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The spiritual sun
22nd November 1842
As a continuation of the messages about the natural sun completed on November 21, 1842, Jakob Lorber received from November 22, 1842 to December 16, 1843, also almost daily, revelations on the spiritual sun, i.e., on the spiritual spheres penetrating and surrounding the natural solar body. Anselm Hüttenbrenner always served as the writer of the word issued by Jakob Lorber. The following words form the beginning of the great revelations.
[1] Before we can enter the actual spiritual sun, we must surely know beforehand where it is, how it is connected with the natural sun and what it is like.
[2] But, in order to be able to form as perfect a conception as possible of the whole thing, it must first of all be noted that the spiritual is all that which is the very innermost and at the same time again the most pervasive, which is accordingly the sole active and causing factor.
[3] Take for example any fruit – what is it's innermost part? Nothing but the spiritual power in the germ. What then is the fruit itself, in that it is there with all it's components to cover and preserve the innermost germ? It is basically nothing but the outer organ, which is permeated by the power of the germ and which in all it's parts has a necessary charitable effect on the existing germ.
[4] That the outer fruit is such an organ, conditioned by the spiritual power of the germ, is already apparent from the fact that not only the fruit, but the whole tree or the whole plant originates from the spiritual germ.
[5] So what is the spiritual? The spiritual is firstly the innermost power in the germ, by which the whole tree, including roots, trunk, branches, twigs, leaves, blossoms, and fruits, is conditioned. And secondly, it is the spiritual which permeates all these mentioned parts of the tree for itself, or for it's own benefit.
[6] The spiritual is then the most inward, the penetrating, and therefore also the all-embracing; for what is the penetrating, that is also the all-embracing.
[7] That this is correct, can be seen in many natural phenomena. Take for instance a bell – where is it’s located? You will say: more on the outer edge; or more in the middle of the metal; or more on the inner edge? It is all wrong! The sound is the most inner spiritual fluid enclosed in the material shells.
[8] Now when the bell is struck, such a blow is perceived by the innermost fluid – which as a spiritual substrate (according to your expressions) is highly elastic and flexible – in a way that disturbs it's rest. And thus the whole spiritual fluid is then set into a liberating endeavor, which then reveals itself in continuous vibrations. If the outer matter is covered with another matter, which is permeated by spiritual potencies that are not easily excitable, this vibration of excitable spiritual potencies – or rather their aspiration to become free – is soon dampened. And such a bell will thus also soon stop ringing. But if the bell is free, the sounding vibration continues for a long time. But if, in addition, a very excitable body surrounds it from the outside, such as pure air filled with electricity, the sounding becomes even more potent and spreads far around such an excitable body.
[9] When you now investigate this picture a little, it will necessarily have to become clear to you that here again the spiritual is the most inward, the penetrating and the enveloping. But let us take another example.
[10] Take a magnetized steel iron – where in the iron is the attracting or repelling force? It is in the innermost part, i.e. in the shells, which actually represent the visible matter of iron. Exactly as such an innermost force it penetrates all matter, which is no obstacle to it, and embraces it all around. That this inherent magnetic fluid also covers the matter externally, can be easily seen by everyone when they see how such a magnetic iron attracts a distant piece of similar metal. If it were not of such an enveloping nature, and thus also a being acting beyond the sphere of matter, how could it grasp a distant object and attract it?
[11] We want to give you a few short examples to illustrate the overflow! Consider an electric conductor or even an electric bottle. If such a conductor or bottle is filled with electric fire from a rubbed glass plate, this fire penetrates all matter and is then at the same time its most inner and penetrating. But if you get only a little too close to such a bottle or a conductor, you will soon realize by a gentle motion and pulling that this fluid also contains all the matter of the bottle and the conductor.
[12] And yet another speaking example makes itself known to you in dull outlines, with every human the same as with other beings; but it becomes loudly crying with the somnambulists. How far a magnetizer and a somnambulist treated by him can report to (influence) each other, some of you will have experienced vividly. Now, if the spirit were a mere innermost and not at the same time also a penetrating being, then, for the time being already, no so-called magnetization would be possible. And if the spirit were not also the all-embracing and the all-touching, say – how would a distant rapport between a magnetizer and a somnambulist be possible?
[13] I think we have enough of these examples to draw from them where, how and in what way the spiritual expresses itself everywhere, thus also safely in, through and with the sun.
[14] The spiritual sun is therefore the most inward of the sun and is a spark of grace from Me. Then the spiritual penetrates all matter of the sun with the most powerful effect. And at last it is also that which encompasses the whole being of the sun. These things together is therefore "the spiritual sun"!
[15] And this sun is also the most real sun. Because the visible, material sun is nothing but an organ that is conditioned by the spiritual sun, it is itself a beneficial organ, which in all it's parts is so constituted that the spiritual expresses itself in and through it and precisely through this, can embrace itself again completely in it's entirety.
[16] Whoever therefore wants to see "the spiritual sun," first look at it's outward appearance, and bear in mind that all this is permeated and embraced by the spiritual sun in everything individual as well as in the whole – so he will thereby already arrive at a weak understading of the spiritual sun.
[17] But when he still thinks to himself that all spiritual is a completely concrete one or a completely affecting one everywhere, while the natural is only a partial, separate one, not affecting itself at all and, when it appears to be coherent, this is only through the indwelling spiritual – then the view of a spiritual sun will already become brighter. And the difference between the natural and the spiritual sun will become ever clearer for you.