Secrets of Creation · Chapter 30 · The Eye (January 26, 1876)

Chapter 30

The Eye (January 26, 1876)

01] Already since looking into Orion and later in the Word about "The Light" I have told you much about My creation, about the first factors (reasons) of them, which make them arise, transform them and urge them to perpetual progression; in the last two words I explained to you the light with all its characteristics, effects and chemical processes, and so there was nothing left for me to do but to bring this little tool closer to your spiritual senses with which you can just measure My creation and comprehend miracles of the light - and this great apparatus enclosed in a small space is your eye, just as it is the mediating member in every living being which connects all with the nature living around them and its effects.

02] What a living being is without an eye, and what a human being would be without this organism, is only questioned by a person who has become blind, who indeed feels the beneficial effect of the warmth of his midday sun, but has to do without the sight of the surrounding nature, which is spread around him in its festive robe, for example, in spring or summer.

03] None of you human beings can properly appreciate the value of an organ of his body or any other gift of grace from Me until he has lost it.

04] You can find this sentence proven every day when you see people sighing, especially in cases of illness, after their health has been restored, but what a gift of grace they have trampled underfoot beforehand, because they only knew then what it was worth when they no longer possessed it.

05] Therefore the sense of seeing, of hearing, of language, is only understood in its entirety when it is lacking in the soul. Only then does man learn to see what a great gift it is to be not only a member of the great chain of creation, but also to be able to see and hear everything, and then to communicate it to others.

06] When I will now describe the eye to you in this word, it is not said that it is the only tool with which you connect yourselves with My world, but it is only one of those factors (means), which is necessary for the spiritual progress of the human soul, for seeing alone is not enough if the advantage would be lacking to communicate what is seen to others. And so the next related organism of the eye is the gift of communication - language, which also is the eternally invigorating element of My creation, where it increases up to the sound, either reproduces or seeks to anticipate spiritually and thus is in contact next with the ear as a prerequisite; for one must first hear before one can speak, before one can communicate what one has heard, be it in speech, song or music.

07] Here again you have a Trinity, namely: seeing, hearing and speaking, which together constitute something, that is to say- the individuality of spiritual formation and through which the outside world is connected to the inside world, in that the first two communicate to the inside what is going on outside it, and the latter, the language, reproduces how the recorded has been understood and grasped inside.

08] That in individuals, where one or the other faculty (ability) was either lost or the deficiency was even brought into the world at birth, where one organ is weakly replaced by the other - these are individual cases, which only prove that the soul must have all three motors (impulses) in order to form itself, and only seeks to supplement what has been lost through the practice of the other.

09] Let us return for the time being to the eye whose title bears this word, so you see clearly that all miracles of My creation would be for nothing if the beings were not equipped with an organism (sensory tool) which gives them the possibility to perceive or see them - for what is the light without the eye? A half-finished work, where the beginning leads to no purpose.

10] So it must be assumed that I as logical creator, as soon as I wanted to create a world, as soon as I wanted to put beings on it who should recognize me, who love me, should understand me, and namely, since I Myself am invisible, only a spirit, they could draw the conclusion from My creations that a being, which could bring such worlds into being, besides His power also has to be a loving Father, who has arranged everything exactly for the sake of these creatures brought into being by Him, and I therefore also had to give My creatures the suitable organs with which they can perceive, comprehend and feel all this, or in a few words: When I created light, I also had to create the eye as the only receiving vessel of light, which - since the same can only attract and utilize the same - is and must also be composed of those elements which are the predominant elements in light. Furthermore, the eye had to be constructed in such a way that the light ray with its great speed, with which it penetrates it, not only does not harm it, but also leaves the soul time to supplement the images given to it by the eye to spiritual ideas of what it has seen.

11] But since the soul is connected to the eye by means of the brain through a nerve, and in the brain the spiritual faculties (abilities) of the soul must first undergo a spiritual process by means of the matter of the brain mass, which is slower than the light itself, precautions had to be taken in the eye to slow down the fast ray of light, for which purpose the various moistures which make up the inside of the eye serve as mediators and decomposers of it.

12] Behold, the blood, which is directed with great force by the pressure of the heart into all parts of the body down to the finest capillary vessels, this blood, as soon as it continues its course against the brain, must not penetrate with such haste, but must slow down its flow, so that the mediation between mind and matter, which takes place in all its parts (of the brain), takes place slowly; and because of this you will find that the great artery, as soon as it turns against the head, does not reach the brain there straight but in turns in order to weaken the flow of blood there and thus give the soul time to form the spiritual out of what is received through matter.

13] As it is described here for the brain, so it is in the eye with its contents, so with the bone structure of the organism in the ear, whereby the vibrations of the sound waves can also be shortened and modified into something.

14] It is the case in My Kingdom that I only need a few factors (means) to achieve great results. And so you see here again how I have provided, here by the bending of a pulsating artery, so that you may think, there by some watery moistures that you may see, that is: that with the former you can embrace the whole kingdom of thoughts and with the latter the great kingdom of My visible creation!

15] The penetration of the light rays by the substances which are in your eye and related to light, that is, magnetism and electricity, contained in phosphorus, would not be enough. I also had to make sure that the ray of light did not penetrate it as an undissolved, as white, but I had to add elements to these substances, which help to divide it, and that you could thus notice where the ray of light, striking solid objects, also divided according to the same laws, reveals its colors according to the chemical and physical processes which I have shown you sufficiently in the preceding words.

16] Also this was not yet sufficient because after I wanted to make My great creation comprehensible to you living beings through such a small organ, it was natural that a device should be included in order to recreate the image of the great on a small scale.

17 Therefore, the many rays of light from the objects had to be "collected" in large quantities in order to be "scattered", "diverging" again in the small eye, to reproduce a reduced image of the objects in front of you and outside of you.

18] For this purpose, I placed the crystal lens behind the pupil of your eye, which receives the rays, concentrates them, and then lets them separate again in the pigment of the retina in order to reproduce the image of the object seen on the black mirror-like velvet ground.

19] Your theory that when you see on the nerve-skin, the image appears upside-down and then reverses again by the reflection back from the eye and is then visible as straight, this theory is based on a great error; because your opticians have probably found this result of reversing the image with a glass that is cut like the crystal lens, i.e. convex (raised, arched outwards) on both sides; but they have forgotten that the glass is lifeless and the refraction of the ray of light in it is therefore different, because everything lives in the eye, partly materially, partly spiritually, and the soul there works with the process of seeing quite differently than the opticians believe.

20] I just want to draw these gentlemen's attention to something. If their theory is true and they only want to limit the whole visual process to the mathematical lines of the circle, how will they construct an image that goes into the eye of a goat, a horse, oxen, etc. where the pupil is not round but an elongated square?

21] Of course, they do not care how or what the animals see, nor can they know, because the animals cannot tell them. However, they may be assured that the animals, despite the quadrangular pupil, see as well as humans and some still see far better and sharper than them.

22] They may be convinced that wherever I have given a living being a visual organ, it has been adapted to it according to its needs. And so your scholars can notice, although they do not understand it, how even the mole still sees in the dark earth, that is, there must be light where they, the masters, can no longer perceive it; see how the bat still sees the little mosquitoes in the air late at night, see how the eagle soars at an incredible height - but sees the food creeping on the ground; to which of course completely different eyes belong than these, which I gave to man, which cannot bear the direct ray of the sun, while for example a fly and all that humming genus, whose head consists only of two spherical eyes, always bears the whole semicircle of the sky together with the strong shine of the sun calmly and still enjoys it without suffering damage.

23] In most inventions and discoveries, people have always drawn conclusions from the lifeless to the animate and spread the greatest errors with their own sciences, which then reveal many contradictions which they cannot explain.

24] Thus, for example, the cutting up corpses is a means of discovering the most serious defects in the human body, why one or the other had to pass into another life; to put it simply: the clock has stopped and the living power that made it go has escaped. Sometimes it can be the wheels, the spring or the oil that initially hindered the movement of the watch, but there are still many influences that took the energy away from the driving force of the watch, which forced it to stop. In man this is the spiritual principle of life, which in the end amounts to the two great factors which alone cause life in My creation, namely magnetism and electricity.

25] As long as these can flow into and out of the human body to the right extent, eliminate the decayed and help amalgamate (assimilate) the new, normal health, normal survival is possible. But as soon as this is destroyed and abolished, mostly by the mistakes of the people themselves, survival is no longer possible, and if the person is dead, the only effect that can be perceived in the dissected corpse is the destruction that the irregular inflow and outflow of these main elements have produced, but the actual life factor has escaped and with it the possibility of deciphering the reason or why.

26] So you see everywhere that "life," even if only visible, material life, is a completely different factor than merely decomposing bodies and substances by chemical analysis. For take these analyzed components, mix them together, and I want to see if only the components of a human lung, for example, can be supplemented, or whether you will be able to construct a similar grain of sand out of the smallest grain of sand, decomposed into its primitive elements. Something else will be the result of the decomposition; but it never will the decomposed!

27] So, My children, do you see how I have also put together in the eye substances and elements, such as in the pigment or the retina, in the glass or aquatic moisture, in the crystal lens, in the iris, in the cornea, all of which are of solar nature, so carry only light substances within themselves; but in the eye, spiritualized, they are still subject to completely different processes, n that there are still completely different transformations of which you can be witnesses, but do not know how such things happen.

28] What is the process in material vision, how the soul absorbs what it has seen, is also in the spiritual relationship, where even the soul, often without wanting to, gives through the eye a sign what is going on within. And here again you see another great factor appear, which gives you information about soul states, which proceed in the innermost of spiritual life and are reflected in the eye, without changing neither its substances nor its outer visible form.

29] And when I again ask your doctors, your opticians, what is this fluid that distinguishes the angry, the cunning, the clever or the loving eye, where each one is different and arises from another source and yet is always the same eye?!

30] Behold, gentlemen, this spiritual life, which penetrates the eye in such states of mind, is just again an imponderable (incalculable (soul vibration), which cannot be grasped, not measured, but can be felt by men when such a ray of spiritual light from the eye of the opponent strikes his own, without being able to explain to him where it comes from, what it does and how it often cannot be hidden even despite man's will.

31] It is precisely that factor of light which I called in the previous word "the spiritual potency" of light!

32] This potency nourishes, invigorates and completely fills the human soul, drives it forward; and when aberrations or disturbances occur in this life potency, the superfluous flows out, which is then predominant in the soul and through it in the whole body, which you can then perceive in the eye and also, if you wish - in language, at the sound of it. This radiating abundance encounters a negative element in the eye opposite it, repels it and becomes noticeable, where it is then able to produce the same thing gradually through this repulsion.

33] Here it is the spiritual soul-world that permeates, illuminates and controls matter. And if with noble movements of the heart, with enthusiasm for higher things, for more spiritual things, the urge still grows, it even happens then that the ordinary process of seeing is abolished and another arises for it, which then shows the astonished person a spirit world, which he may not have believed existed.

34] This is the spiritual view of a man who thus knows how to move himself to the border between life and death, where the spirit realm is closer to him than the earthly one.

35] A third reason of seeing is that which shows the spiritually educated or "reborn" man the whole great relationship of My creation, where the connections and the why are solved, the also-and-not-other, which is even spotted by the physical eye, can only be comprehended with the spiritual eye or its finer feeling.

36] This spiritual eye is the one which after death in the spirit realm will then clearly show everything to the one who sought to know Me through My works and words.

37] For there, as in the case of the whole human body, as well as its organism and eye, only the spiritual component has passed over into the hereafter, which, if it had already been cultivated (refined) in earthly life, would have been of some use there as well, which unfortunately is not so easy to achieve, since most people have a more than triple veil hanging before their eyes as Moses once had.

38] If men were to see spiritually, they would see a different world than the physical world before them, they would see everywhere the reason, the cause, but not the effect, the human eye would be able to perceive the division of light as well as the outflow of spiritual light from the eye.

39] Man, ever more understanding My creation, would ennoble himself, would already here raise himself to a level which would make it easier for him to progress up there; would be his own teacher, his own doctor; nothing would cause him to doubt, everywhere he would see clearly how I have organized everything and why I arranged it so.

40] His gaze would not wander over thousands of objects so meaninglessly, without thinking the slightest bit about them.

41] Intelligent, spiritual, his gaze would everywhere recognize only intelligence, cause and effect; would recognize the Master in the works and understand many a great Mystery, which he now often stands before in astonishment, because he does not want to shed his human self-conceit and even wants to set up the world according to his plans - while the world follows invariably larger spiritual laws, which are higher than the tiny child of an earth-man on this microscopic grain of sand, called earth.

42] The material understanding of the process of light, the clear comprehension of the process which takes place in seeing, the sure assessment of all that is visible, and the faithful trust in the existence of the invisible and spiritual only then emerges from all that is said, when man has become capable through his material organ, the eye, through the material process in his brain, can make his soul, together with the material images, together with the melodies and harmonies, can make the spiritual understandable, what is hidden behind matter, its carrier, its sustainer and its destroyer.

43] The result of outer life, as it penetrates through the eye and ear into the soul - is only a spiritual one, which leads higher up, which elevates the soul of man, ennobles, spiritualizes it, so that when the last hour of life on earth strikes, the leap is not a great one, but only a gentle transition that guides the soul there, where during its lifetime it lived and worked more than three-quarters of the time.

44] To achieve this, I am sending you words upon words; My aspiration is to make you understand how much spiritual is hidden in all that has been created, so that you are not to bear witnesses alone in this world to what a soul devoted to God is able to do, but so that you may be, as I clearly said, My children already here and not have to become so first in the other world.

45] I explained to you the eye in relation to the light, I could tell you just as much about the ear as the receiving organ of sound and tones in relation to their effect on the soul.

46] I explained to you how these two organs are the connecting channels with which the soul receives impressions from outside, and language, the mouth with its speech and respiratory organs, is the tool whereby the digested material can be reproduced spiritually.

47] I described these organs to you as Trinity, I told you incidentally that even seeing is threefold, namely ordinary seeing, spiritual seeing and spiritually higher vision or seeing.

48] Everywhere "three" is the basic number, the number of Myself, the number of yourself, for you also consist of body, soul and spirit. (See "Secrets of Life", p. 36, 4th ed.).

49] Physically you see, you feel human emotion and spiritual through My spark of life everything is spiritualized, refined - beautified.

50] So understand after so many words, that it is an entirely different world which surrounds you than how it appears to the material eye and the human mind.

51] Let your understanding, your spiritual eye shine, penetrate matter to its soul and then transform everything into the spiritual future soul-human being, who was created in My physical and spiritual image - where its outer form will radiate a divine beauty and a great spiritual ray of the purest consciousness from his gaze, into which eye already here a spiritualized ray of light falls, but in the hereafter the spiritual sun of My wisdom and love will supplement everything that can be given to you here as a preconception, but not as reality.

52] So take this word "The Eye". Open your eyes wide so that this spiritual ray of light of My word reaches your spiritual understanding and also prove to you again in these lines that only a correct understanding of the visible can lead to the true appreciation of the invisible and spiritual! Amen.