Secrets of Creation · Chapter 35 · Essence of God; The Earthly Task of Man (March 1, 1872

Chapter 35

Essence of God; The Earthly Task of Man (March 1, 1872

01] My dear son! You have felt elevated by this title which I have given you, and perhaps for the first time you have had to realize the power and spiritual meaning in a word when one wants to immerse oneself in it, as you have also proved by the second word "love", which you have long and broadly defined.

02] I knew what you were looking for a long time ago, so I managed the circumstances in such a way that finding it was made much easier for you.

03] You searched in all sciences, in all interpretations of My teaching left to mankind, but in your search you always lacked the master key, you sought with your intellect and forgot your heart!

04] In all sciences Myself has often confronted you, as it shines out from all creations, but always searching for something far away, you did not notice the first thing, you did not notice how everywhere the voice of love, the general love of God called out to you: "But avid explorer, do you not notice in your heart any question why all this was created this way and not differently? do you not realize that it is called into existence only out of love and for love to be awakened again?"

05] Look at the earth with all its wonders within, as far as you know them (See "Earth and Moon", Part 1 "The Earth"), in the outward appearance of its surface, and you will be able to easily understand the aspiration of a merciful love, all the more so, when your gaze, sharpened spiritually, does not accept raw matter as the main thing, regards it only as a covering of another spiritual ladder, where then all apparent cruelties of living creatures as well as the destructive effects of elementary events following a spiritual higher course, are not regarded as evils, which are necessary to the detriment of individuals but are indispensable to their continued existence.

06] If you had studied geology in this way, while you had enriched your mind with knowledge, your heart would not have gone empty; everywhere you would have found the guiding thread of love, which leads everything in different forms, but always in the same way, towards its goal of completion.

07] And if you had carefully gone through what you had learned, you would have noticed that only the grossly raw visible is accessible to your senses, and the far greater and sublime is closed to the mind of a rational man and open only to the loving heart.

08] What did you learn from astronomy? Individual laws and movements of your own solar system and distances that are already incomprehensible to human concepts of your moon. But what is your solar system against the shell globes, of which this system is a part; what is this shell globe against the whole universe, in which material bodies as planets and suns circle continuously around larger ones? - just like a drop of water in your big ocean! And what is all this creation against those who, apart from the realm of the material, spiritually imagine an even higher and greater one from which all worlds have emerged and into which once, spiritualized, purified, all will return again!

09] Behold My Son! you can never grasp these magnitudes, these works of love of your God and Father, with your mind, but with your heart you can comprehend completely.

10] With this idea of greatness and infinity your spark of God, placed in you by Me, must help you to swing up over the earthly, over the material to the spiritual. For there your mind is no longer sufficient, there the soul ability stops, if it does not learn, supported by My Spirit, to understand and grasp that only an eternal God could create eternal things and a finite being only becomes even more of what the name "God" denotes and what it means to be able to become "his child”!

11] You felt proud reading the word I addressed to you, by calling you: "My son!" - Yes, feel proud to stand on this rung of the ladder where you already see millions and millions of other transitions behind you and have only a few in front of you who, insofar as you eagerly desire, can easily make you feel the whole meaning, what it means to be called "My Son" and to be or to become such!

12] In order to get to know a Master, one must first understand the greatness of His works, must see clearly their reason, their why, for what noble or great motives He created them, and only then does admiration begin to have a spiritual result, then one realizes what it means to be a master like Him and a disciple of Him!

13] If you had studied all sciences in this way, the two main principles of Myself would have confronted you at every step in the micro- and macro-cosmos: love and the wisdom, which I created to awaken love and spiritualize and ennoble the physical created out of love by Me and to receive back again through My created beings.

14] It would have become clear to you how I created everything only, not for Me, but for all thinking and feeling creatures, where their thanks and praise is the only reward I could ask of them, an infinite from the finite!

15] Thus comprehend My world of the visible and the veil before your spiritual eyes will fall - you will easily decipher the spiritual reason and why everywhere, both in the slightest hum of an insect and in the noblest pure speech of a man inspired by God or in the depths of My Words themselves!

16] Then you will see delights in a little flower on the meadow and discover bliss in the expression of a word which can lead you infinitely as I Myself - from one joy to another, from one bliss to another; it is enough that you understand how to immerse yourself in it. For not only the word "son" or "love" are so rich in high pleasures, no, every word; because every word comes from me, is spiritual product of a far higher world than the transient material one. With this Word I created the world, with this Word I animated it, with this Word I receive and guide and purify it until it will one day return as a spiritualized Word into My Kingdom of the Spirit - and this one and great Word that expresses everything, says everything, this Word is "Love"! Grasp love in all its fullness, take it as man to your neighbor, as compassion for the creatures subject to you and grasp it as an expression and motivation why I, the great, infinite God, once descended to your dark earth and there performed the greatest act of love that a God could commit, and even greater depths will open up to you, which lie in this Word and in the Word "Son", when you consider that it is I - Love Himself – who has created all this, did all this, and put the spark in you - to fully understand what it wants to say - to be able to acquire the filiation of such a God and loving Father just for the easy price of love - and you will find enough material in My visible nature and in your own heart to do everything to make yourself worthy of this name! Amen