WHAT SEEK YE?
What seek ye? What is all this tumultuous
agitation? It permeates the world like a ferment, and a
flood of books overwhelms all peoples. Scholars pore over
ancient writings, investigating and pondering until
spiritually exhausted. Prophets arise to warn, to predict
… suddenly from all sides people strive feverishly to
spread new light!
Thus it rages now over the troubled soul of mankind, not
refreshing and invigorating, but scorching, consuming,
absorbing the last vestiges of strength still left to the
afflicted one in this gloominess of the present time.
Here and there also a whispering is heard, rumors of a
growing expectation of something impending. Every nerve is
restless, tense with subconscious longing. There is seething
and surging, and over everything lies a kind of ominously
brooding stupor. Fraught with disaster. What must it
bring? Confusion, despondency and ruin, unless a mighty hand
tears asunder the dark layer that now envelops the
terrestrial globe spiritually. With the slimy tenacity of a
dirty morass, absorbing and smothering every ascending free
light-thought before it has become strong; with the gruesome
silence of a swamp, suppressing, disintegrating, and
destroying every good volition even in the bud, before any
action can arise from it.
But the seekers' cry for light, imbued with strength to
cleave through the mire, is turned aside and dies away
beneath an impenetrable canopy, assiduously set up by the
very people who think they help. They offer stones for
bread!
Look at the innumerable books:
They do not animate, they only weary the human
spirit! And this is the proof of the barrenness of all
they offer; for whatever wearies the spirit is never
right.
Spiritual bread immediately refreshes, Truth
revitalizes and Light animates!
Simple people must surely despair when they see what
walls are being built around the beyond by so-called psychic
science. Who among the simple is to grasp the learned
sentences and strange expressions? Is the beyond, then,
intended exclusively for psychic scientists?
They speak of God! But is it necessary to set up a
university in order first of all to acquire the abilities to
recognize the conception of the Godhead? To what lengths
will this mania, which is mostly rooted only in ambition,
drive them?
Readers and listeners stagger along like drunkards from
one place to another- unsteady, not free in themselves,
one-sided, because they have been diverted from the simple
path.
Listen, you despondent ones! Lift up your eyes, you who
are seriously seeking: The way to the Highest lies open
to every human being! Proficiency in learning is not the
gate to it!
Did Christ Jesus, that great example on the true path to
the Light, choose His disciples among the learned Pharisees?
Among the Scribes? He took them from the simple, natural
people, because they had no need to struggle against this
great delusion that the way to the Light is hard to master,
and must be difficult.
This thought is man's greatest enemy, it is a
lie!
Thus turn away from all scientific knowledge, where it is
a question of what is most sacred in man, which must be
fully grasped! Leave it alone; for science, being a
product of the human brain, is piecework and must remain
piecework.
Consider, how should scientific knowledge, acquired by
laborious study, lead to the Godhead? What, after all, is
knowledge? Knowledge is what the brain can conceive. Yet
how very limited is the perceptive capacity of the brain,
which remains firmly bound to space and time. Even eternity
and the meaning of infinity cannot be grasped by a human
brain. Just that which is inseparably linked with the
Godhead.
But the brain stands silent before the incomprehensible
power streaming through all that exists, from which it
derives its own activity. The power which everyone
intuitively perceives as a matter of course every day, every
hour, every moment, whose existence science too has always
recognized; whereas with the brain, that is with the
knowledge and intellect, one seeks in vain to grasp and
comprehend it.
So inadequate is the activity of a brain, the basis and
instrument of science, and this limitation naturally also
affects what it produces, hence all science itself. Thus
science does indeed subsequently help to elucidate,
classify and arrange all that it receives ready- made from
the creative power which precedes it; but when it seeks to
assume leadership or offer criticism, it must inevitably
fail so long as it binds itself so firmly to the intellect,
that is, to the perceptive capacity of the brain, as it has
done hitherto.
For this reason erudition, along with those who adjust
themselves to it, always remains clinging to details;
whereas each man carries within himself, as a gift, the
great inconceivable whole, and is fully capable of attaining
to the noblest and highest without laborious study!
Therefore away with this needless torture of spiritual
enslavement! Not for nothing does the great Master exhort
us: "Become like children!"
He who bears within himself the firm volition for what is
good, and strives to give purity to his thoughts, has
already found the way to the Highest! All else will then
be added unto him. This requires neither books, nor
spiritual strain; neither asceticism, nor solitude. He will
become sound in body and soul, freed from all pressure of
morbid pondering; for all exaggeration is harmful. You are
meant to be human beings, not hothouse plants which through
one-sided cultivation succumb to the first puff of wind!
Awake! Look around you! Listen to your inner voice! That
alone can open the way!
Heed not the dissensions of the churches. The great
Bringer of Truth, Christ Jesus, the personification of
Divine Love, did not concern Himself with creeds. After all,
what are the creeds today? A shackling of the free spirit of
man, enslavement of the Divine spark dwelling within you;
dogmas that seek to compress the work of the Creator, and
also His great Love, into forms molded by the human mind.
This indicates a dishonoring of Divinity, a systematic
disparaging.
Every serious seeker is repulsed by such things, because
they prevent him from ever experiencing the great reality
within himself. As a result his longing for the Truth
becomes increasingly hopeless, and finally he despairs of
himself and of the world!
Therefore awake! Shatter the walls of dogma within you,
tear off the bandage, so that the pure Light of the Highest
may reach you undimmed. Then your spirit will soar aloft in
exultation, jubilantly sensing all the great Love of the
Father, which knows no limitations of earthly intellect. You
will at last know that you are a part of this Love; you will
grasp It easily and completely, unite with It, and thus gain
new strength daily and hourly as a gift, enabling you to
ascend out of the chaos as a matter of course!
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