Secrets of Creation · Chapter 04 · About the Adelsberg Grotto (June 7, 1870)

Chapter 04

About the Adelsberg Grotto (June 7, 1870)

01] You would like to have a few lines about the spiritual meaning of what these formations, which the spirits living in the earth form by means of the dripping water, actually want to say.

02] My dear son! The language of the signs written in the grotto, where your brother was yesterday and which he is still inspired by today, has just made known to you one of the countless impressions - this language is the language of the spirits, expressed in images, who are busy creating and weaving within the earth for future life!

03] What the dripping water dissolves in stones and sand, they gather together and bind it according to their intelligence, as with you the housewife decorates the dwelling and sweeps and weaves there as well, to make her dwelling where she spends the most time as comfortable as possible.

04] Behold, such a housewife sets a table there, there a bed; she covers the table with a tablecloth, the bed with a blanket; here she takes care of a small flower, and there decorates a window with it. So too do the spirits, and if you could penetrate into the interior of the earth's crust, you would see things of such beauty, whereas what you saw yesterday in the grotto is only child's play; for in the interior of the earth, where different metals are bound between stone and sand and earth, even the stalactite formations are not always white, but colored, so that there you can see the whole fiery reds of iron, or green curtains of immense height and all kinds of shapes.

05] What I have created in infinity, what men have imitated in My creations, the spirits then imitate that, only in other types and forms, but which however correspond more to My great basic ideas of creation than all the accumulated work of men that has been pieced together.

06] Every figure that the stalactite forms under the hands of My Earth Spirits has a spiritual meaning, is always a song of praise for Me and My creation.

07] There you see a veil that, lightly and delicately formed, corresponds to the quite work of a virgin spirit; he forms it with a tender hand, weaving in forms and shapes according to its intelligence, which together in the spirit language wants to say in a few words:

08] "Praise be to you! O Great God and Lord of hosts! And your tender love-weaving, as you lead us all under gentle guidance on the path of perfection! You work without us noticing, under a veil, and no matter how tender, we recognize and feel your mighty and loving hand at the same time!

09] Be praised! even in our weak forms, which you allow us to build only from water and dissolved rock according to your great laws; we want to make these dark vaults and cathedrals under the solid crust of the earth into spiritual domes, and if after your admission sometimes your children are allowed to enter these dark caves, which are only intended for us, that they too may delight themselves in their lights, may be pleased by our works under your guidance and in all the forms that we have put together here in different ways, like the expression of our spiritual language, may be able to recognize that you, the love yourself, even where there is no light, are eternally always the same and forever only the one indestructible love!"!

10] See, My Son, such thoughts should inspire people in these subterranean temples for Me, where I wrote the same words with great letters from My spirits, as they stand before you every night in the firmament in an even greater scripture – which resembles eternity - and these words are called:

11] "Wanderers, stand still, a spiritual breath of everlasting power awaits you here; you are standing in front of formations, formed by the hand of spirits before living beings inhabited this earthly globe, and you, now the descendant of a long lost race, admire the love and patience of your creator, who wants to draw you to his loving heart, whether with great or even with the smallest products of his thoughts!”

12] But - o poor people, how you desecrate My temples of the highest devotion with profane entertainment!

13] I should probably proceed differently with you, if there were not always some among the visitors of such caves who go out with other impressions than they went in with; well, it is because of them that I let these feasts go so quietly, because I prefer a devout soul to thousands for whom all that is nothing.

14] Now you have an idea how you should look at My Works, so that you always draw the same lesson from it, which can be said in a few words:

15]"Love the Father! For there is nothing like Him apart from Him!"

16] So much for today; now read it to your brothers and sisters so that they too will then join in the chorus of My spirits and like them, praise Me as eternal Father and Lord! Amen.