In the Light of Truth

83. Vocation

It is the vocation of the German Psyche to be the future leader and guider in spiritual as well as in mundane affairs. Many books have pointed to this, such prophecies and visions which cannot be disregarded as mere illusions, say the same very distinctly. It is true, many of these books have been written with the object of encouraging and uplifting a people prostrated by dire affliction and to prevent the good elements in them from being overpowered by the evil tendencies and influences that are the accompaniments of such times of distress.

But he who is seriously interested in the study of the people which is destined to emerge from the ruins of the present conditions, will find that a grain of wisdom or of truth must lie in these predictions of a great future.

But I must particularly emphasize the words from the ruin of present conditions, for first the only course to be followed is further decline and utter break-down.

Look at people as they are now! Seek for the coming generation in the matured youth around you, the coming German generation. It is thoroughly corrupt both in body and soul. The few exceptions to be found strike one as distinctly excentric, but of these there are so few that they are of no account in a whole nation. So completely do these exceptions differ from their ever retrogressing surroundings that they are beginning to strike one as grotesque and one is tempted to despise them for incurable, morbid, useless enthusiasts and fools.

It is not, however, the praiseworthy exceptions that are grotesque but their deteriorating contemporaries who are ever sinking and receding further and further from what the normal soul should be. They do not themselves see how far they have fallen from the firm ground on which the few exceptions are standing. They are under the impression that the others are mentally deficient, suffering from childish fancies from which they can awake at any moment to common sense amid general jeers and derision.

But the time is not far distant when the scornful expression in their eyes will change to one of terror and they will be compelled to acknowledge that those they derided are on the right path and guided by the right principles whereas they are sinking into and suffocating in a quagmire of their own making. The foul slough they themselves prepared is slowly but inevitably closing over their heads.

And the worst of it is that this evil condition is not to be put down to Germany's enemies but lies at her own door.

As in the process of boiling, the scum rises to the top, so it is in this great time of fermentation. Today, when all is wildly rushing towards the great expurgation, one only sees the dirty scum which is whirled to the surface: the offscourings of the German people proper. The sound basis below is invisible and from the outside it appears as if all were hopelessly rotten.

But this is not the case! The closer the tainted scum coagulates to a covering, the purer and the clearer the greater part (which is the principal part) below will be. Then, when the terrible happenings have brought the people to their senses and the ferment resulting from present circumstances has cooled down and the affliction suffered in the past is over, the stiff coating of scum at the top will cleave asunder and suddenly disclose to the insensate, corrupt and spent forces above the purity and clearness which has formed below.

Then, as a mighty flood, purity will break forth and disperse the scum, so that it may no longer be a hindrance to the real core of the people.

It is not a new, a coming generation which will be victorious, neither will it be the degenerate and pitiable German youth of today. These have let themselves be poisoned and will scatter like chaff at the first breath of fresh air. They started on the wrong path before they came to maturity and gave themselves up to loose living until they lost all moral backbone.

It will be the old style which will come out victorious, hardened by the principles which guided their forefathers like fine steel, they will emerge out of the mad confusion, a firm solid block on which alone a new edifice can be reared.

Look to yourselves you men and women of German blood who are mature and not to the young ones: they must learn from you. You have the future in your hands, you who know and have lived in the past!

Up till now, you were speechless spectators and could not understand the meaning of the goings-on about you and, therefore, did not interfere!

Stand forth now and lend your help, inspire nerveless youth with the vigour of the Germans of old, infuse into them the strength that knew no weak indulgence and was equally severe towards itself as towards others; deferred to and feared by the weak and effeminate, but the terror of the false-hearted!

It could only have been your unbounded astonishment that things could possibly have come to such a pass as they have, that temporarily lamed your unconquerably sound intention and purpose and judgment, but never willing acquiescence in the moral and physical decadence of today.

And it is you whose duty it is now to break the chains with which you let yourselves and the coming generation be fettered and not to wait for your successors to do so.

And you again who are so placidly waiting for this reformation to come about of its own accord when the time-honoured prophecies come to be fulfilled, do not deceive yourselves!

Where there is no corresponding activity the best prophecies can be of no avail. Inert waiting puts an insurmountable obstacle in the way of their fulfilment.

Your debates on their interpretation and on the time of their possible fulfilment are as dangerous, even calamitous for Germany's future as that other scourge she specially suffers under, i. e. the eternal dissensions in her home politics which clearly prove that up till now there has been no true German spirit. This spirit was only to be found here and there in individuals and it was only sometimes in times of greatest danger that the masses proceeded in unison, but not always then.

When indeed has there ever been a nation imbued with a free proud German spirit?

Every mischief-maker found easy access to her ear and a fruitful soil for his mal-practices.

People spend their time in dancing and dismiss with a careless shrug of the shoulders the cries of whole sections of people, their compatriots, who are suffering under the heavy hand of the enemy.

But Prophecy and Promise speak of a chosen people. Can the German people as they now are, ever claim to be that people? Does it in any way show itself as chosen? I need not answer that question.

A Vocation is a strange thing — a mystery of profound meaning. Christ's warning words were: Many are called but few are chosen, i. e. few of the called are successful in achieving the wished-for, intended result; this they must attain by hard work, exceptional activity and persistant assiduity. As it is with the individual, so it is with the nation: to be called only means to have the ability to succeed, but it does not mean that success will be accorded to the one who is called. Not until the latter has put all the talents he possesses, unreservedly at the service of the great Work; hard struggle, unremitting perseverance and ceaseless diligence, will call help to come to him from above, help of an exceptional and special kind to lead him to victory, i. e. to discharge the duties of his vocation in a satisfactory manner.

Neither must this be misunderstood. The powerful assistance from above is not meant metaphorically. The power to gain the final victory is always ready at hand. He who is called must work his way forward by his efforts and by his gifts till he comes into touch with this power which will then couple itself to his!

Thus the process is quite different to what so many think. To have a vocation lays an obligation on a man. The sword of victory is pressed in the form of abilities into such a man's hand to fight with. But he must wield the sword and strike with it himself.

Thus do not waste time in which you are destined to do great things, in dreaming, for yours is the victory if you set yourselves to work.

Herein a too late may also come, and victory later on would be ten times, nay, a hundred times harder to win.

As it is very clear to every one that the German people in their present condition, cannot be the chosen people, but as, on the other hand, all the predictions point to the possibility and the probability, of their fulfilling this mission, it is evident that they must undergo considerable modifications. Voluntarily they will not change. They have proved this during the past years. The moral and spiritual level of the nation, to which every German should contribute, has lowered and not risen. The consequence is that it has been forced to relinquish the firm basis, the wholesome soil on which it should (and could) flourish and develop, to be taught in the hard school of distress and calamity. And if the afflictions undergone up till now have not sufficed to do this, greater suffering must come — the time will come when all obstinate resistance must break down or submit. The individual always has the free choice between the breaking and the submitting, he will be rewarded according to the course he decides on taking.

The nearer the time approaches for the catastrophes prophesied to take place the greater the suffering will be: he whose decision will bring him happiness may well rejoice.

The chosen people destined to survive the Cosmic Crises to come, cannot of course be limited to individuals belonging to one nation only. Therefore, the German people is not meant to be understood in a restricted sense. In a cosmic event it could never be a question of one special nation, although it may well play a leading role in carrying through the coming changes. The nature and the magnitude of the role it plays, each nation will decide for itself.

It is the race and not the nation which will be decisive in the approaching new era of the world. The white race is the furthest developed of those who are competing. That Asia and other quarters of the globe were formerly further advanced than the Europe of that day, is insignificant in this case. When the Great Reckoning takes place, not only for the men on this earth but for the whole section of the universe to which this earth belongs, it will be the condition, the state of development which alone will fall into the balance at the decisive hour. And in this the white race is leading. For this reason Europe will be the scene of the field of battle.

In my lecture entitled: Gods, Olympus, and Valhalla,*(Lecture No. 82: The Gods, Olympus, and Valhalla) I very distinctly pointed out that every reincarnation took place in surroundings which harmonised with the condition of the human soul seeking to incarnate. Thus a white man who has greatly degenerated, may reincarnate as a negro and naturally a negro may, in the same way, reincarnate as a white man.

Among the white races, it is the true genuine German spirit in all its purity and strength which stands the highest. It has often made the essay to attain to this leading position but with the exception of single individuals, the efforts have not been successful. Single individuals must always be pioneers, they represent the qualities of their race. The German spirit is to be the pattern or model for the other races and shall be their guide during the last stage of mankind's progress on earth. Not the German spirit as it is now, but as it is to become and can become in virtue of its abilities and certainly will be in the course of coming events.

It is not the nation that calls itself the German nation that is meant, a cosmic conception goes much farther and is much wider. A member of any other nation, can have or be inspired with the German spirit here required. It is a question of mental and moral qualities, not of political.

But it happens that the fundamental qualities in the spirit of the future to whom victory and leadership unconditionally belong, are principally inherent in German people.

Therefore, take heed, you Germans, put out all your strength that you who in virtue of your qualities have been called, may also be chosen.

The chosen people will consist of chosen individuals to which position every one of you has a right to aspire. Therefore, it will not only be composed of Germans but also of members of other nations provided they belong to it in the spirit. Membership is not limited to the frontiers of Germany.

Do not lightly trifle with respect to the high mission awaiting you! But tear yourselves free from superficial modes of thinking and living of today and become what you can be and should be: one in spirit, a united people taking the lead and being the pattern for the others. The time will come when help and support will come to you from all parts of the Cosmos. This will be at a precise moment. If you let this precious opportunity go by, you will fall instead of rising, and your fall will be terrible and final without hope of ever being able to reascend.

Those who are called must exert the greatest energy and all the strength at their command.

Keep this warning ever in mind!

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