EVOLUTION OF SOUL-LIFE ON EARTH UNTIL MAN. LOWER AND HIGHER ANIMAL LIFE [7] I said to the innkeeper: “My dear Mucius, exactly in those 3 questions that you ask are contained the whole wisdom of all the Heavens and the reasons of My work as teacher on this Earth. No matter how many times I talked about this, the basic teaching cannot be frequently repeated enough so that the spiritual heart of man will completely absorb those eternal truths in himself, will well digest them in himself and in flesh and blood will entirely transform them. Therefore, I will profoundly answer your questions, firstly for the sake of you and Phoikas since you are still foreign to My teaching, and secondly for the sake of My followers who are already with Me for a long time but who still did not penetrate into all truth. So listen carefully. [8] Man lives from 2 kinds of worlds which he has to unite in himself. On the one hand he is the cornerstone of the outer, material creation in which he is called the crown of creation and he is praised as such. On the other hand he is the starting point of the pure spiritual world which with him has reached the first stage of complete free self-awareness. So, on the one hand he is the beginning and on the other hand the end of a chain, and he has to find in himself, by his for that purpose given life and the free development, the right link with which he can make those 2 chains as one. I will explain this further to you. [9] All beings, from the smallest creature, form step to step ascending series, in such manner that one step will always complete the other, will show greater perfections and can by that also develop an ever greater intelligence. [10] Look at the animals where lower sorts exist that seem to have no other goal than to maintain their body and serve as food for other animals. When there is an enemy of their body and life, they stoically surrender to their fate and do not fight back and are also not capable to do that. Look at the many insects and lower amphibians.
[11] However, further up you can see that the intelligence is already so highly developed that those animals are more conscious of the dangers that threaten their bodies, and also know how to escape from them through all kinds of cunning tricks. [12] With animals that are more advanced you can see that this quality is further developed, and so they are provided with suitable weapons like sharp claws and teeth to get rid of their enemies, but at the same time they become also enemies of other animals. Now there is a struggle from both sides where cunningness and cleverness are practiced, to kill the bodies but also for the progression of the intellect so that the character, that gradually develops and that acquires specific qualities for the ever ascending animals, can be formed. [13] Now a borderline is reached from which the animals are inclined to join man, and then you call them house animals. They usually are more submissive or more tame as you say. They can develop a very far-reaching intelligence and can be trained. By that they look in a certain way more like man – not in their outer form but for what concerns certain characteristics. You often can observe real astonishing actions of animals that show reasoning and also a certain discernment so that you are amazed and say: the animal lacks only the power of speech. Look, these are animals that in their spiritual development only need to make a step to become a human being, like an infant who has also only to make a certain step in years in order to become a person with reason. But with the animal that goal cannot be attained because the form of the soul is not perfected yet while with a child, who often seems much dumber and clumsier, the form of the soul is present and capable for a further development, like in every grain of seed in which lays the image of the future plant. (GGJ Book 25, chap. 34) [1] ALL these sorts of animals, which are multiple in order to make possible an optimal variety in character abilities, are however under a fixed law which takes care that they can develop themselves in that one certain direction, namely the one of the highest possible intelligence. This means: they are not capable to act differently than the limits of the form of their soul will permit. For instance, no matter how clearly you will indicate to a bird that it still would be better not to build an open nest but perhaps a woven house, he will nevertheless stay with his nest. And you can be sure that since the existence of the different sorts on Earth every sort built their homes exactly as they still do today. This is in a certain way because of a limited horizon (the form of the soul) that cannot be extended. It is just like a child who cannot learn the difficult higher arithmetic as long as he still does not understand the initial basics. [2] The different forms that the animals must go through correspond to the time periods or years of development of man. When the highest animal intelligence is developed – mind you, this is not concerning the outer form but only concerning the development of the soul – then those developed intelligences can flow together to become a human soul. So this contains now in the first place the highest developed intelligences that mutually complement each other, and then, since he is the next step in the development of many lower lives, he must be a reflection of the total lower life in general, because he contains all this in himself. So he is now completed for what concerns the outer form and the inner form that is capable for development. The crown of creation, the human form, with a germ that is capable for the highest possible development, is reached in the newly born human being. THE HUMAN BEING AND HIS OWN SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION (continuation)[3] Now begins the second task: man must reach the highest possible free awareness in the knowledge of his Creator and in the development of the inner man. [4] Up to now the form of the soul was dull, did not care about spiritual things but only about material things. Only the right of the strongest was important to him. But the deity wants His work that was led here with difficulty will now also begin to know Him and will try to come closer to Him out of love, and not out of fear for His power. How can this be achieved? [5] The deity must veil Himself to reach that goal. That means that He must put His creature in circumstances that gives him the possibility to recognize the deity freely from himself or not. By that, the deity may not use any coercion, for otherwise fear, which has to be avoided, and not love will influence the direction of the will. Just think how you would feel to be surrounded by servants who would only serve you out of fear instead of out of love. That little plant of love can only come into existence when the human soul receives proof – by the ever increasing clearness and insight of things – of the great love and wisdom which the deity gives him and which stirs up admiration and love in him. [6] A leader is now given to the human soul, because the pure soul alone, which cannot be further developed as perfected form, would not notice anything higher than himself if a spiritual feeling could not flow in, the awareness of a power in him, which humbles him down and urges him to seek his Creator. And this is the divine spark which is laid in him as spirit and which has to develop together with him, has to penetrate in him more and more through a right education and must lead him into all knowledge through self-teaching. [7] This true marriage, which starts already when man is born, is however greatly disturbed because, although the soul is developed by the inevitable physical development, the inner spirit stays mostly only like an embryo in him. The purpose of life is however to let them develop together at the same time so that the one depends in the right measure on the other. [8] That divine spark comes from God and contains initially all the truth and the right knowledge. By that spark, man stands in very close connection with the initial Spirit of God Himself and he can penetrate in all secrets and the wisdom of God Himself. But very few people are aware of this. And to lighten up this awareness – which only weakly flashes by – to full certainty and to knowledge, is the goal of My work as Teacher. And the way that leads to it is given by My teaching. (GGJ Book 25, chap. 35) [1] MY disciple John told you already, and I confirm this to you, that in the 2 commandments: ‘Love God above all and your fellowman like yourself’ are contained the 10 commandments of Moses and all the rest about what man should do to awaken the spiritual spark that abides in him and to unite more and more with his soul. For it is only in the right way of living according to God and in the right deeds of love for your fellowman that you will find true satisfaction, inner peace and the right victory over your passions and death. The one in whom the conviction is awakened, which makes it impossible for him to sin against those commandments, will already discover true Heaven on this Earth, for he became untouchable for all the attacks of evil, became by that a real ruler in him, and out of him a ruler over nature. [2] For since the soul of man contains everything from all the beings that the Earth carries, as you know, it is very natural – once the spirit will rule in his house which contains everything – that he also must be able to rule over the various images of his I. Just like a king who worked himself up from the rank of slave to the throne will rule without resistance over all these ranks to which he belonged. But it is obvious that this is only when man has found the binding link of the chain, which is My teaching, and has connected both chains to only one unbreakable chain. He is completely powerless as the last link of the material chain, which is only the highest form of the soul, forming by that some human form, and is actually nothing but a very intelligent, well developed animal. [3] I think that you understand now why you live, and how you can come to the right understanding.” [4] Being amazed and listening attentively, they all said: “Yes Lord and Master.” [5] And I continued: “Now there is still the third question to be answered, namely: What happens to man after death? [6] If it is as I told you, it is also obvious that the spiritual man, who develops himself only imperfectly in the earthly life because his heavy body is a big burden to him, must continue to live, for nobody will claim in himself that he can reach a perfection in this short earthly life that can bring him already very close to God. He has to deal with various obstacles in his body and with temptations of all kinds, so that his character will be hardened and his will be trained to do violence to himself and to attract more and more what is good and remove the bad tendencies out of himself. [7] Once in the beyond he will come into a new world which will ever more reveal to him the wonders of God and the universe where he will be able to see with his spiritual eye and not with his weak physical eyes that only show him the material world. While looking at the great works of wonders he now understands that the real bliss can only be found in the activity, and that God Himself is the most active Being. According to his progress, a suitable working sphere can be given to him that he zealously takes at heart. And in this activity and at the sight of his useful work he will experience true joy and the highest bliss. (GGJ Book 25, chap. 36)
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