conflict with each other, of creation, action and rebuilding, of coming and going, and which established this as the law of eternal renewal and perpetuity (As in the watch the driving spring and restraint, as two opposing forces, produce the basis of all order - the timepiece, so also the cross is the root of life).

16] Struggle is life, and rest is death!

17] Now, where there is struggle, there is friction; where friction, there is an anger of the individual particles which do not want to be disturbed in their rest, where there is anger heat awakens, where there is heat in its highest vibration, that’s where the light develops! (See "The Fly", chapter 9, Cause and Nature of Light).

18] Now behold! From the simple first laws of attraction and repulsion, the light that is necessary for life develops, because without light there is no life. But since light is the product of warmth, where there is life - also heat! where there is no movement, no warmth, but cold or death, that is stagnation; everything remains in this state as it is, has no urge, neither to change nor to perfect nor to dissolve.

19] So here we have already found out two other main characteristics from the first two primitive forces, namely from repulsion and attraction - light and warmth!

20] All that was created therefore emerged from the light and warmth. Love builds, wisdom sustains. Love is synonymous with magnetism - wisdom with electricity.

21] Just as My thoughts fly through infinity with lightning speed, so electricity flows out into the far distance, uniting that which is homogenous, creating harmony through the stimulation of the "slumbering forces" or the "bound spirits" in the universe.

22] Electricity is the carrier of life; in its positive form, (always meant in the sense of' promote' = support, encourage, accelerate, speed up) it promotes the preservation of what has been created, and in its negative value it causes destruction (dissolution) and thus stimulates it to rebuild again!

23] Thus the whole construction of creation comes from two basic laws, from two main characteristics of myself: from magnetism and electricity or from love and wisdom.

24] Yes, even I Myself, in order to be active and always have a stimulus for further development, allowed one of My greatest spirits to fall away from Me and as a principle of evil to oppose Me, in order to promote the growth and development until it reaches a certain period where material creation ceases, no more passing away is necessary and a spiritual era for all worlds and all beings will have occurred.

25] What (negative) electricity is in creation that is Satan in the spiritual world; he also has his task, which he must carry out, only with the difference that he thinks that his remaining in his spiritual state is eternal.

26] Here he is mistaken. He remains as long as My great basic principles are necessary for the worlds and everything created. When this period comes to an end, love - magnetism - and wisdom - electricity - will also take on a different form and direction; extremes will be taken away from one another (attraction and repulsion), and peaceful, harmonious, communal action will take the place of the former, where the existence of one is based on the destruction of the other.

27] Electricity as latent (bound) heat, that is to say as light, is sufficiently known from your physical experiments and also from its application in cases of illness, everywhere you manipulate with it, and yet you do not know what you are actually doing, because for you the noticeable results and facts (i. e. the phenomena) are merely something constant. But as far as spiritual activity and the spiritual reason behind these experiments are concerned, you do not recognize that because you have no eyes for spiritual activity, and because the rapid effect of electricity and light takes place in such short periods of time that they are too fast for a human mind to actually imagine them.

28] But if you were to see how wonderful phenomena and processes develop in every experiment with the galvanic battery, emerging from only two basic causes, you would have to perish with devotion before Me, the creator of all that exists, just as you see from the smallest atoms of light and heat the greatest and most important factors for the creation of entire universes from exactly these very small vibrations which are the products of attraction and repulsion.

29] If you would see there how this mighty fluid, through its billions and trillions of vibrations of the smallest atoms, spreads the most intense light and the greatest warmth in one second in the great creation, you can get a small notion of it, if I as God wanted to make someone feel My love and wisdom in all its power, he would perish in an instant, and even if his spiritual resisted, his material substance would be dissolved into the smallest primary atoms of creation!

30] If you could see how the electric current in your blood in one moment causes the instantaneous change of all its components, transforming everything that has died into living substance and eliminates all that is diseased - the idea of thinking about it over time is not enough to understand what happens in a moment, for which you would need days to understand everything, how one has emerged from the other.

31] And should it not be so? What would creation be like, if it were not for the forces working, that would immediately execute My thoughts with incomprehensible speed through the wide space of creation, in order to bring forth and maintain life everywhere; into those spaces, where eons of light expanses only express the short time span of one second!

32] It is this very electricity, the main carrier of all that has been created, which, as My wisdom, permeates everything, driving everything to life and perfection. Electricity, as My Wisdom, dictates the material laws, but to the spiritual it only gives advice. Where the first it is necessary compulsion, with the second, it is only the most ardent wish.

33] Electricity increases life where its current is directed.

34] Let yourselves also be electrified by My wisdom, which I make you understand as a Father, and by My love, which wants to attract you!

35] As a Creator, I once remained in the heavens as love, and as "Son" or wisdom I descended to the earth.

36] As love, the eternally binding means of harmonious spirits, I inspired My wisdom to give you laws and teachings based on love; electrify yourselves for it! let this stream fill you with spiritual love for me, let all your heart's fibers tremble and vibrate, so that there the warmth of love may develop and the light of faith in Me and My mission to you, as Son, penetrates your hearts ever more powerfully.

37] Thus electricity, as a great conductor of heat and light in creation, should also become the spiritual love and wisdom conductor in your hearts.

38] All spiritual states, all powerful emotions, all are expressed in nature, in life and - in the electric spark.

39] Dissolving, leaping over all obstacles, the electric spark rushes through the heavy clouds, spreading light and warmth, but also cold and destruction; it flashes through the elements, dissolving metals, stones and everything you previously considered insoluble in an instant; nothing resists it.

40] Likewise is My wisdom, My teaching. Where it penetrates, it dissolves all hardship, brings forth warmth, light and life, enthusiasm for higher things, spirituality, and coldness for the worldly, destroys all old learned prejudices and builds new life on old ruins!

41] So electricity is the symbol and product of My wisdom, and magnetism is the image of My love!

42] let yourselves be led through the former to the latter; and when the ray of light and warmth for Me flashes through you as an electric spark, so adapt yourselves to My love; there this spark will warm you, enlighten you, and show you quite clearly that, just as I was able to create an entire infinity full of worlds from two forces, so there are also two spiritual forces for all kingdoms of heaven, but both find their resting point only in one, that is: in My love!

43] For love sent wisdom out into the distance to illuminate and warm all that was created; but it also demands that the ray emanating from it should not return with empty hands, and so it also goes with electricity: it flows out into the immense distance, dissolving, destroying, but also awakening and building up anew; everywhere it transforms darkness into light, cold into warmth and death into life.

44] So also shall My word, My teaching in you, transform all darkness into light, transform everything that has died into living deeds, so that you may one day be purified, cleansed, like a ray of light may arrive in My heavens and see face to face who now, with His words, wants to inspire or electrify you with his words to divine deeds! Amen.