Secrets of Creation · Chapter 28 · Essence of Light (2) (January 4, 1876)

Chapter 28

Essence of Light (2) (January 4, 1876)

01] In My last two words about the constellation of Orion, I have already explained to you some of the main characteristics of light, namely as the first - "the stimulating, invigorating force" and the second "the development of warmth or life".

02] But now I want to show you other qualities of light, which some of you might have suspected, but whose concept has never become clear to them.

03] Years ago I said to you in one word that "light, life and love (see the chapter "light, life and love" in "Secrets of life") are connected to each other in such a way that one emerges from the other; but now I also want to explain to you in more detail how it behaves so that you are able to recognize again how much is and must still be present in a ray of light, it shall correspond to My ideas and eternally be a carrier of My will and an awakener of life and love!

04] Behold, My children, the whole immeasurable ether is a dark space in which the cosmic forces act alone.

05] However, the ether itself has all elements within it which are necessary for the creation of the individual worlds and for their preservation. Within the smallest atom of ether lies this primordial force, which is always arranged according to its position in such a way that it is either an attracting or a repelling force, whereby even the ether does not enjoy rest, but both forces, the attracting and the repelling, receive within it the necessary movement and the actual cosmic life, which alone is suitable, firstly, to give the existing worlds what is necessary for their preservation or to remove the unnecessary from it, and secondly - which etheric life is thereby enabled to let new worlds emerge from the elementary substances lying within it.

06] Now, in the midst of this great ether space, where there is no below or above, no right or left is conceivable, in this dark space, like drops of oil floating on the water without gravity, the great worlds and suns together with all planets and comets orbiting them –are attracted or repelled by each other - held in long, elliptical or almost circular orbits. (See in this volume the chapter "The Screw")

07] In the ether, as I said, eternal motion rules through these two forces, which you can also call "electricity and magnetism (see the chapters of the same name in this volume), through which the worlds, suns and planetary orbits are determined or influenced.

08] This movement causes friction, friction generates heat, and heat finally also light, and light with its expressions of power, as I already said above, life or a legitimate aspiration to shape itself, to maintain itself and to spiritualize everything through wear, destruction or transformation; so that all worlds, the suns and their satellites will finally return, after their material destruction or decay, as new, however spiritual worlds must go one step further through the same process of formation, which they have gone through as bound matter from the etheric atom to the worlds and solar formations.

09] Since the worlds and suns are not all alike, indeed, none identical to the other, their development process is also limited to different epochs of time, where one can fully carry out its development, perfection and new formation process in so many millions and the other only in eons of years.

10] Your scholars have discovered in the light qualities which - as they cannot be known to all - I will enumerate here, where then great, important discoveries are to be connected to these small achievements; so that you may see that all that the scholars find through experiments or instruments is indeed true, but that they are lacking in the proper judgment of it, since they do not want to regard it as a gift of grace from the Creator of a universe.

11] So see, the scholars have found in the light, firstly: that the light (I am talking for the time being about sunlight) consists of a bundle of rays and each ray in the form of a four-edged star (in cross section) - always has a positive and a negative electrical edge. They also discovered that in addition to these luminous rays, dark black lines appear, which they have called "heat rays". They also found that the ray of light itself, when it falls on chemically prepared metals, produces certain colors by means of this discovery they wanted to expand their investigation so far as to determine the material components of distant worlds and suns, whether they consist of material similar to your small earth! (The so-called "spectral analysis")

12] By the way, the scholars have refracted the ray of light into its seven colors through the prism, as you can always observe on all products and in the rainbow with its various mixtures.

13] Well, all these discoveries, partly true and partly false, could have taken the scholars one step further; only there they would have had to give up their scholarliness in order to bow before their Lord, before Me; but this did not appeal to their pride, and so they stopped at what they found.

14] But since I have other views of the world than they and do not to make a privilege out of My knowledge of things like they do, but proceed on the principle: "One only knows Me completely when one learns to understand My works", so it is and always has been My concern: to communicate to My children (be they materially created people or spirits) as much of My spirit as they can comprehend and grasp. And so I will also now again, following up on these just mentioned discoveries, continue My word about light so that it becomes light in your head and you yourselves can appreciate the discoveries of your natural scientists in the right measure.

15] I told you in the last word that the light has an invigorating power; and just now I also said that in the ether two forces are always opposite each other, namely attraction and repulsion, which cause life, that is to say, light and warmth and from these life.

16] Well, the discoveries of your scholars in four-edged ray of light are likewise nothing other than these two forces which, where they attract attention to solid or denser objects, put into action this struggle of the two basic forces of all that exists and thus continue or condition the whole process of life from creation to its passing away or transformation.

17] The so-called "black lines" of heat rays are nothing else than denser substances which are carried along by the light beam in its fast course from the etheric space, and which - precisely because of the speed of the light rubbing naturally against each other - generate heat themselves in the light beam and can thus be called "heat rays", since the more directly they attract an object, the more they develop the latent (bound, stored) heat of the physical world through their warmth and their speed.

18] But what mainly contributes to this heat development is the refraction of the light beam, initially into its three main colors: red, blue and yellow, and also the mixing of these into the other (secondary and tertiary colors), since the bodies partially absorb the colors and only reflect the unused ones, through which they then become visible to the human eye.

19] See, I have told you in the last word that where a ray of light strikes, it produces life and warmth, but the "how" you find in the refraction and division of color. For as soon as a ray of light touches an object with its life force, this object or its material particles begin to vibrate, so that individual parts of the same object vibrate billions of times in a second, separating this or that color from itself, as reflecting to the observer on its surface; to which must be added the reaction that takes place in the elements of your eye through the renewed refraction of the reflected colors in the iris and the other parts of the visual organs.

20]"Seeing" therefore means nothing other than to notice every object in the color that he rejects as not his own, while he has absorbed all the others, both main and mixed colors, since they are necessary for his existence.

21] Thus the black color is not a color because the object has absorbed all the colors, and "white" is not a color either, because the object that appears white to you completely lacks the gift of absorption and reflects all the rays of light that fall back on it without decomposing them to its needs.

22] So you can see from all this that you must judge the whole splendor of colors of nature differently than it appears to the earthly eye; for to the spiritual eye a feverish rain appears there, where peace shines, which is stimulated to form, maintain, develop and transform, and only by the ray of light simply striking there.

23] In the great etheric space, I told you, everything also moves, caused by the two elemental forces of attraction and repulsion; but in the seemingly solid matter there is no rest either, for the same process takes place with the first ray of light that falls on it; everything also moves in it, with a speed that no human sense can ever grasp and no human eye can ever notice.

24] Thus the effect of the simple beam of light is the great factor of all life.

25] What your scholars believe to have invented, namely a device to determine even the elementary components of distant worlds by means of reaction of the light beam to chemically prepared substances, they are very mistaken, which they could easily recognize if they only wanted to compare their experiments where in all stars and suns only the same result appears (that is, even if they differ among themselves, it can only be about substances known on earth), because they completely ignore the factor, the earth atmosphere, through which every ray of light must pass before it reaches the surface of the earth.

26] Well, so I ask these scholars, do they not believe that all the same substances are present in the atmosphere of the earth, namely in a dissolved state, which find themselves bound in the body of the earth itself!

27] With little thought, an affirmation should come out of this, for the globe once arose from the atmosphere, and it will once again dissolve into it as a cloud of mist, just as it already now in every second gives its spent elements to it.

28] If a ray of light coming from afar touches the atmosphere of the earth and penetrates it, then it must partly submit to the influence of the atmosphere and then also bring the same substances that make up the atmosphere with it onto the surface of the earth.

29] For example, "iron" is present in the Earth's atmosphere in a dissolved state, so the light beam already comes loaded with such elements on the chemically prepared material and therefore naturally reacts to it with iron, but not as a pure light beam from a distant sun or world, but as a changed factor, influenced by the telluric (earthly) orbit of our planet itself.

30] If it were possible to get the light ray of a sun or other world directly from the ether-space without it having to undergo other chemical processes which it cannot avoid when passing through atmospheres, then your scholars would get other results and sometimes no results at all.

31] But this is impossible, since no living being can exist without an atmosphere, although in the ether all the primordial materials of creation are ready, but must first be made useful and consumable for living creatures only through many transformations.

32] therefore be content with what I have taught you to be for your own good, and do not seek to explore things which lead to no other result than the realization that there are other world bodies which are earths or suns like yours, whose interior, surface, vegetation and creatures deviate so far from the shapes and forms you have dreamed of that you can set your imagination free and yet will never approach the truth by a hair's breadth.

33] My worlds are dwellings of creatures which I created out of love, received out of love, educated and perfected until they too have all learned to recognize, understand and love Him out of the struggle with matter as pure spiritual children of their great Father and Creator.

34] One thing remains certain: The light is the bearer of My love, the awakener of all life and even if it happens in so many different ways, a spiritual man will always have to sink in astonishment when he experiences how the whole great building of creation owes all its eternal survival, its perfection, its development and finite spiritualization only to the ray of light, which binds worlds together with such great speed, balances their needs, arouses life and love wherever his power is felt.

35] Here I spoke only of the individual ray of light and its properties. But if you only want to look at your sun, where a sea of light rays from its great atmosphere falls on y our earth every second, that sea of light which no human eye, although it is also filled with elements of sunlight, can look at with impunity - if you then think of larger suns whose diameter and radius reaches far beyond the orbit of your last planets (from our sun as the center), and suspect what mass of light emanates there, what movement, life and warmth it must produce, what brilliance of colors and what splendor of color those rays of light are able to produce where they are striking, then you can already imagine the glory which is in My creation, where your sun in comparison to the others would have to disappear before the glow of greater suns as a faint night light. And on such worlds live beings who, while maintaining the human type, have a beauty in form and expression that all your conceptions of beauty are insufficient, inadequate; for you still have no concept of higher souls, of their spiritual formation, but where also the outside corresponds to the inside, and where an angelic face - as you often say - is not yet sufficient in all your imagination according to human concepts, as you might find such a thing in other worlds in innumerable numbers.

36] Oh, My creation is great, but it is also glorious and sublime, full of bliss and spiritual pleasures, whereby your earth, like a desert wasteland, could only endure the weakest comparison.

37] But why I have chosen this very small earth for My greatest deed, why you are preferred over many others to one day become My true children after trouble and struggle, that has another, great, spiritual purpose, which I have already discussed with you elsewhere before and now do not want to repeat here now!

38] I was moved to this step by the spiritual diffusion of light, and therefore I began where it was the darkest and unfortunately still is; while in those other worlds men revel in bliss, know nothing of struggle or sorrow, but also therefore have no merit. They progress slowly and will also have to go through longer phases of education, until they come to where you now - led by My hand, could already be!

39] It is precisely in spiritual progression that there is a different law and another reason than in the material. And therefore do not envy those who never felt the urge for the spiritual, because their conditions already makes them so blessed that a separation from there would hurt them infinitely; while you poor wanderers have to carry the flag of the spiritual nobility on arid ground in the midst of a neglected world and thus fight sourly for what has fallen into the laps of other creatures without will and in abundance.

40] Light, the carrier and perfector of the material, has given them in abundance what others lack; but light, spiritual light with the same factors as material light, it illuminates your heart, beautifies even the most boring wasteland, because viewed through this light, interpreted differently (and even utilizing its properties differently), it can produce other results.

41] The light with its disintegrating colors, according to the seven qualities of My divine self, materially accomplishes what they spiritually accomplish.

42] Light makes everything materially bound vibrate and tremble. Also the spiritual light, when it moves the soul or the human heart in its qualities, makes it also tremble with delight, makes it feel that a loving Creator only wants to prepare such ennobling pleasures, and that as with material light the reaction follows - where it is noticeable, so also the spiritual light embellishes everything and shows with it what its qualities are able to achieve: love, tolerance, mercy, forgiveness and submission to the highest will as true humility even with the greatest sacrifices.

43] Just as the light, when it falls on the cold earth as the first ray of sun in the morning, animates everything, affects everything, so does the spiritual light, which sets all spiritual abilities in motion in order to fulfil the mission, which is why people have entered this short wandering life.

44] The whole animal world with only a few exceptions feels the first ray of light. Even the drowsy person, when a ray of the sun hits his camp, feels troubled, it urges him, and restlessly he rolls around, not knowing and not suspecting that it is an eternity which wants to give him proof of his never-ending power in the ray of light of the rising sun.

45] The hard-working ant sticks out its feelers from its hole in the earth, for the ray of light reminds her to work. There a little bird sits on a dry rice, the first morning ray of the invigorating sun moves it to chirp it morning song, and the bee leaves its nest humming from flower to flower to collect the sweet juice, which it presumes to store for its comrades in the beehive for winter times, but which unfortunately the pleasure-seeking man robs from her again.

46] Everywhere it moves, in and on earth, - everything rejoices at this recurring ray of sun, for life is in it and life depends on it.

47] Even in the far north, while everything solidified from the influence of the great cold, light is the only witness of nature's activity, while everything else gives no life, no sign of warmth.

48] In the south of your globe, at the pole, spent substances of the earth organism arise from it, and like luminous bands they return again to the north, where the magnetic-etheric (ethereal) force flows into the earth's interior, where the Mysterious movement of the earth's atmosphere draws it. And just near the magnetic pole, where two forces meet - magnetism and electricity - these vapors are ignited by friction of their elementary atoms and, as a northern light, spreads your familiar electric light. The decomposition and combustion process takes place in various refractions and different forms, until everything that had become dead for the earth organism becomes usable again and can flow back into the earth's interior as an active magnetic force, as an invigorating substance, so that everything on the surface of this small planet can flourish and become beautiful, in constant interaction with the outside world, the same harmony is also created inside and the same purpose is fulfilled.

49] Just as you humans and the entire animal kingdom inhale the "oxygen and life substance" and exhale it again as carbon, the latter is greedily absorbed by the entire plant world for its prosperity and completes the exchange cycle, by preparing oxygen at nighttime - also the earth as a living pulsating being absorbs magnetic fluid in the north, discharges electric fluid in the south and sends it back to the north, where just in the midst of the stagnation on earth in the atmosphere the spiritual purification process takes place, which supplements the consumed with new viable elements.

50] Everywhere it is light that spreads warmth and life. And just there, where man with his greed finds nothing more to gain, and in that height of your atmosphere, where animal life has become impossible, there is the workshop of My omnipotence, which is eternally renewing what is consumed in millions every day.

51] Within the great etheric space it is the same. Only the light with its fast flight crosses this eternal darkness. Light rays of millions of suns and worlds meet, cross each other there, where one ray gives off to the other what it no longer needs, which is beyond millions of miles of another sun, another planet, to become partial spiritualized food, so that the individual as a whole is preserved.

52] It is the four edged ray of light with its positive and negative electricity that sustains My creation and helps to lead it to its goal.

53] Between the circles of entire systems of worlds a group of comets moves as expectant suns with their future planets. In elongated orbits they pass through the dark ether, leaving a long streak of luminosity, which also contains only their elementary substances and which should testify to their size and their speed.

54] Here is a star which, according to the classification you have introduced, belongs to the twelfth class, grows ever brighter, ever larger up to the star of first magnitude in brilliance and then decreases in light again after a few years until it has completely disappeared from your eyes.

55] It showed you the process of its becoming and its passing away, but it’s becoming was long before the ray of light, and its dissolution took place when you saw it in its highest glory.

56] Here a comet, a future solar system in the process of formation, and there an end of world life, where perhaps individual debris could circle around in cosmic space testifying to its former greatness.

57] No one tells you of all this great life of creation, if it is not the fleeting ray of light which, like the fast passing of time, reminds us of the transience of the existing, where only the purpose of creating something new, of progressing, is the main principle in all creation.

58] O how few know the true value of light, neither in spiritual correspondence, by which it could often give great and fruitful teachings to man as a ray of light, if he were able to receive them or to comprehend them spiritually, not in material regard, how out of the ray of light all that is good and beautiful germinates!

59] You, My Son, saw a whole great world in the light of a few stars. I helped you to hold on to this moment forever so that, even if you once departed, your and My Word would bear fruit. And now again I have taken up the same subject and have just explained the ray of light to all of you like a professor, furthermore let you feel the spiritual ray of light of My word - and now I send you again the light as the primary substance of My qualities as a loving being, synonymous with and equally effective wherever light, which excites life, can replace what is lacking.

60] I have shown you how light alone is the only factor which gives you knowledge of the existence of distant worlds and thus puts you in contact with worlds where spiritually related, loving souls also wait for redemption from matter in order to once be able to enjoy all happiness as spiritual beings, which can only be won and felt spiritually, therefore only by spirits.

61] I showed you in the Northern Lights the balance of the consumed with the newly acquired in the metabolism of your earth, taught you how everywhere the light acts as a propagator of life, weaves and preserves, and just as in the dark etheric space, where everything on your earth has solidified, only the spiritual effect of all elementary substances begins to be useful to the small earth inside and outside.

62] Thus you have heard a multitude of all possible explanations of light, you have heard in detail, as in the sea of light of a central sun, the word which is to kindle a spiritual light for you, so that you may not forget Him who does not fail to draw attention to the wonders and laws of His creation, so that you should regard the former as witnesses of His love and never sin against the latter. Because only you yourselves will have to be subject to the punishment just as only you can and should enjoy the blisses when you have got to know and love Me even more through My creation.

63] Time and time again I repeat it and again today: I am love! only in this way can you understand Me, cherish My words and learn to appreciate My works; and only through love do you find the key to the kingdom of spirits, whose inhabitants you will be by far longer than this short life of redemption is!

64] Where there is love in the heart, the first ray shines to find the way to Me; for even this love, spreading warmth and life, like the ray of light, will eternally be the bearer of all good and sublime.

65] Without love My seven qualities cannot be expressed, for all spring from it. And just as the light is divided into seven colors to beautify the visible world, so too does love actively sweeten man's way of life in its qualities, where he will only really understand the love of God, which cannot exist without love for his neighbor, by exercising it towards his neighbor.

66] For because of neighborly love I created the whole universe, guided the light through it, and even I only feel My qualities again when I find them realized in living beings.

67] Thus the ray of light must create and maintain harmony and mutual interaction from one pole of creation to the other, and so through it the bond between loving beings, between father and children becomes ever closer until once - as I said it on earth: "will be "one shepherd and one flock", where then I will no longer let the word resound in the wide spaces of My creation: let there be light! for light will have become everywhere, inside the hearts as well as in the outward appearance of the material world, where no dark spot will stand against the spiritual eye when visiting My works!

68] Thus the light is to lead you as a symbol of My love far out to those distant worlds and far into the bowels of the planets and suns, where love as a substitute for the material light does and prepares everything to give the creatures living on the surface a bearable happy life, where the preservation of physical life is to be easily disturbed and the formation of the spiritual should not be disturbed by anything, so that, as I said to you years ago: light, life and love is the cloverleaf of the Trinity, which is to guide you on all paths and finally lead you to Me in the spirit realm, where light, life and love will no longer have an end - and you will always find "more light" in spiritual life and "more love" in spiritual light, which starting from Me, first of all invigorating the whole spirit kingdom, facilitating the material life and warming the hearts of men, is to make a covenant more firml, in which from father to child there are only gentle gradations and therefore never frighten the omnipotence of the former, but make his love forget everything that could complicate life in the great spirit kingdom.

69] So here again you have a word, a word of My miracles, to show you that even if you have to be astonished by the greatness of My world, you should not shy away from the Creator, who only wants to be a Father, but may have firm confidence that He just as a Father on earth does not want to give you anything but joys and indeed joys without end! Amen.