The Earth

← The Earth · Contents The Tibetans from a spiritual point of view (May 1, 1847) Original Content summary: In Asia's Middle, high Tibet, a people still lives with the ancient patriarchal constitution. Their religious basis is the unclouded Sanskrit (Holy Scripture of primitive time) with the Zenda vesta (i.e., the sacred visions containing wars…

← The Earth · Contents Phantoms and possession (30 March 1847) 1. You have read, from all times in which writings have been written, strange cases of various kinds of possession in your present situation and sphere; but do you also know so thoroughly how this possession takes it's origin, and from where, and on…

← The Earth · Contents Jews, Mohammedans and Brahmines in spiritual perspective (28 April 1847) Original content summary: The critics (are people who live from scolding). "The hay" for the oxen and the donkey, the spiritual earth is guided by Christian spirits only. The present Jews, strong comparison with the under-mixing of mankind with Jews…

← The Earth · Contents The liver of the Earth (16 January 1847) 1. After the spleen, the liver emerges as one of the most important visceral parts. The liver is the secretion apparatus in the animal, as in our telluric body, and therefore deserves, like the spleen, special attention. 2. Man, like animals, eats…

← The Earth · Contents The formation and purpose of matter (9 February 1847) 1. In the contemplation of the spiritual part of the earth we will, in order to instruct ourselves thoroughly, make a retrograde movement, and will not rise from the depth into the height, but from the height into the depth –…

← The Earth · Contents The impressions of matter on the soul and spirit (4 March 1847) 1. You may go through the animal world as well as the plant world, even the mineral world, and everywhere you will find an independent intelligence, but beside this intelligence, also a need. This independent intelligence can be…

← The Earth · Contents Carnal and sensual pleasures (31 March 1847) 1. You know that certain people are very afflicted with carnal desire, both female and male, while there are other people in whom the sensual carnal nature is almost completely dull; such people do not move because of this, even when the most…

← The Earth · Contents Substance and matter, power and material (2 March 1847) 1. A so-called moral saying, admittedly somewhat bad and not quite correctly describing the matter, reads: Memento homo, quia pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris [Remember man, you are dust and to dust you will return -tr]. This saying, in the…

← The Earth · Contents The importance of knowing evil (29 March 1847) 1. I know best that some people will not like these somewhat devilish stories; I also know that some people will find some apparent contradiction in them. But that does not matter. He who sits is better off than he who must…

← The Earth · Contents Active faith (27 April 1847) 1. This does not only apply to the papacy, but to all so-called sects or denominations, because where Christ is not preached in His true Spirit and in His truth, there is false prophethood in the place of a true church. 2. If one or…