Human life

Secrets of Life Chapter 22 Gottfried Mayerhofer

14 January 1875

Many times the plaintive sound has reached My ear,

coming from a person who accused Me of injustice, of
harshness because his Life and the events determining it
had not turned out according to his beliefs, hopes and
desires.
Often I have heard the entreaty of an oppressed soul as, battling
with all the misery of human life, driven by the greatest pain, it calls
out: “But Father and Lord, what have I done for You to persecute
me with all possible tribulations, while showering others with good
fortune abundantly without knowing why they have actually
deserved it!”
Thus and in a thousand other ways complaints are raised against
My fairness, against My words saying that I am Love and unable to
punish, etc. Against Me, as an implacable judge, a strict but not loving
Father, complaints are raised which on the surface, according to human
concepts, even seem to be justified.
So let us look closely at these complaints and accusations, and also
discuss the question as to why there are in human society so many
stations, professions and trades, why there are in the human heart so
many inclinations towards one or the other calling. Since I have
explained to you often enough the spirit-life after death, I will also
solve for you these questions relating to the human life so near you.
You will then, firstly, stop accusing Me and, secondly, you will realize
what the goal of human Life is, just as it is and not as you would like to
design it.
It was always that which he could least understand which inspired
most to carry out investigations. Searching in the distance, he spent
time and effort to elucidate that which could really have found its
solution in his closest proximity.
This applies also to human social life, to the mutual relationship of
people with one another, where conditions have arisen which, although
I did not make them, I certainly foresaw and allowed, but always with
the proviso to use everything for My great purpose of creation!
Before I can proceed with the explanation to the above mentioned
complaints and questions, I must go far back and bring again closer to
your spiritual eyes things, which so far you have regarded only from a
one-sided, that is human, viewpoint, where human prejudice still turns
the scale when judging the same.
Prior to considering man in his relationship to his fellowman, we
have to ask: “What actually is man? Of what does he consist? And
what is his mission on this earth globe?” This, for the time being
clearly understood, will help us to more closely elucidate the social
conditions of the human race.
As you know, man consists of three things, namely, of body, soul
and spirit.
Well, this is how you have on the whole grasped these things,
when you say: “The body is matter, the soul is taken from the materialspiritual,
bound because of the fall of the one great spirit, and the spirit
is a divine spark, which is to elevate and spiritualize the soul. The
latter, in turn, through its refinement will bring also the elements of the
material body onto a higher level, so that everything can gradually
proceed on its gamut of perfection, as it had been decreed in advance in
the great plan of creation.”
In these conclusions already lies the first erroneous concept, since
you only consider your own spirit as endowed with the divine spark
that is to ennoble everything. For, had you not always (often
unconsciously) aristocratic ideas, which you want to apply to My
person, you would easily realize and understand that everything created
is fundamentally divine and must be infinite since it is descended from
Me, has originated from Me and must again return to Me.
The body, a material tool during your life span, is composed of the
same noblest, most sublime elements of My spiritual self as are soul
and spirit. However, these elements are bound in matter and coerced to
manifest only in the manner allowed by their momentary arrangement.
These most subtle spiritual elements, which help in the building of
the bodies already in the womb, also struggle for perfection,
completion. Expressing their tendency in the form of the body, in so far
as a plastic (well-defined) form can express a spiritual principle, they
seek, through their calling in human life, to supplement what higher
spiritual elements in the soul will then develop further spiritually.
They are the helpers, the collaborators in the great spiritual
building of a perfected divine idea; just as no architect can build a
house on his own, but requires a thousand hands which, however, mind
you, do not work in a machine-like manner, but which likewise, again
directed by other intelligences, help to execute the entire edifice.
Thus it is always the formative, creative forces which work in
man, as well as in everything created: in the inert rock, the vegetating
plant and the animal kingdom endowed with self-awareness, which
contribute towards the ennoblement, the refinement of the whole. On
the other hand, the kind and species is still subject to a thousand other
diverse influences where the capabilities originally bestowed on them
cannot reach perfection. And so everywhere, despite the common
gender and origin, the end results will be as diverse as there are created
beings in the entire space of creation.
The soul, as an offshoot or descendant of a great fallen lightbearer,
first had to have an appropriate envelopment and, furthermore,
a higher spiritual principle implanted into it. This drives it to not only
complete its education here but to serve, after the shedding of any
mortal envelopment, as the basis for a spiritual world.
Therefore, the soul of the smallest infusorian, just as that of man,
is always urged to first fulfill its life’s purpose here, in keeping with its
envelopment and an unrealized Spiritual which you call “instinct” or
nature”, which opens the way to perfection in other forms and under
other conditions.
The spirit in man is the same as that in the last rock, but there it is
confronted with a more orderly organization, which does not oppose its
actual sphere of action so much, but is even created to follow it in all
its endeavors.
Thus it is not true that man alone was endowed with a spirit-spark
of Myself, for the divine spark is in everything, only there the body is
more adapted to the Spiritual and completely conforms to the greatest
expansion of the spiritual forces.
Look, a monotonous landscape, a boring life, shows you
sufficiently that “life” exists only where there is change, diversity.
For by the very fact that not everything is on the same level and
progressing at the same pace, life is a stimulating endeavor to attain
that, which, although destined for all, cannot be achieved in every
imaginable way.
Diversity is the basis of 1ife; diverse are the worlds, diverse their
beings and diverse even the road they have to walk to perfection.
Without this diversity, no life, no movement, no progress are possible.
Only with the germ to form always something new but superior, could
a creation be effected, a creation that redounds to its Creator’s honor
and which, like He, can carry the germ of infinity within it.
Thus you have to grasp this entire visible and invisible world,
beginning with the smallest atom in cosmic space and ending with My
great spirit-realm, if ever you wish to understand why I created all this,
and why I created it thus and not otherwise.
With Me. it is unthinkable that improvements, repairs or
modifications could ever occur, for they are a consequence of errors,
wrong conclusions, which are impossible with God.
Therefore, let go of your humanly limited ideas. The world is as I
am describing it to you, almost daily uncovering for you one secret of
creation after another. Thereby you may learn to realize that your life’s
purpose is totally different from the one you try to construe, wishing
even for the means to effect this in conformity with your physical, but
not your spiritual nature and destiny.
So you see, body, soul and spirit are carriers of My divine spark.
And as the diverse manner of expression in and through the same again
makes mankind diversified, so also with the increased contact among
people this diversity of capabilities must bring about diverse
professions and trades which, on the whole necessary for a communal
life, needed diverse arrangements.
In another word I have already told you that everything created,
beginning with the first spiritual atoms, absorbs various substances and
must, therefore, manifest in various ways.
In man, who, composed of all the elements of this earth, represents
the last member or “compendium” of the whole earth globe, this
diversity of all that which is spiritual must be even more pronounced.
For he, in the manner of communication of his thoughts and ideas
superior to everything else, is also capable of letting his own
spirituality shine through and of making use of it. Hence also the
inclination for one or the other occupation, partly through the
impression from early youth, partly through the elements prevailing as
inherited spiritual possession during the act of procreation. These
naturally exert their influence and were bound to show their influence
also in life, which happened mostly where the greatest obstacles to
their gratification arose.
Thus, with the growing demands of people, analogous with the
striving for comfort and the urge of passions, a great number of
occupations came into being, meant to render man’s material life as
pleasant as possible.
This need aroused in people a love for individual artifacts, and
they, for the sake of a pleasant life, in turn inspired others to comply
with the demand for their making, every one in accordance with his
perception.
So, gradually, there developed competition among the gifted and
out of this grew the most diversified classification of all ranks, where
everyone tried to win with the help of the other, so as to live
comfortably and gratify his passions.
It is easy to see that with such competition, abuses occurred
through jealousy, greater ability, good or evil intentions, in short,
through the pressure of all human passions. They in turn had their
effect on the social life of the individual where, always battling and
struggling between want and plenty, your whole present human society
grew up, for it was only the temporal life that caused such conditions.
According to the moral laws, the lowest and the highest ranking person
on earth could be inspired by the same principles, since ethics and My
divine two laws are alike for both peasant and king.
However, since the divine laws, which are higher than the
earthly laws, are not subject to change and do not allow various
interpretations, the very incongruities arising from the social life are
often the reason why people accuse Me, when they themselves, mind
you, generally speaking, are at fault.
It is true that the peasant child has as many human rights as the
prince crowned already in the cradle. In My eyes both are equal, but the
abilities dormant in the one are often very different from those of the
other, and each brings a great deal of his future life’s course with him
into the world as a possession inherited from his parents. Added to this
will be his own part, to either his advantage or disadvantage.
Different are all created beings, diverse the paths they have to
walk, and for this very reason also diverse the apparent “course of luck
or ill luck”, which they have to experience either through their own
fault or through no fault of their own.
If behind this material life there were not a great spiritual one, if
there were not the morally divine of Myself, which is inherent in
everything, human nature would have sunk long ago to the level of the
animal and below the same. For man, always only gratifying his
passions, tried to exploit everything on earth for their appeasement.
However, material things can only give temporal, and often only
momentary, bliss because spiritual elements that have become coarse
and dark cannot unite with sublime, subtle ones, so that all worldly
happiness is of short duration. And so man, driven by thousands of
calamities, of necessity comes to realize: “The material world is not
sufficient, there must still be another one”, and in the end, despite all
his denials, he has to confess:
“There must be someone who created this visible, as well as the
surmised invisible, world,” so that, if he wants to still his inner urge, he
is forced to create his own God. For in adversity no worldly thing can
serve as a substitute since man – a spiritual product – was only for a
short time clothed in a material envelopment in which to shed, during
his trial-life, the coarseness still clinging to him, so as to advance to
higher spiritual things.
Everything you see has a spiritual basis, higher aspirations than
merely the transient life. For this reason you must consider everything
from a spiritual viewpoint. The sounds of wailing reaching Me because
of afflictions and accidents only bear witness to the failure to
understand the human conditions, to a misunderstanding as to how far
the material, if one believes too much in it, can and must only en
gender spiritual evil.
Many people have deprived themselves of the solace of a spiritual
life beyond this material one. They believed in people instead of in Me,
who even deemed it fitting, personally descending to this earth globe,
in the universal process of salvation not to forget them, too.
Therefore, when complaints and remonstrations occur, criticizing
My role, it shows clearly on how weak a foundation the opinion about
the world as it really is rests.
All people cannot be born in like conditions; all cannot be
endowed with the same talents. There must be diversity, since in that
very diversity there is life and progress.
Moreover, many spirits from other worlds want to absolve the
probation school to become My son on your earth. Naturally they do
not arrive here without an endowment from those worlds and
sometimes they have a certain preference for one thing or the other, not
knowing that it had once been applied by them in better and more
refined organizations.
These spirits, and there are many, will one day in the future find
out and have it explained to them why many a spiritual urge, of which
they were unaware, always drove them to this or that occupation
which, though material, had much Spiritual hidden under this cover.
I, as God and Supreme Love, created the world, created the
individual suns and earths. But this love must not be judged according
to your ideas of love. This love is a totally different one, which you
cannot possibly understand. Nevertheless, I shun no means of giving
you a foreknowledge of it, since only from the cognition of this love,
all that exists, as well as the events occurring in your human life, can
be properly evaluated.
In this respect, My love is universal since it must only pursue the
great purposes of a creation to which all others have to submit. Love,
as I understand it, forgets neither the worm nor the senseless stone and
even less the larger and more finely organized beings. But this love has
other laws, other intentions, other purposes.
Were My love not as it is, I would have to be a vengeful God, as
so many people among you would like to make Me, a severe judge,
implacable when dealing out punishment, all attributes which you have
learnt in your law books, but are not found in My law book.
It is precisely out of love that I transform all the evil that human
beings do to one another into something good. Out of love I do not
judge, do not fling any anathema or thunderbolt between quarreling
people. They create their own evil, and My concern is only to let the
comforting word from a better world flow into the heart of the
oppressed.
Happy those who take heed, but this unfortunately is rarely the
case; that is why the complaints and recriminations made against Me.
However, for all that the material, as well as the spiritual world
remains the same. They do not change their laws, but the human being
offending against them only metes out his own punishment.
That which on the surface is undeserved suffering is often, as in
illnesses, a necessary medicine where, generally speaking, the most
bitter medicines are the most effective. Not that I send them, for I could
help. But I do not do it because My views and My purpose concerning
the human souls differ from those existing in the imagination of the
oppressed human child.
No human being dies because I will it, no disaster occurs because I
will it, no one is born poor and no one in rich circumstances according
to My idea. All this I merely allow. Man is free and can thus do as he
likes. Through an orderly life he can live longer, through a disorderly
life, he can shorten it. Both fortune and misfortune, coming over
people through their own wrong decisions, are a school for mankind
where they are educated for Me, so that I can thereby spiritually
influence them, that means that finally they listen to My voice. This is
something which also ought to have happened sooner, but did not
happen.
Whether born rich or poor, everyone in his station in life can
become “My child”, gradually maturing for another, more enduring,
world of the spirit. His poverty can help him gain rich spiritual
treasures, whereas the one born rich can lose his material riches
without being compensated by spiritual ones.
Everywhere I find means whereby to attain My ends. I merely use
the circumstances, without creating them. This I leave to man, who
loves to proudly call himself the “lord of the earth” and fancies to rule
and subjugate everything, while sailing like a weather-vane through all
the spiritual currents flowing through the universe, unawares soon in
this, soon in that direction, who is always seeking his temporal material
happiness, while disregarding the fact that it can rarely ever be
reconciled with the other, which is the more enduring spiritual bliss.
Therefore, My children, do not accuse Me!
I am He, who writes all the sins into the sand, who neither curses
nor hates or is vengeful, but who has always been, and still is, ready to
pour balm on gaping wounds. I have never been an unjust God, no
more than a strict Father towards My children!
As you are now, I did not create you, but you have made
yourselves what you are. And if I now come and take over your
guidance personally, it is because things are going too far; because I
cannot stand by watching as mankind, totally misunderstanding and
disregarding themselves and their whole future existence, are without
faith, love and fear before Me. I must now apply all the means
available to lead back the lost to the right road.
The spiritual element is being pushed too far into the background,
is too much forgotten and denied. That is why all these abuses,
disasters in every direction. And when many a sufferer cries out to Me,
a sign that he at least still believes in Me, it is up to Me to show him
with few words that his suffering does not come from Me, but that, if
he wants solace for this tribulation, he can find it only with Me.
That is why this word, for many a thing might occur which would
cause the first-mentioned accusations to be heard also from you. In
order to prevent this and so that you, before you open your mouth to
complain and raise your voice to Me, you may consider who is to be
accused, I, the ever-loving Father, or he, the straying human being,
who only strives for the gratification of his passions!
So accept this word, and it will again let you take a tranquil glance
into the chaotic bustle of mankind itself. Amen.

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