Secrets of Creation · Chapter 34 · First Creation of the Human Soul (November 11, 1872)

Chapter 34

First Creation of the Human Soul (November 11, 1872)

01] My son! So many a questions you have asked Me and I as your Father have answered you with many or few words, depending on the greater explanation or argument your question required.

02] There are still new questions in your mind, as in your last letter addressed to My scribe. You say, among other things, that the answer to this question would especially reassure you before your departure from earthly life! But here I have to ask you, if you now find out everything that you want to know, then what good is it to you? - does it help you to raise your moral condition? does it help you to know and understand Me and My teaching better? can this knowledge have an influence on your thinking and acting in relation to your neighbors? - Look, with all these questions that I have asked of you, you must answer Me with No.

03] What you want to know is a question to take a deeper look into My creation story, and if you want to look closely at it, there would be millions of questions left like the ones you put to me; for every living being, every plant, even the dead rock could provoke you to ask: What was the first process in every single creation? or what was first- the egg or the chicken? the seed or the plant? These are all questions which, if they would be faithfully and comprehensively answered by Me, would not bring you by a hair's breadth further on your spiritual level.

04] But in order to satisfy you in something, I will answer your questions as far as you, as a created being, can have an insight into My creation. Well, listen then! That you ask Me at all in this relationship is a sign that the little I have given you about this is not comprehensible to you; for it is a slight suggestion of a creative act which was carried out not only in man, but in every being, only with the difference of the stage on which such a being was placed.

05] You know, the animals also have souls; so it would also be a question of how, when and from where on earth was every animal given its soul as a species in its creation or, as the Bible says in the Mosaic Creation Story, breathed in? Where did it come from, what was its origin?

06] To these and all similar questions I answer that in all created beings bound particles of the great fallen spirit were clothed; also that the great fallen spirit himself as an offshoot of Me was set free in the great creation, where, like every finite whole, he possessed an internal and an external organization, along with a great part of My own divine life, which as a spark of Me raised him above all rough material things.

07] Particles were and are taken from his outside or ethereal covering every day for the material bodies as your garments, bound spirits were taken from him and used. - All created beings originate from his soul in regard to their spiritual life, and only his divine inheritance was left to him because it is precisely this which, like your conscience, continually urges him, inspires him to return to me.

08] Thus you see the Trinity, like father, son and spirit-matter, soul and divine spark, also consistently represented in him, just as every created being also consists of these three parts, which are again represented in a similar way in the material creation, in the spiritual heaven and in Myself.

09] Thus the origin of the soul, as with you in procreation, is always the same, where also you give something away from your spiritual being without feeling a lack. - Thus all living things were created in the whole material world, and when in the Mosaic History Creation man's creation was discussed in more detail, as in the work ("The Housekeeping of God" (Prehistory of Humanity), revealed through Jakob Lorber), which I once gave to My former scribe, so it has its reason in it because first of all man was the last link of creation on your earth, and secondly because you men are more interested in learning more about the origin of your own race.

10] How Eve was created from the inner and outer body of the first human being and why so and not otherwise, that lies simply in the fact that a companion, a life companion, was created for the first human, who of course had to be taken from the last finest material, which I wanted to create in My image.

11] Thus the first woman arose, as with every mixing of the sexes one from the other, and this necessary process, which establishes its continuance with most living beings - only with the difference that for the creation of the first woman I adopted a method, which, materially speaking, carried out what also happened spiritually with the creation of millions of other creatures.

12] To further explain to you why so and not otherwise is incomprehensible in human terms, as little as if you were asking Me for an answer to the question: Who then created Me, or from where is the first seed which brought forth My being?!

13] Your comprehension has its limits, beyond which you lack spiritual imagination to measure certain arrangements, space and time relations. You have an old proverb which I also want to remind you of, and that means: cobbler stick to your work! I want to remind you of this proverb, and if I nevertheless reach out to you sometimes the little finger, then do not demand also the hand; for it is too great, because in it the whole creation rests, where yourself and your earth must disappear like an infusion animal in the great ether.

14] You yourself consist of body, soul and spirit. Tell Me once which of these three are close enough to you because they make up your own self - which of these three do you understand, or can you really see through its construction, its organization? - See, My dear Son, to want to fathom things that do not contribute to real benefit or progress, these are useless musings that do not make you any better.

15] You have My Word that besides the soul there is still a divine spark inherent in you - seek to become like this spark, because you are spiritually descended from Me, as I have proclaimed to you.

16] Seek to become worthy of this lineage, by thinking, speaking and acting as befits a child of God, leave the rest to Me! If one day you can see My creation with spiritual eyes in a lighter shell, then you will again have a further insight and satiation for your curiosity, but to want to completely understand Me and My creation, let that rest, because it is not for finite beings - to understand and comprehend an infinite God and Creator, neither here - nor there! Amen.