BD.5800
October 31, 1953

CREATION OF MAN - THE FALL OF MAN

The fallen spiritual needed endless time for its upward development, and endless time was also required for My individual creations. The latter were obliged to develop themselves, so to say, also the inner bound spiritual should be able to receive more and more matured spirituality. Again and again new forms were called to life, and always new destinations given to these forms.

Therefore, it took more than just a moment for the origin of the material creation, and endlessly long periods had to pass until the spiritual found in all the different grades of maturity the necessary outer form, because the ever-rising maturity forever demanded new creations.

As long as the spiritual moved under the law of "you must", My creative activity meant: Creation of the earth as a maturing station for the lowest fallen spirituals where, they could gain maturity. This maturity returns the free will to the bounded spiritual which it had once abused. Now it was imperative to create also for this fully matured spiritual an outer form so that it could again test the free will in this form. And this creation work was man, who differed from all former originated creations in as much as he was endowed, in addition to free will, also with intelligence and reason; was gifted with the faculty of thinking an I-consciousness, and with the ability to exchange thoughts by speaking with his fellow men, this togetherness gave the, necessary basis for the test of one's will.

The outer form of man already existed in the last stages of the "must" condition, and was destined for the reception of uncounted fully matured soul substances. But those living beings still acted under the "must condition", corresponding to the law of nature, and therefore they were not responsible for their actions.

They were only able to think to a small degree. But as collection vessels for their spiritual, which matured over the long period of evolution, they were also creation works which My Wisdom and my love formed for this spiritual. But it was only possible to call these beings "man" if they were in possession of the free will, of the intelligence and of an I- consciousness.
And only then began the plan of spiritualization. This required that these beings - the men -- were taught by Me and that they had to use their ability to think according to my admonitions. Thanks to their free will, they could now produce and live on earth; they could become gods; but also, they could act contrary to My advice and My will, and therefore they returned again to the depth, from whence they arose.

I created man. I gave the spiritual one, which having already reached a certain degree of maturity, an outer form that corresponded again to My Love and wisdom , and also to the task that man has to fulfill. This exterior form, as soon as the spiritual inhabited it, only then became a living being ... the composition of countless particles which now as soul gave life to the form. The spiritual is a constant effective force, and was indeed bound during the endlessly long evolutionary process. Therefore it was incapable of acting Without hindrance. But in its final exterior form in man, it can again become active. It can unfold its own force and through union with Me increase it without limits.

The first men had My immeasurable force at their disposition. They were equipped in an extraordinary way because their test-life on earth should have led them to become totally spiritual in order to shed their earthly cover and return as My rightful children, into the house of their Father. But the will-test which I ask from every created being had to be given to them. The passing of this test would then have made it easier for all the people following to reach the final goal.

In the first men I created beings that despite their insufficiency, i.e., their imperfection caused by their apostasy from Me, could however arrive at the knowledge of Myself, because they recognized themselves as creatures, and therefore by their ability to think and their free will, could recognize also My will and act accordingly. I created beings to whom I could make Myself understood despite their distance from Me, which was previously impossible in the situation of the bound will.

Man was therefore the first earthly creation work that carried within him a fallen Ur-spirit, and he had to try to help the spirit to return, to its Ur- condition, so as to be able, as a free spiritual, once more to move and to act again in eternal union with Me.

This was the task for the first created human being, and it remains the task of all men, until the end - until the complete spiritualization of all fallen ones.

The first man did not have a very difficult trial of will. But My adversary, as well, had the right to use his influence for this trial. And through that influence man failed and deserted Me for the second time.

This was the first fall of man on this earth, the fall of man of which mankind has knowledge even if it knows nothing about the ancient apostasy of the spiritual from Me. The latter but explains everything, because the first man could not have fallen if he would have been the first created being out of Me. In that case, he would have been in full possession of force and light because only perfection can come out of Me. Then no other antiforce could have influenced him. The reason for Adam's fall is to be found in that former apostasy of the spiritual; consequently in the still immature soul of man, which was able to stand the test but was not obliged to do so.

Man had the intelligence and the free will, and therefore also the responsibility to care for his soul. Therefore he had to atone for his guilt . My adversary kept his power over man as the embodied spiritual, which means for every person a painful earthly existence, connected with fighting and suffering, and with the goal of. freeing itself from Lucifer's domination. It is an aim that can be reached also by man because Jesus Christ came to help mankind, weakened through the sinfulness of Adam. The redemption is therefore secured for everyone who recognizes HIM as the son of God and the Redeemer of the world, and follows Him willingly.

The first man could have built the bridge over which all his descendants could then have come to Me. But because he fell, mankind was obliged to persist in slavery to Satan for a long time - until the Savior came - until Jesus Christ came down to earth to build a bridge to the spiritual realm through His suffering and His death on the cross.

The decision to change his will, which was asked of Lucifer, My first created being, was in no way to be considered a commandment; it was rather the free decision of the being to turn its will towards one direction or another. But the direction of its will was founded solely on its desire for power and for monarchy. Inasmuch as it was aware of its issue out of Me, it believed that it was reigning alone because it did not see Me. This will I did not put into the being I had created, but the being itself altered the free will which it had received from Me as a gift.

This was the difference between the first fall of Lucifer and the "fall of man" - of the first human being. - because the latter still carried in himself the misdirected will. Therefore I gave Adam a commandment that he should not transgress - a commandment that he could have kept easily if the anti-spirit had not influenced him. And Satan had therefore such a strong influence on man because the latter was in fast still a part of him, because Adam' s soul had not yet attained the perfection which makes a fall impossible. A perfectly created man would be unable to fall; that means, he would not have been capable of transgressing this commandment. The perfect spiritual in man would have restrained him from every act that trespasses against the will of God. The creation of man was therefore only the consequence of the fall of Lucifer and his followers. Indeed, it would not have been necessary for Me to give an outer form as wrapper to the spiritual called to life by Me.

But the form of man (his body) contained the fallen spiritual. Consequently the man Adam was already burdened with that ancient sin which, however, he could have thrust off if he would have obeyed My commandment. It would have been possible for him to discharge the inherited guilt.

His fall delayed the return of the apostatized spirituals to Me for endless time. However, it became possible, through the redemption work of the man Jesus, who died without a commandment from Me, which is what the man Adam should have done, namely; to accept completely My will and to unite with Me through a life of love in order to obtain full possession of light and loveforce.

AMEN