In the Light of Truth
Grail Message by Abdrushin
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23. Morality
It is as if a dense and heavy cloud were hanging over humanity. The very atmosphere is sultry. Man's intuitive faculties labour under a dead weight. Only those nerves which animate and nourish animal instincts and feelings are in a highly strung condition. They have been artificially excited by a mistaken and wrong training, based on wrong and deceptive premises.
The man of today is not normal in this respect. His sexual instincts are morbidly over-developed and he seeks in a hundred ways to establish a cult for them, to the destruction and ruin of the human race.
Infectious as the plague itself, this tendency gradually spreads to those who would still persistently cling to an ideal that dwells hidden away somewhere in their subconsciousness. They stretch forth their arms longingly to seize it, but with a sigh, they let them sink again in despair when they cast a glance at what is going on around them.
In utter helplessness, they look with horror at the rapidity with which the right discernment of morality is getting dulled and right judgment perverted. The standard of propriety changes so quickly that what met with disapproval and disgust yesterday, appears quite normal to day and does not even cause surprise. But the cup will soon be filled to the brim and then a terrible awakening must come.
The masses, with their over-excited animal instincts, are sometimes seized with shame. A momentary feeling of misgiving comes, but the effect is not strong enough to awaken them to a sense of their disgrace. After this feeling has passed they set to, with redoubled energy, to shake off what they call this “weak ness” or the “last relic of obsolete views”, if not to do away with the old customs altogether. Progress, cost what it will, is the cry of to day, but one can develop in two directions: upwards and downwards, as one chooses. At present the tendency is a downward one. Man is sinking, slipping with ever increasing rapidity to be utterly crushed eventually by the horrible concussion at the bottom, when the hour strikes for the final downfall.
In this sultry atmosphere the thunder-cloud gathers in density and looks more and more sinister. At any moment the first flash of lightning may be expected to sever the darkness. It will penetrate into the obscurest corner. It will light upon and clear up what is hidden, so as to set those free who long for the light, but to annihilate those who set their face against it. The longer the cloud has time to grow in darkness and intensity, the more dazzling and terrifying the lightning will be which the cloud has generated.
The enervating atmosphere which fostered the growth of sluggishness and sensuality will be dispelled by the first flash of lightning and give place to a current of fresh, bracing air, bringing new life with it. In the sober light of day, all abortions of a morbid imagination will be divested of their mask and stand naked before the eyes of horrified mankind. The awakening of the soul will be like the concussion of mighty thunder-clouds, after which the living water of truth will break forth and dash down the channel thus opened. The day of enlightenment is at hand and will free man from the spell that immorality has exercised over him for centuries and which has now reached its climax.
Look about you: the books that are read, the dances that are danced, and the dresses! The present time is more anxious than ever to defile the purity of the soul by tearing down all barriers between the sexes, by distorting moral sentiment and disguising it under misleading masks and, if possible, totally extinguishing them. If a misgiving arises, it is quieted by weighty arguments, which however, if examined closely, prove to be dictated by sexual instincts, whose aim it is, skilfully or unskilfully, openly or covertly, to find fresh means of satisfying men's appetites in countless ways.
They speak of the inauguration of a new age, of an untrammelled independent humanity, of the development of the power of resistance, training of the body, beauty of the nude, higher sport. They would train the young to make true the saying: “to the pure all is pure”, in a word they would remodel and advance the human race by repudiating all prudery and thus producing the free noble specimen of manhood who should reign in the future. Woe to him who would dare remonstrate! An outcry would be raised against such an audacious critic. Accusations such as: “only impure thoughts could cause him to see anything amiss in it” would be hurled at him.
It is a mad whirl-pool of foul water, which spreads a suffocating poisonous miasma around. The effect is like that of opium and causes hallucinations. Hundreds of thousands are attracted, let themselves be drawn into the eddy, and there, overcome by lethargy and numbness they perish. Brothers seek to enlighten their sisters, and children their parents. Like a spring-tide the frenzy sweeps over mankind. Here and there one who is prudent, one who is revolted at what he sees, remains firmly fixed like a rock and lets the water surge around him. And there are many, who, not having the strength to battle in the storm alone, cling to these.
What is now preached under the plausible plea of progress is nothing but covert encouragement of utter shamelessness, tending to poison the higher intuition in man.
It is the most dangerous pestilence that ever attacked mankind. And strangely enough, it seems as though many had only waited for a plausible excuse to lower themselves to the level of animals: countless people heartily welcome this state of things.
But he who knows the spiritual laws that govern the universe will turn away disgusted. Let us take one of the most “harmless” of modern entertainments: the mixed public bath. “To the pure all is pure”, — these words are so reassuring that people think they give them licence to indulge in various ways. But let us look at the situation as it presents itself to the inner, the ethereal eye. Let us assume that of thirty bathers of both sexes, twenty-nine were absolutely pure-minded. This is an impossible assumption to begin with, the reverse would be more probable, although it would rarely be the case that one out of thirty was absolutely pure-minded. But for argument's sake let us assume the thirtieth bather's thoughts have been rendered impure by what he has seen. Although his conduct has been irreproachable, his thoughts have immediately become living though invisible forms and have attached themselves to the object that gave rise to them, and, whether they are expressed or not, they defile that person. That person must now carry these impure thoughts about, and they, again, attract similar thoughts floating in the air; these gather ever denser and darker round that person till they confuse and poison their victim, as a creeper can destroy the healthiest tree. This is how the proceedings at open-air public baths, at games, sports and dances etc. appear in the ethereal world.
Now one can observe, that it is just those who seek to excite their feelings and their thoughts by such exhibitions, who go to these places of entertainment. How much gross indecency is thus bred without provoking remark (as nothing of its true face is seen on the surface), it would be hard to say. It is natural that this continuously increasing and condensing mass of sensual thought-forms must gradually influence multitudes, who, of themselves, do not seek such things. At first vague thoughts of a similar nature come to these people, which in time grow clearer and more concentrated and take life, as they are ceaselessly being nourished by the present methods in the pursuit of progress. Thus one after another, they glide along with the darksome muddy stream, gradually losing their very understanding for what is clean and pure, till finally all is drawn down into utter darkness.
The opportunities and enticements to indulge in these erotic abnormalities must first of all be done away with. They are but breeding centres for the filthy thoughts of the lascivious. These spring up luxuriantly and spread destruction among men and, forming new centres, which amalgamate into one enormous field of noxious weeds, give forth a poisonous stench, suffocating both good and evil together. Tear yourselves out of this whirlpool ! Like a deceptive narcotic it appears to brace, but in reality it relaxes and harms the system.
It is a grievous fact, but quite natural, that the female sex has been the first to break all fetters and to sink to the lowest possible grade of indelicacy, in the way they dress. This only proves that the explanation given above of what goes on in the ethereal world was right. Woman, having by nature the finer and more sensitive intuition, was the first, quite unconsciously, to absorb the pestiferous thought-forms of her invisible surroundings. She is more susceptible to this danger. She is the first to be led astray, and then she oversteps every limit. The saying is, “when a woman is bad, she is worse than a man”. And this is true in all cases of cruelty, hatred or love. What a woman does, will always be inspired by the invisible world around her. There are of course exceptions. She is not, on this account, however, free from responsibility, for she is always able to observe the influences at work on her and can guide her intentions and actions by her will-power. If she will! That the mayority of women fail to do this is a regrettable fault of the female sex and is only owing to their absolute ignorance in these things.
It is a great misfortune for the present time, that woman actually holds the future of her nation in her hands, for her psyche influences her descendants more decisively than does that of the male. This being so, what a sorry prospect does the future promise! Inevitable retrogression which nothing can stay, neither arms, nor money, nor inventions, nor goodwill nor diplomacy. More drastic measures must, therefore, be employed. This enormous burden of sin does not fall on the woman alone. She will always only be a true reflexion of those thought-forms which hover over her nation. That must not be forgotten. Respect and honour woman as such, and she will develop accordingly, she will become what you see in her, so in honouring her, you uplift your whole nation!
Before this can be, a great revolution must take place in woman. As she is now, she can only be cured by a radical operation, a compelling, inexorable force must interfere and, as with a sharp knife, remove all excrescences and cast them into the flames, lest they destroy the healthy parts.
The present time is hurrying faster and faster towards the hour for this necessary operation to be performed on all mankind, and it will come of itself, be painful, fearful, but then, at last, health will again be restored. Not until then will it be time to speak of morals. To do so today would be like speaking to the wind — the word would die away. But the hour will come when corrupt Babylon must fall. Then look at the female sex! What it does and what it leaves undone will always show you, as in a mirror, what you are yourself. In virtue of her finer intuition she lives what the thought-forms intend her to express.
This circumstance suffices to give us the assurance that the female sex will be the first to soar to that ideal that we look for in the coming generation. Morality will then be enthroned in all her purity.
