Secrets of Creation · Chapter 11 · A Jacob’s ladder (July 26, 1871)

Chapter 11

A Jacob’s ladder (July 26, 1871)

01] You wish to share this free flight through My creation, which you made a few days ago on My hand, with others and to let them feel it, so that they too may get to know my power, My love and their own value.

02] Know that everything that passes through your soul is awakened in you not for you alone, but for a far greater purpose, so also this spiritual vision, where you saw the series of steps of all spiritual things up to me, now are repeatedly being led before your soul to prove to you and to all what it means – to carry an offshoot of Myself, a divine spark within you.

03] For what use were all the creations with their great wonders to you if you did not possess an intelligent spirit capable of comprehending all these things that were seen, what use was the sight of the starry heavens, where millions of sister suns send down their light upon your earth, calling out to you:

04] "We also send our light out to you little worms from an immeasurable distance, but you only notice it when your sun has ceased to shine for you! Take this call of ours as spiritual comfort and admonition, and thus translate it:

05] Even an immense spirit world sends its greetings from afar to you great spirits of divine origin, you - or many of you - do not notice and feel this greeting of the spirit world because the world sun is still shining too much for them, but when the sun begins to go down, when the void and transient, which reminds you of another, higher life, makes itself apparent, when it begins to become night in the worldly heart, then the influences of a high spirit world begin to appear like the shimmering stars one after the other in the immeasurable firmament, then the voices of the spirits begin to whisper to you, what the stars often tell you, that is to say: there is another world, a spiritual world, like a great material infinite world, where the spirits are, step by step, gradually approaching their perfection, until in My Spirit Heaven, far beyond all created worlds, they will first recognize the right purpose of their life and aspiration”.

06] The smallest infusion animal urges itself there as well as the greatest angelic spirit, there everything finds its conclusion, its material end and its spiritual beginning.

07] There only the right spiritual life begins, in the heaven of all primordial types of creation; from there all rays of My divine power and love go forth, far beyond all suns and world systems fertilizing with spirituality, from there the thought of love goes out, like the electric ray and the fast light in all directions, stimulates, incarnates, embodies, spiritualizes, gives birth, educates and develops everything from the smallest atom to the greatest world sun according to one and the same plan, according to one and the same law, according to the law of love, so that one day it may approach its Creator, understand him, learn to love him.

08] Spirit is everything. Everywhere the spirit is the timekeeper, the supporter, the developer.

09] Bound in the solid matter, it is the sustainer of the stable metabolism, from rigid to liquid, from liquid to air-like, from air to gaseous, to the finest volatile etheric particle.

10] In the plant and animal kingdom, it is the spirit that instinctively guides the root to where it finds what is suitable for its food and further development.

11] In the animal, the spirit drives to search for food, to build dwellings, to reproduce; and thus, always making itself more free, the spirit rises upwards from one step to another, from the first sense of touch and lack of free movement to the self-confident notion of being in the last member of all material creations, to man, who then, as the first link in a series of spiritual formations, enriched with different faculties (abilities), carries the whole of creation within him and is the turning point between two worlds, which connects material with spiritual.

12] Therefore the different kinds of creatures on all My Worlds, more or less attached to material bodies, depending on whether they are near or far away from me; different in size, in lifespan and in a gradual progression they all return to me, to the creator from whom they emanated.

13] Like the master builder, before his house is finished, only uses raw materials, he must gradually make it fit for its purpose through various processes, so that they may be useful to him; likewise the host of creatures on all worlds, depending on the world they inhabit, is also partially raw unprocessed building material.

14] As with the wood, for example, which a master builder needs for his purposes, so it is with the people on the different worlds.

15] The wood as a raw trunk must first be hewn, given a different shape, cut into beams (as supports for the whole building), then the beams must be sawn apart to meet various smaller needs such as slats, boards, posts (fasteners), finally the wood is used several times by skillful hands for furnishing the house by means of handcrafted household appliances, from the first raw resting bench to the finest polished armchair and other various objects (all correspondingly spiritualized potency in steps up to the highest, which, as polished, like a mirror absorbing and returning all light, can also communicate it to others).

16] This is the case with iron, with stone, where both of them, robbed of their primitive hardness by fire, follow the willing hand with a slight flexibility, just as the mortar is also a binding and preservative agent of the whole building.

17] So also in My creation everything living, organic and inorganic is divided into millions of needs; but everything serves only one purpose.

18] The people on all the suns are like wood, iron, stone, they must first undergo all the purification processes before they are able to pass into My immediate vicinity, My Spirit Kingdom.

19] Just as thousands of tools and useful things are made from wood, so too is iron, even more so, even to infinity, so too is the various stages of men and spirits.

20] Some of them dwell in houses that have not yet been finished, others already occupy better ones; yet others live in palaces, and so on until the highest perfection.

21] Everywhere it is the spiritual principle that classifies and organizes everything and thus leads it towards development.

22] Already from what I have told you about the sun and your planet (see "The Natural Sun”; “Earth and Moon"; "The Fly"), you see - beginning with the meticulous inhabitants of Mercury up to the musical people of Miron (Neptune) - a gradual spiritual progression, see already in the sun spiritually superior people with more insight into the spiritual creation.

23] That which the inhabitants of Saturn only suspect as a great spirit, the inhabitants of the sun already know better.

24] So it goes on and on with all the worlds; with all the suns and all the worlds it goes in a gradual progression, according to the worlds themselves, with their inhabitants as well; it pushes forward all My love, and as on each of these millions of worlds, also started from the lowest plant and the animal, the series of steps goes forward to their world people, just as it then goes upwards from the world people to spiritual, higher levels.

25] Do not consider here neither the greatness nor the beauty of the worlds, nor the peculiarities of their inhabitants, be it in form or intelligence. All of this corresponds only to the world on which they live, with which they also have to stand in a certain analogy (correspondence), considers only their spiritual level, which is the determining one. Then see, on your earth you also have enough of examples where the outer form does not correspond to the inner, spiritual one. Take only the parrot and other beautifully feathered birds of the south, where is the soulful song as an expression of the inner emotional level?

26] The same goes for the worlds. If you could see one of these great worlds with your mind's eye, you would suspect a spiritual intelligence in the splendor of colors and beauty of the forms which reign there, which should turn the inhabitants of such a world into gods - and yet, seeing these very inhabitants of your inner being, they would sink into dust because of the greatness and grandeur of your divine nature, which they lack completely, because they have more of dream life; while you, who have been chosen by Me to be My children, can fly through My vast spaces of creation with a glance like that of the eagle to clearly read with an intelligent spark of spirit what I am and what you can become.

27] Countless such worlds circulate in the infinite ether, endowed with beauties which you can never comprehend, or even suspect of, seemingly true paradises of eternal peace and bliss; and yet, behind these great worlds of light lies spiritual darkness, there is ignorance, not knowing what all this beauty and greatness is created for!

28] And here again you see that I am only great in the smallest. Your earth, millions of times smaller than an atom of such a world, contains the greatest spirits, harbors the beings for whose sake I became man and even had myself killed by them, out of love for them!

29] O understand once and for all what that means, to be those beings in such an infinite creation full of the great and sublime, who do not need all these long ways to Me anymore, to be beings with whom I deal directly, to teach them, to guide them and while other beings who are just as much in love with Me can only suspect, you have the clearest evidence of My existence, of My work and of My continuous blessing.

30] There in those worlds is eternal peace, there is little struggle, but there is also little merit to be human there, it is by far easier than wanting to become My child on your earth.

31] Up there, you have to consider, these people live according to what their world spiritually demands of them, and from there at most only return to a new, higher or analogous spirit world; but with you it is different that you have to fight here, deny yourselves, endure the autumn and yet should not lose trust in me; here, where I Myself as creator became man, have given the greatest example of the deepest humiliation, here you are in a nursery for My great Spirit Kingdoms, for My Spirit Heaven, and as all the vast creation with its millions of worlds are readable and understandable to your intelligent eyes in the evening, so the whole spirit heaven, its stages, its extent, its bliss, everything is comprehensible and graspable to your spirit laid in you by me; all this, which millions of other inhabitants of the world are closed forever and only opens up as soon as they also want to go through your way, although often bitter but leading to the supreme bliss.

32] Therefore, now that I have unrolled before your eyes the spiritual image of My material creation, where then the never-ending spirit heaven joins it, consider now - what you can become, what you are destined to be!

33] So do not let yourselves be deterred by the tribulations of this life! Do not be blinded by the light of the world sun! Behold, only when you turn your back on it, when it no longer exists for you, does the world of spirits open for you like the starry sky in the evening, in which you can discover as many dwellings and steps as you can see stars, suns and worlds in the evening, and can assume even more, the light of which does not reach your eyes because of too great a distance! Just as many spiritual worlds and stages are waiting for you, children, for whom I have suffered, done and created so much!

34] Recognize from the infinite ether My infinite love and from the stars shining towards you every evening just as many rays of grace and light paths which all My Beings, whether on short or long paths, will one day lead to Me, the Father of all created things!

35] Not for nothing did I give this picture and insight into My spiritual creation to My secret scribe; now written, it will for the time being be a firm witness to his small society and once to all mankind how I led My children and on what ways and by what means I wanted to show them that it is a great grace to be a man on this earth, and even a greater grace to be directly led and guided as I have been doing for quite some time now.

36] Therefore also consider these words well; every evening, looking up to the starry sky as a book of My love, you shall recall the words: "Lord, what am I that you remember me! And then from all the worlds it shouts to you: "Rejoice, thou little man of the earth, what you can become so easily, and all our inhabitants envy you. Rejoice and sink down in devotion before your Creator who forgot the Lord in himself and, as loving Father of his children, holds out open arms to you” Amen.