Volume 11 · Chapter 55

THE WAY TO INNER COMPLETION THE brothers asked him again to comment on his ideas and experiences, and Peter began: “Dear brothers, soon it will be 3 years that we have been steady followers of the Lord who let us enter into all the wonders of His Word, and we do not doubt at all whom we truly have personally amongst us. But despite the fact that I can see this truth and am aware to live directly near to the One who is the Creator of us all, I still could not completely succeed to overcome the gradually increasing doubts that whisper to me: ‘All your knowledge and efforts are useless because you will never be able to reach that purity anyway that would give you somehow the right to stay near to Him who really is without fault.’ This awareness of sinfulness that still adheres to us all has shed many tears from my remorseful heart, and it is only because the Lord spoke to me with love that I was raised and filled with new courage to take up the seemingly useless work.

[GGJ.11_55,02] I also succeeded quite well to unshakably keep, as a very firm possession, my faith that in our Lord and Master lays the only example for completion, but up to now I did not succeed to believe that I can reach even the lowest level of that completion. However, I succeeded to establish in myself the firm will for it, so that with that firm intention I would not give up reaching the distant goal by the awareness of my personal unworthiness.

[GGJ.11_55,03] But now I realize that the examination of the laws of the order is a striving anyway by which it is really much easier for us – at least for many – to purify the soul of the many impurities, for when one’s eye is capable to recognize the outer, wise arrangements that form the means for the education of the soul, will also very quickly penetrate to the actual, inner goal of those outer arrangements, and his heart will at first by filled with amazement, admiration and awe and will then certainly have to change into the love for the almighty Being, for He established here in His holy order the greatest effectiveness for the salvation and progress of the whole universe of which the climax lies in that one goal, namely to form beings who can work and create in happy community with the Spirit of God.

[GGJ.11_55,04] Moreover, that knowledge will also be a stimulation to leave everything behind that is contrary to the order that is needed to reach this highest goal, and by that, the soul will strive to be good and live righteously in God’s eyes. Only the greatest fools and devils in human form can resist against the known laws to their own physical and spiritual disadvantage.

[GGJ.11_55,05] Look, dear brothers, this point of view guided me already for a long time, but only here I have reached the goal that enables me, with open eyes, out of free will – and not only after the Lord has opened my sight by the power of His will – to recognize the outer laws of nature that clothes the most exalted inner laws of love, and by that I hope to have made good progress in my own development.”

[GGJ.11_55,06] Andreas asked what he had done to receive that inner sense of sight. He himself did not think it to be important to also have the outer sense of sight because understanding the Word was to him superior, and this inner, spiritual sight was to him more important than all the knowledge of the outer laws of nature, but that everyone should evaluate this according to his own conviction and therefore in no way he wanted to say that Peter’s striving was not good.

[GGJ.11_55,07] Peter thought that it was not difficult to go that way because only faith in God and willpower was needed to penetrate into the object which one wanted to examine. Then while viewing the outer form appears at the same time also the inner form, and the spirit 212 shows then also clearly the laws that become visible by this observation.

[GGJ.11_55,08] It was furthermore obvious that by viewing the many things that come along, the soul should not be just satisfied to receive these outer abilities without letting the voice of the Spirit clearly sound in him. This should always go together and then the development of these soul’s qualities with a healthy body would certainly not be wrong.

[GGJ.11_55,09] So he discovered for instance how plants build themselves up, and by that he clearly saw how the soul substance of the plant was also a being completely enclosed in itself but still capable for further development like a human being himself. When formerly he only saw plants as an offshoot from the living Earth – somewhat like the hairs that grow on the body of a human being – he now knew that this is not so but that every little plant, although imperfect, represents a complete soul that is enclosed in itself which also builds its body up just like the completed soul of a human being. Although he understood from earlier explanations of the Lord how the human soul came into being by the visible world, but he never had such accurate detailed view which he is able to bring it back at each moment, and many of the things that he felt were true before had become now really true to him.

[GGJ.11_55,10] Now there were many questions, especially from the disciples who did not belong to the 12, who still wanted to receive a lot of clarifications from Peter but which can be left out here because they are not vitally important. Just the remark should be made that during these discussions the question came up whether the still imperfect soul elements – which became already visible to many at moments when their spiritual sight was opened – were conscious and if on the lower levels of the inorganic bodies an ability to feel went hand in hand with that consciousness – which could be assumed – and whether this was necessary for certain purposes.