Secrets of Creation · Chapter 14 · The Egg (April 12, 1871)

Chapter 14

The Egg (April 12, 1871)

01] Here, My children, I now want to show you again how in a single form of an object there is far more spiritual and how the content of this egg mentioned above is spiritually related to My other creations, and also, if you could understand the language of the spirit, it would tell you far more than what the scholars and chemists have so far revealed.

02] Well, let us begin with its form and look a little closer at it, so that you may already see a light rising there, which reaches far beyond the visible horizon of your sphere and leads down to the deepest life of your soul.

03] Look, the egg is known to you in the form of an elongated, flattened circle, which form is more rounded or more pointed in the various genera of eggs.

04] This form of the egg comes close to a mathematical line known to you, and you know it by the name of ellipse or oval. Well, this line, which you also, at least those who have penetrated a little more into the laws of arithmetic (mathematics) can calculate, whose exact construction you know, of which you also know that in this form worlds revolve around worlds, suns revolve around suns, which you have heard from astronomers and mathematicians, I have to tell you, you still do not know the real meaning, namely the spiritual of this form!

05] Now see, if you want to symbolize infinity, you usually choose the form of a circle as a symbol for it; so a circle, a physical ring or a sphere would be near to infinity in your terms, because there is nowhere a beginning, nowhere an actual end.

06] So much for human terms. But according to the concepts of the spirit or according to My concepts infinity is not expressed in the least with the circle, simply because in a circle as well as in a ring or in a sphere all parts of the outside protrude equally far from its center, which is not the case spiritually ('not the case' is an addition), where I am the center and the spiritual and material world which surrounds Me is not everywhere the same distance away from me, but gradually depending on the development of the spiritual elements the one more, the other less comes to stand near me, therefore an ellipse or an oval rather describes the spiritual concept of infinity and the whole universe.

07] The oval line also has no end, only the difference is that the oval as a line or body has two mathematical circle-central points and a center which does not protrude equally from all sides but from the longer ones less, and from the shorter ones more.

08] Now, to explain this figure or form spiritually to you, I want to tell you that in the first period of creation of the spirit and matter world the spirits were placed far out of Me into infinity, so that they were not forced by My influence to act as I wanted; they had to be free without the least dependence.

09] But as soon as the consciousness in them began to awaken, as soon as the dispute between free will and obedience became apparent, then the same thing that happens with a material object was formed, on which two different factors of force act at the same time, that is, the position of the spirits around their center, around me, was determined according to the magnitude of the influence of these two forces; as with a body according to the laws of nature, where it is attracted by one force and torn away by the other, following neither one nor the other completely, it takes the middle path between advancement and circular motion, which path is finally not the circle, but similar to the oval form or the ellipse.

10] So also the position of the spirits towards Me was expressed according to their more or less obedience and free life in an elliptical form, where I was not in the center, but in one of the, as you say, focal points from where I set the spirit worlds out into infinity, which then gradually return to Me again, spiritually corresponding almost to the form of an egg where the distant circle is the larger and the circle closer to Me is the smaller.

11] Your astronomers designate the planets and partly also the comet orbits in the form of the ellipse; only these orbits are more similar to the shape of an eggs; just as the planets, the further away from their center, traverse their orbits slower, and near the sun must move faster around their ruler and mother.

12] This form of the egg is one of the main and primary forms of My creation; everywhere it is expressed, in the mineral, plant and animal realm.

13] The reason for the principle of attraction is hidden everywhere, which attracts the coarser parts more and the lighter ones less.

14] Even the forms of the worlds, suns and planets were formed according to this principle; there is nowhere a sphere in the purest sense, only ovals in different forms; and although other forms also exist in the material world, their smallest atoms, of which they are composed, are again only ovals or ellipses, and why?

15] Because exactly this form corresponds to My idea of creation and, spiritually founded in Myself, as a characteristic of Me is imprinted in all products and beings.

16] As a type of me the oval form, namely spiritual, is understood as infinity embodies or vividly expresses it as My second self in a center, and where the second center or the second focal point of the spiritual oval further away from Me is not able to exert such a great attraction as My spiritual self, but still has influence on coming and going.

17] There in his proximity (Satan's) everything moves around him, but instead of completing the circular movement, it moves away, and is irresistibly drawn to me, the first focal point around which everything wants to gather.

18] Thus, in ellipses or oval forms, the spirit-material creation stands around its creator; keeping this form as a prototype everything is formed in it again from this (original) form, the plants, their leaves, the animals, their individual parts, bones end and connect in ovals (also the cross section of the long bones and the branches and stems are ovals, and these bones are thus only very elongated egg forms), even the whole figures of animals and humans can be enclosed spiritually in elliptical forms, where the heart of one and the procreative parts of the other focal point, or the former spiritual, the second materially forms the reproductive point, which is necessary for the existence of the whole.

19] Your head has an elliptical or oval curvature, inside it, as in the face of man himself, the most beautiful form is the oval. Any form that can be called spiritually sublime or beautiful consists of parts of ovals, but not of parts of circles.

20] Everywhere the basic principle of My being shines through, a ruler surrounded by His creation ("of His creation" is inserted), ordered according to the moral spiritual gravity, in the midst of His universe! How everything crowds against me, is trying to get near me, because there is only love, joy and bliss, so also, if you would be able to examine all oval forms in creation, to see there again the same in the greatest as in the smallest, namely that I as God and Creator do not need many forms, but only one is sufficient, from which I then build up worlds and spiritual and material world-men, who because they are all built according to one principle, also all have to return again to the founder and builder!

21] The egg is the birthplace of many physical beings; everything that lives, or at least most of it, is born of the egg, which in its interior is again formed, built like the Great Spirit and the material cosmic man. For from the egg of a small animal to the great worlds and spirit people, the same principle of its construction, the same analogous elements and the same final result exists.

22] In the egg is, for the time being, the hard, calcareous shell which, wherever this form occurs, is the outside which describes and holds together the inside as separate from the whole rest of creation as something that exists in itself. This solid shell is the ethereal outside, which also separates the great worlds and spirit people from the general ether. Then comes a finer skin, which prevents the liquid of the egg from penetrating and decomposing the outer shell. This finer skin is also the finer ether in the Great Spirit and cosmic man, which surrounds all worlds and, as in the egg as liquid, condenses in the ether then as atmosphere of the individual solar systems and the suns and planets circling within them.

23] The egg yolk, again separated from the rest of the liquid by another skin, is the closer, denser layer of air necessary to the worlds for their further existence in the great worlds and spirit people, where everything is in dissolved state, which then constitutes the existence itself of the earth and sun bodies by other compounds as solid matter.

24] In the midst of the egg lies the actual spiritual fire point of eternal life, which is only awakened by warmth (like love), which then builds up the surrounding substances to its embodied, individual self and thus forms from the egg and its liquid and solid matter the creature to whose form the elements lay within it.

25] In the worlds and spiritual man it is also again the inner spiritual part, more like the heart, where the impulse to build up, for the preservation of the existing, absorbing the ether and light material and processing it, building up the suns and world systems, maintaining them and promoting them further to spiritual development, as in the spiritual world man the corresponding heavens, where also I am finally stored in the center, around Me the most spiritual, most magnificent creations, I have united spirits and beings, who mature everything coming from outside for further advancement, bringing it ever more spiritually closer to me, where it is then - as in the cosmic man light and ether, here spirit in the most intense light, there by the warmth, here by the never-ending love - is consumed to new, higher creations and so My highest ideal of good and beautiful is developed.

26] Thus you see in the egg, for you an insignificant thing, the highest potency, Myself, My creation, the gradual progression of the created, My eternal new building, everything that you can imagine, spiritually represented.

27] The egg expresses to you in the yolk of My Love, in the egg white of My Spirit Kingdom and in the hard shell of the material world. In the center I stand, as life, fire and love, motivating everything towards the great transformation.

28] The spirits surrounding Me seal My heavens from the material world. But also this wall, like the calcareous shell of the egg, is broken; the inside of the egg is absorbed, used for a higher birth, and out of all the conglomerates of elements of creation, like a phoenix unharmed from the flame, My spiritual, innermost, but most sublime world will emerge, where all spirit, light and warmth, or wisdom and love is and always will be.

29] Everything gathers there; I am the focal point, the center, the spark of life which animates everything, preserves everything, and even if it changes forms, creates it new again!

30] Thus you see in the egg a whole creation, a whole infinity and a spiritual image of yourself and of My individual self.

31] You too are like the egg, separated from the rest of spiritual life by a shell on the outside, that once belonged to the earth, etheric fluids are also moving within you, spiritually your good and bad qualities, and in the center, as spiritual driving wheel, the pulsating heart with the eternally never ending spiritual spark out of Me!

32] This spark, too, will gradually absorb the other spiritual elements, retain the good and eliminate the bad, then when fully mature the earth shell will burst and seek as a spiritual world in miniature, separated from the great one, seek its heaven and its delight with me, its founder.

33] So seek all of you who have received so much spiritual from Me to process it for your own good; seek this inner focal point, the love spark from Me, and return it to Me as I once delivered it to you, and you will also not reside in the great creation egg in the distance, far away from me, but in the nearest one to My heart, from where you can overlook, comprehend and judge the whole universe as far as it is possible for one spirit - and then you will fully understand in the oval or elliptical form the archetype of the first divine idea on a grand scale and in yourselves, in the beauty and grandeur of the spirits and the spirit world, and only then will it be clear to you, that only a God can create something so great from such small vain forms and the characteristics of them, which in the end only has the purpose of giving His children a concept of His greatness, His love, His meekness, and to show them that He is not great in the greatness alone but that he is greatest in the smallest! Amen.