Secrets of Creation · Chapter 32 · The Screw (December 19, 1874)

Chapter 32

The Screw (December 19, 1874)

01] Here, My children, I want to again reveal to you a great Law of My creation, from which you are to recognize how it is possible, through a single line like the "helix" known to you, to set a universe into motion, to push it to perfection by itself and thus, with the first impulse of an act of creation, to immediately establish its eternal existence.

02] See, everything that surrounds you, visible and invisible, has, be it in form, content or duration, its special purpose, to contribute to the existence of the whole!

03] Everything down to the last atom follows the great law of creation, which I have placed in everything: the origin, perfection and transformation, and only in this way was it possible to pronounce "becoming" once, since the more distant development is thereby conditioned by itself.

04] Now, among these great laws of creation, it is precisely the initial principles that are the most important, which serve as the basis for all creation. And of these principles, from which I have already explained and developed many things to you, the helical line that you have taken from My nature and incorporated into your practical life is one of the most important, because precisely it or the application of its form is a main factor of all that exists!

05] You all know the screw, you can see its application a thousand times over in many things. Your mathematicians have calculated their laws, explained their different forms to you individually, the mechanics have applied the moving force in spiral form on water and on land. In nature you find them everywhere, even in your bodies you know the peristaltic power of your intestines. Your own earth receives movement, food and warmth from the force flowing into it from the North Pole and exiting at the South Pole.

06] Everywhere on a small and large scale you would notice them if you had sharper or more spiritual eyes, - and nevertheless the real reason for seeing the great importance of the screw and spiral line is still missing, to what extent it has established itself in the universe, has attained such great importance, and must have, because without them nothing could exist, nothing could progress!

07] Now, to give you proof again, how important it is for Me to be understood by you through My words, I will prove to you again that in the most insignificant there is often far greater, deeper wisdom, than when you were astonished at My whole starry sky, admiring My greatness there, wanting to sink down into the dust before Me.

08] Still few of you have understood that in the infinite space, in the infinite creation there are only gentle, delicate beginnings of seemingly insignificant things, whose importance only a God but not a finite being can measure!

09] Look at it, the screw, its spiral turns, and try to discover something deeper, more spiritual out of it besides its mathematical laws and its construction - and we want to see whether your spirit can swing up from the material view of the curved line into the higher realm of the spiritual, which often hides the greatest in the smallest!

10] I know it in advance, your seeking is in vain, and that is why, with a short account of the light, I will pour out over your spirit in abundance so that you may again recognize how a loving Father is always striving, to draw you up to this, to which he created you, that is, to His children equal to Him.

11] So in order to speak to you understandably and comprehensibly, I must first draw your attention to the form of a spiral line, then to its purpose and finally to its spiritual correspondence; because only in this way it is possible to introduce you from the material into the spiritual. So listen!

12] If you look attentively at a screw or every spiral line, you will easily see that, as it is used differently in your use, its purpose is either to attach one object more firmly to the other or, as in your ships and mechanical apparatuses, to produce a propulsive movement.

13] Now look, here we have already approached the great reason of the general law of creation. So the screw or each spiral line has established the urge "forward" in its form, so you need it in your life.

14] The spiritual of this form is therefore according to the material, that is, "forward" is the actual idea. Well, as usual another factor is connected with this driving or pushing forward in the material or actually arises from the more or less going forward, namely the generation of heat by the friction of the advancing object. Here you have a second factor of My great world creation, namely the development of the heat substance from the movement!

15] Progressing further in our contemplation, the screw and spiral line shows that its locomotion is not a sudden, destructive, but a slow, steady and not retreating one, which in My creation must be taken into consideration, since I am not a friend of great expressions of power, but rather want to achieve everything with love and gentleness than with force! Well, up to here many things in my creation could be more plausible to you if you wanted to think about it, but I do not want to leave you halfway, and so we go on!

16] So we have discovered three characteristics of the helical line: advancement, deep penetration and never by force, only slowly. Well, now we want to look for these qualities in the natural realm of the visible for the time being, so we find them everywhere, with you in ordinary life and with Me in the great star complex.

17] Behold, all worlds, planets and comets move forward in the ether, but they do not move, as you generally believe, forward only around themselves and by another driving force - or around a central sun, that is in ellipse, no! Here I must say: they all move in spiral lines, they screw themselves into ether-space, awaken by this movement by friction - life and warmth in the ether, which they then communicate to beings living on them. It is not possible that a body, such as your earth for example, which through the flow of a magnetic (fluid) stream into its interior from the North Pole in helical motion, should not also have another movement in world space. The earth moves in a spiral, so do all the worlds, for this is the only way their progression is smooth and even.

18] If it were just a straight penetrating movement, then finally the speed would have to be either reduced or even cancelled by the resistance of the ether, which is not in My thoughts of creation.

19] Even the light that flies from one sun to the other at such a great speed, screws itself into the ether, and for that very reason the light is also a heat carrier, which manifests itself (heat) where the light strikes firm objects.

20] You yourself in your practical life have often used this spiral movement to move around.

21] Look at your firearms, you have invented drawn guns and cannons, where the sphere is given the spiral next to the propulsive flight movement, so that it can penetrate the air more easily than the object it has to overcome during its flight.

22] As for the development of heat, take a drill, try to make a hole in whatever object, and you will easily perceive how the drill warms up just by its rotation in spiral form.

23] The blood flows in your body, but its individual globules move forward like worms, because this movement causes them to develop warmth where they are driven by the thrust of the heart.

24] Your intestines have the peristaltic passage to remove the unusable from the body. However, this movement is not only for this reason, but in order to develop the parts even more gaseous and finer by developing the heat during friction, which are to be absorbed in this last course of the food.

25] This spiral movement is visible everywhere. Plants, trees, inside and out, twist or spiral upwards into the air, towards the light and the warmth, their roots twisting between stones and rocks and thus developing expressions of strength, which would be neither possible nor achievable by any other means.

26] The worm's life is known for its spiral movement, even in the oceans there are animals whose form is still far back and their organism suffers from heat generation, which for progression have a spiraling forward motion around themselves, in order to obtain the heat through friction, which the lifeblood circulating in them lacks.

27] So you see everywhere the helical movement as a principle of life, as a generator of movement, life and warmth.

28] This is how the worlds are created, formed and perfected on a large scale, so everything goes forward, slowly but surely, always towards its final purpose, and so you recognize very easily in the material how necessary and only possible this movement is, in order to preserve once created things forever, so that it achieves its purpose.

29] The spiritual of this movement or its spiritual counterpart lies clearly in the day, for as the screw turns, gradually "overcomes" all obstacles in order to penetrate forward, so in spiritual life the constant advancement from step to step is also a spiritually corresponding screw movement. "To turn around" means nothing else than to oppose an object standing before Me on all sides of Myself. Thus also spiritually every being confronts the tribulations of worldly material life with all its spiritual characteristics and passions. By moving the parts are abraded, polished, the heat, which is generated in the same way as love, calms the friction; slowly, as if between the hard and the soft, it moves forward, inexorably the life drill penetrates into the spiritual realm, always achieves a firmer position and gradually achieves a permanent foothold!

30] Thus in the great spiritual realm of the world, where the material only serves as a garment, this slowly advancing movement is the only possible one, by which the spirits can gradually achieve higher degrees of success!

31] The movement itself excites love, like warmth, and light, like wisdom, and so every striving spirit brings the result of the above mentioned factors: Life, spiritual life, where it only goes or where it slowly twists itself in like a screw.

32] So, My children, this inconspicuous line is applied to you so often and so many times in your lives, precisely the form without which no star, no sun in the sky would shine, no heart would beat warmly and no life would ever express itself.

33] So this line is spiritually the great impulse that drives spirit to spirit, man to man and finally everything to me; because love - the main medium - chains souls to souls, unites them with one another, leads them closer to each other, and thus brings everything back to Me again, material and immaterial, in helical movement, from where it originated.

34] So see, My children, so much greatness lies in this insignificant screw form, there is so much depth, that although men found the mathematical laws of the spiral line, they could only discover the beginnings of a wisdom which originated far beyond the material in the infinite, its correspondence in the spiritual and its practical implementation in the material, as it suits your life on earth!

35] Learn from these words how minor the beginnings of My creation seem and what results they are able to achieve.

36] I gave you these words so that you may again recognize your Creator, but also your Father, who will never cease to introduce His children into the Mysteries of His Kingdom; because only when you understand the construction of My work or at least suspect it, only then are you capable of a love that can chain you firmly to me.

37] A child must fully understand and learn to recognize its father, it must be convinced in its innermost being of the father's greatness, mildness and love, and only then will it gladly fulfill his laws; for then they have ceased to be "laws" for it, the child then does everything out of love. Love however does not forbid anything, but grants everything, and for this very reason the child must know exactly what it means to be a child, so that it does not desire what is against love!

38] So you too are all moving forward, winding your way through the obscurities of this life, so that your moral side is also polished off from the rough; penetrate daily like a screw deeper into spiritual life, in order to move forward, until the bright Truth Light of My eternal Love shines behind the coffin lid, which you must break through. Only then will you understand why you encountered some many inhibiting things, so many unpleasant things in human earthly life, for there you will only see that without this always advancing movement like the screw, which leaves out nothing that it has grasped in its threads - without this slow but steady progress you would not have penetrated into that spiritual depth of My creation where love smiles at you from every atom and where from the first moment of a spiritual consciousness to the transition into the spirit realm the spiral spiritual and worldly movement was necessary to bring you forward, to develop life and warmth within you and so gently but surely to fulfil the purpose I put into these lines when I became the great "Let there be!" where everything, obeying this word, has begun its circling but advancing movement and will never stop like the concurrent screw, always moving around Me as the center, sharing with Me in the same proximity of light and bliss, which is destined for all who, according to their purpose, have solved their task to My and their satisfaction! Amen.