Volume 11 · Chapter 24

. EXPLANATION OF THE LORD ABOUT ART MY disciples expressed now openly their amazement about the special arrangement of the house and garden which nevertheless did not seem appropriate for a wise Jew so that Rael excused himself by pointing out that his many trips had often given him the opportunity to admire the workmanship of foreign nations, and that he only put a few examples in his house, regardless the fact that those objects represented the cult of the pagan gods. But he only admired the beauty and not the represented idea, or at least only as far as this would not be in conflict with his belief in one God.

[GGJ.11_024,02] Now some reacted and said that this would be dangerous and could not be combined with the precepts of Moses who forbad associating with pagans and commanded to hold on to the old traditional customs.

[GGJ.11_024,03] Finally Rael asked Me: “Lord and Master, please tell me if I was wrong to arrange my house the way You have seen now, and rest assured that I myself will be the first to destroy all these works of art at which my eyes rejoiced as soon as You will tell me that it is unjust.”

[GGJ.11_024,04] I said to him: “Do not worry at all, for if it would be unjust everything would have been already destroyed. For where I am taking residence the unjust cannot exist for long. But you saw yourself that I shared your joy over these works of art and that I did not admonish you till now.”

[GGJ.11_024,05] Now I turned to My disciples and continued: “But you, when will you judge rightly, not from yourselves but from My Spirit? You know that I am not pleased when you act according to certain rules for evaluation. Act and evaluate things according to the rules of the most inner, true spirit that is put in you, and do not think that what is contrary to your customs is also contrary to God.

[GGJ.11_024,06] God could very well allow to other nations what had to remain inadmissible to you to keep His people suitable for what is now present as a ripe fruit. But when the fruit is detached from the tree, it will depend on the tree to ripen a new one, for it became now strong enough so that it can do it without the help of the gardener and can progress on its own, for he did everything that was possible. But if the tree becomes lazy and slow, that same gardener will lay the axe at its roots.

[GGJ.11_024,07] All the nations can be compared to a fruit tree which however always has to be treated differently depending on the typical character of the people.

[GGJ.11_024,08] Moses gave the laws to the Jews and gave and forbad severe precepts so that they should be involved with something different than the inner purpose of God’s Word. Whoever is called to preserve the spiritual kernel – not only for this Earth and its inhabitants but for the whole creation – must outwardly be well protected, for whoever strives for the outer cannot at the same time be the guardian of the key.

[GGJ.11_024,09] Since all times the Jews had a hard and stubborn character. However, these are the qualities which made them suited to be the keepers of the Word of God so that it can be kept as intact as possible. Other nations, which did not have that characteristic had other callings, yet were not rejected by God. Just like hands and feet cannot be despised by man because they are not, like the heart, keepers of the most inner life, but are nevertheless also highly valued because without these organs his life would be very crippled.

[GGJ.11_024,10] So if someone thinks that it is an abomination to God to live differently – spiritually or physically – compared to a people that are obviously under His clear leadership, is very wrong. In later times, when the distinction between the nations will disappear more and more, it will happen that the way of living of neighboring people will be different, yet they will be equally close to My heart. But no one will then be offended by the other.

[GGJ.11_024,11] From this you can see that Rael can quietly live amidst his works of art and in his beautifully arranged house and at the same time be very dear to My heart, for he looks at all that without his heart being attached to it. He only looks with gratefulness at the spiritual ability that I put in man, developing such workmanship in him that it also can give joy to other people.

[GGJ.11_024,12] If he or someone else in this house would also somehow worship the statue of Jupiter or another deity, they would be destroyed, so that everyone would see here: there is only one God. But this is not the case. Rael and his cohabitants believe fully in Me and rejoice over all this, only rejoicing over the pure art.

[GGJ.11_024,13] Why would I destroy what was also indirectly created by Me? Because I created the ability for this in man, as long as he makes good use of it. For believe Me: everything that you call art is put in the heart of man by God for very wise reasons as you can easily imagine.

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14] Just like an inferior animal, with only limited intelligence, cannot make a work of art through reasoning, so also man cannot do this when he does not try to develop his spiritual abilities.

[GGJ.11_024,15] You very well know that a civilized nation can more easily be evaluated by their works or art, for they give outwardly an image of what is reflecting in the soul of a people, in their feeling, thinking and acting. The more they make progress in freeing the soul of material pleasure the more perfect works of art they will be able to make. They can of course also use their works of art for every kind of sensuality. But then they will not make and exalted but a repulsive impression on the pure observer.

[GGJ.11_024,16] However, from the point of view of beauty, works of art can never be made if there is no ability in the soul of the artist to exalt himself to purer spheres, that means to look with his spiritual eye in order to make something himself. How he will give form to what he saw depends on his free will. But he only can progress in giving what is more and more perfect when he walks the ways that are righteous to Me.

[GGJ.11_024,17] Salomon could never have designed the temple if in his spirit he would not have been so free to see with his inner eye the reflection of a pure heavenly building, and according to that, make in the much admired temple a weak image of what is completely visible to everyone in My Kingdom. For neither on Earth nor in the Heavens can anything be created by human beings or spirits which cannot be found in fullness in God and thus also in His works. Wherever there is an image, there also must be a spiritual original. Just like when there is a shade there also must be an object that produces the shade.

[GGJ.11_024,18] But since God is infinite, and all the good, the beauty and the exalted is in Him, spiritually there also can never be an end to something more beautiful.