BD.0716
December 20, 1938
PASSING THROUGH EACH FORM IS NECESSARY (MICROCOSM)
The world as such as its only purpose has to lead the many
living creatures, the carriers of spiritual potencies, to a higher development,
and that can be realized only in an environment where resistance of all
kinds are produced. And the world offers those sufficiently - be it on
the Earth or on the many other celestial bodies. Living beings everywhere
have to face unimaginable difficulties, and need all their energy to overcome
them. Such energy exist in every living being through the supply of Force
that it receives in order to enable it to exist. The further evolution
depends now, how this Force is being used that is inside the living being.
The sooner the activity incumbent upon the living being is fulfilled,
the quicker the spiritual intelligence is set free of its enfolding form
and the following stage of evolution can begin.
Now the question is expected: "In which Form is the quickest evolution
for the living being possible?". And this can only be answered thus;
that it is indispensable that every Form has to be passed through and
a limit is only established, when the gathering of countless soul-particles
forms into a whole - when all soul-substances are present to enliven the
last embodiment - the Form of man. The most subtle agitation in man, the
most gentle emotion has its cause alone in the soul, tuned to all refinement,
and in turn is composed of the most subtle soul particles that are important
in the construction of the whole. Because these guarantees to the now
formed soul - the man - the finest emotion and perception-capacity for
the smallest Creation-miracles of the divine Love.
Would these finest components not been available, then man would miss
entirely the sense for the already originated miracle-works and for the
future ones. He simply could not see what is not already alive inside
of himself. He must have in himself everything that the Creation shelters,
in the smallest components, that means; every substance must exist in
his soul and only then can he observe this, also outside of himself.
This instruction in turn, opens up a new question: "Of what kind
are the components of the small living beings?" And this is easy
to explain: They carry within themselves all substances of still smaller
living beings. But accordingly they only feel instinctively all that which
is already further progressed in the evolution, but on the other hand
dominate what substantially already exist in these living beings.
The knowledge of this important teaching in the Creation doctrine is for
man of the greatest advantage, because he learns by this the nature of
man in his multiform. Through this fact he can almost realize that man
is the crown of the divine Creation - that he in himself, i.e. his soul,
is so delicately constructed that it is impossible for such an artwork
to have been produced by a wise Creator only for the duration of an earthly
life, because everything that he looks at in nature - be it in the realm
of mineral, plant or animal -exist in atoms within himself.
Man holds within him the whole Creation-Work in the utmost finest reduction.
Therefore he also has to overcome within himself the resistances that
approach him from the outside through the world, that is thus to understand:
that countless dangers from outside stimulate man to the strongest resistance-force,
but also the spiritual atmosphere is as well moved by continuous resistance
and permanent struggles of the different soul-substances, and only by
that can the soul strengthen itself and can be made accessible to higher
aims.
How each, even the tiniest living being has to accomplish a certain activity,
so must man also, as the carrier of all these substances. And this activity
consists in the spiritualization of all those soul-substances that are
still in harmful contradiction to the real task because they would prefer
to follow that earthly activity that was once incumbent on them in earlier
Form.
Therefore, man has to fight against so many weaknesses, faults and bad
habits, because over and again the peculiarities of the substances, bound
in the soul, break through and would like to seduce the flesh - the earthly
cover - to complaisance, whereas in life on Earth the most extreme resistance
should be offered.
And only so is it understandable what extraordinary responsibility men
carries in their life on Earth, how the struggle must be waged continuously
in order to be really spiritualized at the end of the days, to triumph
as victor over all the dangers and to have resisted every temptation -
because how often is "the spirit willing but the flesh weak".
AMEN |
