Light
You can become acquainted with innumerable forms of light on this earth, and yet every form of light which you may set eyes upon is vastly outshone by that unique light which is sent by that distant blaze of the sun to the earthly orb; through its power of radiation the smallest and the greatest on this planet find their form. –
But even this most powerful light which earthly eyes can grasp is but a dull shimmer compared with the light that can reach you from spiritual heights as soon as you become able to receive it…
When we speak to you of ‘spiritual’ light we are not playing an empty game with colourful analogies! –
What comes to you from the spiritual realm is truly ‘light’, and all external light which can be perceived on earth can only be described as ‘light’ inasmuch as it fills your soul with a similar feeling as that primeval power reaching you from lofty spiritual spheres which reveals itself as ‘light’ to you…One of my kind spoke to you of this light, that shines ‘in darkness’ and which the darkness can never comprehend, as of ‘life’, – and indeed: his words speak the truth! – – –
Only those who have found me within themselves as their own life can also give witness to light!
In its originally begotten universal power this light of the spirit shall eternally brighten your complete innermost self!
You shall forever shine forth in the blaze of this light, and your blaze shall know no end! – – –
Just as a skilfully polished diamond can not irradiate its inner fire before it is permeated with an earthly light, so too you cannot irradiate from your innermost self as long as you love the darkness and conceal yourself from me, – from me: the eternal light which is life for all existence, blazing forth abundantly and ceaselessly from within itself! –
Truly you shall fill all darkness with light for yourself when you find yourself blazing forth within me!
All wonders of yourself will be shown to you, and everything around you shall shine in the reflection of the light’s blaze which will then fill you! – –
But still you are satisfied with lying in darkness and only yearning for light, probably sensing that you could shine in its rays, like a crystal which is suddenly struck by the light of the earthly sun.
Or if on occasions you can escape your own lethargy, you are satisfied when any ray reaches you from a dull light and elicits from your innermost being a pale glow, – a tired glimmer incapable of filling you with light and even less able to illuminate the darkness of your surroundings! –
You are content in your belief that all your ability to shine has been confirmed and you find yourself immediately back in darkness as soon as that dull flame has left you…
You may manifest the most wondrous facets and with all justification, completely aware of your own value, be pleased with your precious form; but never will you experience yourself in this way from your innermost being, and as a stranger you will have nothing to say to yourself as long as you remain attached to this heavy and stubborn lethargy! – –
The years of your earthly life fly away, and every solstice will reach you in the same place, banished to the same darkness, until one day your earthly eyes become weary for good and close onto your last ray from this earth’s sun. Continuing in the same darkness you can no longer even perceive the external reflection of essential light which by way of consolation had at least still appeared to your dense inner darkness…
In vain you will then try to awaken in yourself just a similar sensation to what your external human life once was at least able to find in the light of your days on earth…
Everything in you and around you will hide itself, in spite of its being in easy reach, in the deepest darkness; nevertheless your yearning for the sensation of light will be insatiable…
For aeons you will perhaps regret, in the night of torment, an earthly life that was unused, continually prey to the confused experience of dark regions, until one day in remote worldly periods of time you may receive once more the first shimmer of light…
Thus one in whom was the profusion of my light once spoke to you words full of meaning:
“Work while it is day, the night cometh” – for all who have not worked while here on earth – “when no man can work” because he is for an incalculable time prey to that darkness which he had failed to escape during his time on earth on account of his lethargic self-satisfaction and the delusion that the conscious experience of his own value was riches enough for him to need me: – the essential light. – –
Behold! I come to you in these your days on earth, for I love you, so that today you might tear yourself from this fate, since it is still within your power to do so! – – –
If you have succumbed to the laws which here hold sway, I too am unable to redeem you from their continuing power, for all law is grounded within
me, and I would negate myself were I to seek to liberate you before your time! – – –
Even if today, with my words coming to you, you courageously tear away the fetters of darkness, you will be following the law grounded within me to no less an extent!
It is for you alone to decide if you want to follow the law of freedom or the law of captivity! – – – – – – –
You have become master of your own fate from the moment before time when I let you go from myself, who remains eternally within the moment, on your own chosen journey! – – –
Before this took place you experienced yourself within me in perpetual experience of the moment comprehending, as it were, the continuous cross-section of all existence; – following your departure from me, however, you were and are able to experience, if I am to reveal myself to you within an image only what is, as it were, the longitudinal section of all that exists, until one day – whether by the law of freedom or of captivity you find your way back to your point of departure which I am myself! – – –
You are hearing the deepest mystery in these words; it will serve you if you can comprehend it! – – –
Open your innermost being so that there may resound in you what my words impart to you!
In your innermost being you will then experience why men of wisdom said to you that you had truly ‘fallen’ deeply when from your supreme height within me you desired to go down and away into this darkness which now surrounds you…
Yet you still bear within you here in this darkness the power to raise yourself back to me and to your erstwhile heights! –
You still have the same form, and will be able to possess it eternally, in which I found you in me when I was compelled to let you go, when your will no longer sought the heights, but the depths! – – –
Still you can shine forth in me – in the light of all light – anew! – – –
Yet you must yourself move your will to perform the turning so that finally, – since you have already wandered, aeons before your birth in the animal of the earth through benighted darkness, – you will
find yourself in the realm of eternal light that I am myself so that you can live once more in me for all eternity!
Behold! I suffer in you, since I cannot suffer in myself, and all suffering becomes a lie before my light!
But I am eternal truth, and whatever is not fulfilled within me is deception and appearance!
Therefore, I call upon you I love to abandon the lie which makes itself known to you as suffering! – –
Therefore, I show you the way out of your darkness, so that you may shine forth in joy in me – in eternal light – before darkness can once again bind you! – – –
You shall turn yourself to joy in me, and everything which for you is suffering will fall from you like scabs from healed scars and never more disfigure you! –
You shall become aware of yourself as joy; for I can not reveal myself as light in you until, having turned to joy within yourself, you come to meet me! –
Only in this way, you beloved one, will you find me in yourself as light, to blaze eternally in the rays of this light! –
In this way you shall become pure light in joy within me! – – – – –