BD.8770
March 4, 1964

CREATION PROCESS HAS TAKEN ETERNITIES

The act of creation was not the work of a moment, although this would have been within MY Power, but then creation would have missed its purpose. Creation must guarantee a slow, upward development, which needs eternities. You must understand that the description, given in scripture, the Book of the Fathers, gives only a pictorial description, because people could not grasp anything deeper. They would not be able to understand the true nature of these events, but should be taught that the creations were brought forth by MY Hand, that they were and are the work of MY Will and MY Power.

Whoever wants to delve deeper will come to a deeper understanding. It is first of all necessary to know about the Power which brought everything you see around you, into being, even creations you do not see. Before a deeper meaning can be explained one must know about the original beginning of all that flowed out of ME as the power of Love to become~ independent beings. And one must know about their fall from ME and the great original sin with which these beings are not burdened. Only then can the process of creation and the course of return be explained. However, those who are of an unawakened spirit and hold on to the letter will never clearly understand. This teaching is difficult to under-stand, even for those who are spiritually enlightened.

Such a creation needs endlessly long times of predevelopment for the spirituals who must develop higher in each work of creation. They had fallen so deep that it has taken eternities to find their way upwards in creations of different kinds from the most primitive to the most beautifully formed works brought into existence by MY Will, to contain spirituals and to make it possible for them to reach a higher maturity.

So the creation work was in the beginning a concentration of undeveloped spirituals, whose substances slowly became condensed to form a mass, which still could not be called hard matter, but could be understood as basic elements, without form but of enormous power, because they contained the total uncontrolled spirituality. But MY Wisdom distributed everything in the right measure, and used each element for MY creating work, so that separate forms came forth, which must accomplish their purpose. So began the slow upbuilding of the visible creations which took an eternally long time, until the Earth could support good vegetation and more and more matured spirituality could take their abode in those creations, to go the path of upwards develop-ment in the plant world.

Then followed living beings, creations that could perform a certain task according to their nature, even though it was very little. Again unimaginable times of development passed from the tiniest living beings until the world of animals, who developed into constantly greater forms who had gathered within them much collected spirituality again to fulfill a task: to exploit the Earth for the last crowning work of Divine creation, for man who had to go through all those first stages. The soul is now the assembly of all those particles, which once belonged to an apostate original spirit and in a dissolved state must go through the entire creation to develop slowly upwards again. Consequently, man could not have been created at the time of "creating the world" even as all creation works was not the work of a moment. The slow development had to proceed first; otherwise the creation would have been without purpose. It did not come into existence for MY sake but for the apostate beings, to lead back the fallen.

Thus, each creation was the creativity of MY thoughts, and always occurred when another form was needed for that spirituality which had reached a certain degree of maturity, so it could continue its development. So different creations came into existence through countless phases of evolution. The plant world was only necessary when mineral creations were freed and needed a lighter cover. Then the tiniest living creatures came into being, following the creation of the plant-world.

I alone knew when the one or the other was needed, I knew also how much time the larger living beings, the animals needed from here on to the Pre-Adamites, to mature the soul-substances which were incarnated in them. So I knew when the time had come that the spirituals had gathered their particular particles to be incarnated as "Souls" in the last form. Again I brought forth another creation, "Man", who is created so magnificent in exterior form that maturing to the ultimate perfection is made possible.

This creation work of man occurred a long time ago, because periodically great changes took place, which makes a calculation of the time since creation impossible. But this is certain; you can only come to an understanding of MY Eternal Plan of Salvation when you have reached that degree of Light, which is needed to understand it.

But before you have received that inward Light you cannot imagine with your intellect the time that you call "Eternity". Because your spirit is not sufficiently matured, you can only receive a simple description. It is only possible for an awakened spirit to have a deeper insight. But all this knowledge you will comprehend when your spirit has entered the realm of Light and everything can be revealed. Then you will have the ability to understand.

AMEN