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“He who makes no effort to grasp the word of the Lord aright burdens himself with guilt.” Abd-ru-shin¹

The knowledge of the Truth is basic to our survival as spiritual beings and is an intrinsic driving need, which every human spirit wishes to satisfy. This search for its origin, the meaning of life, and for life itself is as fundamental to the spirit as air and water are to the physical body. Without the Truth, we cannot have life for the Truth resides in and is life. They are both inseparably one in the origin of all things, the Creator.

As an essential aid towards our development and maturity during our wanderings in the planes of matter, we have been endowed with the insatiable urge for the recognition of the Creator.¹ This is the persistent need that perpetually urges us to movement. Ultimately this restless drive would have ensured our development in the Will of the Creator and our maturity to full spiritual value. The recognition of the absolute Truth in God sets free the pure flame of spirituality.¹ Unfortunately for many of us, it is no longer obvious where this perpetual urge for inner movement springs from.

Because of the inability to recognize the real nature of our need, what it is that we really aspire to achieve, the search for the Truth was channeled into various by-paths. The pervasive drive for the so-called vices for example, the insatiable ambitions of the highly intellectual man, the primitive brutality of the callous killer, the apparently harmless preoccupation with material wealth and glory and many other such propensities are all rooted in this wrongly channeled urge to find fulfilment as human spirits. However, fulfilment as willed by the Creator, the source of Light and Life, is our recognition and conscious adjustment to His Will. Therein lies our goal and so the restlessness that drives us to seek spiritual fulfilment, is actually a great blessing without which we would be lost like rudderless ships on the great ocean of Creation. This urge can never be satisfied outside the Will of God.

The need within the spirit for the Truth cannot be satisfied with anything less than the Truth, as indeed no substitute exists. We cannot have any peace or real joy without adjusting our lives to the Laws of the Almighty Creator, within which and through which the Truth is manifest and becomes accessible to us.¹ Man thus finds himself indulging in one pursuit after another without ever finding any lasting satisfaction. All we succeed in doing by following these wrong channels is to distort and entangle the path to the Truth, which in its simple form we are then no longer able to recognize. Is it any surprise that people now deny the Creator?

The distortions concerning the Truth arise from intellectual conceit and spiritual indolence. It may be assumed that in the most favorable circumstances a lack of knowledge is responsible but this also to a large extent is related to indolence. Indolence, which is the dominant trait and the major stumbling block in the spiritual development of humanity today, is itself a direct consequence of over-cultivation of the intellect. The ultimate effect of this fault of relying almost exclusively on the intellect rather than on spiritual intuitive movement can best be described as the human spirit being asleep, rolled up within itself in indolent complacency, cushioned by intellectual and material preoccupation from the actual experiencing of personal individual life. This is doubly tragic when we recognize that it is actually the spirit that is alive and that the energy and warmth consumed by the intellect emanates from the spirit.

The indolent human spirit, as already indicated, refuses to accept responsibility for its own existence. The human being whose spirit is so bound can no longer even identify self as being of spiritual essence and prides him/herself only on his/her intellectual achievements. Such individuals have subjugated their spirit, their primary essence to their intellect, the tool they were supposed to use to influence matter. The prompting of the spirit, its intuitive movement can then frequently no longer be perceived and the individual now has to depend on his/her senses, feelings and imagination. It is no wonder that such human beings lack a vital goal and no longer see beyond physical death. Unless reawakening occurs to set the spirit free, it can no longer find the path to the Truth. The individual however continues in the delusion that he or she is alive and in many instances even that he or she is ‘enjoying life.’

In this way, many stumble through life with their spiritual sight blindfolded, completely subject to material urges. Yet when as a consequence of this volition they experience difficulties, they prefer in false humility and sometimes even in defiant arrogance, to accuse an indifferent destiny or fate for their circumstance. These difficulties however are purely a reflection of inner disharmony, which expresses itself in their external circumstances.

One stubborn illusion is that wealth, position and power represent fulfilment and happiness. This is indeed far from the truth, as those who have achieved these positions know very well. The glitter remains attractive only to those who still hope to achieve these, but those who have already achieved wealth or power know of its hollowness and its inability to satisfy the urge that burns within for inner fulfilment. This of course does not prevent them from striving ever harder for more material success because they also cannot consciously understand the source of their dissatisfaction. Interestingly most of those who are satisfied with their lives are to be found in the working middle classes and the borderline poor, and these are the ones that have any inner peace.

We need to recognize that we weave our own fate and that we literally make the bed on which we lie with every decision we take. The Laws of the Almighty Creator, in absolute Justice and Love only ensure the development, the ripening and the harvesting of our works.¹ People complain of their circumstances and about the deterioration in human values but it is the fruits of our individual and collective works that surround us today. We are the architects of our collective and individual circumstances. Distrust, envy, hatred, war and disease, pestilence and even so-called natural disasters are all directly or indirectly linked to this individual failure.

Indeed, no matter from which angle we look at the human problems today, be it economical, religious, political etc., the fundamental problem remains the same, that is, the lack of balance in spiritual and material-intellectual development in the individual human being. When translated into the activities of the entire human race, the resultant confusion and suffering was bound to be tremendous. Indeed, what we consider to be difficulties and confusion now, do not begin to describe the agony of the inevitable collapse of all that we have wrongly built and continue to build in an accelerated manner, for nothing that opposes the Laws of Nature can stand.

In the most important field of religion for instance the combination of spiritual indolence in the majority and ambitious intellectuality in the few, especially the leaders, has spawned a dogmatism and religious fanaticism that is tearing the human race apart today. Where the accumulated knowledge of God should lead the human spirits to a higher, purer and more unified goal we find only dissent, distrust, disharmony and disaster. The high expectation from religion has only resulted in fanatic extremes that deny reason and encourage deprivation of individual freedom of choice in spiritual movement.

Purification is therefore inevitable because the Love of the Almighty Creator demands Justice. Love and Justice are inseparable, contrary to our concept of Divine Love as ever tolerant and weak, and both require that we now account for the use of the time allotted to us for our development. The Light of God now flowing into Creation, brought by the Envoy of God, brings purification and judgement. For the human spirit who can still be saved, a completely new orientation is needed which cannot be achieved by building on the existing structures. The existing foundation rooted in the shifting sand of earthly human intellect is too flimsy to offer any support to the Light and Power that is surging into Subsequent Creation at this time. The power of the Light of God awakens everything to new life, new consciousness.

The old system led by human will as directed by his intellect cannot be adapted to the new direction led by the awakened spirit. We have to drop all the old concepts and attitudes if we are to advance in the new direction indicated. New wine, as the Lord Jesus once said, must be put into a new wineskin³ to avoid the destruction of the vessel and wastage of the wine. The new knowledge of God in Creation is for the awakened spirit and it is impossible to experience God without a complete change.

For the individual who may overcome, the proper balance must now be re-established, the spirit leading and the intellect following. Our primary goal must be reordered and we must open ourselves to the Truth if we are to gain the much-needed freedom in the very limited time now available. This must of course start with a reawakening of the individual indolent human spirit in order, ultimately, to effect a change in the whole. This is why the Messages of the Lord have always been directed to the individual human spirits, as first from Christ and now in our own time from Abd-ru-shin.

The concept of religious brotherhood and communalism is essentially doctrinal and does not strictly accord with the Lord’s Messages. As far as spiritual goals are concerned we are entirely on our own, neither inheriting from our ancestors nor transferring to our offspring our virtues or sins. Nor are we connected with others even those of the same congregation or belief except for shared experiences that may bind, uplift or cast us down. Although we may learn and benefit from the experiences of others, especially those we love, we cannot blame our failures on them. Indeed, as the Lord Jesus pointed out, a major obstacle in our path to Truth may come from those we believe we owe allegiance to, for a man’s worst enemies may be members of his own family.³ The Grail Message emphatically tells us that the Truth does not link us with any other human spirits but if held in purity connects us only to steps of God’s Throne.

This does not imply that we do not owe one another Love and support. Love for all works of the Creator including each other is a measure of our spirituality. God is Love and those who serve Him must serve in Love. This is particularly applicable to those who have similar striving towards God, who show homogeneity in their striving. It is only by such Love for one another that we can be recognized as belonging to the Light, for as the Son of God admonished, it is only by loving one another that men will know that we are His disciples.

As individuals, we must learn again to live like children in the richness of our experiencing, with absolute trust in the Love and Justice of our God. This is another demand of the Son of God from those who wish to belong to him. Childlikeness and loving, undemanding service is the key to a fulfilled Christian life. If you do not become like a little child you cannot enter the Kingdom of God.

The intellectual and the childlike represent incompatible extremes and because most of humanity is dominated by their intellect, we have mostly bound our development to the excellence of intellectuality and thus entirely to Matter. We have lost the ability to truly become childlike and so the path to the Light has become that much more difficult. Conviction, which should have arisen from childlike trust, today must arise only through difficult, often painful experiences. Through experiencing Creation aright, we gain knowledge and knowledge in turn gives rise to conviction. As a last help for our maturity therefore, the knowledge of Creation has been granted in the Love of God and this gift of the Truth, which Christ admonished us to await with alert intuition, calls us to an awakening. We can no longer blindfold ourselves by empty claims of belonging to Jesus, claims that merely express the wish, without making any effort to listen or follow His admonitions. Indeed, many who claim Christianity including some of the religious leaders lack a conception of what Christ demands of His followers.

Those of us who have children and/or have observed children will recognize the quality of this trustful childlikeness, which does not pause to analyze where the next meal will come from, or even its nature and content; Trust that does not worry about what to wear or concern itself with permanent material acquisitions, but which lives simply in the experience of the moment. Dispensing and receiving joy, expressing its gratitude to its Creator as well as to its earthly parents in its joyful activity that we love to watch, and in the sunshine it brings to its home. Irrespective of the wealth or poverty of its own parents, the child remains satisfied and grateful until, in the process of growing up, social discrepancies and other prejudices are pointed out to it by the society as necessities worthy of its attention. No wonder we have been admonished to become as little children, for indeed we are children of Creation and must learn to live and experience Creation in the purity of our intuitive perception.

Unfortunately, the world system reaches out to touch the child even before it is ready for it in the permissive societies of today. The child is no longer permitted to be childlike and the adult no longer understands what childlikeness means. In the more ‘developed’ societies the protective boundaries between the child and the adult has been destroyed and the child, exposed too early to adult thoughts and habits, grows up too quickly into adult tendencies for proper balanced childlikeness. In poorer communities’ material necessities similarly often force the child to grow up too quickly. Innocence is sacrificed on the altar of progress and trust is a mere whisper in the forceful currents of distrust that are constantly sweeping over our troubled souls. Conceit has reached such proportion as to effectively question our need for a Creator. How glibly, pitiful materially bound spirits talk, sometimes with remarkable intellectual wit, about man not needing a Creator! How diligently we search in Matter for the origins of life, which in itself carries the story of its origin and evolution! Yet scientific conceit will not permit us to look inwards and seek the answers that only the alert spirit can find.

Today scientists love to talk about the big bang theory being the origin of all Creation. This concept was first proposed in 1927 and suggests that the universe began with the detonation of a “primordial atom”, as the origin of Creation. Yet when first proposed many scientists vehemently opposed it, perhaps because it assumed a specific moment of creation or because it begs the question of who or what sparked off the big bang and where the primordial atom came from.

If there is no Creator, how can there be a Creation? Could the car, train, computer and so many other amazing technological inventions have arisen following a big or perhaps a smaller bang? I am very sure that the same scientists and technocrats will be extremely wroth if their inventions were credited to mere chance, but no one scruples to discredit the glorious work of God. Is it the scope and magnitude of Creation that makes the concept of a Creator difficult to accept? For us lay persons the magnitude of scientific achievements is also great but we do not thereby deny the ingenuity of the scientists who helped form them.

It is tempting to consider that the opposition of science to the knowledge of God – a knowledge which we all carry as a part of our essence – is rooted in the recognition of the inability of man to ever attain Divine Power, in other words in envious conceit. Whatever the reason, it is a terrible crime not only to live a lie but also to mislead others who may be weak.

However, our denial and opposition detracts nothing from the fact or the Majesty of the Creator. What can we, as human beings, give the Almighty Creator that is not already His? In spite of our self-avowed importance in Creation as individuals or as specie, the Creator does not need us for His existence. He has always existed and will always continue to exist and our denials can only bring harm to us. Indeed, as indicated in the Grail Message, if He were ever to withdraw His Sustaining Power, we would cease to exist. We need Him in the absolute, both now in our existence in the World of Matter and eternally if ever we reach Paradise as conscious human spirits. We should be grateful that the longing for the recognition of God does not leave us in peace.¹ The persistent urge to recognize and serve the Will of God is a gift, a flame we received as we issued from the radiation of the Almighty Creator Himself and which if we keep pure and tend, will lead us to ultimate recognition and fulfilment.

There is no fulfilment and no freedom without the Truth! Only the Truth can set us free³ – free from unsatisfied and unfulfilled life; free from slavery to evil and to the Darkness. It will release within us the joy and peace that belong only to the Light, liberate us from the World of Matter and save us from eternal damnation. Nobody and nothing else can set us free.