Secrets of Creation · Chapter 15 · The Rain (1) (June 11, 1876)

Chapter 15

The Rain (1) (June 11, 1876)

01] What is the rain? Many will be ready with the answer to this question immediately: "It is a vapor that suddenly condenses into water and falls down from the sky."

02] This (superficial) answer suffices most, but not all; for if they look carefully at the effect of the rain on humans, animals and plants, they must notice that the water that pours out of the clouds (as rain) onto the earth cannot be the sole reason why the whole nature together with all living beings feel strengthened and refreshed after a rain and plants of all kinds flourish.

03] It is your opinion that rain, like distilled water, contains the fewest earth elements, and that only the moisture or wetness produced by the rain promotes the thriving of the plant world or has a refreshing effect on humans and animals by lowering the temperature.

04] Now look, here I will again instruct you in order to work against these old conventional sentences and prejudices, so that you may again see here as in the most ordinary things precisely because they appear before your eyes almost every day - but something else is hidden which you do not yet know, but which, however, because it is necessary for spiritual knowledge, you are to experience with time. So listen:

05] It is true, the rain is, like water, compressed air; but now I ask, what is the air? For if I know what it is, what it consists of, I can always assume that, even in other forms, it (the air) will always be the main component.

06] Well, the air, as it surrounds you, is a sphere of vapor or the "Atmo-Sphere", which, as I have told you elsewhere, in a dissolved state contains everything that makes up your globe. (See "Earth and Moon", Part 1A "The Natural Earth")

07] Whether light or heavy, compressed or even solidified, as for example in ice, this form also always contains the same components as the air itself.

08] So when it rains, or when the water falls to the earth in the form of drops, it compacts (and purifies) all the components of the earth in this form and returns what had previously risen from it as vapors into the air. Only in the air a decomposition process (with these vapors) was brought about by sunlight, which separated the decomposed elements from the new elements to be formed and thus only supplies to the earth what is necessary for the survival of the people living on it as well as the animal and plant world, while the coarser material must undergo a longer decomposition process, until it becomes suitable to be useful to the earth (and its beings) again.

09] But now there is another factor to consider, which is actually the most important in this natural phenomenon, the rain.

10] Behold, If you look at the sky and the clouds floating on it, which are already condensed vapors, but only in the thermal layer where they are floating, not yet forced to fall down as water in the form of rain, you will find that they are constantly in motion and changing shape. Because the currents, which move the same thing in the oceans and protect it from putrefaction by this movement, these currents are even greater, more diverse and more stable in the even lighter element of air, because it only takes a warming or cooling of the air layers to produce, what you call “wind”, which from the slightest zephyr to the greatest storm wind, arise only because the cooled or heated layer of air wants to balance itself with its environment, according to the same law of gravity as water, like even the coarsest bound matter.

11] Now, by the winds, the vapors that have risen into the air are driven from one place to another as clouds, and so it happens that what has risen in one area in the form of mist in another area as water, as rain falls down and thus leads elements from one latitude into another, where they are lacking in coarser form, but can be brought there in the form of a mist.

12] From this (as demonstrated) you can see how the rain is not just water, like the one found in your wells or rivers, but that the rain as a water from other regions will also have other elements in it than yours, because this water composed of foreign elements is also the product of other decomposed and used earth materials, which for example do not occur at all in your area or, if they were there, would not exist in the formation because of the climate and other reasons.

13] Now we go one step further again and say: If these elements falling down from the air as rain are foreign to the earth, where they are noticeable, why is this so arranged with you and many other worlds? I answer to that: Because every plant, animal or human being absorbs certain elements from its earth and its surrounding atmosphere, consumes them for its existence, and if it continues in this way, these would ultimately no longer exist in and around it.

14] Thus I will show you from your scientific discoveries, where it is proved that man or animal absorbs oxygen from the air for his need for life and breathes out carbon as consumed, completely useless for him, while the plant world absorbs carbon in the daytime and emits oxygen at night time; you also know that this exhaled air of living beings no longer contains any elements which would be useful for them, and death would be the consequence if no other respiratory agent replaced what was consumed.

15] Well, all this is quite right, and your chemists in this regard have hinted at the great metabolism in My nature, but they have missed something else, namely that in the consumption of oxygen or in the preparation of carbon not all the elements are named which are necessary in the air for the prosperity of all living or vegetating beings.

16] There are still thousands of fine particles, which in a dissolved state lie in the air and are bound in the earth's crust and below it, and all of which must contribute to it so that everything lives and thrives.

17] But since in every place there is an eternal difference in the consumption of all elements and substances in this respect, that are necessary for life in order to always maintain the balance here, so that a country or a place always corresponds to the character of its location, the winds from other regions bring impregnated clouds, which in their compressed vapors, bring with them what could be lacking in time. And so the rain is the connecting means that replaces what has been used up, in light airy elements from far away (which is lacking), to promote the prosperity of people, animals and plants, all of whom have no idea that this water flowing down in the rain is often taken from regions, where not a single plant, animal or human being resembles them, on which the rain now has a refreshing and fertilizing effect.

18] The natural scientists and chemists, as well as farmers and gardeners, say that the thunderstorm rain is more fertile than the ordinary (land) rain, because, as with any lightning, it decomposes electricity in the air and brings it down to the earth, and this electricity makes plants flourish.

19] Yes, they are right, but they forget that these clouds may come from regions where electricity is always prevalent, and from where, carried by the winds, they are led to these areas where they are lacking in electricity.

20] As far as flashing and lighting are concerned, this development of electricity is because in some areas the lack of this substance has to be replaced quickly, because the wind currents bring the storm clouds, but they take them from these areas with the same haste as they brought them. The counter-balancing had to happen, and so it took the great elementary factors to accomplish this.

21] So you see how the rain, the equalizer between different degrees of latitude, serves as a means of replacing what has been used in the form of evaporation and returning to the earth what it would have lost forever if the interaction had not been created by the atmosphere surrounding your earth.

22] From Asia's high mountains or from Africa's sandy deserts or fertile inland areas, where no European has yet set foot, the exhalations of vegetation and living beings that you have never known or seen flow towards you.

23] The breeze brings you the consumed of a tropical plant world and discharges it above your heads as invigorating, fruitful, not suspecting nor knowing that later the vapors of your country will also be carried to those distant regions in the great rainy season, in order to bring streams of blessing there, composed of elements that were visibly unknown there, but spiritually were always necessary for prosperity.

24] Thus you may recognize how easily My household knows how to begin, to get rid of what's used up and supplement what's necessary, just as the air, which is impregnated with other vapors, also supplies other elements of life to humans and animals after a rain, which they inhale and process, adding new substances to what they have lost and giving them the feeling of revitalization and refreshment.

25] The aromatic vapors of a tropical world, decomposed and transformed by air and light, had to hurry thousands of miles to help your flowering plants thrive so that everywhere the cause of delight and inspiration for joy prevails in My nature.

26] In the meaningless form of rain, which most men regard only as water, there is so much spiritual, so much divinity from Me that if men would only think a little about everything that happens almost daily before their eyes, they would have to be astonished how I have thought of everything in such a way to sweeten and ease the existence of men, animals and even plants.

27] From the simple drop of rain that quickly falls to earth and, under favorable conditions, shows the astonished eye the decomposition into the seven colors in the rainbow, where each brings a different blessing to earth - from this they could see what Moses tells in his books, that it is, was and will remain a sign of peace, because it shows you that even in the falling rain there is only blessing, only love, but also spiritual recognition for those who are able to perceive nature with an open heart and loving mind and do not see everywhere only "substances" or "elements" and their interaction.

28] There is something spiritual in everything, for I am also a spirit and therefore cannot have created anything else but just the spiritual.

29] Thus also in every process of visible nature a spiritual reason is hidden, and only he can comprehend it, who is spiritually educated and spiritually wants to approach me, the creator of all beings.

30] As the rain brings only blessings and prosperity from one region to another, so also "My words" are nothing else but spiritual products or elements of Myself, which I formed into human words, like raindrops, pouring down on you.

31] Just as the raindrop of thousands of fruitful elements falls on your earth impregnated, so "the Word" is also full of blessing in its spiritual meaning, in its depth.

32] The rain comes from foreign lands, and My Word also from others, namely from higher regions, where everything exists in abundance that is necessary for spiritual progress.

33] So take the rain as a blessing of your prosperity and My Word as the life-drop of your eternal life, so that they too may fertilize your heart with what is mostly lacking there, but is to be had in abundance in My kingdom, namely: love for Me and your neighbor!

34] As the zones and latitudes of your earth interact with each other, so do you also, but with caution, give to your brothers and sisters what they need, i.e. spiritual food: also lead them where I have been trying to guide you for a long time so that they too may recognize how active eternal love is, even in the most innocent and everyday things, following only the same principle of spreading joy and comfort wherever possible. Amen.