Secrets of Creation · Chapter 17 · Man and Creation (1) (February 27, 1871)

Chapter 17

Man and Creation (1) (February 27, 1871)

01] Already some of you, and many others who have not received My Words as much as you have, have often thought about human life; how many sufferings and bitter experiences accompany man from the beginning, from the cradle to the grave, how many vain hopes and desires dissolve like faint mists into empty nothingness, and many a one thought within himself – why so much bitterness in such a short span of time of human life!

02] Some accused me of cruelty, unloving and who knows what else. Some others denied Me a feeling of pain and sorrow, and some finally denied Me completely, accepted like once the heathen peoples a fate or destiny from which none can escape and which in its incessant rolling crushes like a ball everything that gets in its way.

03] According to appearances, there is much to support the validity of such an assumption, where in the end even the existence of a ruling God must be rejected.

04] But in reality it is not so, one only has to look at and judge things and conditions from a different point of view than how they are imagined, judged and criticized by the ordinary world mind.

05] Anyone who looks at the world from this side cannot, of course, come to a comforting, joyful view; for if he also wishes to accept a divine teaching of justice, retribution, reward or punishment, he usually sees the opposite of everything, and the truth of many proverbs rooted in the people, such as:

06] "The greater the rouge, the greater the happiness!" or: "You let the great thieves go, and you hang the small ones"; or as in married life: "Man and woman are one body, but not one stomach"! where man then feels more and more that none of the beautifully written words on this earth are fulfilled, as from the cradle of diseases threaten the young life, more mature, the moral temptations to all kinds of vices; when he sees, as in adolescence, where the most beautiful flowers want to bloom to transform the spring of physical (earthly) life into a paradisiacal garden, when he sees that just there the hard, merciless hand of the world bends all these flowers, so that they wither to never to rise again; when he sees all the vices of the calculating mind flourish there and are justified by the masses; when he sees how one wants to rise on the shoulders of another, how each thinks only of domination, but not of obedience; when he sees how everything is just about fighting and struggling for the welfare and satisfaction of human earthly needs; when he sees that the further up one gets into the higher circles of human society, up there is often that virtue which is called a vice in the lower classes; when he sees that, if one wants to escape into such a world and eat his bread in peace, as you say, "one must howl with the wolves" and all other noble and beautiful principles of the boy and young man must be thrown overboard, if one does not want to die of hunger or be declared a fool before the world; When he finally sees that, when a family circle has been founded, the worries of his own childhood, which he unconsciously prepared for his parents there, now approach him, now also register with him in a tangible way; when he then sees how a child brought up with great care, sorrow and fear is taken away from him by illness, later by degeneration or even by death; when he sees how often, after everything he does for his children, he does not receive the slightest recognition, not a glance of gratitude, not a word of thanks from them; when he sees how there the son, there the daughter, only waits until death takes him out of the world, so that one or the other can enjoy undisturbed the inheritance which he has collected by the sweat of his brow and also sometimes not exactly by legal means, because he or she thought so: "The end justifies the means!" And when he himself is now closer to old age, when his physical powers and faculties (abilities) are diminishing, when illnesses occur (often consequences of earlier aberrations), when he then sees that he, helpless, must be more and more a burden to others, and so slowly approaches the grave which he fears because it covers a land unknown to him, appearing materially to be his destruction, his complete dissolution.

07] Who would not agree with the tortured man when he is disappointed by all hopes, robbed of all the beautiful images of his youth through his later career in cold reality, empty, with a sterile (edema) mind and full of bitterness because of the disappointments, wants to curse the God who put him into this vale of misery, to be born with pain, to fight with suffering, and to lead him out of this world again with painful agony, which he did not understand, neither when he entered it, nor less clear when he left it, finally leads him into the hereafter, from where, as he says, "no one has returned".

08] This is the image the world holds up to a rational man. As I have described it here, so many have already accused Me, Providence and their own fate; so many have begged Me to be recalled from this life in silent prayer when too much assailed them!

09] Everyone believes he has endured, suffered, sacrificed the most; everyone believes he deserves a better fate, because he is far worse than he is, and enjoys all that he had dreamed of as his only happiness on this earth in abundance. and precisely because such accusations, such ideas are still in so many of your hearts, that is why I chose these two words that are at the top of this dictation to remove from these fickle hearts the last spark of the accusation of their fate or My guidance, so that they may see that behind this supposed image of a human life lies hidden the most glorious purpose and the greatest bliss, and that not a blind fate, but a loving hand of an all-powerful Creator, a Father who loves you all, spins the threads that lead you out of this labyrinth of calamities into His arms, into His heavens.

10] Behold, My children, there is a holy, great law in all material and spiritual creation without which it could not exist, and this law has two great, single life factors, one called (will) freedom and the other (eternal) perfection.

11] Where there is no freedom, there is no perfection, no progress; and where there is no progress - no purpose; and where there is no purpose - no end result.

12] Now, when the great creation was thought, created and realized by me, there I, as spirit creating the spiritual, also had to leave the former principle to these spirits, I wanted to achieve the other; that is, I had to give them freedom, even inviolable freedom, should they not become machines, but self-regulating beings: These creatures had to be beings worthy of me!

13] It goes without saying that where someone lends power to one or many, it can also be abused because it is based on freedom itself.

14] So I knew in advance that abuse of this freedom will, indeed must, be made!

15] Therefore already in the second factor of life "perfection" the reason was laid that in My work no standstill but only an improvement can occur, from which it follows that who only wants to stand still while others progress, has gone backwards!

16] For where perfection is possible, there must also be its opposition - aggravation; where progress - is regression, where rapprochement - is removal, where light - is shadow, where warmth - is cold, where movement - is rest, where life - is death.

17] So you see that I did not create evil, I did not put the dark sides of all possible spiritual qualities into the world as orderly; no! they formed themselves through the only great basic law of Myself and My creation, through the great word "freedom"!

18] Now how this freedom was used and abused by My first created spirits, as it is still done to this day, often not for the best of the living beings and their own destiny, that you see from the previous lamentations of a man about his earthly path.

19] Now we want or must assume that between a Creator and His created beings there must always be an enormous gap that can never be crossed, where, as in your mathematics, the asymptotes (crooked lines, curves that eternally approach a straight line but never touch it), all spiritual can approach Me eternally, but can never become like Me (only similar), then you see the second great principle - perfection - as inevitably necessary to emerge from the first.

20] The fallen spirits who had voluntarily departed from Me and started the wrong way could not or did not want to know anything about perfection, about progress.

21] But in order not to completely block off this path for them too, they had to be brought into conditions where, unperturbed by their own freedom, they could turn back whenever they wanted.

22] For this purpose the material world or the whole universe or the material creation man was founded; in him the spirits, according to the degree of their malice, were wrapped (clothed) in matter, exposed to struggles, temptations and suffering, in order to gradually bring them to understand their own mistakes through conditions affecting them, and secondly to initiate their voluntary return themselves in this way.

23] Now, as much as there are worlds, as many suns and planets, there are just as many millions and millions of gradations of spirits, all of which will one day make their way back to their Creator, and everywhere you can see the principle of "freedom" is established first and the principle of perfection (progress) second.

24] The spirits bound in matter also want to free themselves; liberation leads to the transformation of matter, which has less evil effects on others, that is the decomposition of matter, is its transformation, its dissolution.

25] The coarser dissolves into ever lighter things, the firmer into softer things, where the sphere of action then widens more and more, the realization of improvement is perceived.

26] From coarse, mineral matter to vegetable substances, which, although bound to one place, already contain freer spirits with a few exceptions; from the vegetable to the animal and from the animal to the last in material creation, to human spirits or souls.

27] Everywhere, because of perfection, the struggles with the other world that affects them are everywhere an aspiration for liberation; everywhere dissolution or destruction determines the step to a higher level.

28] Even in the smallest plant soul there are battles to be fought, the little plant has to fight up to the full-grown tree with all kinds of adversities (according to its essence), just as man has to fight from the cradle to the grave.

29] Each animal lives in the same trap, coming into the world immature, they depend on their progenitors, then has to go through all dangers between elemental influences and enemies who strive to destroy its mental or physical organism. The higher the animal stands, the more sensitive the feelings increase with such dangers and so on. (One should forbid vivisection, the experiments crying out to heaven on living animals of so-called scholars by state laws.)

30] While the lowest animals, barley hatched from the egg, are already so conditioned that they can seek their own food, do not feel much or anything at all of an attachment to their progenitors, the spiritual interior develops with a higher degree, this feeling for the brood, the care for the nutrition of the young, the pain when either violent hands destroy this small world or when other circumstances have brought about its removal or destruction.

31] The higher the beast rises, the deeper and more lasting are these signs of a higher spiritual level.

32] In a bird, for example, all the unpleasantness that man experiences and why he accuses his fate of being cruel is repeated. Even these small, airy inhabitants of your atmosphere have their sufferings, their struggles and their fears.

33] Lying helpless in their nest, like the cradle, they depend on their parents; then once freed from this compulsion, as it were in adolescence, the feelings of sexual union, family life come into play; The bird sings its thanksgiving songs to its unknown creator, cheers for the rising sun, rejoices in its life, for it knows no danger.

34] But it is precisely by this sounding of his breast that he also reveals himself to his enemies, betrayal and disappointment lurks everywhere; the time of mating comes, and he now feels for himself the worries that he caused his progenitors; then the age approaches where the search for food and the avoidance of danger becomes more difficult; the elements have a more harmful effect on him, he falls under their influence or under other circumstances to the fate of his kind; everything goes on with him as with another being, only one thing he does not know what was reserved for the last in creation, that is, he (as an animal) does not know death; he feels comfortable that a transformation wants to proceed with him, but he has not felt a similar experience throughout his whole life - he has so far only escaped the pain, but he does not know the dissolution, the transformation or the transition to another level to another higher stage.

35] This is only for those beings who, conscious of their origin, were to approach Me - these beings whom I created in My image, it was reserved for them alone to know the consciousness of death along with all earthly sufferings and struggles and to have to face this apparently terrible guest with cold blood, who is unavoidable for all mortals.

36] But precisely for this reason also these beings have the highest spirit in them, which I have put into material creatures, so that they may also counter material decay with an eternal permanence as spirit.

37] But to educate this highest created spirit, that means a human soul, that it, worthy of me, should once resemble me, and that it can one day exist in My close vicinity, exactly for this reason man from the cradle on is the most helpless and left to the care of others; that is why his temptations and trials are so strong that wherever he wants to cling to the worldly or make it the main thing, it always pushes him back, telling him: "What do you want from me, offspring of a higher spiritual world; with Me you will find only disappointment and deception, there in that spiritual realm is what you seek in vain with Me!"

38] Therefore, the various allowances of all kinds of accidents, deprivations, examples where the one is currently happy, who does not deserve it, while the innocent has to suffer, live and endure. That is why the divine "Word", the teaching of a more beautiful, higher life, so that man should not despair when the world treats him hard, when he wants to throw himself into her arms with all force and she rejects him with scorn, calling out to him: "You are not for this, nor from this world!

39] Thus these principles of "freedom", "perfection" and "progress", also in human life, return to their course.

40] Freedom invites the abuse of it; the abuse, as against My order, punishes itself, and in order to reach perfection, these mistakes against My laws must produce these great disappointments, where in the end man, inevitably, returns again to what he started from, that is - to me!

41] What he fails to do here, will surely be able to be repaired in the other, longer lifetime.

42] Therefore, My children, do not accuse the world, do not accuse the circumstances, do not accuse Me when misfortunes fall upon your head, clearing your households: It is everywhere only the second, great principle of nature without which nothing can exist; it is the necessary, conditional perfection that drives everything to these steps and where I Myself have shown you the shortest way through My descent to this earth, and which I now want to significantly shorten for you through My many direct messages.

43] Everything is so arranged to lead your spiritual self to perfection, like everything in the whole material world, on a lower level from the ruins of these stages to a higher level, where after the dissolution of the material life My hand wants to raise you to a higher, more spiritual level, where you are to recognize even more My power, My love and your mission.

44] Understand it once again, there is an even higher, bigger and more beautiful world ahead of you, which you have to achieve and which you will only reach when you, completely disregarding the worldly, spiritually understand your destiny, place it in My hands and are firmly convinced that a father can only love but never punish his children.

45] Then the world will gain a different reputation for you. Let it be given to him to whom the world gives its glory, its money; the world gives him this, but I take away his spiritual treasure for it; the world treasure will evaporate under the conditions of the world, which by and large is also approaching its process of perfection, like every individual human being.

46] But you, little children, remain with your spiritual gold mine within your heart! Only there the world does not penetrate; there a different principle prevails, and that means: the principle of spiritual freedom founded by Me for all creations!

47] If you pay homage to this and want to perfect yourselves spiritually, then progress will not fail to bring you ever closer to Me away from the world and where you will only attach as much value to worldly worries and worldly misfortunes as they actually have in order to take your inner being one step further.

48] Therefore, keep your spiritual freedom, become perfect as your Father is in heaven and your mission will be accomplished and you will be entirely worthy of Me, your Creator and Father! Amen.