In the Light of Truth

20. The Last Judgement

The world — man often uses this word carelessly without ever A picturing to himself what this world he speaks of, is in reality. But again there are many who try to imagine something positive and see in their mind's eye numberless worlds, different in their components and size, circling on their appointed courses round their respective suns. They know that, in proportion to the improvements made in optical instruments, more and more new worlds are perceived. This the average man pleases to call infinity, and thus he starts from the beginning with an erroneous conception. The world is not infinite. The world is Creation, i. e. the work of the Creator and stands like all other works beside the Creator and is consequently finite.

The so-called advanced thinker often prides himself on possessing the knowledge that God rests in all Creation, in every flower, in every stone, and that the motive power in nature and in all that cannot be investigated, that which is felt but cannot be grasped by man, is God: That He is primeval Energy in permanent activity; a never failing, self-renewing bourne; that He is unsubstantiate Primigenous Light.

He considers himself mightily enlightened, in the consciousness of having discovered that God is the motive power, always at work to advance development and perfection.

This view is only right to a certain extent. What we meet everywhere in Creation is only His Will, that is to say His Spirit, His Power. He Himself stands far above Creation. Creation, being His work, the expression of His Will, was from the very first bound to the unalterable laws governing generation or the coming into being (or birth), and extinction (or death).

For what we call a law of nature is the Divine creative Will. This is continually at work forming and destroying worlds. Divine Will works uniformly in all Creation which embraces both the immaterial as well as the material world. All Creation as God's handiwork is not only limited as all work is, but also transient!

The absolute and unalterable uniformity of primeval law, thus of primeval Divine Will, necessitates and requires that events should proceed in exactly the same order whether in the case of the minutest physical or in the most stupendous cosmic phenomena or in the creating process itself.

The stringent form of Divine, primeval Will is plain and simple. When once we have recognised it, we can easily discover it everywhere.

The complexity and incomprehensibility of so many events is only due to the interlacing of the circuitous by-paths formed by the various intentions of man.

God's work, the world, being created, is subject to the unchangeable and perfect Divine laws. It has issued from them and thus is finite. Take for example, an artist: he also lives in his work and yet personally stands beside it. His work is finite and perishable, but his talent need not be so. The artist, the creator of the work — which was the expression of his intention — may destroy it, without himself being touched. He will still remain the artist. We discern the artist and recognise him in his work, and he becomes familiar to us without our having necessarily seen him personally. We have his works in which his intentions are expressed, and they affect us. He approaches us in them, and yet may be living his own life far away from us.

The artist and his work reflect vaguely the affinity of Creation to the Creator. Thus it is only the rotation of Creation, i. e. the process of coming into being, of passing away and of returning in a new form that is eternal and without end. All revelations and all prophecies are and will be accomplished in this way. And so also at last the Day of Judgment for this earth.

The Day of Judgment, the Last Judgment comes to each world once, but not to all the worlds in Creation at the same time.

It inevitably comes for each part or section of Creation in succession when this reaches a certain point in the great rotation where its disintegration must set in to allow reconstruction to begin afresh.

When we speak of this great eternal rotation, it is not the course of this earth and other stars round their respective suns that is meant, but the mighty rotation that embraces all the solar systems and in which they must join while each executes its own appointed work as well.

The point at which the disintegration of each globe is to take place, has been definitely decided by Divine laws and is a natural result of their operation. There is a special line of demarcation where this process is to begin and the process is quite independent of the condition of the globe in question and of its inhabitants. Each globe is being driven ceaselessly towards this consummation by its own revolving motion and disintegration will set in without delay as soon as the hour strikes. But, like all else in Creation, this is but a transformation, a change affording opportunity for further development. That then will be the hour that decides every man's fate, i. e. the question is: to be or not to be? Either he will be raised towards the Light if he strives towards spirituality or he will be chained to matter, which is the case when he is convinced that only matter is of value. Then, as a result of the decision of his own free will he cannot detach himself and so matter will draw him along to destruction. That, then, is spiritual death. It means effacement from the Book of Life. This, in itself quite a natural process, is called eternal damnation, because he who is thus doomed to decomposition, must cease to be. He becomes dust and mingles with the primeval elements permeating them with spirit. He will never again become personal — the most dreadful fate that can befall man. He is the stone the builders rejected for their spiritual edifice, and thus has to be ground to dust.

The separation of spirit from matter, the perfectly natural consequence of the working of the law, is the so-called Day of Judgment — a day that will bring great disturbances, convulsions and upheavals. Every one will easily understand that this disintegration cannot take place in one earth-day, for it is written: “One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”

But we are now in the beginning of this period. The earth is now approaching that point, when it will diverge from its habitual course; and this will make itself very evident materially as well as immaterially. Then the separation of all men, which has for some time been preparing, but till now, has only evidenced itself in expressed opinions and convictions, will declare itself more explicitly.

Hence every hour of human life is more precious than it ever was. He who wishes seriously to seek and to learn, must with all his energy forcibly free himself from all base ignoble manner of thinking which would chain him to the earth, else he runs the danger of remaining attached to matter and of hastening with it to destruction. Those, who, however, strive towards the Light, gradually become detached and are finally uplifted to the abiding-place of all spiritual life. Then the break between Light and Darkness will be perfect and Judgment passed.

The world, that is to say all Creation, will not thereby be destroyed, the heavenly bodies will not be subjected to a process of disintegration till each in its turn, has reached the point at which it has to set in. For the earth this process has already begun and is pushing forward with immense strides. The consummation is being brought about in the natural order of things by the agency of the Divine laws, which from the very beginning formed a part of the world and were also accessory in its creation, and which now, and in the future, continue unremittingly to carry out the Creator's intentions. In the great rotation there follows, in everlasting succession: dissemination of fresh germs, then the maturing and reaping of the harvest and finally dissolution in order that by changing the combination of the constituents, other forms may evolve to join the next rotation with renewed vigour.

In considering this process of rotatory movement in Creation one may fancy a gigantic funnel or cave of immaterial substance from which an incessant stream of immaterial primeval germs issue and which, in constant rotation, seek to enter into new unions and to develop. Science has recognised and rightly described this same process when it tells us that material nebulae condense and combine by friction to form celestial bodies, which, in obedience to Divine laws, group themselves into solar systems, which again, whilst themselves revolving, pursue their appointed course in the great revolution that is eternal.

The process we see with our physical eyes in the vegetable and animal kingdoms (as also in human bodies) of how the seed-germ develops, is fashioned, matures and is either harvested or perishes (which entails a change, a disintegration in favour of further development) is exactly the same as that in great cosmic happenings. The visible, celestial bodies, surrounded as they are by a far larger invisible, ethereal environment, are subject to the same phenomena in their eternal rotation because these same laws operate in them. The most fanatical sceptic does not deny the existence of primordial seed, yet this cannot be perceived by human eyesight as it is of a different nature. Let us call it ethereal substance. It is quite comprehensible that the first world that formed from this substance was likewise ethereal and therefore invisible to the physical eye. Later on it deposited a sediment of denser substance out of which, in the course of time, a world of dense matter with its physical bodies evolved which remained in close connection with and dependent on the ethereal world. It was not till then that the human eye, with the help of physical instruments could investigate its phenomena back to the first minutest beginnings. Whether it is a question of molecules or electrodes, etc., it will always be the material sediment of ethereal phenomena which long before has taken shape and life.

And so it is with the veils or coverings of the ego of man of which I will speak later on. In his wanderings through the different worlds he must have a cloak, shell, body, or tool that is of the same nature, texture or substance as the surroundings into which he steps, to protect him and to help him in case he wants to take an active part in these surroundings. As the material world evolved from the ethereal world and is dependent on it, it follows that whatever happens in the material world reacts on the ethereal world.

Original primitive seed produced this immense environment of immaterial substance. It takes part in the eternal rotation and is finally driven towards the one end of the gigantic funnel described above, which absorbs it. Then dissolution sets in and the disintegrated parts are ejected at the other end of the funnel to recommence rotating as primordial seed on the other side.

It is the same as the action of the human heart and the circulation of the blood. The funnel can be likend to the heart of Creation. Thus all Creation inclusive of the immaterial part is subject to dissolution as all disintegrates and revolves itself into primordial seed in order to form anew. There is nothing arbitrary in this, all evolves naturally in compliance with primeval laws which do not admit of any other course. Hence, at a certain point in the great rotation, the moment comes when dissolution sets in for all that is created whether material or ethereal. A process which has been preparing independently and sets to work automatically. This ethereal world (so closely connected with the material world that together they form one domaine) is the intermediary region where the departed sojourn for a while and which is generally called the next world.

At his death man passes into this world in his ethereal body which he has had together with a material body in his life on earth, leaving the latter behind.

This ethereal world, the next world, belonging, as it does, to Creation, is subject to the same laws of development and dissolution. When dissolution sets in, in the natural course of things the same separation of spirit and matter takes place there. According to the spiritual state of man in the material as well as in the ethereal world, his spirit or ego must either tend upwards or remain chained to matter. The first serious yearning for truth and light will, in virtue of the change it works in him, make the man spiritually purer and lighter, so that this circumstance will naturally detach him more and more from dense matter and must uplift him in proportion to his spiritual purity and light. He, however, who believes only in matter, remains bound to it by his conviction and thus cannot be uplifted. By virtue of an independent act of will on the part of each individual, a separation takes place between those who aspire to the Light and those who are bound over to Darkness in accordance with the laws relating to spiritual gravitation.

This separation is the Day of Judgment!

Hence it is evident that the period granted those who have departed this life to purify themselves in the next world will surely also come to an end, that there also the last decisive sentence will be pronounced.

Whether he is in this world or in the next world, man must either be so advanced that he can be uplifted to the regions of Light, or he must remain in his base state, bound thereto by his own desire, and will at last be doomed to everlasting damnation, that is to say be hurried along together with the matter from which he cannot detach himself to dissolution; he will also feel this dissolution as a painful process. After this he will cease to exist as an individual. He will be scattered like chaff in the wind; he will fall to dust and be erased from the Golden Book of Life. The Last Judgment must, therefore, naturally, quite as a matter of course, be the result of the operation of the laws on which the universe rests; it could not be otherwise. Man only reaps the fruits of what he himself willed and brought about by his way of thinking.

It does not take from the sublimity of the Creator but rather adds to it to know that all that happens in Creation is strictly consistent and works automatically, that the direction in which a man's fate lies is always determined by himself alone, by his wishes and intention and further more that the Creator does not interfere to reward and punish. His greatness lies in the perfection of His work which compels us to reverential awe. Proofs of the greatest love and the most incorruptible justice we find in the greatest as well as in the minutest occurrence.

Man has also been awarded an eminent position in Creation, for he is master of his own fate. He has the power to lift himself above the work and by his will to add to its higher development or else to drag it down and to entangle himself so that he can no longer free himself from it on its way to dissolution; and this may be from the physical or from the ethereal world. Therefore, free yourselves from all ties resulting from base feelings; it is high time to do so for the day of grace is coming to a close. Awake in yourselves a longing for purity, truth and virtue! — Far beyond the plane of eternally rotating Creation there is a floating island like a crown, an azure island, the abode of the blessed, of the pure spirits who may already dwell in the regions of Light. Because this island is separate from the world, it does not join in the rotation. Still, in spite of its altitude, it is the fountain and centre of outstreaming spiritual force. On the most elevated part of this island lies the far famed city, with its streets of pure gold, the heavenly Jerusalem. There, nothing is subject to change, no Day of Judgment to be feared. Those who may sojourn there are at home. But the sublimest spot, the culminating point on this azure island, inaccessible to the uninitiated, is the Castle of the Holy Grail, of which the poets of old have sung. Encompassed by legends, the object of longing to so many, it stands bathed in glorious Light and harbours the sacred vessel, the Grail, the symbol of the pure Love of the Almighty.

None but the purest spirits, those who stand nearest to God's throne, are appointed to be its keepers. These are the bearers and transmitters of Divine Love in its purest form, very different from what man on earth understands by love, although he daily and hourly enjoys its blessings.

This Castle is the portal leading to the steps of the Throne of the Most High. No one can approach the steps without first passing through the Castle of the Grail. Before the golden gate, strict and relentless watch is ever kept to guard the purity of the Grail from contamination, so that it may pour out its blessings on all seekers unimpaired.

Tidings of this Castle were revealed and brought down stage by stage the long way from the Azure Island, till, after passing through the ethereal world, some few poets in our world were divinely inspired and could disseminate the tidings among men. In passing downwards, the truth, partly unintentionally, suffered much misrepresentation, so that the last version was but its dim reflection which again gave rise to many errors.

If now, from some quarter of God's Creation, visited by dire distress and trouble, urgent and desperate appeals arise to the Almighty, a servant of the sacred Vessel is sent forth, so that as bearer of this Divine Love, he may intervene and help man in his spiritual need. What only existed as a fable or legend is now animated with life and is entering Creation as a reality, as a living power!

Such envoys are not often sent. They are always accompanied by decisive changes and great convulsions. Thousands of years mostly lie between them. These envoys bring Light and Truth to the erring and Peace to the despairing; with their message they stretch forth their hands to those who are seeking and they gather all the faithful together to inspire them with fresh courage, to give them new strength and to lead them up through the Darkness to the Light. They only come for those who are yearning for help from the Light, not for scoffers nor for the self-righteous.

Let the coming of the next envoy from the Holy Grail be a sign to all seekers to make a mighty effort towards righteousness, let his advent be a warning that the inevitable Day of Judgment must come one Day. Happy is he who is not fettered to matter in that day so that he may be uplifted to the Light.

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