In the Light of Truth

24. Watch and pray!

How often one hears this utterance of the Son of God quoted as well-meant advice or warning. But neither the giver of the good advice nor the receiver thereof trouble to reflect on the purport of these words.

What is meant by to pray every man knows or rather he thinks he knows, but in truth he does not know. He also imagines he understands what to watch means, but he is far from doing so.

Watch and fray is an admonition (given in figurative speech) to keep in constant activity the capacity for sensing inwardly, by which is meant the activity of the spirit of man apart from all cooperation of the mind or brain. The human spirit being the core or nucleus of the ego which evolved in the course of its wanderings through the spheres or planes of Subsequent Creation, expresses itself by the inner voice and in no other way.

Watch and pray is the summons to man to subtilise and to amplify his capacity for inward sensing which is in other words, to stimulate the life of the spirit within him. This spirit alone is of permanent value, it alone can return to Paradise (Original Creation) from where it went forth. It will return either matured and self-conscious or it will have relapsed into its former state of unconsciousness; it will either be welcome to the Light as a unit which has been useful in Creation or rejected as a dismembered and lifeless ego which has proved itself useless.

Thus the admonition Watch and Pray is one of the weightiest the Son of God bequeathed to men. It is a grave warning to serve a purpose in Creation as otherwise men run the danger that the self-acting Divine Laws will exterminate them.

Look at woman! She has, as her most precious possession, a delicacy and subtlety of perception that no other creature can boast of. As she has the most powerful gifts to realise, to make true all that is good, it should by rights only be possible to speak of noble womanhood. And herein lies her superior responsibility. For this reason Lucifer, with all his hosts, in pursuance of his scheme to subjugate mankind, made her the principal point of his attack.

And, unfortunately, in the woman of Subsequent Creation, Lucifer found an easy field for his operations. With her eyes open, she flew into his meshes. Then she set to work after her fashion and poisoned all Creation. Pure conceptions were distorted to be unrecognisable, which necessarily resulted in confusing the human spirit. Noble womanhood, the pure flower, the crown of Subsequent Creation, soon debased itself to a poison-plant by giving ear to the Tempter. Its radiant colours, its seductive fragrance, attract all to the spot where it flourishes, namely the noisome swamp into which the victims, thus allured, sink.

Woe unto woman! She was the recipient of the highest of all spiritual gifts and she misused them! On her the sword of Divine Justice must first fall. The only alternative being that, in virtue of her peculiarly mobile spiritual impressibility, she should change and decide to put herself at the head of the necessary climb upwards that earth-man must now take, letting the deceptive erection of pernicious ideas, suggested by Lucifer, crumble to ruin. Instead of setting the example of honestly striving for the white blossom of noble purity and adorning herself with it as a jewel, she chose to indulge in coquetry and vanity for which she found an accomodating and suitable arena in the perverted customs and manners of so-called modern society. She was conscious of the fact that her doings were destroying what was the true beauty of her sex and greedily grasped at the substitute offered her in, the suggestions of the Dark Powers and, becoming the brainless puppet of a shameless decree of fashion, proceeded to put up her physical charms for sale. Hereby she still further sank into the abyss and drew men after her by stimulating their animal instincts and thus hindering their spiritual development.

In this manner they implanted the germ that will be their doom, for, when they come before the tribunal, retributive justice will condemn all this rotten fruit to perdition. Such as these would be incapable of holding out, of standing fast in the storms that are brewing, in the roaring gales and the howling blasts that are coming to winnow and to purify. In their terror and distress, those who have made coquetry and vanity their idols, will stretch out their hands to you in their eagerness to be saved. That no man, however, let his hands be soiled by these lost ones, these worshippers of vanity! | Let them sink, push them back, they have no valuable qualities which could be of service in the reconstruction which has been predicted and which is to come.

They do not see how absurd and meaningless their proceedings are. Now they laugh at and ridicule the few who would preserve the decency and purity of true womanhood, that delicate bashfulness that was her most beautiful ornament. But soon their mocking will change to out-cries of despair and then they will be effectually silenced for all time.

The woman of Subsequent Creation is standing on the sharp and perilous edge of a blade because of the great gifts that were given her. She must now give an account for what she has done with them up till now. There is no excuse admissible for her, it is not possible for her to turn and retrace her steps, for the time is up! She should have taken thought before, for she must know that her views and opinions are as nothing in the sight of God for they cannot oppose His adamantine Will which is pure and clear as crystal.

That woman of the future who will successfully preserve her person and her gifts pure during a period of licentiousness, which can well be compared to that of Sodom and Gomorrah, will be as if born again. She will be the one to raise womanhood to that culminating point of excellence that those who approach her may do so in holy awe and purest veneration. She will be the woman whose life is ordered according to God's Will; which means that she will be the radiating crown which reflects the vibrations it receives from on high undimmed, to permeate all things.

She can and she must do this, for she has the necessary ability and this lies in the great delicacy of female sensibility.

The Saviour's Words Watch and Pray will be embodied in every woman of the future as they should be in every woman of the present, for in the vibrations of female sensibility lies that constant watchfulness, that heartfelt prayer that are pleasing to God, always provided that the end striven for, is purity and the Light.

To vibrate in this way makes woman realise and experience heartfelt gratitude and joy and such is prayer as it should be! Moreover the vibrations warn the sensitive to be on her guard, to watch unceasingly. This delicate impressibility recognises and registers all evil that would approach and can ward it off before it has developed into thoughts. Thus it is always easy for a woman to protect herself in time, unless she does not herself wish otherwise.

In spite of their delicacy, these vibrations are so powerful that they can remodel everything in Creation, nothing can withstand them, for in them is Light and thus Life.

This was well-known to Lucifer, consequently he assailed her in the first place, he knew that he would win all over if he succeeded in securing woman. Unfortunately he succeeded only too well as everybody who will, can clearly perceive for himself.

For this reason the Call from the Light is addressed in the first place to woman.

She would be compelled to recognise to what depth she has sunk if. . . her vanity permitted it. This is the snare with which Lucifer holds woman so fast bound that she cannot recognise the Light, that indeed she no longer has the wish to do so.

The modern woman cannot desist from her life of wanton trifling, although she is vaguely aware of what she has lost. Indeed she knows it but too well. And to stifle this warning sensation, she throws herself headlong into the newest fascinating folly, i. e. to be the counterpart of man in his calling and in his character instead of returning to true womanhood, the most precious possession of all Creation, and to the task allotted to her by the Light. It is she who robs man of all that is ideal, thus hindering noble manhood from coming to highest development.

No nation and no people can flourish and prosper where woman cannot be looked up to, where womanhood is not honoured as such. Only truest, purest womanhood and nothing else can lead and incite a man to do great deeds. That is the vocation of woman in Creation according to God's Will. In this she uplifts her nation and all mankind, yes, all Subsequent Creation. For in her lies that sublime power, that gentle coercing influence which is irresistible and which, if exercised with purest intention, is blessed with Divine energy.

Nothing equals this power, for all that proceeds from it is a work of exquisite beauty. For this reason it is woman's task to weave threads of gold throughout Creation to cheer, to uplift, to further, and to animate man with a breath of the longed-for Paradise.

This was the pearl among the gifts of your Creator that Lucifer grasped at, first of all, with all his cunning and all his malice, knowing that this was the way to destroy both your anchorage and your aspirations. For in woman lies the great secret. She can conjure forth purity and sublimity of thought, she knows how to incite to highest production and to noblest activity . . . that is if she is the woman that God intended her to be when he heaped these gifts on her.

You let yourselves be duped only too easily and succumbed to temptation without a fight and now are willing slaves, under the dominion of Lucifer. God's precious gifts operate in a contrary sense to what God intended and thereby subject all Subsequent Creation to the Dark Powers. Nothing but disgusting caricatures remain at the present day of all things God intended to be the joy and happiness of all creatures in the world. The things are there, but under Lucifer's influence they are twisted and changed and altogether deceitful. It was the woman of Subsequent Creation who made the go-between. She was the agent... and a gruesome swamp spread over a pure foundation. Instead of being fired with enthusiasm, men, giddy, intoxicated with delight, indulge in orgies of the senses.

Now you are ready to fight, but not for the Light but against all its behests so as to remain in that state of vain self-satisfaction that intoxicates you!

There are not many today who can stand a clear and penetrating gaze being fixed on them. The greater number turn out to be leprous, their beauty, (true womanhood) eaten away, gone never to return. And of those who escape destruction and are saved, many will look back with loathing when they recall what they think beautiful and good today.

But in the same way as woman has dragged all Subsequent Creation down, she has the power to raise it up again and to advance it, for man will follow her lead in this.

Soon the time will come when the Great Winnowing will be over, then there will be a joyful outcry: “Look at woman as she should be, the genuine, ideal woman in her greatness, nobility, purity and power!”

Then you will realise the meaning of Christ's words to her: “Watch and Pray!”

She will be the perfection of Nature in its most beauteous form.

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