Secrets of Creation · Chapter 10 · From Darkness to Light (I), The Flower (March 05, 1871)

Chapter 10

From Darkness to Light (I), The Flower (March 05, 1871)

01] Well, here I want to explain to you not only the recently viewed spiritual vision which overcame you at the sight of a torn down fir-tree, not only to explain in more detail, but also to give you further insights about the spiritual relationship that exists between all material products and the spiritual world, and as in every little plant the entire spiritual career of a human being, such as a spirit or an angel, is founded, implied and precisely described.

02] Only the inner vision is needed to be able to read and interpret this spiritual scripture of correspondences.

03] Such a bright moment overcame you as you immersed yourself in the beauties of a fir-tree, on which also his future fruit was already set, a mood in which you could read and see My grace and love in this little creation.

04] It left you in a gentle mood all day long, you were also reconciled with your destiny for a few moments, content with what I let you see and feel spiritually in My Nature at a glance.

05] But since I have set you up as a teacher and guide for the others and the manifestations which you receive through Me are to extend even further than your sphere of action and your own life span, so also this spiritual vision is not to be given to you alone, but it is to become a general, spiritual view which everyone can then do when he does not want to read My nature superficially, but wants to read spiritually written in capital letters which are the only words that shine forth, sound out and come forward from all angles, namely: “God is love!"

06] I will call out these words to you, to you and all of humanity in these following words, to show them and possibly to awaken them in every heart so that you may all recognize, respect and learn to understand the great plan and purpose of your Creator. I will lead you all "From Night to Light” as your loyal collaborator in My vineyard, the tireless Busch in Dresden has only recently written to you!

07] Yes, God is love! Love is the one who created the worlds, who receives them and who will continue to advance them until they are complete.

08] It is love that has put all its power, all its fervor and all its zeal into every material or spiritual creation.

09] God is this love, He who guides you, indulges with you and your fellow-beings, always overwhelms you with graces and blessings; He who wants to show you spiritually all created things that only the same purpose, the same principle has guided Him, and when your eye is turned away from the worldly, you can once see the spirituality of the forms and formations of the material world, since the creation of the material world you will find everything prepared long ago, which then spiritually read is necessary to lead you upwards into that region, where matter ceases and the spiritual begins, and where the corporeal, transient changes with the eternal, shows you both on a small scale and on a large scale, the same words are shown to you in thousands of forms, pictures and images, all of which are all only to breathe love, and spread love with one another and so are to lead you from the dark material world, from night to the spirit-bright, eternally never passing world, to the light!

10] So it was also the same for you when you saw in the fir branch My whole creation in its greatest love stimulus, it was as if the spiritual heaven, like the sun in cloudy weather, sent you a ray of light from its interior, where sorrow and suffering ceased and only joy, bliss and happiness have their permanent abode.

11] It was not possible to leave you in this mood; for you are still a child on earth and bound too much to matter. When the time of full spiritual maturity comes, where matter must release your spirit as a shell, you will be able to put on this mood you enjoy only in fleeting moments as a permanent garment, you will thereby be able to diffuse light for others and absorb light from others; but it is not yet possible to let you enjoy permanently what can only be beneficial to spiritual and not physical-soul beings.

12] But in order to show you the way that all My beings have to go, I just give this word the title: "From night to the light, or the flower” because I want to show you and all of you in the flower that the way to this spiritually sublime standpoint of love is the same way that every materially created thing, up to My highest angelic spirits, must go through and has partly already gone through!

13] I chose the flower over any other plant because the material process of this created symbol of love is more familiar to you and therefore easier to understand; I also chose it by the way so that you should not make such thoughtless misuse of My creations as is happening with these products from two worlds, namely as products of the earth and the world of light, so that when you see or smell the fragrant balsam of a flower, you may not only delight your vision and your olfactory nerves, but rather, looking deeper into the chalice of the open flower, may you recognize the spiritual, far higher and more beautiful things that I have put into it in order to remind you with every flower: "God is love"!

14] Behold, I have just said: "The flower is a product of the earth and light world!" Well, you too are such a product; you too are of earth and light, are body and soul as the covering of My divine spirit, you also wrestle from night to light, as the seed that is inserted into the earth, striving upwards, breaking through the clod, towards the light of the sun, its spiritual supreme turns.

15] See and read in the example of a plant that has a flower or fruit for its final purpose, read in it your whole life story, as it is also written there as clearly as in yourself!

16] Short-sighted, indifferent people! Open your material and spiritual eyes! Raise your gaze a little higher than only to the limits of the visible material; and you will find so clearly written in a plant what I am always calling to you with a thousand words: “God - is - love!".

17] Recognize the Father! If you cannot see Him spiritually, then recognize Him in His works!

18] Do not wander around in His wonders so thoughtlessly; be ashamed of yourselves for not being able to understand this spiritual scripture (in creation) so clearly written by me!

19] Isn't it sad in your world when a child doesn't know his father, all the more so when a child, the child of a creator of so many wonders and beauties, ignores (forgets) his father as if He did not exist for him at all, or only when he needs help!

20] Behold, this is the purpose of My word to you today, that you all should learn to understand more the spiritual in the world and not just ordinary, trivial necessities of life and worldly worries, forgetting your spiritual destiny and Me, wandering on My wonders like dead among the living, like the blind among seeing.

21] If I did not know how lukewarm and indifferent you take all My words, then I would not again repeat to you in another way the same thing that you have already read in many different ways, but have unfortunately exercised very little.

22] I will do everything to awaken you, to educate you for something better; but if you do not want to be awakened, if you prefer spiritual sleep, then do not blame Me when circumstances and events will come which will wake you up in your worldly tumult not with love, but with terror and despair; you have wanted it this way, so enjoy the fruits of your worldly worries for stomach and body, but then the way "from night to light" will go somewhat harder and slower than now when I want to introduce you as a gentle, patient guide through explanation of My miracles in the material creation into the kingdom of spiritual bliss and happiness.

23] Well, now I want to return to My chosen picture "the flower" or "the plant" again.

24] I have given you only words of warning in between, so that you may understand the seriousness of My words as well as the greatness of My love, which makes so much effort to open your ears to spirituality!

25] Behold, the plant is laid as a seed in the ground; everything is already prepared in the seed for its future destiny, it contains all the means for fulfilling its purpose and for the eternal preservation of its genus by the reproduction of new seed. It is in a seed of a single plant that the elements of its gradual progression to a higher class lie, and from there on and on, to the component of a spiritual and finally spiritual-soul being, until the plant also perfected passes over into the spirit realm and there constitutes an integrity of a least being to the highest angelic spirit.

26] Thus you see in a plant a sequential progression from the gross-material to the highest spiritual.

27] As soon as the seed is planted in the earth, the first factor of its environment joins its slumbering elements; it is the moisture, which consists as a product of two other acting elements, namely compressed air or water and heat, the latter being the product of the process of separation and development.

28] Stimulated by this moisture, the seed swells, its outer parts are softened and the inner parts are stimulated to develop; from the outside, the nature of the surrounding earth and from the inside, its own individuality.

29] Thus, pushed by two factors, the struggle arises, the struggle of the outside with the inner world, where in the end the inner world wins, the shell, which kept it separate from its surroundings, disintegrates and then, incumbent upon its construction, sucks the suitable out of the surrounding elements and utilizes them for further progression, gradually a first shoot moves up and roots down, thus between the two: Night and light, earth and sun, the balance is established and the seed can develop according to its purpose which My will has created it.

30] Thus the plant, nourished by the elements absorbed from the earth and individually processed, always penetrates upwards. The higher it penetrates, the less the heaviness of the surrounding earth weighs on it, the easier it can overcome the difficulties, it approaches the light, the unseen but perceived light of the sun, the higher it penetrates the warmer it feels until it finally arrives in the light of the great benefactor of every creature, the plant begins to draw more from the light and less from the earth.

31] Color, substance, everything is then changed, the lower forces of the night must either give way or allow themselves to be turned into light elements, whereby the plant again helps to carry out another process by forming its environment from the coarse to the finer, building itself up, forming its environment to the root from the coarse to the finer, and indirectly, apart from its own structure, also helping to promote the spiritualization of the earth world surrounding it.

32] The farther the plant grows into the light, the more the air and warm rays of the outer atmosphere penetrate, the more its components, its elements absorbed from the earth, become refined.

33] Refined substances also have to produce refined things, therefore, the stems and leaves are softer which always receives something even coarser under the influence of the earth, as night. But all this is not enough. An uncertain urge drives the intellectual parts of a plant towards an unknown something. Up and up it goes. The leaves become softer and more delicate. The further the path from the earth to the summit, the more the substances of the earth have to be processed, refined by the intelligence of the plant itself, they finally no longer belong to leaves, stalks and stems; All the coarse things are then left behind that have been absorbed earlier, and yet there is still no end to the activity of development – the best is still hidden in the seed deep in the earth night, the spirituality of the plant individuality, which designates its purpose and its continued existence.

34] Up to now, this individuality had only processed what belonged to it as its own, but was only a means to an end; it had to be eliminated in the past and processed earlier.

35] Now comes what is the girl's highest illusion (flower dream), the last wish, it urges her to the marriage of the material with the spiritual, it urges her to the flower, where the end of a material and the beginning of a spiritual world is, namely from the flower again the production of the seed or the fruit!

36] All the juices that belonged to the substructure were used up; they, the flower, now gloriously adorned in the most beautiful light, smelling and spiritually praising its creator, as the final result of the first process, as the highest stage of the seed and as the lowest level of spiritual reproductive power, where the seed produces again, the previously processed atmosphere in other forms and the remnant in seed form or fruit is ready to return to the same process of the earth what it had received from it in order to release there something new, thus to gradually spiritualize matter, and if you wish to ascend to the higher point of view, lead the entire globe through the vegetation towards a higher, more spiritual level.

37] So "from night to light", the seed strives upwards, finally shines in all beauty, Balsamic scents spread as flowers greet you on your walks, calling you everywhere:

38]"God is love!" Behold, wanderer, My struggle, My quest and My end on her (the earth)!

39] Follow Me also, for you too are a seed place in a physical shell; fulfill your purpose as I fulfil mine, and you too will be clothed as I am with beauty and fragrance, with spiritual enjoyment and delight.

40] Yes, so it is, My children! Hear this call of a tiny little plant, speechless in the field for ordinary man, but for the spiritual one a whole gospel of the love and grace of its Creator.

41] Follow this plant - from night to light, and fulfill your purpose like this seed, and you can be assured that you too will shine and smell as spiritual flowers in My kingdom!

42] If you look carefully at all the steps that the plant has to go through until its development, you will not fail to recognize the same in your life.

43] The soul is also placed in your body shell and as the last spark of intelligence a ray of My love is laid; you too are awakened from the beginning as a child to the old man by the warmth of love, driven to higher development, surrounded by the outside world and have to absorb by yourself what is suitable for you and excrete what is unsuitable; you too, as physical beings, are urged to drive the roots downwards because of natural needs, worldly worries; for you the outside world is also the night, but an inner urge, the impulse of the spirit, drives you upwards, towards the spiritual, and if you also wanted to deny the spiritual, this urge is not silent, it is the instinct of conscience.

44] This is the way forward in the plant, so with the human being; through aberrations, suffering and struggles I draw you to spiritual plants for My garden.

45] Many fall under the influence of passions, such as plants and flowers under the influence of weather influences. Just as these then, among other forms, follow a different destiny that is intended for them, as do the lost children of the spirit - they must enter the longer path of purification in order to postpone the attainment of the flower, the bridal state, the crown of all activity and struggle, which others were more likely to achieve, postponing it for longer periods of time.

46] Therefore, My children, take the flowers or plants as an example; eliminate all the coarser elements, spiritualize the absorbed! Through your purification you also spiritualize your surroundings and move others with you towards a better being.

47] Up! My children! After the delicate leaves and stems, after which the flower of a calm, God-given consciousness grows, the heavenly peace grows; and just as the flower joyfully and gently moves her little head and sways in the fragrant airs that surround it, as you do in the higher realm of spirits, where instead of the material sun light and warmth, spiritual light, “knowledge and spiritual warmth”, love gently surrounds you!

48] Strive for what I have created you to become: My children! Do not let a flower or plant shame you!

49] Just as I once said: "Look at the flowers in the field, they do not work", likewise do not let yourselves be seduced by worldly care; give to the world what is the worlds , and to Me what is mine "- become flowers in My spiritual garden and you have reached your goal in this world – have arrived at the highest level as children of the earth, in order to repeat on the lowest level as spirit children your way through millions of heavens and eons of times, always approaching Me - to be able to spiritually repeat the whole process of seed up to the flower and fruit!

50] Behold, all this is told to you by a flower that you have often thoughtlessly trampled on with your feet.

51] Learn to understand the language of My Nature!

52] Learn to read this tender and gentle scripture with which I, your Creator, Lord and Father, in every grain of sand, in every flower, up to the greatest solar worlds, have always written the same words: God is - love!

53] Nature preaches this to you in small and great things.

54] This calls to your heart with every breath. This I send to you in a thousand different forms and words through My servants and scribes.

55] Listen to this great harmony of spheres, this choral song, which sings My praise day and night from millions of beings and creations; do not be cold against all these great interpretations, go forward "from night to light"! from world to spirit! and become flowers of humility, love and gentleness in My heavenly regions!

56] This alone is the intention or will of your Father with all these words which He continually sends to you from His heavens for enlightenment. Pay attention to them! - for they shall lead you, like the seed, "from night to light"! Amen.