Secrets of Creation · Chapter 21 · The Pyramid of Creation (January 15, 1872)

Chapter 21

The Pyramid of Creation (January 15, 1872)

00] This announcement followed a question by the then publisher Johannes Busch regarding some passages of the word about the kiss (In “Love, the Basic Law of All Life”, p. 61 ff and p. 69) where it says: "and this is to be the spirit community, which will then be understood far beyond the short life on earth, when no solid material body hinders the vibrations of the soul anymore to unite with the beloved complementary spirit - according to My laws - in order to give back to Me in infinite love what I have put into them".

01] Behold, My Son, these are the words which you quote in your letters, which stimulate in you the questions, what is this actually: "I am love in person", and how is the above to be understood from the words to you of December 24, 1871?

02] Now that I want everything to become clear to you and you learn to understand Me and My love as well as all words, which are already given about this word and are to be communicated even further, I want to lead you into those spheres, from where you can take a larger view as on a high mountain, where the horizon for your spiritual vision can be greatly expanded.

03] So go up with your spirit into those spaces where time and measure has long ceased to exist, into those distant places where no more rays of light from the worldly sun penetrate, to those places of the Great Spirit world, where already in a single hair vessel (this spirit world man) your known, visible world system would fit.

04] Swing yourself up into those areas where there is neither left nor right, where there is no "down" and no "up" anymore, but where the infinite ether infuses the great spiritual man eternally in his course and where eternally only light is and darkness belongs to the unknown magnitudes.

05] There in that spirit heaven is My abode, from there I rule the whole spirit and material world, and how, to make it more understandable to you, your soul is also everywhere and yet nowhere in your body, but nevertheless has a headquarters in the midst of this body shell given to you and from there the needs and concerns of your body, also I am, although far away from you, but always close - guide you, lead and receive everything created by Me and thus direct everything, spirits and the world of matter to their superior purpose.

06] From this point of view, look at the whole infinite creation; look at this activity, this busy work, this creation and alteration, this gradual development from the last, smallest atom of the great infinite ether to the greatest angelic spirit, and you will notice that everything bears the stamp of divinity or imperishability, of eternity itself.

07] The greatest evils, the most glaring disharmonies you see dissolve in blessings, in graces from Me, everywhere you notice the same law, the law of approach and repulsion, like seeks like and loving embraces only beloved.

08] If you have now looked so attentively at this great clock of the world, then you must become more familiar with the general drive wheel of all this, this drive wheel, which communicates its power to all other smaller wheels, rollers, pins and even the elements of which these tools are composed, by setting everything in vibrating motion as a motor of movement, thereby continuing life, heat, light, continuity and decay, where from the latter something new must arise again, not something already existing, but something higher, better, spiritual.

09] Now, this great drive wheel is My will of love, is that power which constitutes Myself, from which I create everything, guide everything, and in which only My spiritually divine personal life consists.

10] To make all this clearer to you, I will show you some examples from the area of life on earth where you can notice the same; for you have and cannot form anything, do nothing that does not have its roots partly in My spiritual, partly in My material world.

11] See, for example, a musician, a painter, a mathematician, a natural scientist, a mechanic, etc., if these people live quite simply for their life professions or devote themselves entirely to them, you will find that you could read in their soul lives how all that imposes itself on their attention refers only to their favorite inclination.

12] The musician listens to the wise, as they resound against him everywhere in nature, finds spiritual nourishment everywhere, for him everything is music. The painter searches for the forms, for colors into an aesthetic whole, which he then wants to communicate to his fellow human beings as a picture for spiritual stimulation. The painter is all form, all color.

13] The mathematician sees in nature only his mathematical lines, his mathematical laws, just as he reduces (attributes) every movement, every occurrence to his favorite science. An example of this may be the English astronomer Newton, who saw an apple fall from a tree and discovered the laws of gravity or attraction.

14] The natural scientist lives in the periods that My creation has gone through until, for example, your earth was established as a place of residence for men; he does not wander on footpaths, but on remnants of the destroyed and reconstructed earth crust; he sees in the rock, in the water, in the atmosphere not stone, not water, not air, but the primeval materials from which they are composed, the elements which will again in their dissolution bring forth new connections, new things interesting for him. He is only an observer and researcher according to My laws placed in the material world, which, when he discovers some, he communicates to the other people for their material well-being.

15] The mechanic sees only moving forces and their laws, recognizes everywhere only the rigid "must", why this must be so and so, he overhears the power of moving nature, seeks to exploit it to his plans, builds and lives only in machines, and so the chemist in the decomposition and fusion of My world substances.

16] Just as all these different people look at nature and its laws with different eyes and usually only seek to exploit them for themselves, so also the soul dwelling in you is only concerned with your body, its health, and if it is spiritually awakened, also more attentive to its spiritual development.

17] See, for example, if in a person's body a small error, a small disturbance of a function of the organs appears, how quickly the soul seeks to correct this error. Like ants, when they are threatened by danger, it sends blood wave after blood wave to the damaged place, so that rapid assistance comes, it accelerates the metabolism, in order to restore their dwelling. You call this urge of the blood "fever" and "inflammation" and believe to have an illness in front of you, often inhibit it by force, which would have slowly led to a balance! Now, just as the soul also lives only for its body both spiritually and materially, so also I only live in and for the world created by me, and after I created everything out of love, so I live and I am also completely for love.

18] As the previously mentioned experts only dedicate their whole life to their favorite ideas and inclinations, so also I, since I am always concerned to preserve what has been created, to spiritualize what is bound in matter and to return the spiritual to Me purified by matter.

19] Because I have now created the world, both the spiritual and the material world, the next question is - why and for whom?

20] This question is now answered by the law of love. I created the world, animated it with intelligent spirits to double the pleasures of the latter - My own! So you must understand love in its deepest sense, as it is made up, so hear: Love is affection for something. To incline means to bend, to deviate from the straight line and to form a curved line. When now two such curved lines unite, they will finally close and it becomes a circle, an ellipse or an egg-shape, which then without beginning and without end, expresses infinity, therefore My being, Myself.

21] The straight line denotes selfishness, the bent line - charity. The straight line searches and has no association with a line parallel to it. The curved one, on the other hand, approaches the other, can unite with it; we then connected the image of a whole figure, composed of (corresponding) two. This figure is the spiritual correspondence of the spirit and material world - with Me - and is the equivalent of the union of two loving beings to one thought, in which they complement each other as in the form of a circle or oval, where one curved line complements the other one that approaches it.

22] The point of unification, the eternal holding together and moving towards a common goal, is the kiss, which wants to achieve the same unification already in the body world, where it is however not permanently executable.

23] Here you have settled some of your doubts. Now we come to the second part, how should you imagine this union of My spirit world with Me?

24] See, as many atoms exist within infinite ether, also so many spirit-particles exist; because no atom is without life, that is, in each one dwells a spirit put in by me, which then must begin its round journey, in order to once again come back to Me with the consciousness of its divine origin.

25] All these spirits, who are so gradually pyramidically directed towards Me at their top, have their various tasks, which they must solve, if an advance is to be made possible.

26] But the more these (still raw) nature spirits approach My (personal) spirits, the clearer their consciousness and their vision of where they are becomes, what they were and what they must become. This intelligence grows like with you from the sucking child, which still carries with him an unconscious plant life, to the mature man, where, as one of your celebrated poet’s says, the little one, namely the cradle, is too big for the infant, and when he himself has grown up, the infinite world is too small for his inquiring spirit.

27] Thus also the idea of Me and My creation progresses further with the degree of knowledge.

28] Not that an angelic spirit really sees Me as I am personally (as absolute God); for no created spirit endures this, but every spirit sees Me as its inner being (that is, how he can endure it). According to the spiritual level of education of each one, his ideal, Myself, is formed and only in this way I am equally accessible to all, because everyone can carry Me in his heart, as he senses Me and as I can be grasped by his knowledge.

29] See, for example, the infant at the mother's breast, does he understand his mother's words of love, her gentle gaze? - No, he doesn't understand anything about it; only with time does his cognitive ability grow and so gradually the connection and mutual love, which, however, is usually understood quite differently by the child, until the loss of the mother makes him feel the full value of a heart sacrificing itself for him.

30] As is this love, so is the love of My creatures to Me. All move forward, first of all recognize My creation more and more, and according to this knowledge also their love will be.

31] Since everything in My creation has a purpose, why it is there, so of course the whole great spirit world is also created to help according to its destiny and its intelligence in building up, maintaining and promoting the lesser to something higher.

32] As with you also an entire state building is only what it is supposed to be through the cooperation of many, also in My spirit realm there is no standstill. Life is the basic principle of everything that exists, and this life is nothing else but activity! Just as the material world is formed by the vibration of its individual atoms or molecules, and just as great things are formed from small things, so is also the same law in spirit life - work must be done everywhere. Rest would be tantamount to death, and there is no actual death in My creation.

33] Therefore, according to their intelligence and spiritual height, also the spirits are instructed to have spheres of activity, where they also contribute progressively to the advancement of other worlds, other beings, have constant practice to partly improve their moral spiritual level, and partly contribute to the existence of the whole, to give themselves an eternally lasting bliss and to always give pleasure to Me.

34] But so that these spirits have a measure of how far they can fulfil the divine qualities and whether it is possible to fulfil what is demanded of them, I therefore decided through My incarnation, through My incorporation into this small shell of an earthly person, to give proof to the great spirit world that whoever wants to carry the divine within himself and wants to make use of it, as befits them, can achieve the greatest end purposes in the smallest, the greatest effects in the smallest.

35] Thus My Incarnation, with its humiliation, denial, and self-sacrifice, became the measure of worthiness for all those spirits who wanted to see in Me not only the Creator but also the loving Father.

36] Thus the foundation stone was laid for the great building of the spiritually possible height that a created being can reach. The bond which was to hold everything together - love - was first more firmly bound by My act of humiliation and sacrifice, the like-minded were drawn closer together in order to walk the path of perfection together. And just as in all creation nothing is perfect (well relative and conditionally perfect in its kind, but not absolutely perfect), except me, so every clear-sighted spirit felt the deficiencies that clung to his being, he therefore sought the missing in other spirits, sought to supplement the same through the connection of himself with another, so that he might then learn from the other spirit what he himself lacks, and have around him a constant example of what one spirit can be and become in relation to the Creator and Lord of all infinity.

37] As progressing, complementary, always feeling the same as Myself, only to a finite degree, the spirits strive upwards, always according to My laws of love - the higher they rise, according to their deeper insight into My creation, are used for greater missions where, purifying themselves more and more, can also open the way to Me for others.

38] This is the great teaching purpose of My spirit world, its constant occupation and its actual task.

39] As in Me the Trinity as a whole personifies itself, namely - love, regulated by wisdom and carried out by perseverance (will), likewise with them the triad exists as an important main factor of their being progressing - and hoping, that is, in the consciousness of what they are, in the certain way what they are to become, and in the firm confidence that they will achieve this also with constant contemplation of Me.

40] Just as with you an entire State has a multitude of officials of a lower and higher kind, all of whom must contribute to maintaining and directing the whole State building, as do My spirits with their various missions all of whom are involved in promoting life, activity, progression and development, only with the difference that while with you and on every other world the subordinate can give false reports to the superior about the state of the sphere of activity entrusted to him, in the spirit realm no covering of thoughts is possible and the superior can clearly see through the subordinate. The world of pretense and lie does not exist there, but the kingdom of truth, where I stand at the top as their original prototype.

41] Thus the series of levels of spirits is bound in matter - with a limited sphere of action and limited foresight.

42] Free from matter - with unlimited authority of will and with divine intuition of the unattainable! Eternal striving and eternal progress, eternal birth and eternal transformation; eternal elimination and eternal absorption: eternal life and eternal change of form!

43] Thus My spirits bring back to Me the Divine sent out before eons of time on slow paths of purification, tested, humiliated and capable of greater expansion.

44] When you thus let your gaze wander out into infinity, what a busy life you see there, what lively activity in and outside matter, in and on the great worlds as on the orbiting suns, planets and comets. Everywhere the same purpose, everywhere the same result: spiritualization of the coarser, redemption of the bound.

45] And what moves on eternally in matter and the spirit world, lives and passes away and generates itself again, what happens in the great as well as in the smallest material atom, you also find this in yourself, in your life, as in the Great Spirit World.

46] The same seeks to be supplemented by what is lacking, hunger seeks food, thirst the saturation of its need, and then, united with what is lacking, it rises again further and higher (which is all represented) in the form of a pyramid, at the top of which I as the final stone, the broad base of the last point, hold everything together, overlook everything, and for all I am the culmination of their longing.

47] It is no coincidence that the ancient Egyptians chose the pyramid shape as their tombs and school buildings. The pyramid was well known to them in spiritual correspondence, it was the most suitable form of the expression "all for one, and one for all! or Pir-ami-dai (In Gr. Ev. Joh. vol. 4, chapter 206, 5 and vol. 5, chapter 72, 3: Pira mi dai - Give Me wisdom!). Just as in the pyramids, an equal pressure is exerted from above on everything underneath, just as in a pyramid all individual components are not there for themselves, but for all, so also in the spirit world none is for themselves. No one works and lives only for his own advancement, no, the preservation of his own self is indeed necessary, but it is necessary because of the preservation of others, because of the preservation of the whole.

48] Even in the pyramids, the masses are basically denser, more compact and of a firmer nature and the higher up, the lighter, the smaller the dimensions, until finally a single light stone, serving the whole work as the final stone, its crown and end. Pyramidal is the spiritual progression from the big to the small, but also from the heavy, the material to the spiritual. And just as in time the stones of the pyramids will decrease their height by the pressure from above and will probably even once disintegrate to dust, in which the final stone which was on the highest point, will also be moved ever closer to the base – likewise in the spirit realm by the perpetual spiritualization of the lower, the distance from me to the lowest spirit will always become smaller, whereby I, like the final stone of a pyramid, will once also arrive very close to the remains of the base, - but what will I then find there?

49] It is no longer the great mass of the pyramid base, no longer hard rock, but material, which, just like its former existence, is preparing to enter new life through other connections, which, while the first connection was hard and firm, is now usable and capable of absorbing the lighter and more spiritual things and thus undertaking a cycle of new stages, which are to have me, as the former keystone above them, then to have the guide, leader and father among them.

50] Thus creation was once pyramidal and through My descent to your earth the signal was given to spiritualize this form, to dissolve it, so that nothing is distant but everything is close together with me and through My teaching can begin the way of the spirit and perfect itself.

51] This great unification feast has begun, at least for you people living on this small earth whom I once designated to be My children.

52] The top of the pyramid gradually descends, the unattainable approaches you to introduce you spiritualized into His kingdom, into the great kingdom of the Spirit World, where there is then no below nor above, but only a center, I and a crowd of loving spirits around Me is - and will be eternally! (A shepherd and a flock.)

53] Here you have settled your questions as to how they can be comprehensible to you. Yes, there is and must be an infinite ladder of steps as the spirits ascend to Me where they must all work together to increase My glory and better comprehend My love.

54] Also You, My son, will one day see your spiritual destiny more clearly and will understand him even more what he is, what his love is, because he and his love are infinite and therefore can never be completely grasped by created beings, but to suspect that there is an everlasting progression. - But you can neither see nor reach the last rung of these step ladders of created beings: for I have such, and from there I completely overlook what you, spirits and descendants of Me (individually more and more, but always only partially) can recognize depending on the height of your step ladder.

55] Forward! is the keyword in My creation; everyone works - with love, through love - to love! Amen!