The Natural Sun
Announcements about our sun and its natural conditions
- Chapter 69 -
The key to understanding all religions and revelations
Regarding the actual subject of religion, this (with the inhabitants of the seventh belt) consists of eliciting unanimous praise for God's nature in all His attributes.
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For this reason, all things upon this pair of belts are examined, which seen from within, must have one and the same foundation. This does not depend on large or small, nor on much or little; or on whether this is the biggest and the other the smallest thing; or, a distance indicator shows one number whilst another indicates another distance. Considered only, outwardly such differences are noticeable and contradict each other; from within however, they are fully equal.
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So for instance, I can say to you: the distance from your house to a town as for instance in your uplands is seven miles; but again I can say: the distance from your house to the same city is ten miles; and again, I can say: this distance is twenty miles, and that by the same route; I could indeed give you several more such mileages. Seen outwardly, you cannot but in good conscience say: this is obvious nonsense! For a blind person can see that a distance measured as seven miles can be neither lengthened nor shortened, provided the route remains the same. Outwardly, this objection is well founded; and hence seven, ten and twenty miles cannot be the same. But what aspect does this objection take on, if examined from within? This is another matter.
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That you may see the nature of this objection however, I will again help you out with another telling image. How do you imagine your city of Bruck? You say: as we always saw it. I ask again: where can you imagine this? You will say: firstly within us, i.e. through the power of our imagination, and retrospection to the natural standpoint of this city. Good, I say. Does your recollection depend on a certain location and are you forced in your spirit to imagine this city only where it stands? Surely you can, in your spirit, transfer this city to any distance you desire. Behold now, this gives us enough to go on. If it is all the same for the spirit, as to where from within, it wants to imagine this place, it always costs exactly the same effort to imagine it, then ask your spirit what difference it finds between the distances indicated? Will it need less time to imagine it at seven than at a hundred miles? He who remembers the speed of his thought, knows there is no difference between thinking a distance of one mile and immediately afterwards several trillion miles. If however this is the same for his spirit, or "seen from within", it will be clear that all things seen from within, going out from one point, are also one and the same thing within one and the same point.
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This you can already gather from the general concept of summarisation. Under which concept can you imagine all created things, without distinction of nature, attribute and form? You say: under the general term: beings or creatures. Good, I say. But say unto Me: how different within these terms of summarisation do you find the endless multiplicity and diversity of beings. Here you have to admit and say: within these general descriptions there is to be found no difference between the countless creations; for in these two terms (beings or creatures) only a multiplicity of the created beings expresses itself. I ask again: why? Considering the foregoing, you cannot answer this in any way other than saying: because at their source, all the many endlessly and diverse things are fully one. If I add how, and wherein? Then you must, as it were, bump against it with your nose and say: since all things go forth from divine love, they must also be as completely present and united as the divine love is united within itself.
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If this is countered with: must everything have gone forth from God's love? God surely also is the highest wisdom; is it therefore not more correct to assume that His endless wisdom rather than love is the creative principle? For we see this amongst ourselves, in that there are some who possess a mighty portion of love, to the extent of wanting to consume all their brothers and sisters with philanthropy; if however they don't seek to also develop their intellectual powers, then little will come of all their great love, even whilst other people, not imbued with this strong portion of love are, through their many-sided learning, able to get great things under way. Such a rejoinder would indeed warrant some attention, if God and man were one and the same. Since there is a powerful distinction however, the difference between God's love and that of man also remains, although man ought to most resemble God on this point.
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With God, wisdom proceeds from love as does light from the flame. Even if no one can argue that all things in their diversity are not positioned and ordered by God's wisdom, no one can say that ultimately they do not all, including wisdom, go forth from love. Behold, now that we realize this, it has to transpire that as seen from the innermost aspect, everything has to seize and find itself in deepest order, as if, externally there were no difference. The multiplicity in the aforementioned disclosures, finally in the seed, once again converges into the simple, undifferentiated, eternal order.
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Whoever therefore, out of this inner order or, stated more clearly, out of inner love for Me, as the basic germ of all beings, takes a look at himself and all other beings, shall find the same unity and one and the same integral order everywhere!
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Consider for instance the tree of life or the written Word of the Old and the New Testament: how many thousands of branches, twigs and roots you can see on it! Not one root, branch or twig resembles another. Outwardly everything seems to contradict itself. Dogmas about one and the same thing sound different. Prophecies about one and the same happening are described differently by different prophets. Even the four Gospels relate the same thing with different words, and differ even in various numerical facts. Even the places of some occurrences of text disagree, and even dates often vary. Whoever therefore wishes to get to the inner connection of all this from outer observation surely will lose his way and will hit the mark as little as someone drilling a tree from the outside and claiming: he will hit the core from a certain angle; but after checking the drill hole, finds he missed the core by several inches. If however he first splits the tree and then drills from the core outward, can he possibly miss the bark? Why not? Because everything converges in the core, but the core is not to be found on the outside. Someone could indeed, as you would say, with his drill hit the centre through "blind luck", but to what end? Will that enable him in future, to always hit the core or centre, with every tree he drills?
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Behold, from that angle the outer, as it were anti-solar, intellectual wisdom does as much as nothing for him. This outer intellectual wise man shall constantly trudge about like a blind person, where everything shall be guesswork rather than an inner, convincing certainty. But he, who along the solar path, drills trees from the core outwards, can never miss the bark?
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Behold, this is the right key, not only to throw light upon and open up true inner wisdom regarding the religion of the inhabitants of our seventh solar belt, but much more still, for your revealed religion and also in respect of this present New Revelation, to enable you through this very key or true inner wisdom, to drill to examine not only what is revealed, but also all things and manifestations of the true, inner and everywhere inwardly cohesive, never self-contradictory basis and main aspect of inner wisdom and hence from the centre of your love for Me.
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The further pursuit of the religion of the people of the seventh belt shall put you into a still brighter light! And so we shall leave it again for today!