Secrets of Creation · Chapter 26 · Orion, Sirius and the Pleiades (1) (December 12, 1875)

Chapter 26

Orion, Sirius and the Pleiades (1) (December 12, 1875)

01] A few days ago, when you were about to close the windows of your room in the late hours of the night, you were looking at the constellation known to you as "Orion", next to which, at a short distance, Sirius cast his bright light towards you and on the other side the so-called "Seven Sisters" or "Pleiades" reminded you of your youth, where in the military education center (or "cadet school") you often looked at these stars in the winter evenings with a foreboding sense, without knowing what they are, where their light comes from and how they always show themselves in those spaces in the ether at the same distance from each other.

02] Times and years passed by, many a winter passed over your head with its joys and sorrows, and now, almost at the end of your earthly life, you again looked at these constellations, and if once only your soul had a notion, now a spiritual view has partially opened to you what as a young man you could never have understood!

03] Thus, My Son, the young man matures into a man and the man into an old man, so ideas and concepts change according to life experiences and intellectual education; so the blossom and fruit of the seed once planted gradually ripens, and so many a man is gradually educated by Me to enter the spirit kingdom, in preparation for higher missions.

04] That's happened to you, too: trained through many adversities, you gradually learned to "endure" (tolerate), you learned to exercise humility and gentleness, you learned to recognize and walk the path which alone leads to Me, and so now as an old man or mature man you again stand before a piece of My creation, before a constellation, and recognize in these luminous worlds the great and mighty spirit, who quietly leads such enormous masses freely in space; and thousands and thousands of years may still pass, so they will still appear to the inhabitants for what they are now: flickering stars on the dark horizon at night.

05] You and the whole human race with your short lifespan, what are you against such worlds! what is your earth against such a star! Even your sun, which is almost a hundred times larger in diameter than your earth, even this is only a grain of sand against Sirius or a star in Orion; what are you then only in comparison with the inhabitants who populate those stars! In physical size probably also only very insignificant, hardly visible; but more in spirit than they are.

06] If I were to describe this world, its surface, vegetation, formation and its light to you, you would sink into a nothing before the splendor and glory of these creations and then you would understand all the more what human pride is actually worth, which is so inflated for some here on earth.

07] At most these explanations alone would calm your curiosity; but morally and spiritually not further promote (advance) you, since just as spiritual men you should also recognize Me in the smallest, and it is not yet necessary to crush your imagination by recording creations, of which despite the explanation you could not grasp or comprehend the tenth part; because you always have to consider that you are men and everything else must be difficult to understand beyond your horizon.

08] So much I only tell you that these stars, which for you form the constellation of Orion, are of immense size, and that a mass of other worlds move around each of these stars; and that Sirius, as the next fixed star for you, is the very sun around which your whole solar system must orbit, that - while your sun has hundreds of thousands of miles in diameter - the diameter of Sirius must be measured by millions of miles.

09] From this you can reasonably conclude that everything on these worlds must be arranged in such a way that the necessary relationship between the animal and plant world also requires human creatures that go beyond your conception.

10] By the way I have to note that Sirius, as you call him, is far closer to you than Orion, millions of miles away from him, and the Pleiades, a complex of stars of more than five hundred suns, even further behind him in his glory.

11] I will not even speak of the great "nebula in Orion", for it is just a magnificent globe of shells ("globe of shells" is the name given to the grouping of decillions times decillions of suns that move in great and far-reaching orbits as central suns of the first, second, third and fourth class with the countless many planetary suns, like the one of our earth, all around a common, immeasurably large center, which is also an almost endlessly large main mid-sun. (J. Lorber in a footnote to the Great Gospel of John, Volume 2, Chapter 57.) See also "Heavenly Gifts" Volume 1, p. 118 (jl.him1.118). "From Hell to Heaven" (Robert Blum), vol. 2, chap. 296-300 (jl.rbl2.296) . vol. 2, chapter 57 (jl.ev02.057), 139 (jl.ev02.139); vol. 5, chapter 115 (jl.ev05.115); vol. 6, chapter 248 (jl.ev06.248). "(Natural History Lorber-Encyclopedia", pp. 67-70), which only sends its glorious light to you after many thousands of years (that is, as long as the light takes) in the night darkness between the stars of Orion!

12] See, in this constellation of Orion alone stands before you a small piece of My creation, of which the first star, Sirius, is in closest interaction with your solar system and thus with yourselves.

13] The Orion, seemingly standing behind him, shows you in regular lines a constellation, which is also connected by mutual attraction at immense distance and always shows you the same picture, and then the Pleiades, a small shell globe in another large one leads you even further distances, and finally the nebula in Orion reminds you of distances, where your numerical calculation already has no more digits to express it in an approximate way!

14] And do you perhaps believe that where this nebula turns into star complexes, already the end of My creation is? Not at all! Far behind it worlds float in free space, whose light has not yet been able to penetrate your eyes since the creation of the earth; and even if it happens, they will hardly be visible to the inhabitants of the earth with the sharpest telescopes.

15] The boundary of My material creation is still far from being set there, it goes on and on, from nebula to nebula, forming, perfecting, dissolving.

16] There in those spaces even your measure of time is no longer possible, for what is your year! Moses already told you, "with Me be a thousand years as with you only one day", and I add - even these thousand years are still too small for a calendar of My creation!

17] Thus, My Son, your eye penetrated those constellations with spiritual gaze, flew through the immense spaces just like the thought, recognized in that gradual distance the slowly progressing course, like matter from the coarsely bound to the finer, from the psychic to the spiritual, from the spiritual to the divine - your spiritual gaze included in this constellation My omnipotence, My greatness and My love; for the same life that moved your slowly pulsating heart in faster beats, the same life looked towards you in the flickering of such distant worlds.

18] In the light you recognized the bearer of life, but also the reason of love, for without light there would be no life and without life there would be no ability to think. To understand the wonders of a loving father, one must first be able to see them, which leads seeing to feeling and then to touching.

19] So for you the flickering of starlight was your father's love whisper, and you remembered your youth, when you sometimes looked at those beautiful stars questioningly and wanted to say to them: “What are you, lovely lights, on the dark horizon of the world? Thousands of years on earth passed by, and many generations passed by and knew as little as I did, and in thousands of years on earth their inhabitants will still see you rising in winter in the east and will know just as little as all their predecessors! Impenetrable veil! Nothing but suspicions and not an inch of certainty!"

20] So you often thought when these stars stood on the horizon again every winter, and almost seventy years had to pass before you could understand and grasp what I indicated to you when I said: "in My Father's House are many dwellings!”

21] Now you know more than at that time, now you can also suspect more, grasp more, but also love your Creator, your Father more than then; "because now you know for sure what you once wanted to guess."

22] You also know even more, namely that behind this great material world there is an even larger spirit world, that this spirit world surrounds you even in your proximity and that you already have friends there who are waiting for you with longing, and that even if you could comprehend with your mind an infinity of the material world, you now also feel with your heart an infinity of the human spirit which proves to you that when all these worlds will be passed away or transformed in eons of years, you will always be a witness of their legitimate revolutions and transformations.

23] You have seen and understood from everything that beside this host of worlds there is a great mighty Creator who, loving as Father beside these great creations, does not forget even the smallest beings and in great as in small is always the same that love is His main characteristic, that love is the reason why He created such worlds, that love is the factor that pushes all material to the spiritual, that love can only be regarded as life when the smallest being follows the same instincts that moved the Creator to create the whole world!

24] The cold calculating mind may measure the distances of the world a hundred times, as far as its instruments and its science of calculation allow, and still discover orbiting planets, which all obey only one law; but not a single thought of love will warm his heart, he will be amazed at the worlds, their distances; but with admiration and reverence only the loving heart sinks down, which recognizes how in the midst of all matter, in the midst of all luminous worlds and suns only the ray of love can be warming!

25] What is all your astronomy? A cold enumeration of the stars, their orbits, and at most their different light alone all this does not give you the key to My creation:

26] If you discover laws, do not forget the legislator, He can only make what he has created worthwhile for you!

27] If He created out of love, "love" must also be the first thing that absorbs the ray of love and, in return, can give it back.

28] Thus was your spiritual gaze into the constellation of Orion, you saw in it your whole life, your mission, your future destiny, it shone out from all the shimmering rays of these stars the love of your Father, before whom you should have fallen down and proclaimed: "What am I, O Lord, that you remember me!".

29] And I answered you: "Rise, My child I know your heart and know what you want to say; your language has no words, it is an earthly product with which you cannot express supernatural feelings”. Calm down and persevere on the post I have placed you on; it will not last long and you will learn to measure and comprehend these immense spaces with your spiritual eyes, you will always find your Father everywhere in and on all worlds, who has lovingly arranged everything, leads everything on and wants to unite everything in a blissful way.

30] Let only the light of the distant worlds shine on your eyes, let it bring forth in you this pleasant emotion that makes all hearts peaceful; know - the light from all stars is love-light! is pure spiritual fluid, not yet polluted with coarse-material things - it is spiritual life, transformed into the finest substances of the creative space. Just as your sun is the bearer of all life on your little earth, so is the light of the stars, although coming from far away, always a carrier of those spiritual potencies which must supplement in you and all men that which your sun is not able to provide.

31] Thus the light of the constellation of Orion, Sirius and the Pleiades stimulated in you the tender threads of your heart; the light from those worlds as a light of love was spiritually related to your feelings, and so arose that spiritual distant view into the spaces where counting stops and even the speed of light becomes zero.

32] Related things united with similar things, and so you understood the language of a ray of light which, from millions of miles away, told you the same thing that the tiny dust particle also preaches to you, that is :" God is love!

33] This is what will happen to everyone when he raises his eyes to his Father and His creation with a purely childlike mind. To understand My creation and Myself is not a matter of the mind, it is a matter of the heart, of feeling!

34] You do not know the language of feelings, you only suspect it; but in other spiritual relations this language will also become understandable to the spiritual man; for he must have it if it is to be his own progression from feeling to feeling, from bliss to bliss!

35] Do you believe these blessings can be borne all alone and in silence! - ? - - No - it is only through communication to others that one enjoys fully; so I enjoy through the joy of My children, and so they too must have a way of expressing them.

36] In individual moments of your life you feel that such a language exists; but at the same time you feel that you are not capable of it!

37] Precisely for this reason I also give you the expression of a single moment of spiritual elevation in so many words, so that others may also grasp what a sensitive heart can feel in a moment, in order to also encourage others not to look at My nature so spiritlessly, but so that they should get used to removing the material impressions from themselves and, when they do work, to interpret them spiritually; because men are spirits, and the spiritual is their first food, and in the end they stay the longest in the spiritual world.

38] Like many thousands go thoughtlessly under My Starry firmament in the evening, not paying any attention to them, they sneak into their cold four walls, chasing after the animal needs, to forget themselves, Myself and My world in sleep.

39] The kingdom of infinity, spread out over their heads, is regarded as non-existent, the kingdom among them a closed book; so they walk between two beautiful creations, where even their own existence is a Mystery to them. So they go day after day towards dissolution, transformation; they came into the world, didn't know why, and leave it again without a hair's breadth having become smarter!

40] O poor human race! how will you fare in the other world? if you do not fit into them and cannot go back into them!

41] Alone so it is, they are free, and so they shall enjoy what they have created for themselves.

42] He who wants to be an animal, let him remain an animal; and he who wants to become a spirit, let him become so and experience already in earthly life, in individual moments, that the visible world is something completely different than it seems; and that above it and in the midst of it there is still a spiritual kingdom, which has no end and no beginning and where in the center of all created I as father, as personified love meet all with love and let them feel it often themselves in earthly life, which will find its full expression in the spirit realm.

43] So it was with you too, My Son, so I would like to know it with all My children, so they all obtain what they long for: Peace and comfort in life on earth and still spiritual enjoyment in the spirit world!

44] In this way they achieve regular progress and so they can repeat the hours of spiritual exaltation more often, until in the other world they will make their lives permanently.

45] I always preach: lift yourselves up from the mud of earthly life! It is in vain, you will never find what you are looking for in its pleasures. You are spirits, and spiritually you should learn to enjoy.

46] Even the most material has spiritual sides, and who have not yet come so far as to give everything a spiritual covering, to draw from all spiritual gain, is still far away from the goal which he as man should reach here on earth, whereupon he can only reach the other, higher ones in the hereafter.

47] All that surrounds you are miracles; you yourselves, your physical and spiritual organization, everywhere material things are only the basis of a general great spiritual kingdom!

48] What is life?! What is light?! What is heat, what is magnetism, what is electricity?! etc. all these questions which I have already answered to your satisfaction, and yet you sneak around like blind people in this garden full of glorious products of divine love, bow your head deeply, forgetting your spiritual mission, your spiritual education, because of your material needs...

49] O corrupt human race, what bitter experiences will you prepare for yourself! My eye foresaw it long ago, but I cannot stop it; and so I have to be content with the few who, although only after hard trials, want to listen to My voice and not so thoughtlessly walk away, because the time of wandering is short and the goal is far away!

50] Therefore also heed this word! In the beginning it was only addressed to My scribe alone; but everything I say is and must become common property. And so may this gaze of one open the eyes of many, so that they may all recognize what is at their command (if they only seriously want to), in order to prepare for themselves already in this trial life pleasures, which will only find the true interpretation in that life where time is a different measure, the measure of eternity, infinite spirits can also offer infinite joys! Amen.