Many deeply thinking people today are
longing for proof of God's Existence, hoping through it to
fortify their faith and to raise it to the level
of absolute conviction. They sense that no Act of God can
ever stand in opposition to the Laws of Nature, for the
simple reason that these Laws have issued out of
Him. It is only that we (all of us) have
been much too superficial in our observations of
natural life and therefore have not drawn the right
conclusions from it for the benefit of our souls. Therefore,
it does not come as a surprise that many discoveries of
modern science (in the field of Quantum Physics, in
particular) seem to supply more and more evidence of God's
Existence. Yet a complete panorama of God's
Activity in Creation, which would harmonize in
every way with the Laws of Nature, is still
lacking. Only one source reveals this
breath-taking panorama in all its simplicity and grandeur:
" IN
THE LIGHT OF TRUTH: THE GRAIL MESSAGE" by Abd-ru-shin
(original in German). It helps us to see the
operation of God's Laws in life all around us: in our
backyard gardens and out in the vast Cosmos, in the
test-tubes and in the depths of our own souls. Many of the
ramifications of these Laws we have already observed
through our own personal experiences, but without the Grail
Message we still lack the foundation of the
knowledge of the overall Governing Principles of God's "mode
of operation" in Creation. And it is His Will that we
should once again grasp this precious knowledge of
eternal things with all the longing of our
spirit.
"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! And these
radiations contain all that is necessary for
Creation!
"The radiations, however, are not the
Light Itself!
"Hence all that exists outside of God
has its origin only in the radiation of God. This
radiation is a natural effect of the Light, however, an
effect that has always existed from all
eternity.
"The strength of the radiation is
naturally greatest in the proximity of the Light, so much
so that there can be no other movement in it than the
'perfectly straight line' movement, which is
an intrinsic quality of the radiation. Thus it issues from
God and proceeds for fabulous distances, the extent of
which a human spirit is unable to
imagine!
"When, however, this inflexible forward
propulsion, which is equivalent to an immense and constant
pressure, comes to the point where it at last eases off a
little, the nature of the movement changes from the
hitherto straight line to a circular movement. This
circular movement is produced by the attraction of the
Living Power simultaneously pulling back all that has been
flung beyond the border of the full radiation to that
point where only the straight line movement predominates.
In this process the rotating movements take on an elliptical form,
because they are not independent movements, but
only produced by this flinging-out-of-the-mainstream
and the subsequent pulling back through the attraction
which rests in the Power, that is, in God
Himself!
"Moreover the process of dividing the
radiation into positive and negative species, which takes
place after the radiation leaves the Sphere of Divine
White-Heat, also plays a part here!
"In these rotating movements, in which
the immense pressure of the original radiation has
diminished, a slight cooling off also takes place in the
course of nature. This in turn causes a certain deposit to
be precipitated.
"This deposit sinks deeper or recedes
further away from the original strongest radiation,
but is still held by the all-pervading attraction of the
Power. Yet it simultaneously retains enough of the
straight line impetus of the radiation to again
produce new rotating movements, which always remain within
very definite but quite different limits. Thus one deposit
after another is precipitated and corresponding
elliptically rotating planes of motion form, which bring
accumulations of substance and finally ever more solid
forms, receding further and further away from the Original
Radiation and its enormous forward
pressure!
"The gradations thus produced form
planes in which definite species link together and settle,
conforming to the degree their temperature has cooled
off. I have already described these planes or species
in my Message as being the great fundamental planes of
Spiritual Substantiality in the uppermost region of
Creation, under which successively range the Spheres of
Animistic Substantiality, of Ethereal Substance, and
finally of Gross Matter, with their many sub-divisions. It
is quite natural that the more perfect species should
remain higher, thus closest to the Point of Origin,
because they most nearly resemble It and are most strongly
affected by the attraction of the Living
Power!
"As I have already said this radiation
of the Light working in such an incomprehensible way
has always existed from all eternity!
"But God did not allow this
radiation to penetrate further and act beyond the limits
at which the forward drive of the stream still forms an
absolutely straight line, so that the pure Divine
Radiation still remained luminous and clear
without any cooling off and consequent precipitations.
This formed the Divine Sphere which, as with God Himself,
is eternal! In this clear transparency there could
never be any dimming, nor can there be any swerving aside
or change. Only perfect harmony with the Source, with the
Light Itself, was possible. And this Sphere is inseparably
connected with God, because this radiation of the
Living Power, being its natural effect, can never be
avoided!
"To this Divine Sphere, which because of
its close proximity to the Living Power is subjected to a
pressure incomprehensible to the human spirit,
belongs the actual Castle of the Grail as the most
extreme outpost and anchorage, as a terminating
counter-pole, so to speak! This still stands within the
Circle of Divinity and has therefore existed from all
eternity and will remain unchanged for all eternity, even
if in times to come Creation would have to fall to
ruin!
"Thus it was from all eternity! It is
something the human spirit is unable to
comprehend!
"It was not till God, in His Volition,
sent forth the great words: 'Let there be
Light!' that the rays shot out over the
limit hitherto set them into the Universe, then in
utter darkness, carrying movement and warmth! This was the
beginning of Creation, which gave birth to the human
spirit and could become his
home!
"God, Who is Light, does not need this
Creation! Should He again limit His Radiation to its
unavoidable minimum, so that only a Sphere of Divine
Purity would remain into which no dimness can ever enter,
as it was in the beginning, then the end of all that
has been subsequently created would be at hand! Man would
then also cease to exist, as he can be conscious only
within Creation!
"The immediate radiation of the Light
can produce only what is perfect. In the changes
from this first pressure, caused by the ever-increasing
distances, however, this original perfection diminishes
because, in the progressive cooling off, individual
particles constantly separate themselves and remain
behind. Purity in perfection necessitates the
pressure of Divine Radiation at its greatest intensity,
which is possible only in the proximity of God. The
pressure creates motion which in turn produces
warmth, heat and white heat.
"Pressure,
however, is but the resultant effect of the power, and not
the power itself, just as the radiations come into
existence only under the pressure of the power, but they
are not the power itself! Therefore the radiations within
Creation
are but the consequence of a corresponding motion, which
in turn must adjust itself to the particular pressure at
the time! Thus where there are no radiations in Creation
there is also no motion or, as man erroneously calls it,
no 'life'! For all motion radiates, while stagnation is
nothingness, an absence of motion which men call
'death!'" ("IN THE LIGHT OF TRUTH: THE GRAIL
MESSAGE" by Abd-ru-shin, chapter "Life").
"And a thousand years are as one day!"
(from "IN THE LIGHT OF TRUTH: THE GRAIL MESSAGE"
by Abd-ru-shin):
"Who among all mankind has already grasped
the meaning of these words? In what church are they truly
interpreted? In many cases they are taken as a conception
of life without time. But there is nothing in Creation
which is not limited in time and space. The very meaning
of the word 'Creation' must contradict such a conception,
for what is created is a work, and every work has a limit!
And whatever is limited must have boundaries! And what has
boundaries can also not be timeless!
"There are a number of spheres where human
spirits dwell according to their spiritual maturity. These
spheres vary in density as they are near to or more remote
from Paradise. The further they are from Paradise the
denser and thus heavier they will be.
"The conception of time and space becomes
narrower as density increases, as substance becomes more
solid in the World of Matter, and as the distance from the
Spiritual Realm increases.
"The different conceptions of time and space
arise from the more or less elastic ability of man's brain
to absorb experiences which, in turn, is adapted to the
density of his environment, that is, to the nature of the
sphere in the Cosmos in which his body happens to be at
the time. Thus it is that we have to speak of different
conceptions of time and space in the different spheres of
the Cosmos!
"There are spheres in the Cosmos situated
much nearer to Paradise than the sphere to which the earth
belongs. Those spheres lying nearer to it are of a
different material consistency, which is lighter and less
solid. Consequently they offer more extensive
opportunities to experience in full consciousness. Here on
earth we call it experiencing which registers in our
day-consciousness.
"The worlds of matter which are of a
different nature belong to fine gross matter, as well as
to coarse ethereal matter, and also to pure ethereal
matter, while we at present live in the World of absolute
Gross Matter. The more rarified matter is, the more
pervious it also is. The more pervious a species of matter
is, however, the more extensive become the possibilities
for conscious experiencing or, let us call it, the
possibilities for receiving impressions, on the part of a
human spirit living in the body.
"In a coarser and denser body, with its
correspondingly denser brain as a transit point for
external happenings, the human spirit living therein is
naturally more firmly segregated or walled in than in a
more pervious and less dense species of matter. Therefore
in the denser medium it can only inwardly perceive or let
itself be impressed by happenings on a more limited scale.
"The less dense a species of matter,
however, the lighter it naturally is, and the higher it
must also be. It will likewise be more translucent and
thus also brighter! The nearer it is situated to Paradise
due to its lightness, the more luminous and sunny it will
be, because it permits the radiations issuing from
Paradise to pass through it.
"The further a human spirit shining forth
from out of its body receives the possibility of sensing
real life through a lighter, less dense environment, the
more it will be able to experience inwardly, so that in
the time of one earth-day it can absorb far more
experiences in its particular environment than can an
earthman with his denser brain in his heavier and more
solid surroundings. According to the nature of the
perviousness, i.e., according to the less dense and more
luminous nature of its environment, a human spirit is
able, through easier receptivity, to experience in the
time of one earth-day as much as in the time of one
earth-year, until in the Spiritual Realm itself it
can experience in the time of one earth-day as much as in
a thousand earth-years!
"That is why it is said: "There a
thousand years are as one day!" Thus it rests on
the wealth of experiences, the increase of which
depends on the growing maturity of the human spirit!
"Man can best picture this if he thinks of
his dreams! In a dream lasting a single minute of
earth-time he is often able to perceive, really experience
in his spirit, an entire lifetime! He lives through the
happiest as well as the most painful things, he laughs and
weeps and experiences his ageing, and yet he has used the
time of only a single minute! In his earth-life the same
experiencing would consume many decades, because the time
and space of earthly experiencing have too narrow a limit,
as a result of which each single stage advances more
slowly.
"Just as man on earth can experience as
rapidly as that in his dreams only because during sleep
the fettering influence of the brain has been partially
removed by the spirit, so in the more luminous spheres of
the Cosmos, when he is no longer so strongly fettered and
later becomes a completely free spirit, he always
stands in this vivid and rapid experiencing! For the
actual experiencing of a thousand earth-years he needs no
more time than one day!" ("IN THE LIGHT OF TRUTH: THE
GRAIL MESSAGE" by Abd-ru-shin, chapter "And a Thousand
Years Are as One
Day!").
"...man has lost the knowledge of these
eternal things. In place of the inner perception, which
alone is able to maintain the connection with the origin
of the human spirit, he put the all-questioning intellect.
"He therewith suppressed the true inner
perceiving of time which he brought with him from his
spiritual homeland. The real concept of time was pushed
aside, because it cannot be grasped intellectually.
"Through this also the many philosophical
teachings, which in spite of all their sagacity are not in
a position to recognise the ultimate meaning of time,
because it is of a spiritual nature, have hitherto proved
unavailing.
"Unconsciously modern man indicates the loss
of the true time-concept when he says 'he has no time'. By
this he demonstrates not only the earthly lack of time,
but also the want of a higher understanding of time.
"The natural narrowing-down of the
concept of time, which results from the distancing from
the Spiritual Realm, must not mislead man into covering
the spiritual time-concept with earthly time-concepts.
"We do indeed need the concept of time bound
to the earthly as an aid for the passing of events, for
progress and order on earth, but over and above this
transient arrangement of time into years, months, weeks
and hours, we must not forget the imperishable value of
'time' which can be grasped only with the inner perception
of the spirit.
"How small in comparison is the perceptive
faculty of the intellect, which belongs to the earthly
brain! It is no longer capable of grasping even the
happening in the millions of years of the earth's
development. This is possible for the spirit alone.
"When the spirit really bestirs itself we
sense very well that there is yet another concept of time
than the earthly one.
"We can also say that time appears to us
according to how we move inwardly. In this connection the
ability and strength of receiving and experiencing, which
depend an the maturity of the spirit, form the measure for
the passing of our time.
"How often have we already experienced in
our earth-life that the days were much too short and time
seemed to fly past. On the other hand there is also
standstill and retrogression if a wrong volition of the
intellect will not allow the soul to soar upwards.
"This phenomenon of different perceptions of
time has been under investigation for some time. In the
course of this it was established that man also has an
"inner clock", a "soul clock" which often does not agree
with the earthly clock.
"It is known, for example, that with the
young the inner perception of time is extended, whereas
with older people there is the prevailing inner sensation
that time is moving ever faster. Or let us think of the
different experiencing of time on our holidays, when the
first days pass more slowly, those in the middle normally,
and the last ones much too quickly.
"Speed also, the relationship between
distance and time, gives rise to different inner
sensations of time. According to Einstein time is not
something absolute. To measure it a standpoint, a
reference system, is always needed. This can be a railway
train travelling at a constant speed, in which we
are sitting. A train travelling alongside us gives the
impression that it is standing still. But if the other
train is travelling more slowly, we have the impression
that our train is travelling faster. If, however, the
other train travels faster, then we think we are going
more slowly. Thus three different impressions during a
constant speed of our train!
"Not only has man an inner or rather a
biological clock. It is also to be found in Nature; but
there it is moved by other currents of power. It
determines for example the exact beginning of the flights
of migratory birds in autumn from northern to southern
latitudes.
"Sometimes the precision of the biological
clock becomes disastrous, as in the case of a species of
wild geese whose habitat is in the steppes of Western
Siberia. Owing to some kind of environmental influences
they have shifted their fixed quarters further south.
Their inner clock, however, has not reacted to this change
of place. With unfailing precision it drives the geese at
the same time as always to set out for their winter
quarters, which lie 3,500 kilometres away in India.
"But it happens too early, because in the
more southerly region the geese start their moulting
season later, and are not yet in a condition to fly when
the great migratory excitement seizes them and it is time
for departure.
"What do the geese do now? At the time
appointed by the biological clock, they set out
on foot in vast numbers. Thus in about ten days
they travel approximately 150 km, until they reach a Lake
an which they can recuperate. Meanwhile their feathers
have grown so far that only now can the normal flight
proceed over the remaining distance. During their march an
foot they suffer great losses through exhaustion
and beasts of prey. -
"But let us return to the explanation of the
original concept of time. Man has lost it, and this loss
is particularly marked in the inversion of standpoints.
Earthman regards himself as the static point, in that he
lets time pass him by. He speaks of times which change,
and he believes that time moves on.
"However, if time has existed from the
beginning of Creation, if the human spirit issues from the
eternal time and can return thither again, then it is not
possible for time to move past him.
"Reality shows an entirely different
picture, which compels us to change our thinking: Time
stands still! However we, the human beings, hurry towards
it, move within it. For time is unchangeable and
intransient. Only the forms change, just as the spirit of
man always remains the same, whereas the forms of his
physical body change continually.
"Just as in general the entire Subsequent
Creation is subject to an unceasing "dying and coming into
existence", and only the Laws that bring this about are
eternally the same!
"Gottfried Keller divined the reality
when he said in his poem, 'Time standeth
still':
Time moves not, it standeth
still,
We pass on through
it.
"This verse, which could never be properly
explained, will now be better understood by us. And
another verse in the same poem strikes us:
A drop of morning dew
sparkles
In a ray of sunlight;
A day can be a pearl
And a century
nothing.
"This could be a comparison between the experiencing in
higher planes in the time of one earth-day, which is like
a pearl, and the experiencing on earth during a century.
-
"Time is closely linked with spiritual Light-Power
which, coming from the highest starting-point of the
Primordial Spiritual Realm, fills all the spiritual parts
of Creation lying below it, and thence radiates into the
World of Matter, into Subsequent Creation, as well.
"Thus also outside its spiritual homeland, Paradise,
the human spirit moves in this Power, which in time is
eternal. He swims in it, so to speak, becomes more or less
strongly conscious of it, depending an the degree of his
ability to receive impressions and experiences, and draws
from this Power the eternal values it holds in readiness.
He is even able already on earth to find the
experience of Truth in this Power, because it comes from
the Truth.
"True time therefore is also eternally the same in the
past, present and future, because it rests in the
Spiritual Power which streams to us out of Eternity, and
knows no earthly limitations.
"In earthly life, an the other hand, past, present and
future are perceived separately in the context of time and
space, and only a fraction of the wealth of spiritual
happening in these three sections of time can be
experienced by earthmen. This is due to their dense
material covering, which brings with it narrowness of
comprehension.
"The spiritual power indelibly records every experience
and happening in the great Book of Creation, and preserves
it. Nothing of it is lost, and it is possible to make
proclamations from it at any time.
"We find the best examples of this in the works
'From Past Millennia' and in 'Past Eras
Awaken', as well as in the accounts of the
Forerunners (http://www.gfp.com/Book_Catalog.htm).
"In all these books it is clearly and distinctly stated
how the blessed spirit of the seer opens itself to the
Power in order to draw from its records and collections
for the past, present and future, and to reproduce from
them in words that which the Light allows to be given to
mankind at the time of the fulfilments. -
"In conclusion, let us once more be reminded that we,
the pilgrims through the deep vale of the World of Matter,
are not those at rest whom time passes by like landscapes
at the window of a railway train, but on the contrary
those who are in motion.
"The way through the World of Matter of Subsequent
Creation was not granted to us so that we should cling to
earthly things and make them our idols, but for the sake
of recognition. On this journey we are meant to grow and
mature in spirit, so that this can one day leave the dense
sphere of the World of Matter in order to hasten fully
conscious in the Ray of the Luminous Power towards the
Spiritual Realm, where space and time eternally form a
complete whole in the Living Power of the Creator." ("A GATE
OPENS" by Herbert Vollmann, chapter "What Is
Time?") |
