The Grail Message

“Keeping the balance in this case is equivalent to keeping the harmony in Creation undisturbed by observing the Primordial Laws of Creation.”

“But dignity, peace, light and joy can in turn only arise from a dignified way of thinking, never otherwise.”

“Try to observe calmly what you usually call Nature: the mountains, the lakes, the woods, and the meadows, at all seasons!”

“Work during your working hours, and rest during the necessary time of rest!”

“Nothing can confuse you, for you go quietly and with firm strides along your path!”

“The Light always exhibits cool purity and peaceful circumspection in the conscious power of the high knowledge!”

“Only such complete harmony brings about a healthy and strong development of the spirit, preventing the possibility of any morbid eccentricity.”

“Why do you so often torment yourselves with mere earthly trifles which you perceive to be sin, but which are not really so.”

“It is quite right to say that in deeply solemn moments earthman senses the nearness of his God.”

“There is within you an altar which should serve for the worship of your God. This altar is your intuitive faculty.”

“For God does not will that His people should suffer! He wills only joy, love and happiness! The way within the Light cannot be otherwise! The way towards the Light has stones only if man first places them there!”

“Even if people harass you severely, be it through envy, malice or base habits, you bear peace within yourselves forever, and this will finally help you to overcome all difficulties!”

“In the working of this Creation everything for man has been wisely provided!”

“The worship of God in your life and in your experiences consists solely of keeping the Divine Laws! This alone ensures happiness!”

“Therefore keep the Sabbath Day holy! Be it in your home, or better still in Nature, which helps you to become alert in thinking and intuitive perceiving!”

“You must never destroy the peace and the harmony between two human beings. Hammer this into yourself, so that it may always stand as a warning before the eyes of your soul.”

“The great Bringer of Truth, Christ Jesus, the personification of Divine Love, did not concern Himself with creeds.”

“And therefore love indeed stands as the highest power, as unlimited might, in the mysteries of the great Life!”

“The ray of Divine Love can never find its way to him who has not absorbed the ray of Purity!”

“And wherever there is true purity, genuine love can also enter, for God's Love works in the ray of Purity.”

“Love alone can overcome and accomplish all things, always provided, however, that it is not the earthly demanding love, which harbours jealousy and kindred evils.”

“Genuine love never thinks of itself, but always of the advantage of the beloved one, and acts accordingly, even if it involves self-sacrifice!”

“Genuine love will take no account of what gratifies the other, of what is agreeable to him and gives him joy, but will only direct itself towards what will benefit him, regardless of whether it affords him pleasure or not.”

“Right love does not exclude anything that is pure or kept pure, no matter whether this concerns persons or one's native land, also such things as work or Nature.”

“The first intuitive feeling which stirs the heart at the awakening of pure love is thinking oneself unworthy of the beloved one.”

“Divine Love is inseparable from the utmost severity of Divine Justice.”

“True love does not lie in indulgence, and in a kindness that is expected to forgive everything.”

“Joyfully and voluntarily serving each other, the couple grows upward together towards spiritual ennoblement.”

“Not the covetous love of the world of gross matter, but the sublime, pure Love which has no other thought, no other desire, but the welfare of the beloved one!”

“As soon as a human being opens his heart to pure love, whether it be man's love for a woman or vice versa, or the love for friends, parents or children, it is all the same!”

“For mercy and love alone are contained in the final effects of all the Laws in Creation, which in the end rise upwards and meet in the one great basic Law: the Law of Love!”

“As soon as pure love stirs within a man, no matter what has caused it, he obtains the most direct connection with God, the Primordial Source of all Love, and thus the strongest help.”

“Finally, with pure love comes the ardent desire to do something really great and noble for the beloved one, not to offend or hurt him by look, thought or word, much less by an unworthy action.”

“In the Divine Sphere Purity is closely united with Love!”

“Let each word you speak reflect the love which God grants you!”

“Genuine faithfulness can only live in true love, never in passion or phantasy.”

“Loyalty is not something which is independent, but only a quality of love!”

“However, if men would live on a basis of true love, as is willed by God, this condition alone would provide the impetus to alter many things among them, in fact everything!”

“The Religion of Love has been misunderstood, because the concept of love has in many ways been distorted and misrepresented, for the greater part of true love is severity!”

“Where love is missing there is also no life, there all is dead!”

“Raise fatherhood and motherhood to honour! Who today still knows what great dignity lies in them. And what power to ennoble mankind!”

“Hence a marriage only exists where harmony and peace reign as a matter of course. Where one always seeks to live only for the other and make him happy.”

“Where there is true love of soul, however, the mutual glad giving up of self is something quite natural, and in this way any disadvantage to one party is reciprocally also quite impossible.”

“Love of the soul, however, remains the best protection against infringement of this Commandment; for one who truly loves always wills only what is best for the loved one, and therefore can never make unclean wishes or demands, against which this Commandment is above all directed!”

“One should have compassion for such people without, however, being indulgent; for indulgence would indeed mean cultivating indolence in serious investigation.”

“To give unselfishly, to help where help is needed, and to understand both the suffering and the weaknesses of your fellow-men, means to receive, because it is the simple and true way to the Highest!”

“You may enjoy everything here in Creation, you may taste of everything, but it must not bring harm to your fellow-man!”

“The human spirit cannot obtain bliss in any other way but through joyful activity for the Light!”

“Divine service on earth is also naturally nothing other than to work in the sense of the Laws of God here on earth, to swing actively in them terrestrially!”

“Make everything you think and do into a service to God!”

“You should give to your neighbour with your being, your nature!”

“Human souls can serve their Creator only by the activity of their own spirit!”

“Only that man who stands aright in the Creation of his God, who recognises himself as a part of Creation and lives accordingly, only he is the true servant of God, no matter in what way he earns his necessary living on earth.”

“Now try to recognise the people who truly strive for the ideal here on earth, and help them with their activity, because their building up will only bring benefit!”

“He who strives earnestly after truth and purity will also not be lacking in love.”

“The new Gospel of Love does not intend to overthrow or annul the old Gospel of Justice, but to supplement and unite with it.”

“One must seek to assist a person to attain to the possibility of striving aright, if one really wishes to help.”

“A man who does not pile up riches needlessly just for self-gratification, but who uses them aright by revaluing them and applying them for the benefit of many, is much greater and worthier than one who gives all his wealth away.”

“A gross material attack is far easier to redress than an attack on the soul, which suffers through the undermining of its reputation.”

“The Creative Father-Will reveals Himself in them, and thereby forgives us and dispels all Darkness.”

“For the plea for forgiveness or redemption from guilt is conditional upon the petitioner having previously forgiven all the wrongs inflicted upon him by his fellow-men.”

“With steadfast good volition the end of all atonements must come, since he who wills what is good and acts accordingly will incur no fresh debts demanding further atonement.”

“The honest volition for what is good, for something better, reinforced by a truly heartfelt prayer, will bring redemption!”

“A man only has the right and also the power to forgive what he has personally suffered at the hands of another, and then only when, quite freely, his heart bids him do it.”

“Without the honest, steadfast volition for good there can never be atonement.”

“For the individual deed, that you will have to redeem and settle, certainly; yet in the moment when you earnestly begin to strive for the good you mark the end of your atonement.”

“Give fervent thanks that with His Word the Redeemer re-opened the way to the forgiveness of your sins, and leave the spot with the earnest intention to go the way shown to you so that forgiveness may really be yours.”

“Notwithstanding the reaction due to guilt, the ascent of every man solely depends on his inner attitude.”

“The activity of the Divine Creative Will purifies every human spirit of its guilt as soon as it strives upwards, whether through its own experiences or through its voluntary efforts at improvement.”

“He who does not know the words of Jesus personally, but who seriously strives for the Truth and for ennoblement, often lives completely in harmony with the sense of these words, and will surely attain to pure faith and the forgiveness of his sins.”

“The Saviour’s work of redemption was to take up the battle with Darkness in order to bring Light to mankind, to open the way to the forgiveness of all sins. But each one must tread this path alone in accordance with the irrevocable Laws of the Creator.”

“The grain of Truth in the doctrine of suffering is that with this suffering a certain guilt may be redeemed. This can only happen, however, when a man consciously recognises that he deserves this suffering, as did the penitent thief on the cross.”

“It is foolish to talk of reverses of fortune or of trials.”

“As soon as he honestly wills he can hopefully and gladly begin with it, free from all worry!”

“At any moment you can set out on your way to the Height and make good the past, whatever it may be!”

“God's Mercy is so great that He allows wonder upon wonder to arise, so that the help for mankind in the Millennium may be absolutely complete!”

“Do not despair, lament or complain when you sometimes fall!”

“Awake and expand, you human spirits, make room for upward flight.”

“If he can look up with confidence to God no harm will come to him.”

“Help will only come to him when he himself longs for it.”

“Birth gives each individual the possibility to advance a mighty step upwards.”

“If you would only open your eyes, instead of despairing!”

“To be natural, however, means to ascend, to strive upwards, following the attraction of the Living Power.”

“Whatever you then still encounter is for your own good and brings you nearer to the hour of redemption, of liberation.”

““Let us recognise evil at all costs, even at the cost of suffering! Enable us to do so through Thy reciprocal actions whenever we err.” In the recognising also lies the redeeming for those of goodwill!”

“Genuine faith lies only in conviction, and conviction comes solely through an inflexible weighing and examining!”

“Many then believe that in such places faith must act as a substitute for the failure of logical reasoning.”

“Is it not blindness to oppose this so obstinately while everyone, including these stubborn repudiators themselves, confirms and acknowledges the existence of this Power?”

“What is it that prevents them from calling this acknowledged Power God?”

“If the parents and children are linked by special bonds of love, confidence and friendship, it is so much the nicer for both, for then it is a voluntary tie born of inner conviction, and therefore all the more precious.”

“Faith must be a living thing, that is to say, it must become even more than conviction, it must become a deed!”

“Real faith can only arise when a man has made the contents of the Divine Messages completely his own, and thereby turned them into a spontaneous, living conviction.”

“Only a free conviction has real life and can therefore create living values!”

“In plain words, true faith must be a power which, radiating from the spirit of man, permeates his flesh and blood and so becomes something quite natural – nothing artificial or forced, nothing studied, but normal life!”

“Blind faith will always remain synonymous with lack of understanding, and therefore it can never equal conviction, nor can it bring liberation and redemption!”

“Faith must be alive, as Christ already once demanded, otherwise it serves no purpose.”

“Faith is not meant to be the cloak generously covering all slothful thinking, which like a sleeping-sickness gradually steals over and paralyses the spirit of man!”

“Every miracle is an absolutely natural happening, only occurring with exceptional speed and concentrated power.”

“When it is said that we are to trust in our Saviour, this means that we are to trust in His words, to let His words come to life in deeds!”

“It is a sacred moment when the human spirit wishes to cast itself in supplication or gratitude before the Steps of God’s Throne!”

“Therewith the Lord’s Prayer, if it is really experienced, will become the support and the staff for ascent into the Spiritual Realm!”

“A short moment of honest heartfelt gratitude is much better than praying for hours what you have learned by heart, and which you could not in any case follow with your intuitive perception.”

“Give them your hand in joy and gratitude and listen to their admonishing, which is part of your conscience!”

“Approach Him in solemn moments with a sacred intuitive perception, and pour out before Him what your spirit can bring up in the way of gratitude!”

“If you begin your day with truly heartfelt gratitude to God, and if you also finish it with equally heartfelt gratitude, be it only gratitude for the lesson you have learned on this day through experiencing, you live well!”

“The gratitude really felt intuitively is a compensatory value willed by God, which mediates the counter-value to whomsoever gratitude is due.”

“Through diligence and care let everything you do arise as a prayer of gratitude!”

“Nature in its perfection according to the Laws of Creation is the most beautiful gift that God presented to His creatures!”

“To be happy in the truest sense is indeed the greatest thanks which you can give to God.”

“Thank the Lord for this and joyously take up the gifts which lie ready for you everywhere in Creation!”

“When genuine gratitude is uttered the reaction will come in any case.”

“Be simple in your thoughts and deeds; for greatness and also strength lie in simplicity!”

“Everything which is real is simple, but this simplicity is experienced by men in a thousandfold ways.”

“Only now and then does it happen that prayers of thanksgiving ascend which really come from the heart.”

“Remember this at all times, and thank Him with every breath which you are allowed to take through His boundless Love!”

“The average man, strange to say, rarely values what he calls his own, but always only that which he does not yet possess.”

“See that you are truly alive in the wonderful Creation of your God!”

“However, not only on account of fear shall you turn to the Heights, but also pure joy as well as happiness and gratitude can well up within you with the same strength!”

“Realise in pure joy that through your simple, good-willing intuitive perceiving and thinking you are able without effort to guide the one and mighty Power of Creation.”

“You earthmen are in this Creation to find supreme happiness!”

“Happy are all those who adjust themselves to this Message with an open mind and a free heart!”

“For through the right adjustment only happiness, joy and further progress can arise!”

“You will learn to value every single second as precious and, above all, learn to use them for your ascent to joyful existence and purest happiness!”

“In the future he will live only to the joy of his fellow-men, just as they will to his joy, and he will not always carry about envious desires for what he does not yet possess.”

“Live accordingly, and you will then be happy and wander upwards into the Luminous Gardens of your God, there to help in joyful activity with the further and eternal development of this Creation!”

“God does not want dull submission from men, but joyful activity.”

“Cheerful, hearty laughter is the strongest antidote to darkness.”

“Rejoice that all around you lives, far away to regions that seem immeasurable!”

“If only you adjust yourselves aright this power will forcibly bring sunshine and happiness into your lives.”

“To believe without understanding is just indolence, mental laziness!”

“Look at the innumerable books: They do not animate, they only weary the human spirit!”

“He must try to understand them; for otherwise he opens wide the door to errors, and with errors the Truth is always debased.”

“Again, on the other hand, people imagine they are so self- reliant, so independent, that they can do everything themselves, and with a little effort even become Divine.”

“Only a complete understanding, free of any gaps, is synonymous with conviction, which alone has spiritual value!”

“The knowledge of Creation, spiritual knowledge, is the real purport of all life!”

“A mature or clarified person can very easily be recognised, for he stands in the Light and avoids all that is dark!”

“Only in simplicity of thought and action does greatness lie and power develop, for simplicity alone strives towards the Primordial Laws of Creation and harmonises with them!”

“You who are striving for recognition, do not entangle yourselves in a web, but become seeing!”

“Where there is no humility there is also never true knowledge!”

“Always look into the household of this Creation and you will know how you have to arrange your life on earth!”

“True knowledge need not be incomprehensible, for at the same time it holds the capacity, indeed the inherent desire, to express itself in simple terms!”

“The privilege of being endowed with the ability to think also brings man the duty to investigate!”

“Even knowledge is of no avail where understanding is lacking.”

“Conviction, however, can only arise through complete understanding, and understanding in turn presupposes deep reflection and personal examination.”

“You will yet learn to recognise the value of everything; for what men have so far called knowledge is hardly the hundredth part of what they really could know.”

“Men indeed have the word, but not the understanding of it!”

“How often does the most simple person hit unswervingly on the right thing with an expression of the intuitive perception!”

“Just for that reason it is not really correct to speak of Commandments. Rather they are very well-meant advice, pointing out the right way through the World of Matter, with which the human spirits themselves wished to become acquainted.”

“You see that all the Commandments are only the best friends for men, to protect them faithfully from evil and from suffering!”

“Vanity will never permit the recognition of the Truth, no matter where it is to be found.”

“Absorb such words as they are truly meant to be absorbed, not as appears convenient to you and suits your stubborn volition.”

“Genuine experiencing can naturally always only come through conviction, never otherwise!”

“In its pure form the Truth should bring mankind to awakening and recognition, thus to purity and truthfulness of character, and finally to ascent towards the Light.”

“Truth, however, remains always the same, it does not change, for it is eternal!”

“The truth is intended for all men without exception, for they issue from it, as the truth is an integral part of the sphere of spiritual substantiality, the point of origin of the human spirit.”

“The guarantee of truth lies only in the simple naturalness of things!”

“Wherever there is Truth, which is always characterised by naturalness and consistency, thinking and deep intuitive sensing automatically set in.”

“Devote yourselves to the original, true sense of beauty, and then you can never err!”

“To be natural means to listen attentively to one's inner voice and not forcibly to disregard its warnings!”

“Examine yourselves seriously and with an honest confession!”

“Let us return to simplicity in thinking! Otherwise no one can fully grasp that which is great and can thus never attain to it! Think as simply as children!”

“Every action remains always and only what it really is, and not what man wishes to make himself and others believe it is!”

“Wherever restlessness arises, there the irrefutable proof is thus given that the spirit has been asleep and wants to awaken.”

“It is all right when a person has once had an inner experience, but not enough is achieved with that alone. He must not stagnate there but unswervingly stride onwards – he must keep alert in spirit!”

“For God is God! And how you approach Him in your inmost self, that alone is decisive for the strength and genuineness of your belief!”

“Being rushed along with the enthusiasm of the masses is of no use whatever to the individual.”

“The Name awakens and gathers the concept in man! Whoever dishonours a name and dares to debase it, thereby debases the concept!”

“It is not the outward form of church rites, baptism and so much else that matters! The inner man alone has to stand before the Judgment!”

“Spiritual bread immediately refreshes, Truth revitalises and Light animates!”

“Both sorrow and joy are constantly rapping at the door to encourage and arouse man to awaken spiritually.”

“Man must awaken from his comfortable indolence to become at last what he should have been from the beginning – one who is bent on furthering Creation and a mediator of Light to all creatures!”

“You, however, who no longer wish to sleep, who are fervently seeking and striving for the Truth, take note of this and seek to grasp it properly: There is but one God, but one Power!”

“The existence of God, of Power, of Light, i.e., of Life, alone inevitably brings into being the Creations, for the Living Light, the Living Power, cannot but radiate!”

“Light, however, possesses a lightness corresponding to its purity, which makes it impossible for the Light to descend to the level of Darkness.”

“In the human word there shall be a reflection of the splendour of the Word of God, which is Life and will eternally remain Life.”

“Radiant light! Dazzling purity! A blissful feeling of lightness!”

“Everything must finally turn towards the Light, and for this man is the mediator!”

“Picture to yourselves Divine Love! Crystal clear, radiant, pure and great!”

“Through Creation God also speaks, and clearly shows His Will. To recognise this Will is the duty of man.”

“Divine Messages are received through the Word of God and also through His Creation. Everything bears witness to Him and to His Will.”

“Light shall be everywhere, also among all the errors of mankind so that they may now recognise truthfulness.”

“The more the true worship of God breaks through the more natural will man become in all he does, even in his most simple movements. He then swings in honest gratitude to his Creator and enjoys the blessings in the purest form.”

“Omnipresence might perhaps be even better interpreted with the words: always present! Always to be found if one seeks.”

“The real worship of God does not show itself in ecstasy, in murmuring prayers, in begging, kneeling, and wringing one’s hands, nor in blissful shuddering – but in joyful activity!”

“When a thought suddenly strikes you, keep it back, do not utter it at once, but nourish it; for it will condense through being retained in silence, and gain strength like steam under counter-pressure.”

“They certainly accepted the "pray", but refused to acknowledge that this was also coupled with "and work" - "work on yourself".”

“Watch and pray, therefore, that you do not let your clear outlook be dimmed by vanity and conceit, the most dangerous snares for these earthmen!”

“Prayer must be the unfolding of your spirit at the feet of God in veneration, praise and gratitude for everything He grants you out of His great Love.”

“Surely you have often noticed how wonderful and refreshing is the mere quiet presence of every person from whose eyes there emanates now and then a childlike glow!”

“Every single hour of the present must become a real experience for a human being, sorrow as well as joy!”

“If he does not live in the present he cannot mature, for maturing depends on experiencing only!”

“Empty yourselves of thoughts, and set free within you the urge for what is noble and good.”

“Man should not forget that when praying he need only obtain the strength to enable him to bring into being himself what he is praying for!”

“The fervour with which he prays determines the power, i.e. the vitality and effectiveness of the prayer.”

“A prayer which is seriously and deeply felt will be attracted to and itself attract those of similar nature, and come into contact with a power-centre of a kind identical to the main theme of the prayer.”

“The man who in a really fervent prayer seeks help for something, obtains connection through his attitude with that sphere from which help can be proffered.”

“Do not think of prayer as pleading, but as worship – worship and veneration!”

“The best foundation for a prayer which may be expected to have effect lies in those moments of spontaneous thankfulness arising out of great happiness or of deepest pain resulting from heartfelt grief.”

“Only the present is what counts for you, for it is the present which really “is” for a human spirit.”

“Bear in mind that a prayer is not synonymous with a request! Otherwise there would be no prayer of thanksgiving, which contains no request! To pray does not mean to beg!”

“In joy or need, an ardent intuitive perceiving without words remains far more valuable than a thousand spoken prayers, even if this intuitive perceiving lasts only a fraction of a second.”

“The hour of rest should lead you to hold quiet self-communion in your thinking and intuitive perceiving, to review your earth-life up to the present, especially always the past working days of the last week, and to draw practical applications from them for your future.”

“Consider that prayer is not the same as petition! Otherwise there would certainly be no prayer of thanksgiving, which contains no petition. To pray is not to beg.”

“You are meant to be human beings, not hothouse plants which through one-sided cultivation succumb to the first puff of wind!”

“Then for you they will be like the keenest sword in your hand, with which you can slay all Darkness if you but will.”

“He who wavers and falls, he who cannot keep himself upright therein, will be dragged along, because the machinery does not halt for his sake even for a single second.”

“And to be able to stand upright again demands increased exertion, and still more effort is needed to find the necessary balance again.”

“The power of good volition forms a circle around you capable of disintegrating the evil pressing upon you, or at least of greatly modifying it, exactly as the atmosphere also protects the earth.”

“If you guide the Power of God to the good, it remains undimmed in its original purity and thereby develops a much greater force, whereas with the dimming into the impure a weakening takes place at the same time.”

“Awake, and present a fighting front to all Darkness, then you will also be given strength to help you.”

“With the pride that becomes every child of God fearlessly face every man!”

“A laurel wreath to all those who had the courage to refrain from joining the masses!”

“The strong one pursues his path unswervingly and unerringly amid all dangers.”

“For every good person needs an impetus here and there, and a force from outside, in order to be strengthened.”

“There is nothing that is great or sublime which has not in the beginning incurred the enmity of mankind.”

“An arm can only grow strong if it is constantly exercised! If there is any relaxation in this respect it must weaken. And so it is with every body and every spirit!”

“Onward, only onward, proceeding with all his strength! To remain stationary means to stay behind.”

“As soon as you have resolved to escape from the collapsing Darkness which embraces you firmly and pulls you down into the depths, there already comes like a flash with this resolution a Ray of Light and of strength to help you!”

“Man must not forget that in a prayer he actually only has to obtain the strength to enable him to bring into being himself what he asks for!”

“He who bears within himself the firm volition for what is good, and strives to give purity to his thoughts, has already found the way to the Highest!”

“Therefore you yourself must take the first step in everything.”

“Neither protection nor intervention can help in this, because the decision lies with you.”

“Where something is built on these living Laws of Creation, there they help, bring success and also continuity.”

“The more you can achieve in Creation from out of Creation the more clearly do you prove how great are the Laws of God therein, and what wealth and blessing they hold for you.”

“Only one great driving power can help you upwards, your strong volition towards that which is good and sublime.”

“No child learns to walk without frequently tumbling, but it almost invariably gets up with a smile until it is able to walk in safety.”

“With an earnest volition every path will finally lead to the goal!”

“Nothing is achieved by mere “desiring”, it brings no advance. There must be a volition which impels and carries it into action.”

“Whatever you do, man, do it with your whole heart! Work during your working hours, and rest during the necessary time of rest!”

“The Creator has placed everything in Creation into your hands. Make use of the time!”

“Movement alone assures progress and preservation for everything that is to be found in Creation.”

“Old age forms no obstacle, but is a spur! For in old age the hour of passing over comes visibly closer!”

“The Law of Development in this Creation does not tolerate any jumps when genuine maturity is to be attained.”

“A human spirit must have a thousandfold experiences if he really wishes to mature to a higher recognition!”

“In calm weather only the ripe fruit fall, but during storms the unripe fruit also fall.”

“The vicissitudes in man's existence only occur in the between time, in the period of inner growth and maturing.”

“Life on earth is like one step in the entire existence of a man, but so great that he cannot omit it. Unless he sets his foot firmly and securely on this step, it will be quite impossible for him to ascend to the next one, for he needs the first as a foundation!”

“Only through the complete and absolute fulfilment of each step to be experienced can the next higher one develop itself.”

“It is right to think of the past in order to learn the lessons it teaches, and also to dream of the future to receive encouragement therefrom, but in the present one must do nothing but live fully and consciously!”

“Do not expect blessings to rain down upon you immediately, as many fools do.”

“Man on earth makes one great mistake when seeking for spiritual knowledge: he wants to strive forward with leaps and bounds instead of proceeding step by step in calmness and sure certainty.”

“Zeal is also harmful, for it induces one to make jumps that paralyse the powers.”

“For a precocious child is like a fruit the kernel of which is still unripe, whereas the shell is already about to grow old!”

“As soon as a person’s serious volition to ascend sets in, however, he will quickly notice how his surroundings become gradually more and more animated, as if everything possible were being put in his way which, however, always turns out well.”

“And just as here on earth you only tread a new, hitherto unfamiliar path with care, investigating it, so must you cautiously proceed step by step also on the new spiritual paths which open before you, in order always to keep firm ground under your feet. You must not rush ahead, for then the danger of falling is greater.”

“God's Laws in Creation are in truth simply all that every man needs for a healthy, happy life in Creation.”

“Man on earth should cherish his body as property entrusted to him, and strive to achieve healthy harmony between spirit and body.”

“During its life on earth the spirit positively needs a strong and healthy body in a normal physical condition, in order completely to fulfil the purpose of its existence.”

“If you wish to be healthy you must care for your body and your spirit, that is to say, keep them in strict activity!”

“Only when his individual swinging and alertness keep pace with the prevailing movement in Creation, only then can he remain healthy, hearty and happy.”

“Many people are only brought to an awakening and to activity through suffering.”

“To be rooted in one's native soil is a basic condition and alone guarantees health, strength and maturity!”

“The process of dying in itself is nothing but birth into the Ethereal World, similar to the process of birth into the Gross Material World.”

“There are moments when you too can fully perceive the nearness of your God, as often happens in times of deepest sorrow and greatest joy!”

“The light does not come closer of its own accord, but it is there! The soul can enjoy it at any time, if it humbly and earnestly wishes to do so.”

“From the very beginning He has shown His Mercy in all the great possibilities placed freely at the disposal of human spirits in Creation.”

“It is not at all necessary that a man must suffer if he strives towards the Light!”

“Nobody thinks of tending his body carefully as long as it causes him no pain. However, it is just the care of the healthy body which is an urgent necessity.”

“A mature spirit will always respect his body as the necessary implement for the achievement of his earthly maturity, and he will not abuse it senselessly.”

“Creation gives man everything he needs for his earthly body, and also gives it in the proper sequence and at the right time.”

“All the more should it be recognised as a mercy of the Creator when here and there He endows individual human beings with special powers which they can use for the benefit of suffering humanity.”

“On no account does God demand that something be honoured which does not also absolutely deserve to be honoured!”

“Everything you do not use zealously in the right way must gradually become stunted and lost to you!”

“Having changed inwardly man also sees everything differently, as the popular saying goes!”

“Become free in spirit, which means nothing else than let the spirit within you have its way! Then it simply cannot do other than journey towards the height; for its very nature draws it upwards with all certainty.”

“Movement is the main commandment for everything that lies in this Creation, for Creation developed out of movement, and is maintained and renewed by movement.”

“The moment a man begins to exert his good volition he also marks the end of his obligation to make atonement, which he must fulfil and can never escape.”

“Cast off all the torment caused by thoughts, and trust instead in your spirit, which will surely find the right way if you yourselves do not wall it up.”

“Continuous development through movement is a law in the Will of God and can therefore never be circumvented without ill effect.”

“Man must bestir himself if he wishes to reach the Luminous Heights. Paradise awaits him, but it does not come down of itself unless he strives for it.”

“To strive does not mean just to think, to plead and to beg as you are doing today, to strive means to act, to exert oneself to get there!”

“You must exert yourselves, exert yourselves honestly and with great diligence, so as to be able to come up again on to healthy ground!”

“Indeed, temptation can only strengthen you if your attitude is right; under the compulsion of the necessary resistance it will kindle your spirit to become more glowing and burst into flames, and thus is bound to bring you great benefit.”

“Arouse your spirit, and begin to think and speak in a far-seeing and comprehensive way!”

“Man must now become new in everything, new and strong within himself!”

“You must build up entirely anew. What is old will fall away of itself.”

“From the ground up there must be a complete newness, which grows and becomes strong out of simplicity and humility.”

“If in the meantime the person concerned has changed inwardly to such an extent that something better than the original action came to life in him, then the reaction of that original type cannot gain a firm foothold.”

“As soon as you try to find a transition you will never become free of what has hitherto prevailed, but it will ever again tenaciously drag you back. It can only be easy for you if you sever all the old with one slash, and thus step before the new without any old burden.”

“If he works diligently on himself he will mount upwards spiritually, as well as in the earthly sense.”

“Hampered by indolence of the spirit, this expression is not perceived intuitively enough to be properly grasped.”

“The road which in any case you must follow one day will only be lengthened thereby.”

“Where man's knowledge cannot take him any further he must come to a spiritual standstill.”

“After all, no one can walk and go forward along a road containing great yawning clefts.”

“The spirit does not stand in the world of matter without a purpose, and therefore a healthy body will give it the best help wholly to fulfil the purpose of developing itself and simultaneously furthering Creation.”

“Listen, you who seriously aspire to Light and to Truth: Each individual must inwardly experience the way to the Light, he must discover it himself if he wishes to be sure of the way.”

“You must absorb every Message from God quite naturally and interweave it in a practical manner into your work, your thoughts and your whole life!”

“Strive for the ability to enter the spiritual realm as fully matured spirits, you earthmen!”

“The man who has toiled over things which can offer no basis for his necessary ascent has wasted his time and his strength.”

“A life full of work but without any spiritual aim, for instance, is of no avail!”

“Life on earth must be really experienced if it is to have any purpose!”

“However, a man can only experience seriously what at any particular time he regards as his real life's task.”

“One goal must henceforth dominate every man – to recognise and also to fulfil the place he, as a human being, must occupy in Creation!”

“It is man’s duty on earth to set himself the highest attainable goal, and to strive for this goal with all the powers at his disposal.”

“Every Sabbath Day will thus become a milestone on your way, which will also retroactively give the days of your gross material activity that value which these should have for the maturing of your soul.”

“You are free to decide, but you are then irrevocably subject to the consequences of your thoughts, of your volition!”

“When you have at last perceived Creation as a complete whole, as it is, and do not separate this world from the beyond, then you have found the direct path, the true goal draws nearer and the ascent gives you joy and satisfaction.”

“Therefore never hope for anything else as fruit than always and only the same kind as the seed!”

“If all has been done in self-sacrificing love without thought of any reward, the reward must come as a result of reciprocal action.”

“Try never to forget here that all the consequences of your thoughts always fall back upon you in proportion to the power, importance and extent of the effect of the thoughts for good or evil.”

“Blessing can only descend upon him who fully and completely adjusts himself to the Will of God, which bears Creation in its Natural Laws.”

“Only at the beginning of every matter is man free to resolve, free to decide where the Omnipotent Power flowing through him is to be guided, in what direction.”

“Man must never forget that he stands in the work of God, that he himself is part of this work, and thus unconditionally subject to its Laws!”

“Through an Eternal Law you are burdened with an irrevocable obligation to make atonement, which you can never cast upon others.”

“Just as the harvest yields a multiple of the seed, so man always receives back greatly multiplied what in his own intuitive perceptions he awakens and sends out, according to the nature of his volition.”

“For what a man sows that shall he reap, as Jesus Himself said in His Message! Divine Justice does not permit one farthing to be remitted.”

“It is the Will of God that man should absolutely develop an individuality of his own, with the most pronounced awareness of his responsibility for his thoughts, volition and actions!”

“Reward and punishment for man lie in the weaving of Creation, which is perpetually and unswervingly guided by the Will of God Itself. In it also lies rejection or redemption! It is relentless and just, always impartial, never arbitrary.”

“With His Will God spans everything, maintains everything, and furthers everything from out of the Living Law which brings to each individual that which he deserves, i.e., that which he wove for himself.”

“The decision to think in a good or evil way lies with man, and he can thus guide the Divine Power to good or evil purpose!”

“If the activity of the feeling is guided by the intuitive perception, all thinking and doing is filled only with beauty, balance, and ennoblement.”

“The foundation for the upbuilding of a new humanity, which you cannot and must not evade, rests in the one sentence: Keep the hearth of your thoughts pure!”

“Beware of confused thoughts, of all shallowness in thinking.”

“You will only be led upwards by all the threads created by your thinking, volition and actions.”

“An evil volition presses the spirit down and makes it heavy, whereas a good volition uplifts it.”

“Do not therefore waste the power of thinking, but gather it for defence and for keen thinking, which goes forth like spears and affects everything.”

“Try it, for your thoughts are the messengers you send forth, which return heavily laden with similar thought-forms, good or evil as the case may be.”

“It is therefore necessary repeatedly to call out to all true seekers: “Give heed to the purity of your thoughts!””

“Keep the hearth of your thoughts pure and then, above all, exercise the great power of silence if you wish to ascend.”

“The words you form, the sentences, shape your outward fate on this earth.”

“Through your wishes, your thinking and your volition you are able to poison this world and the beyond, or you may purify and uplift them towards the Light.”

“Each one of you is establishing his own kingdom in such a way that it will either uplift you or bury you beneath its ruins.”

“Dull brooding is a waste of power, it is like a swamp, a clammy mire which paralysingly clutches and suffocates all within its reach. But a brisk cheerfulness tears apart the spell of brooding.”

“The instinct is merely awakened and guided by the thoughts! Man can very easily observe with himself that the instinct does not stir, cannot stir when the thoughts for it are lacking!”

“You are answerable for the smallest, most careless thinking; for it causes harm even in the Ethereal World.”

“If he looks around with open eyes, and also studies himself at the same time, he will soon recognise that the faults which most disturb him in others are very strongly marked in himself and a cause of annoyance to his neighbours!”

“Only that which he himself enters into with his intuitive perception, thereby bringing it to personal experience within himself, will be useful to him in the maturing of his spirit.”

“Unfortunately, however, man has acquired the morbid habit of always reaching beyond himself, because he imagines himself to be more than he actually is!”

“The continued concentration of his thoughts upon himself is a form of self-torment.”

“The fact remains that a man who gets excited about this or that fault in another person is sure to have these same faults to a far greater extent within himself!”

“There are people who excuse many of their faults, even to themselves, as being due to their temperament! That is wrong!”

“All that a man does he does himself and of his own free will. Thus he is not being fettered, but he fetters himself.”

“It is just in his so-called leisure hours that you can best recognise the real inner man, when his daily work is done and he has lost the outer hold on life provided by his special field of knowledge.”

“Only a man of cheerful volition who keeps his gaze freely concentrated upon a sublime goal, instead of continually focusing all his attention upon himself, only he will advance and ascend towards the Luminous Heights.”

“Intellect is the highest of what is earthly, and is meant to be the steering element through life on earth, whereas the driving power is the intuitive perception, which originates in the Spiritual World.”

“The basis of the intellect therefore is the physical body, but the basis of the intuitive perception is the spirit.”

“Only certainty about the answer to that great question “What am I?” can lead to ascent!”

“Only when man actually becomes what he should be and ceases to cling to what he wishes to be can he speak of a true humanity!”

“The pictures of the intuitive perception are genuine and full of living power, while the pictures of the feeling, i.e., the imagination, are deceptions produced with borrowed power!”

“To carry the spirit within does not suffice to be a human being, for a creature does not become a human being unless it allows the spirit as such to work within!”

“Whoever allows the spirit to come to activity within himself can only walk on the path to the Light. This will ennoble and uplift him ever more, so that finally wherever he goes he will spread blessing around him!”

“Vanity has become the most powerful poison for the soul, because man has cherished it as a shield and mask for all his shortcomings.”

“The spirit must remain free in any case, because in the final analysis only the spirit is concerned!”

“Free yourself, and also joyfully help others to do likewise!”

“Never let yourselves be subjugated through enjoying, but take only what is necessary in life on earth for the maintenance and development of the good things entrusted to you.”

“Genuine freedom for each human spirit lies solely in humility!”

“True knowledge simultaneously brings humility into being as a matter of course!”

“Give yourselves to the Lord in your prayer, give yourselves entirely to Him and without reserve!”

“Man may and should gladly enjoy what God provides for him through His Creation!”

“Only he who knows the Will of God and lives accordingly is really free!”

“Whenever man says: “Thy Will be done!” it is tantamount to affirming: “I will honour and obey Thy Laws in Creation!””

“When it is said that a man should not cling to earthly possessions as soon as he strives towards the Kingdom of Heaven, this does not mean that he should give or throw them away and live in poverty.”

“God’s Laws in Creation are in truth simply all that every man needs for a healthy, happy life in Creation. They are, as it were, nourishment for his well-being!”

““Thy Will be done” actually means: “I will act according to It” or “I desire Thy Will!””

“To become free within, however, can only be achieved by each individual alone. Yet for this he must know what freedom means, what it is.”

“It is one of the most exalted Commandments, because it remains the one most necessary to man! Unfortunately, he is all too apt to yield to some propensity which finally enslaves him! But whatever he allows to become a propensity he therewith makes into a golden calf, which he sets in the highest place, and thereby also as a false deity or idol beside his God, very often even above Him!”

“In the end he will not be able to reap kindness where he felt hatred, nor joy where he nourished envy!”

“Slander can again only produce slander, hate only hate, and murder only murder.”

“Ignore the scoffers, who are still strangers to spiritual life.”

“Do not talk merely for the sake of talking. And speak only when, where and how it is necessary!”

“Heed your word! Let your speech be simple and true!”

“Temperaments which are well controlled and properly employed are like wearing good boots on the road through material substance on earth!”

“Carelessness will exact a bitter revenge; for it will speedily debase you to the level of a playground for alien influences, through which you very easily become sullen, moody and unjust to your surroundings.”

“You, however, are to become upbuilding ones in this Creation, not talkers!”

“Not one single evil thought will remain unexpiated, even when it has not developed into a physical deed!”

“The language is intended to serve man with power and as a sword in order to promote and protect harmony, not to spread suffering and conflict.”

“You must indeed always reap what you sow! Thus you must also reap everything you sow with your words, and through the manner in which you utter your words!”

“Evil cannot approach unless you call it! As you wish it, so will it happen to you!”

“Eschew all envy, the hatred towards those people who in your opinion possess much more than you yourselves!”

“Always bear in mind: Expressed according to our concepts, all that is spiritual is magnetic, and you also know that the stronger always overcomes what is weak through attraction, through absorption.”

“Not for nothing does the great Master exhort us: "Become like children!"”

“The word "childlike" is an expression which is in most cases wrongly applied by human beings in their careless and thoughtless manner of speaking.”

“Observation of your thoughts and feelings will soon prove to you that all real life can in truth only be spiritual life, in which alone the origin and also the development lie.”

“Become free in spirit, which means nothing else than let the spirit within you have its way!”

“The increasing luminosity of the spirit arises in turn from the purification and cleansing of the soul, if in the volition for the good it strives upwards.”

“Only that which is spirit bears within it from the very beginning onwards the power to make a free decision, and the resulting full responsibility.”

“In the regions of light every human soul will also meet other souls with ethereal bodies homogeneous to its own, those of a like nature.”

“Bear in mind that every life on earth is a short time of schooling, and that you yourselves do not cease to exist when you lay aside your physical body.”

“One power streams through this world and the beyond, everything lives and works from this one life stream, and is thus quite inseparably linked.”

“Only the works of the spirit from their very origin bear life within them, and with it permanence and stability.”

“You are not made for the purpose of remaining only in the gross material sphere; you are to make use of it, but not to consider it your home.”

“As only that which is truly noble and of genuine goodwill is able to strive upwards free from all base desires, such a human soul will only encounter other souls of equal nobility.”

“Death and birth are so closely linked because one is the result of the other.”

“Thus only a child who is pure within itself, and an adult who cultivates purity within himself, can have a childlike effect.”

“Childlikeness is the result of inner purity, or the sign that such a human being has submitted to Purity and serves It.”

“Purity is Divine, chastity its representation by the human spirit; thus a spiritual image, which can and should become evident in earthly conduct.”

“Become pure again and faithful in your thinking and your actions, and keep your entire volition firmly anchored in the Holiness of the Will of God!”

“The human being who lives in the ray of Divine Purity, who makes room for the ray of purity within himself, has thereby also become childlike, be it while still a child or later as an adult.”

“Each sacrifice becomes of genuine value only when conviction harmonises with duty.”

““He who in his actions always remembers not to harm his fellow-man who reposes trust in him, not to do anything that may later oppress him, will always act in such a way as to remain spiritually unburdened, and may therefore be called truly chaste!””

“There is no real loyalty without love, just as there is no true love without loyalty either.”

“The person who really strives towards the ideal can be recognised by his efforts to uplift existing things on earth, not in the intellectual sense of increasing power and position, but towards ennobling them.”

“Chastity is different from men’s idea of it, far more comprehensive and greater.”

“Blind obedience and blind fulfilment of duty are therefore of as little worth as is blind belief! Both are lacking life because they lack love!”

“True liberty lies only in the proper recognition of duties, to which their voluntary fulfilment is linked. Rights are only obtained by the fulfilment of duties.”

“Indeed Love is everything! Love is Justice and likewise Purity! There is no separation between these three. These three are one, and therein again Perfection rests.”

“Everything that is ugly in this world is really anchored in vanity, which expresses itself in a great variety of ways.”

“Beauty and grace are the expression of a pure human spirit in all its activity, which also includes the movements of the physical body.”

“The powers coming from a sphere beyond time and space may, however, only be received in simplicity, but can never be acquired by exertion.”

“The precious gem shines with greater purity and brilliance in a rugged hand discoloured by sweat and dirt, than in the well-cared-for fingers of a lazy idler who spends his time on earth only in contemplation!”

“A man’s property includes also his reputation, the esteem in which he is held in public, his thoughts, his individuality, as well as the confidence he enjoys from others, if not from all yet at least from this or that person!”