HOW TO USE THE 3 TALENTS OF LANGUAGE, MUSIC AND ARTS AS TOOL FOR HUMAN ADVANCEMENT, INSTEAD OF DEGENERATION (IDOLATRY)?

 

HOW TO USE THE 3 TALENTS OF LANGUAGE, MUSIC AND ARTS AS TOOL FOR HUMAN ADVANCEMENT, INSTEAD OF DEGENERATION (IDOLATRY)? 

 

Correct Perspective How To Avoid Arts esp Sculpture From Becoming a Tool of the Deadly Sin of Idolatry and at the same time How To Use Such Arts to Assist our Spiritual Perfection

We will use the Lord’s discourse about art and beauty, in His big book “THE GREAT GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JESUS CHRIST THRU JOHN,” BOOK 25, CHAPTERS 44 TO 56

but we will quote only the core chapters, not all 13 chapters, only the core TWO OF THE 13 CHAPTERS, 57 PAGES, MISSING FROM THE BIBLE ON THE LORD’S CLEAR DISTINCTION BETWEEN GODLY ARTS AND THE SIN OF IDOLATRY.

To savespace and time, we are posting only the core chapters 48 to 49, the core chapters. To read all 13 missing chapters, you may read/ download the book “The Great Gospel according to Jesus Christ thru John” book 25 from www.Scribd.com

Before I would post the full tetxt of the two chapters, it will help to remind all of us that even in the Bible, Old Testament, in the Ten Commandments, GOD DOES NOT SAY THAT PRACTISING CREATIVITY IN THE FORM OF ARTS SUCH AS SCUPTURE OR CARVING IMAGES IS SIN PER SE... THE THING IS NOT THE SIN BUT THE WRONG USE OF THE THING... WHAT IS SIN IS IN WORSHIPPING THE IMAGE OR ASCRIBING TO THE IMAGE ANY FORM OF ACCOLADE NOT DUE TO IT OR HONOR FOR ANY TRAIT SUCH AS GODHOOD THAT IT DOES NOT HAVE (!) AND DOING SOMETHING TO IT THAT IT DOES NOT DESERVE (SUCH AS WORSHIPPING IT!

BUT TO TREAT A BEAUTIFUL SCULPTURE WHAT IT DESERVES SUCH AS APPRECIATION AS A BEAUTIFUL WORK OF ARTS AND TAKING CARE OF IT, AND ALSO FOR WHATEVER MESSAGE OR LESSONS IT CONVEYS IS NOT A SIN AND IS EVEN ENCOURAGED BY OUR CREATOR. THE PROBLEM COMES WHEN WE GIVE TO THE CREATION OR WORK WHAT SOLELY BELONGS TO THE CREATOR, NAMELY: WORSHIP WHICH INCLUDES LOVING OBEDIENCE WHICH MEANS IMMITATION... THAT WE IMITATE GOD IN HIS QUALITIES WHICH ARE ALL GOOD, SUCH AS IN BEING SEEING AND NOT BLIND LIKE THE IMAGE, BEING A LISTENER AND NOT LIKE THE DEAF IMAGE, IN BEING A COMMUNICATOR INSTEAD OF BEING A MUTE LIKE THE IDOL...BECAUSE IF WE MAKE THE MISTAKE BY WORSHIPPING (IMITATING) THE IMAGE, THEN, THIS IS THE RESULT: WE WILL THINK GOD IS BLIND, DEAF AND MUTE (NO LONGER SPEAK TO US) AND SECONDLY, WE WILL ALSO BE BLIND (TO THE THINGS THE TRUE GOD SHOWS TO US), DEAF TO THE MESSAGES HE IS SPEAKING DIRECT TO OUR MIND AND HEART, AND ALSO MUTE WHEN WE SHOULD BE SPEAKING OUT!

THAT WOULD BE THE WORST KIND OF RELIGION EVER KNOWN TO MAN: AN IMAGE WHO IS BLIND, DEAF & MUTE, REPRESENTING SUPPOSEDLY ‘TRUE’ GOD BUT WHO IS ALSO BLIND, DEAF & MUTE... WHO MADE US, THE WORSHIPERS, ALSO BLIND, DEAF & MUTE!

PSALM 115 IS VERY CLEAR IN WARNING US ABOUT THIS ERROR OF MISTAKING GOD AS BLIND, DEAF AND MUTE, INSTEAD OF BEING A LIVING GOD WHO IS SEEING, HEARING AND SPEAKING.

Psalms

Chapter 115

4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

5 They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:

6 They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:

7 They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.

8 They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.

BUT THE TRUE GOD IS LIVE: SEEING, HEARING AND TALKING!

1 Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake.

2 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?

3 But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.

9 O Israel, trust thou in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.

10 O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.

11 Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.

12 The LORD hath been mindful of us: he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron.

13 He will bless them that fear the LORD, both small and great.

14 The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children.

15 Ye are blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth.

16 The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD'S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.

17 The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.

18 But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for evermore. Praise the LORD.

See?

In the Ten Commandments, the Lord only prohibit the bowing our heads and kneeling before an image. If you have an image or sculpture and only consider it as a beauitful work of arts, then, it is not a sin...it is not the sin of idolatry but your expression of creativity and beauty if you are the sculptor and if you are the buyer or possessor, an extension of the creativity and beauty that God has built inside you!

It is only in forgetting the true God that a sculpture or art becomes a danger.. like what happened to the original Japanese who started in the correct mind-set of knowing both the living God and images... but when they forgot God due to his being invisible and also due to the people’s tendency to give greater importance to visible matter over the invisible spirit, it led to their worship of images, hence, idolatry... sin!... which led to their fall and slavery.

So we need to be lihay-likay (clever) in this very delicate issue of balance and complete comprehension.

Ancient Japan who was the second nation called out by God to demonstrate His Way of Life later taught to Moses and Israel, succeeded in the first generations: the Japanese were able to see and know the invisible living God and distinguish him from their works of arts (carvnings, sculpture. Images).

But materialism captured the younger generations and this is what happened, as recorded in the ancient history book titled “The Household of God” vol. 1, chapter 34:

31. “Later on, however, they began to gradually forget Me, who had made them the best-educated and richest nation on earth. They enjoyed all kinds of carvings and thereby sank into the darkest idolatry and all kinds of harlotry.

32. “When I had patiently looked on for six hundred years without noticing any trace of remorse and intention of changing their ways, I awakened as I had warned them through Meduhed - in the region of today's Mongolia a people for a general scourge (Genghis Khan) which I had through an invisible angel led to lhypon and prepared for them an island bridge from present day China, of which still today several islands in a somewhat curved line are witnessing. Thus they could almost simultaneously get there dry-shod, like the Israelites across the Red Sea. Through the fire of the earth I also had a great number of larger and smaller islands raised around Ihypon (Japan) as places of refuge for a few wise men that then lived there in grottoes and served Me on the quiet until I called them away from the world.”

To give you a fuller view of how Japan became God’s 2^nd chosen nation ahead of Israel and how Japan failed after many generations like Israel, here is the sad story I will quote below why the once great Japan, the third nation to be called to demonstrate God’s Way of perfect love (Israel is the 4^th to be called for the same mission), some 2,000 years ahead of Israel... the sad story why Japan fell and now becomes captured by paganism and secret Babylonianism under the rule of the clan of Genghis Khan, sondant (descendant son) of Esau who killed Nirmod and replaced him as the ruler of ancient Babylon (Iraq).

In Mesopotamia, after the wicked rule of king Enoch, Cain’s son, followed the rule of another bad king, Lamech (not the righteous Lamech in the Bible), which prompted the still good section of the nation to depart and migrate. Two groups.

The first group of a few thousands, if I recall correctly about 3,000 wise men and their families led by Meduhed landed in what is now Japan.

The second group who left were 7 pairs, of 7 young men and 7 young women led by Sihin... they landed in what is now called China and became the ancestors of the Chinese nation.

Here is the story of the Meduhedites later known as the nation of Japan:

Chapter 34

THE MEDUHEDITES LAND IN JAPAN

Now we will leave this small company in the school of the creatures and let them eat wild berries, grass and roots until their appointed time; and we will turn to the land Ihypon (today called 'Japon' or 'Japan') and await there the approaching Meduhedites and devote still a little time to them.

2. After thirty days and nights, thanks to My favorable winds and with small detours owing to the calm of the sea, the Meduhedites arrived safely on the before-mentioned large island with loud jubilation and praising of My name. They arrived at the wide estuary of a quietly flowing stream coming from the interior on whose calm and broad back they were carried in their hulks up-stream towards the interior of the land by a rather strong, serviceable wind.

3. When they had fully arrived, Meduhed cast himself down, deeply moved by the beauty of the land, and thanked Me in the profound stillness of his heart for about an hour, and all eyes and ears were turned towards him.

4. Having finished his to Me pleasing prayer during which he had recognized My further beneficial will for the saved people, he rose again and waited until all the hulks had completely lined up.

5. When all this had taken place along the shallow bank of the river, according to My will, I bid him enter all the hulks and warn the crowds lovingly on no account to set foot on the land before they had all, for three hours, thanked the Lord in their hearts for His boundless grace. And when the Lord would then bless the beautiful land He had given them through a visible sign before their eyes, he, Meduhed, would step onto the land first, followed by their children, and only after that they themselves were to set foot on the land and once more prostrate themselves before God, worship His holiness and praise His endless goodness and boundless love.

6. And behold, when they had done this with great joy in their hearts, Meduhed told them to look up to the sky, and they saw a luminous cloud envelop the entire land and an abundance of large drops fall from the cloud for a whole hour. Then they saw this cloud again dissolve and under it a small rainbow shine brightly. From the east a soft breeze was blowing which clearly announced through the mouth of Meduhed that I had now blessed the land for them. Thereupon they stepped onto the land in the above-mentioned order and did with joyous hearts as lovingly advised by the pious and wise Meduhed. When all this had been done, Meduhed once more called them all together and spoke to them, as follows:

7. "Men, brothers, sisters and also you children who are already capable of understanding! Take good notice of what I shall now tell you through the great grace of God! Let it be the foundation of all our thoughts and actions never to lose sight of the holy will of God and to fulfill it in every detail at all times with gratitude and praise in our hearts. For whatever comes from Him is great and holy and thus also most important. However insignificant it may appear to our worldly eyes, it is still of immense value since it is from God Who is now the Lord of all of us. And we, if we are willing and obedient, shall be able, as was promised to us, to become like His great children, which you met under the rock face above the city of Enoch.

8. "Look, it is the will of the Lord, our great God Who wants to be our Father, that we shall love each other, that is, everyone shall love his neighbor like a brother and sister seven times more than himself Everyone shall be strict with himself and mild, gentle and loving towards his brothers and sisters. Let no one ever imagine himself to be greater and worthier than the weakest of his brothers. For before God nothing counts, except a pure and humble heart. Let he to whom the Lord may ever give His grace, as He did to me, consider himself the least and be willing, as I am, to serve all and according to the will of God be an example to all. Only children, because of their weakness and the need for a proper upbringing, owe their parents absolute obedience. And once they have recognized the will of God within their hearts, this obedience, which is then due to God alone, shall be substituted by the greatest love and respect of a child for its parents. However, it is God's will that you always listen and look to the wisest among you in order to willingly receive the decrees of God, both general and personal But beware of ever according such a wise one more respect, love and reverence than another not yet wise, but still most willing and dear brother.

9. "And the respect for the one wise out of God's grace shall consist in nothing else but love of God, love of the neighbor and the most willing obedience to God's directives through the humble heart of a wise brother.

10. "Let no lie ever pass your lips, for falsehood is a foundation for all evil. Do not ever gloat over the repentance of a sinner, but let your love give a fallen brother a helping hand.

11. "The land belongs equally to all without distinction. Of what the soil will yield in abundance, let the needy one take enough to satisfy his hunger, and let the strong willingly gather for the weak.

12. "Make the animals friendly towards you so that they do not deny you their warm milk.

13. "Let every one be subject to his brother and willing to serve him.

But no one shall ever give orders to another, for you shall always show love to each other so that one day you may become children of one Father within love.

14. "Although the Lord always gives more than a person needs to sustain his life, you shall never be excessive in all your enjoyments, but after the will of God for the sake of your health moderate in everything you do and enjoy. For thus speaks the Lord: 'A proper measure and a proper goal be blessed, but excess be cursed, and damned be the aimless ways on which only harlotry and unchastely shall walk and find there the night of perdition and eternal death!' Therefore, gather the surplus of the blessing and erect everywhere storehouses, but not of stones, as in the city of Enoch, but of timber. Put four well-trimmed tree-trunks into the ground so that they project two manheights above the ground in a square. Place on top of them four crossbars in the manner already known to you. Then place a lean-to roof over this, covered with reeds and grass. Between the four wooden props projecting from the earth make walls also braided from reeds. But leave an opening in each wall, four times the size of a man's head, and on the east side also a door, but without bars so that everyone can enter freely whenever needed. Inside drive several small stakes into the earth of about half of the storehouse, projecting half a man's length above the ground. Over them fasten some thinner joists and cover them also with braided reeds so as to place the blessing's surplus upon them for your brothers and also for yourselves. For the other half gather long dry grass and place it knee-high on the ground as a resting place for you where you can sleep through the night, rest your tired limbs and refresh your organism.

15. "Your tools and other implements you shall place underneath the braided reeds. However, no one shall ever take possession of such a house, but let one work for all and all for one and, thus, all for all work there so that no one among you and all your descendants shall ever suffer want.

16. "Close to the mountains which do not smoke or ever burn, as the ones you can see from here in a great distance, you shall dig deep holes where you will find the to you already known bread-earth. This you shall eat in moderation and not daily, but only now and then after the will of God for the sake of your health, when your faces have become too soft.

17. "Furthermore, you will find in the mountains - which you are allowed to climb if they are not burning- nice, very hard and smooth stones. Gather them and place them in front of your dwellings. Firstly, you shall grind upon them the seeds of a grass and from the meal you shall, by adding water, make dough in a vessel great numbers of which you will find on the banks of the river. Then you shall bake from it wholesome bread in a place for baking, which you already know how to prepare. Secondly, you shall also take such stone slabs which are somewhat softer and are found in great quantities at the foot of the fire-free mountains, and upon them you shall record all this in the manner known to you in order that even your late descendants may learn about the now revealed will of God.

18. "For listen! Thus speaks the Lord: 'As long as you and your descendants will remain within the given order, no alien people will ever be able to approach this land and disturb your peace. And I Myself will teach you to recognize and prepare many good and useful things. However, if you should ever step out of My order, forget Me completely and not return to My order, I shall awaken another people, lead it to this land, and it will subject you and make you its slaves. Then there will be an emperor who will destroy your sanctuary, beat you and have many put to death. He will have you harnessed to the plough like donkeys and thrash you like a camel. He will take everything away from you and let you starve, not allowing you to quench your thirst with the juice of fruits, but will drive you to the water like a tame animal. And, as in the land of Enoch, you will have to build cities for him and provide good food for him and his servants in order to make him strong to beat and kill you.

19. "Then you will no longer receive fruits and bread for your work, but only dead tokens depending on the extent of the work, for which tokens you will be given something to eat. If even then you do not return to My order, you will have to give the fifth part of the tokens without recompense back to the emperor as a tax on the hard-earned reward. This means that you will have to beg to be allowed to work at all and for permission to do so you will have to pay the mentioned tax.

20. "And I tell you, in all the land there will not be a single spot which the emperor would not have appropriated. Then he will distribute the land to his favorites and courtiers as a fief, but you he will make ignominious serfs of his favorites and courtiers who will then be lords over your death and life. They will give you a fare of cooked grass and miserable roots, for they will take the best fruits for themselves. Whoever should seize such a fruit, will promptly be punished with death.

21. "The emperor will take your most attractive wives and daughters for his own and his favorites' and courtiers' pleasure and you will have to throw your sons in the river and instead have to provide for his children who will then ill-treat you. But I will plug up My ears till the end of time so as not to hear your lamentations, and you will be a thousand times worse off than in the land of Enoch.

22. "This, too, you shall bear in mind and write it onto the soft stones, as you were

told!'

23. "So you see, my dear brothers, what is God's will. Therefore do as you have been advised, and you can easily remain an independent people without any loss of your rights. Therefore, you shall become full of love and grace and far be from you the evil self-interest. Then you will remain, as you now are, a people of God. - And now it is God's will that you place these hulks one after the other across the river, connected with poles to form a bridge so that we can also go to the land on the other side of the river and freely make use of it.

24. "Now cast yourselves down and thank the Lord for this great grace of instructing us and making known His will for our greatest benefit and speak with me:

25. "'Oh You great, exceedingly good and holy almighty God, we thank you in the dust of our nothingness! Let the weak voice of our gratitude reach Your holy ears from the depth of our ignominy and look graciously at our humble and timid hearts! O Lord, we do not understand how great is the emptiness of our mind. Therefore, fill us graciously with the warmth of Your love and never withdraw your grace from us poor children of sin! If ever we could forget ourselves and act against Your most holy will, let us not be punished by men, but do punish us Yourself according to Your justice and great clemency and change our hearts through Your great mercy, so that one day we may become worthy being at least somewhat like Your children. Do remain our great and holy God and Lord Who one day will become also our beloved, most holy Father! - O Lord, grant our entreaty and listen graciously to our weak prayers! Amen.'

26. "Now go and do in due course all you were told to do and convince yourselves how true and faithful the Lord is. And when you have carried out everything, not ever forgetting the Lord before and after each task and before and after every meal, before and after sleep, before and after sunrise, before and after sunset. And, especially, when you sleep together you shall before and after the act above all ask the Lord for His blessing, - then you will beget children of life and light, otherwise, only children of death and darkness.

27."I shall remain all my life here in the region of the river where we have landed. And there, overlooking the river in that spacious grotto and on the beautiful mountain will be my and my children's dwelling so that you can always find me whenever someone has a concern. The Lord is giving me ownership of this grotto and the mountain out of love for you in order that you may find me at any time.

28. "However, the entire, large and beautiful land is yours. It is the will of God that I shall grow very old and still be a late witness of all your good and bad actions. And of all who are now present here I shall be the very last to follow you to the presence of the Lord.

29. "You, my ten companions who have already become wise too, take the people, lead them and distribute them wisely in the land and teach them what they need. And whenever it is full moon come to me to obtain advice and instruction. Amen."

30. And behold, when Meduhed (founding patriarch of Japan) had finished his speech, all the people bowed to him and once more cast themselves down, without Meduhed's command, and thanked Me for the beneficial instruction. Then they stood up, ate the food with reverence, lay down on the ground to rest and prayed from time to time. Having done this for three days, they rose to their feet, took the tools and first built the bridge. Then, with Meduhed's blessing, they went to their further destinations throughout the land, praising Me everywhere. And, as is easy to understand, many of them became wise like Meduhed, and they lived thus as a happy people about nineteen hundred years, almost to the time of Abraham, and did not perish in Noah's flood.

31. Later on, however, they began to gradually forget Me, who had made them the best-educated and richest nation on earth. They enjoyed all kinds of carvings and thereby sank into the darkest idolatry and all kinds of harlotry.

32. When I had patiently looked on for six hundred years without noticing any trace of remorse and intention of changing their ways, I awakened as I had warned them through Meduhed - in the region of today's Mongolia a people for a general scourge (Genghis Khan) which I had through an invisible angel led to lhypon and prepared for them an island bridge from present day China, of which still today several islands in a somewhat curved line are witnessing. Thus they could almost simultaneously get there dry-shod, like the Israelites across the Red Sea. Through the fire of the earth I also had a great number of larger and smaller islands raised around Ihypon (Japan) as places of refuge for a few wise men that then lived there in grottoes and served Me on the quiet until I called them away from the world.

33. There can still be found in such grottoes, as signs of My love, such engraved tablets, which now of course could not be deciphered by anyone, even less so than the hieroglyphs of Egypt which only a fully reborn person will be able to read. Now and then a physically ailing woman in trance may be able to guess some of it through her for short moments awakened childlike spirit.

34. And in the grotto (which originally was called Meduhed's grotto) till today there could be found the to you already known song of Meduhed and some of the tools. However, this grotto, which is on a high mountain, has now become inaccessible, which I arranged later through fire and earthquakes still continuing to this day.

35. Thus this land is still today under the imperial rule with its partly Mongolian and partly original Ihyponian people. Let him who does not believe this go there and convince himself. But it will not be of much use to him if he has not attained to the full rebirth. And the one who does have it will be able not only to oversee the entire surface of the earth, but also to gaze with transfigured eyes into its depths right to the bottom.

36. (For everything I give you here is true and faithful for My children, for I do not give it to the world, but only to My weak children. Therefore, they shall not measure My love and wisdom, My words and My grace by worldly standards. I do not want to shine before the world; I only want to be loved by you, for I have plenty of suns to shine upon the world. If you criticize My writings with your worldly learning, what do you think I shall one day do with your worldly nonsense? - Therefore, learn from Me, and once you will have been taught by Me, you will see and recognize whose laws are on a higher level- Mine or those of the world. For to the world the word is important, but to Me the meaning within the word; and he who does not gather with Me will mightily scatter!)

37. - Before I lead you any further in this My household, I will briefly tell you something concerning My angel, especially to those who almost in every line find something to criticize in the grammar, for the sake of the world. Since they have no malice in their heart, they may, where My weak secret scribe of My New Word has in his old inattentive way made a little stroke too many or too little, complement it according to their insight; also correct the spelling and dot the i's, where necessary. But at him who would dare to change a single word, or seek a better rime or to unnecessarily improve a line, I shall look with angry eyes. Do not seek the word in the sense, but the sense in the word if you want to find the truth. For the truth is in the spirit, but not the spirit in the truth, which might be impossible since the spirit is free and preceded every rule, allowing to derive truth from it Since you say this already of your men of genius, why do you look with critical eyes at My Spirit as if a schoolboy had given you some poor work for correction? - Therefore, if anyone should think that I do not fit into the world with that garment, let him keep Me at home. However, there will be more merit for everyone if he added to My writing a rule learnt from it rather than worldly criticism; for giving is more blessed than taking! Do understand this well! Amen.”

As you can see, losing sight and knowledge and closeness to the living yet invisible Creator as our Father will result to the risk of idolatry or worshipping our work of arts.

Now let us move forward to Christ, after many generations of sinful idolatry and from our Lord let us know His teaching about the pros and cons of this art called sculpture or carvings... how it can be a useful arts in one hand and how it can be a deadly sin of idol worship (idolatry).

End of the narration of Japan’s ancient history.

Now, we can post the full text of the two core chapters from our Lord’s discourse/ lecture, to wit:

The Great Gospel according to Jesus Christ thru John, volume 25

CHAPTER 48. THE WEALTH OF RAEL

UPON this I strengthened Rael who innerly felt terribly

guilty because of the apparent reproach, and at once he

became glad again and his heart felt merely the joy of My

presence, and all unnecessary feelings of guilt disappeared.

[2] At that same moment his body received the necessary strength

to move without the help of his servants. And this feeling of

strength that flowed through him gave him such great bliss that he

again gave an eloquent testimony as to who I was and urged all

those who were present to also praise Me. I told him not to do that,

just like before, for the known reasons, and I invited everyone to

visit the landed property of Rael that was worth seeing because

this would inspire everyone.

[3] Now we walked through the different rooms of the house

which on the outside, at the side of the road, had nothing in

common with the normal Jewish architecture, but seemed to have a

complete Greek architecture from the inside, especially on the side

of the garden that was closed to prevent nosy looks. One could see

in the rooms a great number of Greek, Roman, Egyptian and

Indian objects of art that were tastefully arranged and which gave

the rooms a very special and cozy appearance so that many of My

disciples, who never lived in such beautifully arranged rooms,

could not stop looking around. It was not so much about the wealth

there but the perfectly artful taste that was apparent everywhere

and which gave a very harmonious impression.

[4] The same could be observed in the garden that was completely

arranged like a well maintained model garden, decorated with

statues, fountains and green lanes, but because of the influence of

the late autumn it looked considerably thinned out. My followers

saw at Lazarus’ place also a nice and wealthy complex – the house

as well as the environment – but the usefulness was clearly put

forward there, but here it was only oriented towards artful beauty.

[5] Now there was a discussion going on, first among each other

and then more in general, about the question whether, while

pursuing spiritual goals, it was justified to Me to at the same time

clearly ogle the world and its treasures, and whether it was not

rather objectionable to surround oneself with such luxury that was

obviously only meant as a lust for the eyes and could easily make

the soul to fall asleep. Answering this question was the reason why

I had invited My followers to look at the wealth of Rael who

clearly had great joy that also I was attentively listening to him

while he tried to emphasize the beauty of the separate, especially

beautiful statues while praising the artful workmanship. My

disciples were very surprised about this interest which was in

direct contradiction with My former destruction of statues of idols

which were also made with great workmanship.

[6] When we were now standing before a statue of Apollo that was

put in a recess in the wall that surrounded the garden, bordered by

bushes and standing out against the dark background, there was no

limit to their amazement, for they thought that this idol image,

just like other idol images before, had to disintegrate into dust in

My presence.

[7] It was even more shocking to them when we entered a small

round construction where there was a whole collection of idols –

all works of art of high quality which, by their positioning and

tasteful arrangement, gave this temple-like space an unusually

beautiful and exalted style. Especially for the former orthodox

Jews those images were an abomination, because in the presence

of Jupiter, Mars, Apollo, Venus, Minerva and Ceres and even

Pluto, My presence seemed impossible to them. But the fact that I

listened to the explanation of Rael who told Me the names of the

artists that made the images as if this was completely unknown to

Me, was completely beyond their understanding. However, they all

felt that something special must be the basis of My strange

behavior in this house, and they kept quiet, curious to know what

would come after this exceptional interest of Mine.

[8] When Rael had shown all his treasures, with explanations of

origin and age, we came back in the hall and occupied our

former seats.

49. EXPLANATION OF THE LORD ABOUT ART

MY disciples expressed now openly their amazement about

the special arrangement of the house and garden which

nevertheless did not seem appropriate for a wise Jew so

that Rael excused himself by pointing out that his many trips had

often given him the opportunity to admire the workmanship of

foreign nations, and that he only put a few examples in his

house, regardless the fact that those objects represented the cult of

the pagan gods. But he only admired the beauty and not the

represented idea, or at least only as far as this would not be in

conflict with his belief in one God.

[2] Now some reacted and said that this would be dangerous and

could not be combined with the precepts of Moses who forbad

associating with pagans and commanded to hold on to the old

traditional customs.

[3] Finally Rael asked Me: “Lord and Master, please tell me if I

was wrong to arrange my house the way You have seen now, and

rest assured that I myself will be the first to destroy all these works

of art at which my eyes rejoiced as soon as You will tell me that it

is unjust.”

[4] I said to him: “Do not worry at all, for if it would be unjust

everything would have been already destroyed. For where I am

taking residence the unjust cannot exist for long. But you saw

yourself that I shared your joy over these works of art and that I did

not admonish you till now.”

[5] Now I turned to My disciples and continued: “But you, when

will you judge rightly, not from yourselves but from My Spirit?

You know that I am not pleased when you act according to certain

rules for evaluation. Act and evaluate things according to the rules

of the most inner, true spirit that is put in you, and do not think

that what is contrary to your customs is also contrary to God.

[6] God could very well allow to other nations what had to remain

inadmissible to you to keep His people suitable for what is now

present as a ripe fruit. But when the fruit is detached from the tree,

it will depend on the tree to ripen a new one, for it became now

strong enough so that it can do it without the help of the gardener

and can progress on its own, for he did everything that was

possible. But if the tree becomes lazy and slow, that same gardener

will lay the axe at its roots.

[7] All the nations can be compared to a fruit tree which however

always has to be treated differently depending on the typical

character of the people.

[8] Moses gave the laws to the Jews and gave and forbad severe

precepts so that they should be involved with something different

than the inner purpose of God’s Word. Whoever is called to

preserve the spiritual kernel – not only for this Earth and its

inhabitants but for the whole creation – must outwardly be well

protected, for whoever strives for the outer cannot at the same time

be the guardian of the key.

[9] Since all times the Jews had a hard and stubborn character.

However, these are the qualities which made them suited to be the

keepers of the Word of God so that it can be kept as intact as

possible. Other nations, which did not have that characteristic had

other callings, yet were not rejected by God. Just like hands and

feet cannot be despised by man because they are not, like the heart,

keepers of the most inner life, but are nevertheless also highly

valued because without these organs his life would be very

crippled.

[10] So if someone thinks that it is an abomination to God to live

differently – spiritually or physically – compared to a people that

are obviously under His clear leadership, is very wrong. In later

times, when the distinction between the nations will disappear

more and more, it will happen that the way of living of

neighboring people will be different, yet they will be equally close

to My heart. But no one will then be offended by the other.

[11] From this you can see that Rael can quietly live amidst his

works of art and in his beautifully arranged house and at the same

time be very dear to My heart, for he looks at all that without his

heart being attached to it. He only looks with gratefulness at the

spiritual ability that I put in man, developing such workmanship in

him that it also can give joy to other people.

[12] If he or someone else in this house would also somehow

worship the statue of Jupiter or another deity, they would be

destroyed, so that everyone would see here: there is only one God.

But this is not the case. Rael and his cohabitants believe fully in

Me and rejoice over all this, only rejoicing over the pure art.

[13] Why would I destroy what was also indirectly created by Me?

Because I created the ability for this in man, as long as he makes

good use of it. For believe Me: everything that you call art is put in

the heart of man by God for very wise reasons as you can easily

imagine.

[14] Just like an inferior animal, with only limited intelligence,

cannot make a work of art through reasoning, so also man cannot

do this when he does not try to develop his spiritual abilities.

[15] You very well know that a civilized nation can more easily be

evaluated by their works or art, for they give outwardly an image

of what is reflecting in the soul of a people, in their feeling,

thinking and acting. The more they make progress in freeing the

soul of material pleasure the more perfect works of art they will be

able to make. They can of course also use their works of art for

every kind of sensuality. But then they will not make and exalted

but a repulsive impression on the pure observer.

[16] However, from the point of view of beauty, works of art can

never be made if there is no ability in the soul of the artist to exalt

himself to purer spheres, that means to look with his spiritual eye

in order to make something himself. How he will give form to

what he saw depends on his free will. But he only can progress in

giving what is more and more perfect when he walks the ways that

are righteous to Me.

[17] Salomon could never have designed the temple if in his spirit

he would not have been so free to see with his inner eye the

reflection of a pure heavenly building, and according to that, make

in the much admired temple a weak image of what is completely

visible to everyone in My Kingdom. For neither on Earth nor in the

Heavens can anything be created by human beings or spirits which

cannot be found in fullness in God and thus also in His works.

Wherever there is an image, there also must be a spiritual original.

Just like when there is a shade there also must be an object that

produces the shade.

[18] But since God is infinite, and all the good, the beauty and the

exalted is in Him, spiritually there also can never be an end to

something more beautiful.”

GOD’S TEACHINGS ON WRITING (LANGUAGE), ARTS AND MUSIC

From another celestial book, The Secrets of Life, dictated directly from the Lord, we have another excellent discussion from the Lord about the talents of music, arts (e.g., painting and sculpture), and writing (poetry), as the top 3 talents given to mankind by God, in their correct order of imporance.

Source: The Secrets of Life

14. LANGUAGE, ART, MUSIC

14 January 1871

These three words denote three things that occur in all worlds and suns, for they represent the fundamental activity and the main lever for spiritual progress. You can find them everywhere, adapted to the relative dimensions of the world globes and to the spiritual development of mankind.

Since these three most important vital factors occur everywhere and without them no life, not even mutual recognition or a cognition of the spiritual world and, finally, no recognition of the structure of My creation and of My own self would be possible, naturally the question arises above all:

What actually is language? What art? And what music?

Furthermore: why are three of them necessary? And what spiritual substance is hidden in these expressions manifesting in material life? Be it in the spoken word, or in articulated sounds, in the form, or in ideas expressed through limited areas, or conveyed by sound that cannot be understood, but only felt!

So let us deal with the first question: “What is language?”

As I have already indicated to you in an earlier word, language is a communication from the innermost of one being through the outer world to another.

This language is of a diverse nature: It can be through articulated sounds, through gestures and signs and through unarticulated sounds.

All languages consist in articulated sounds, whereby every human spirit informs his fellow beings of that which he wants to make comprehensible to them.

This language is different in all worlds and solar bodies, in keeping with the level of the spiritual development of the people. The nobler the soul, the nobler the language; the more neglected the former, the poorer the latter.

Since, however, a language by means of sounds is not sufficient for the human soul, it seeks to enhance the impact of its mode of expression through analogous gestures, and this results in a sign language, which, finally, is understood by many people even without words. The outcome was the so-called mimicry, which was artificially developed in your shows as sign language, where one qualified can express by way of gestures all that he is forbidden to say audibly during the performance.

Finally, there comes also the sign language. To this belongs for instance the one used by your deaf mutes. Also to the blind the spiritual realm is opened up as far as possible by means of the tactile sense whereby the ear can help and supplement the inner man.

The sign language of expression and portraying words, and through these feelings, belongs to the realm of the form language and will only be discussed in greater detail under the term “art”, when it will be proved why all human beings need signs for communication, and how they came into existence.

Finally, there are the inarticulate sounds, which, however, do not express a concept, but emotional states, such as joy or pain. These are given not only to man, as a being endowed with reason, but more or less to all created beings, so that they can express their ease or discomfort. Also this incomplete manner of expression belongs to the realm of sounds, under which heading it will be given to you with greater clarity and intelligibility.

Well, why is language universal? Why is it a need of a living being? These are the questions to which I want to give you an answer first of all.

You see, a soul, no matter whether human or animal, is a living being which continually absorbs the impressions coming from the outer world, spiritually digesting and processing them for its own Self, and then because of its innate love for its own kind wants to convey to them the result, namely, what it feels, what it experiences, and how it has utilized the same.

Just as I, as the Creator of My great wondrous works, cannot admire them alone, but look for hearts to share My joys with Me, again enjoying this happiness Myself in the joy that other beings take in My works, in the same way no living being can retain within it the impressions of the outer world, which continually act on it. It must impart its thereby aroused feelings and thoughts to others, stimulating like-minded beings to empathy, to taking part in the enjoyment. In order to satisfy this urge, the soul invented its articulate or inarticulate language, so as to convey to its fellow-travelers on the earthly path that which it found too much to bear alone, for only in the conveying of the same to others can it feel the actual enjoyment of what was received twice.

This need to communicate you find expressed in weak, inarticulate sounds with animals, in articulate ones with man, and in plastic (clearly outlined) spiritual forms and unspoken but perceivable words and expressions with the spirits and highest angels. There, everything, which on the material plane is conveyed through sound or tone, is felt and understood only through spiritual correspondence in a language of which you can have no concept because, trying to give you a definition, the only gauge applicable would be the velocity of thought.

Thus, generally speaking, language is a “materialized Spiritual”.

There the inner world manifests through the outer world. All spiritual progress is thereby defined; without it, creation would only be half, indeed less than half, of a botched piece of work.

All animals possess a language, a certain way of communication, either through sounds or through gestures; every one has to be able to convey to another what it wants, otherwise creation has no impetus.

Love and its opposite, hate, express themselves in gestures or in sounds appropriate for the beings concerned.

Spiritual life would be impossible without language, without communication. For life, universal life, universal progress, are only possible through them.

I, who created the world with so many millions of spirits and beings, am asking you - what would the world be like without language? What about all My wondrous arrangements, what about the actual spiritual factors of the entire creation, namely, love, joy, the ecstasy of bliss, if the beings were denied the expression of the same?

All beings would have to perish under the impression of the outer world, unless they could give vent to that which makes their hearts expand with joy or contract with pain.

Where absorption is possible there must also be a discharge, otherwise no life, no spiritual exchange, no spiritual progress are possible. Communication is a vital need, it is the only bond uniting all into one; it is the bond linking animals with human beings, human beings with spirits, human beings and animals to Me.

This universal bond, so imperfect and limited with the minutest infusoriann, up to the inspired speech of one of the greatest angels, is the product of love. Without love, no language, and without language, no love!

Thus you behold this need as a necessary constituent of the entire creation, even as its foundation-pillar. For without language, every being would remain as it was created; without language no progress, without progress no life, no sense in creating anything!

This spiritual bond entwining us all, uniting us all into one family, enlivening us all and bringing us near one another, which led you to Me and Me to you, this bond is the great life principle which, wherever there are light, life and love, links all towards a common purpose. It elevates you, My created beings, and lets Me feel for the second time the worth and beauty of My creation, the first time as the Creator, and the second time in a far more beautiful light, in the love-light emanating from a Father towards His children!

This language which, expressing lovely, joyful sentiments, shows the animal in a more beautiful light and makes man’s eyes sparkle more beautifully, enhances his voice and makes his whole organism tremble with bliss. It is the expression of the innermost part of a being, indicating the extent to which he has grasped the impressions from without and how far spiritually and correctly he has interpreted them.

Therefore, there is, apart from the instruction through the language, also the fruit of the spiritual digestion of all the impressions from the outer world, the proper and well-formulated speech or the beautifully formed rendition, which, spoken with enthusiasm by the soul, must again evoke enthusiasm. And so it must be understood when it says in John’s Gospel:

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God!” Yes, the beginning was the Word, and the Word was I!

Without My Word there is no creation, without creation no being, no love, without love no life, and without life no communication!

From the beginning I was “the Word”, the expression and archetype of an eternal concept, and precisely because I was the Word, as the first requirement with all spiritual products, the word, or the communication through the word, had to lead back to Me all My created beings which I had set out into eternity through the Word, so that through conflict and battle they should return to Me through words, gestures and sounds, what I had laid into them with the first Word.

In the beginning the word “Word” was the quintessence of an idea and at the end of all creational periods everything alive will have reunited in a word, and this Word shall again be I!

The Word, which out of love created beings and worlds, will again as love reach its culmination point in its created beings and in the end in the spiritual celestial man, in Me, as the center, be glorified by all the created beings.

Thus the concept of infinity is like a circle. From Me issued the Word: “Let there be!” It sounded forth into all the infinite spaces, and so it happened!

Everything came into being, everything lived, loved and communicated, pursuing its progress through eons of time, and it will ultimately return to Me spiritualized, beautified and transfigured, exclaiming:

“Father! You called out once: “Let there be!” Now see, Your children have done according to this call and are now standing before You, rejoicing and blessing their great and mighty Creator and Father; for here we stand as living proof for the “let there be!” And thus, having originated from, and returned to, the Word, the cycle of the creational period is completed and a new and eternal one is beginning, in You and with You!” Amen.

ART

In the foregoing you have language as communication and the word spiritually grasped and expounded before you. Now we are going to turn to art, or the urge inherent in all human beings to present their thoughts and concepts in forms or pictures.

Here the animals must remain excluded, for whatever “work of art” they perform is determined by the nature of their own Self and serves only towards their preservation and procreation, and this is why the animals perform their artful works only instinctively and without aforethought, so that with them there can be neither progress nor improvement.

Art, or the urge to render what is seen in signs, pictures or clearly defined forms, is likewise a language of the soul. It is, as has just been stated of “language”, the urge to render what was seen. The only difference lies in that with language the innermost state of the soul is revealed in articulate sounds and tones, whereas in art, as form and sign language, the soul is urged to firmly reproduce its favorite impressions in forms, signs and pictures. Clothing them in material forms, it secures a permanent value to the impressions of objects of the outer world and reveals in viewing them so as to be able to, as it were, repeat the impressions frequently.

Therefore, this need is based on the urge to firmly fixate the fleeting course of the speech or the content of what was thought, said or seen.

All peoples and all human spiritual beings in all other worlds have this urge in common with you. Everywhere art is alive, but in differing styles, so that it only corresponds to the spiritual level of the beings living there, revealing their innermost nature.

Also on your earth you see that the lowest, most primitive peoples take delight in lending a permanent value to certain pleasant impressions by means of drawn, painted and formed images.

You see this forming grow step by step along with the spiritual development of the peoples and nations. At first, they imitate what they see in nature; gradually they idealize, stylize it in the belief to enhance it, according to their innate concepts of culture. The ideal improves, is enhanced; the more spiritual man is, the nobler his ideas are and, accordingly, his pictures and objects depicting them, since he seeks everywhere to imprint on his creations the stamp of divinity.

Art has its periods, just as the spiritual-cultural state of the peoples. They move upward and downward, along with their imagination and their way of grasping the world in a spiritual sense. You have on your earth nations who, having descended from great heights of spiritual culture through their excessive pleasure-seeking ways or through deviating from their road of destiny, have fallen back to the lowest cultural level, their art and their spiritual heritage having disappeared along with them. In their ideas are contained only offshoots of a spiritual philosophy. This applies also to the pictorial art, where in the caricatures of nature, nothing resembling a spiritual idealization can be found any more.

Language, this fleeting rendition of what is felt and experienced, one wanted to preserve permanently for oneself and others. Thus a written, or pictorial, language came into being, where certain signs or pictures should express concepts corresponding to their form.

In accordance with the cultural level of the peoples, also this exigency, cultivated since time immemorial, experienced its changes. Beginning with the hieroglyphics and ending with the sign script and its duplication, the printing process, the retention of the spoken word and the thought was facilitated and a universal benefit for all was created, which once had only the prerogative of a few.

Therefore, art in its highest sense is nothing but the realization of the spiritual ideas of the soul where the latter, touched by compassion, wants to convey also to others what it feels and thinks. For it feels the need for materially creating it in the belief that it will make the same, or at least a similar, impression on others. By this procedure, in the admiration of others, it doubly enjoys its own, seeing it reflected back into itself.

Thus art is the uniting bond among the peoples and nations. Thirdly, art unites hearts that otherwise would pass by each other indifferently. The close bond of the creative arts which, as language, if not written down through signs, only fleetingly warms the hearts, drawing them to each other and thus leading them together again to a higher spiritual level and therefore closer to Me, is, in a material sense, what language is in the spiritual sense.

Without it, the world would be considerably poorer, but through it, a rich mind favored and filled with great ideas affords its fellowmen pleasures the latter did not know existed, introduces them to a more beautiful, sublime world and shows them in the ideal imitation of nature the Spiritual laid by Me into everything, which, however, not everyone is favored to find.

While the spoken word fades away in the air, leaving only an overall impression of what was said and evoking other ideas and trains of thought, the image retained by the soul is one of My creational products, or a portrayed moment out of the spiritual life of man, a permanent stimulus. Once absorbed in this, the human being can again love and worship the Creator and Father by recognizing Him in nature and its forms. I am here speaking only of art in its noblest expression, disregarding the abuses where this divine gift, the fanciful power of imagination and the gift of representation, are used, in a manner unworthy of man, for quite different purposes.

Thus art continues to exist spiritually, always educating, like a written word. Although it is not understood by many, its stimulus is active in every onlooker, varying in accordance with his spiritual development.

Just as with you, art is cultivated in all the worlds, applied to domestic life and used in temples, prayer houses and dwellings, so as to give expression, as you do, to the concepts these human beings hold of their God and Creator, by letting either the Spiritual or the material prevail in their domestic activity.

From the way art is cultivated among you for the love of it, you can everywhere judge the spiritual level of the human being of these worlds.

Just as with the spoken word the Spiritual is fleetingly imparted to another and finds a response there, so also by means of art, where that which was created and the manner in which it is judged by others is the right criterion for the spiritual level of a people. Everywhere spirit is the uniting bond among human beings, spirits and Me.

Language teaches through concepts and ideas laid into words and sentences, art through thoughts translated into colors, forms and signs. Thus this fixed application of what is thought and felt, as gamut between the maker and the spectator, between the creatively active and the one to be educated to something bigger, unites mankind with Me and My spirit-realms, the one giving, the others receiving.

The one raised himself during his creative activity to Me and to My Kingdom; the other, contemplating what was created, but looking beyond it, perceives the basic idea of the artist. It draws him with magnetic force into a different sphere of thought-combinations which were not originally his, lets him feel what the other has that he is lacking, and in this way encourages his own soul to climb the mountain of inspiration. There nature, the expression of My love towards all that was created, embodied in ever so beautiful forms, keeps calling: “Come all of you, who are burdened, so that I may refresh you!” Contemplating a scene of nature, a beautiful human image, a great, noble action, everywhere the viewer finds verified the saying, which on every walk, every little flower calls out to him, saving:

“Imbibe deeply the love of your Creator and Father, who has poured it out everywhere so as to prove to you with every breath how dull all the joys of the world are and how little it takes to be happy and contented!”

When the viewer of the picture of a person can perceive in it all the spiritual qualities which man, as the spiritual image of his Creator, ought to, but unfortunately does not, possess, he sees the exaltedness of the idea of the human form in its spiritual aspect and casually imagines him with all his weaknesses. And he cannot help confessing how far he himself is removed from this ideal of humanity, and when he then realizes that despite all his faults the mighty hand of his Creator and Father daily showers him with unmerited grace, he too must exclaim: “What am I, o Lord, that You should remember me thus lovingly!”

Thus, and in many other ways, the noble fine arts arouse in the viewer sensations and ideas, all of which remain permanent reminders towards progress and eternal stimuli to enthusiasm; enthusiasm to incessantly strive after a state where, no longer being the artist’s own spiritual creation of a more exalted life, such sensations shall one day be the universal property of all; and where, in the end, be it in an articulated language or in reproduced forms, the spiritual thread is visible everywhere, subtly leading everyone as on a guide-rope further on the spiritual gamut. There, from world to world and from sun to sun, they will behold language and art ever more refined, perfected and, more and more spiritualized, will draw closer to Me. Finally, in the spiritual heavenly Kingdom, I, as the Center, as “Word” and Archetype, as Man, shall allow them to again enjoy, spiritualized, in the highest bliss the impressions they all have felt when listening to an inspiring speech or in the contemplation of a sublime picture, as an image of My everlasting creation.

Thus art, as the spiritual illustrator of My great ideas in creation, draws the souls to Me, and what language inspires, art portrays. To complete the trinity, in the inexpressible sounds and the states of exaltation music finally comes into being. And so we progress to the last of this trinity, showing you where it concludes, where it began and how, in the end, everything spiritually united represents Me, My material and My spiritual creation in one picture, or in Myself as “Word”, “Form” and “Sound”. Amen.

MUSIC

We have now arrived at the third factor of human spiritual life, namely, the language expressing emotions, or the former spirit-language, a language that cannot be verbally translated because its beginnings, incomprehensible to the world of created beings, can only be surmised.

You usually call this language “music”; but although you perceive music in the room, in the forest, in the air, and sometimes even below the earth’s surface, you are still unaware of its spiritual significance, namely, what it is, why it is and what its true fundamental meaning will be.

Now look, as for the articulated language, I have explained to you that the soul, urged by external impressions and coerced by an inner need, invented a means by which it could impart to its peers what filled it to overflowing and I have also explained to you all further implications, such as its origin, effect and end.

As for art, I have shown you how it wants to give material expression to the pictorial language in signs, pictures and forms, which in the verbal language is too hasty. Already with this latter way of expression another manner of language is involved; for, if I want to call the former “the language of the head”, the latter is the language of the hand, or of the action. But already here, with a higher enthusiasm, the language of the heart, or the language of emotions (and of sound) is involved, though it is often used together with the former, verbal language, but only in connection with extremely sublime divine matters, where knowledge ceases and faith begins.

So let us now concern ourselves with the latter most sublime language, used only by the spirits, with the language of the heart. And so listen:

Whenever a soul, moved by sublime emotions, opens itself to the influence of nature, provided they can penetrate the auditory canals, the sounds reaching the ear through the sound waves are sometimes of such a sublime nature and arouse in the spirit indwelling the soul’s center a yearning for its former true homeland, that the soul feels a certain something almost resembling a spiritual lust. However, it is incapable of describing it by means of words, signs, pictures and forms. This flowing together of various sounds according to rhythm and pitch is that which you know by the term “music”. It is a vibration of the spirit within its tiny cell, a vibrating for sheer delight, brought forth by the violent trembling of air waves which, likewise incited, rub against and repel one another to the point where collision occurs and, generating warmth, releases the bound harmonious spirits of the elements contained in the air. These spirits, enraptured and liberated, in joyful delight soar away from their prison and in their great joy bring forth one or several sounds which, on reaching the eardrum, arouse harmonious sensations in the innermost of the spiritual man and then impart this sensation to the soul and even to the body.

Since these sounds, as a spiritual product, have only been imparted to a spirit and can thus only be understood by the spirit, this language is inaccessible to the soul. For the latter is still too little united with the spirit and, though able to have a foreknowledge of it and revel in future pleasures, cannot interpret it.

This is why music, with its great power over the human heart and every other being, sweeps over the earth without being understood. Everyone feels its sublimity, but no one knows the “Why”!

Now, in order to catch these air-sound-waves or to produce similar sounds yourselves, you have invented various instruments which are suitable for reproducing this vibration of the incited airwaves also in the substances of which they (the instruments) are made and elicit a similar vibration of their components, since there too imprisoned congenial spirits extricate themselves.

This freeing and mixing with the free spirits of the air then imparts to each instrument its own timbre, where in some instruments two, three and even more objects have to work in unison so as to produce the desired sound.

In order for you to know how you attained to your music, I must first tell you that you, as well as all other living beings, have obtained the urge to give vent to your inner feelings through inarticulate sounds in the following way:

When a love-wind goes through the whole of creation, waking, rousing and inciting everything, when neither the animal nor man know why they are so merry and light-hearted, man feels a gentle urge which finds its ultimate release neither in speech nor in pictures or forms, but in singing, shouting and jubilation. And this very feeling which urges man to sing and shout with joy incites also the animal, every one according to its manner, to thank the Creator and Originator of its bliss in sounds which do not mean to express words but, individually, far more than words.

Since I, the Creator, did not create a dead nature, but one that meets Me joyfully, I also laid into the organs of the more sensitive animals arrangements for the production of sounds, so that in similar spiritual-prophetic moods they can use them. Thus I endowed the beings that were denied the spoken language with a much more sublime one, the language of sounds.

Thus you see the songbirds, every one in its own manner, offer Me thanks as their innermost vibrates with joy through warmth, which is equivalent to love.

And so you see the lark early in the morning when the first sunray meets its eye as it prepares to rise. Singing and jubilating it rises higher and higher, and the higher it rises, the lighter it becomes within it, the more it can give vent to the feelings locked in its breast, the better it can relieve itself of its song of praise in My honor until, a tiny dot in the height, it sends Me the last greetings after which the inexorable law of gravity again pulls it down to earth. There, after a short time, it again begins the same flight, always with the same result.

If you could understand the various songs of praise of the flying, humming and chirping world which in spring when nature has woken up and the sun is rising, greet Me daily, you people in your self-imagined wisdom would hang your heads in shame because of your godlessness and hard-heartedness For you alone, among so many beings devoted to Me, stand there with hardened hearts although you, too, let the strong breath of spring permeate your lungs, at the same time thinking who knows of what, certainly not of Me!

Do you know where this singing of the birds and the diversity of their song originate?

Look, I want to tell you also this; for you must know that no instrument invented by you has its origin other than from the nature of the created beings themselves. There the attentive observer of the animal world gave his instruments similar arrangements that he then perfected, and from this endless improvement the musical instruments now in usage among you resulted.

You see, many instruments, in particular wind-instruments, had as their model the human or animal throat, where in the larynx down to, and inside, the canal, the windpipe, the whole arrangement of the vibrating and quivering apparatus is located; the cartilaginous circles in the larynx proper and the glottis with the small vibrating tongue reaching into it. The latter, when uttering a sound, modifies its vibration according to its pitch and then, through the vibration of the air column within the windpipe and its own vibration, produces the sound which the soul tries to utter, which sound then, striking forcibly against the vault of the palate, reaches its actual characteristic timbre.

What there is the glottis, with the string instruments are the notches in the wood, mostly in the shape of an S, where the vaulted walls correspond to the palate, as sounding-board, etc. Thus, if you earnestly scrutinize every instrument in usage among you, you will recognize as the first fundamental principle the human or animal vocal organ.

Since, however, the voice must vary according to the size of the organ and particularly with the birds the mouth is formed differently, namely, as beak, also there the sound is individually modified, as befitting every song-bird.

A great difference, which also contributes to altering the sounds, their vibrations and modulations, consists in the fact that with both man and animal the inhaled air differs from the exhaled air. In the air to be inhaled, other elements are bound which, absorbed into the animal’s body, are processed and chemically broken down. Thus when a bird sings, the sound is usually composed of the elements of the inhaled and the exhaled air, that means of elements that invigorate the bird and of those that are spent. Now look, this is why the song of every bird is different, because although it inhales the same air as all the others, in exhaling it expels only what it cannot use; this exhaled air varies with every animal and also with man. Thus, apart from the various vocal organs, the sound produced by these expelled substances in combination with the air is also different. And so, as everywhere so also here, in a simple process involving one and the same substance, it is again the diversity in which it is utilized, which proves My divinity and My might, for also here as always I achieve much with little.

Look, there is still another cause that exerts a great influence in the whole of nature. From natural history you will know that most song-birds of plain feathers and colors are at home in the northern hemisphere of your earth, whereas in the southern hemisphere the birds by far surpass their fellow-creatures in the north in colorful splendor. However, as for song, they are so poorly endowed that it is the most resplendent birds that raise the most ugly clamor. Now this has again its reason in the spiritual interpretation of music.

The earth’s northern hemisphere, together with the North Pole, is that part which sucks in the Spiritual for the earth from the great ether-space and the South Pole with its great mountainous bulge is the place from where that which has been utilized in the earth streams back into the ether-space.

You see, the northern part corresponds to the upper part of a human body, where the head, the heart and the lungs are located and the southern part corresponds to the lower part of man. On the other hand, the earth in its upper part is male and below female, in the upper part positive and in the lower negative, in other words, in the north the spiritual has preponderance, and in the south, the material.

In the north, the influence of the great ether and of the sun, exerted on the Spiritual, brings forth in the products of the earth, if not the great diversity, then the most vigorous, most nutritious plants. Its flora and fauna are small and inconspicuous, but in the spiritual sense on a higher plane.

In the south the opposite is the case; there, everything is on a larger scale. What in the north is merely a small plant, in the south is of a treelike size, but bearing little fruit. For the pole of the south expels the spent substances. The latter, traveling from the ether-atmosphere towards the Equator, fructify all the plants with many elements which further their growth and clothe the birds with substances implying a different light refracting in the coloring of their feathers. And so the south distributes its vital forces, coupled with the spent elements of the inner earth, and furthers the outer growth, whereas in the north the outer appearance seems to be neglected, whilst the inner spiritual nature thrives all the better. That is why the great ability to sing and the diversity of the birds in the north, and their great colorful splendor in the south.

Here, in the north, the divine penetrating ray of the great spirit-man and there, in the south, the influence of the worldly man; here, wisdom – there, form; here, spirit – there, matter.

And if you now wanted to soar up to listen to the music of the spheres of the worlds orbiting around each other, you would find these opposites there also: In the head and in the heart, splendor of the spirit and in the lower part, splendor of color and forms; here, life of love, there, a life governed by reason. And further up into the spiritual heavens, sound is ever more refined, ever more harmonious and purer and more sonorous because there, more spiritual life is prevalent and only the language of the heart is spoken and understood.

Up there in the great spirit-man, where music has attained to its highest purity, there in the center, the sound is again personified in Me, as the All encompassing, in Myself. There everything vibrates: the light, the air and the sound, and thus quivering in never-before experienced bliss the spiritual life is enhanced to its utmost potency.

There, only the feelings of the heart are understood and one sees expressed in every vibration of the purest air and light waves correspondingly the most beautiful love-words and prayers of thanks in a form. There poetry is alive, which also only on account of the rhymed rhythm and its similar sounds impresses the listener as more exalted than prose. There harmony lives in the heart of the spirits and in the flowing together of the sounds. There, only one sound prevails as the fundamental tone, which serves everything as a basis, permeating all, and this sound: I am.

And so, beginning with language, which is there the wisdom of My spirits, continuing with art, which is there represented by the spiritual archetypes of all that was created and, finally, music which is there the language of the innermost feeling for which no language possesses words, where nothing can be spoken or formed, but only felt, there everything is united which here appears separated as a trinity, into language, art and music; into wisdom, form and love; or cause, effect and reason; or past, present and future; existence, being and becoming; warmth, light and love; thought, concept and idea, Jesus – Man and God is now standing before you.

There in the center stands your Father, with His arms sustaining His creation, His created beings, quickening them all with food from the divine source and calling out to you all:

“Use language to educate others,

Use art to inspire others

Use music to show others the road to emotion and Me!”

As I once said in a hymn: “Without tone nothing is born,” also now I say:

“Without an emotional life there is no spiritual rebirth!”

Wherever only reason reigns supreme, or only externals are observed, but feeling is absent, there is only half a spiritual life or none at all, only a vegetative progress.

However, where the door to the heart is wide open, admitting to the spiritual ear by means of the sound-waves of the air spiritual reminiscences of a more sublime and more spiritual world, there lives the right sense of feeling. It is life which, though perhaps not exactly a musical treat, is nevertheless rich in the fullness of life and finds its culmination point far beyond all the material and spiritual worlds, all in the center of a single Being, in Myself.

Seek to unite with that One, strive in that direction, where language, forms and music will stand before your eyes, spiritually embodied in all creations. There you will one day obtain the solution to many other secrets of creation which here cannot be written down in thousands of years, but there can be grasped and understood with one glance.

This is your goal. Now you know whether it is worth the effort to submit during the earthly course of life to its troubles (and difficulties), there, in the purest sound, one day again to find your Father, who during your earthly illusory life let you have a foreknowledge of many a beautiful thing and many a bliss!

So battle on! It is worth the effort to become a child of Him, who for one look of love can give you solar regions and cosmic systems! Amen.

15.  LANGUAGE

30 January 1871

Last night two of your brothers discussed the style, or the kind of syntax, often prevailing in My dictates to you which is not always in accordance with their concepts of German grammar.

The first critical remark by your brother M. was that sometimes in his attempts to change it he still had to return to the sequence of words as set by Me, whereupon your brother L. gave him the good answer, saying that one shall not read My words with the head, but with the heart, and their meaning will always be clear.

Since the latter hit the nail on the head through his remark, I will elucidate for you the manner in which one should express oneself, the right syntax and, finally, a fundamental truth which applies to My entire creation, beginning with the just suggested doubt of your brother M. and ending with the great spiritual man.

Before entering fully into a more detailed explanation of your question, namely, why My style often differs from yours, we must as always begin with the basics and ask:

“What is language? How did it come into being? And who was the actual head who set down the sequence of words in the way you now read, write and think?”

Always proceeding from the most simple, one arrives most easily at the right and truly valuable conclusion which, built on solid, simple and firm ground, is like a house firmly built on rock, which cannot ever be destroyed.

To start with the very first question: “What is language?”, we have to answer:

Language is a combination of different sounds produced by parts of the mouth, which in their diversity, often singly, often in association, express a word, and the word, a concept.

The lower the spiritual level of a people, the fewer requirements it has and therefore requires fewer words to express its needs and to mark various objects.

Thus, language came into being when through articulating sounds and uttered tones one either wanted to imitate the notes of certain sounding objects or invented actual sounds meant to express one or the other need, be it of the body or of the soul; such as you still find in baby language, where in every family from a child’s first babble to a better communication every child has its own peculiar way of expressing its need.

What you observe daily with children was also once the case with the original people, who had to invent many words themselves, but many others they learned from My spirit-world through their intimate contact with the same, words which always in correspondence denote the object in question spiritually.

When mankind increased in numbers, indeed already after the fall of the first man, whereby communication with the spirits was severed until your time, language and minor dialects have formed by the thousands. People no longer understand each other and the languages of the nations one wants to contact have to be learned, otherwise a mutual understanding is impossible.

Of course, these several thousands of languages now existing underwent many changes from the time of their origin to the present. Some have progressed, some regressed, in keeping with the cultural level and the spiritual development of the peoples as such.

But wherever a language exists, or existed, one of its characteristics, apart from the names of objects and concepts peculiar to the language, was also the way of combining the words into a sentence and, finally, also the way of recording them either in script or pictorially.

As for syntax, where your two brothers have just exchanged their thoughts on the method used by Me, the first question is: “How actually is the same to be handled properly?”

Look, here we have arrived at that point where, in contrast to the way you are accustomed to write, I often express Myself differently.

In order to explain this to you, let us enter into a discussion and first ask:

“What is a sentence?” A sentence is the expression of a thought at the bottom of which is the explanation of either a concept or an action.

Therefore, if I want to explain an action, the sentence should first contain the acting verb, as the expression of the will to act, and should only then be followed by the word describing the action.

At least in the language of every spirit the first fundamental thought is: I want to do something, followed by what I want to do.

Thus it says in the Bible: “And He created the light”, but not: “He has the light created” (this is typically German syntax), as you are used to write; the word “create” precedes the word “light”.

Well, in My dictates this same syntax is often found and L. was quite right. Reading it with the heart, namely spiritually, it is right as I dictated it and as it is customary in almost all the old languages of the Orient and Asia, and also in some newer ones. However, in yours (the German language) it is avoided by inserting the noun between the auxiliary and the main verb, even whole sentences in such a way as to make the actual verb stating what is really going to happen, appear at the end.

Since at the basis of everything there is a spiritual “Why”, also here it is again the Spiritual which justifies My syntax and replacing “Spiritual” with “heart”, it means as much as: If you leave aside your intellect and, like My spirits, think only with the heart, you will readily accept My syntax, as soon as you abandon the inner language of the soul and go over to an intellectually orientated, or outer life, you lose also this order, as happened with the recording of the languages.

All the ancient languages of Asia and Africa are like the universal spirit-language. It should be written down to be read only from right to left, whereas with the languages of your present mankind which lives only outwardly, or according to the intellect, the exact opposite is practiced, that means from left to right.

This inversion, too, points to the said difference, namely, material versus Spiritual.

In the material sphere, as for instance in the human body, the left side is the side of the heart from where the blood flows into the whole body; it is the positive or spiritual side, while the right side from where the blood is transported to the lungs and later back to the heart, is the negative, material side.

What is conveyed through the ear to the soul’s organ of feeling and emotion, or to the spiritual man, from the outer world, is the negative aspect, and what the soul tells the outer world through its motive tools, the positive aspect.

Every thing has also two sides, a right and a left, a negative and a positive, an inner and an outer aspect.

The human skin is inside, on the left side, positive, on the outside or right side, negative. In its positive aspect it eliminates, whereupon it changes its poles and absorbs, being negative. This happens countless times at every moment. For repulsion and attraction, friction and generated warmth, destruction and newly creating are the first principle of life.

The eye, as the receptive organ for the outside impressions, is negative, but as mirror of within, positive.

What here is designated as “positive” and “negative” is, expressed in different terms, in the spirit-life a drawing to, or a distancing from, Me and My laws.

In the early times, when the people and the nations were still closer to the spirit-life, they invented their languages according to their spiritual state; accordingly their syntax and script. However, when gradually they turned away from the great natural law, taking the wrong path, also their ways of expression and writing became perverted, so that the majority of newer languages have a wrong style and a wrong manner of writing.

People have exchanged the spirit-language of the heart for the brain-language of the intellect and have turned away from Me and from their own mission. For this reason, many a thing in nature appears to them quite wrong which once appeared just right to primitive people living a simple life.

Thus you see that there is from heart to heart, or through the heart or through the intellect a to and fro, a drawing near and distancing, a betterment and a worsening.

What I told you earlier about the skin, applies to every fruit, every tree and to every object; everywhere there are two aspects by which the intelligence of the within manifests to the outer world, or receives impressions from the outer world, and they are everywhere positive –negative, right – wrong, everywhere a drawing near and a distancing, eliminating and absorbing, straightforward or reversed.

Thus it continues in the entire creation – up to the great cosmic man, whose viscera consist in nothing else but suns, comets and planets, and up to the still endlessly greater spiritual cosmic man, whose inner arrangements are all heavens of the most diverse kinds and beatitudes.

These too absorb for their sustenance from without what they then change within into Spiritual, ejecting or expelling what the cosmic man requires in spiritual substance.

There, the right order prevails, there, My heaven is the heart in the center and the great positive pole which lets all the goodness emanate; and the spirits in the material world are the negative pole which returns to Me all the Spiritual purified, having first to change from the negative into the positive pole, whereby the change is initiated anew.

This is the great fundamental law of creation: I, Love, am the positive pole and you and My spirits and angels, as absorbing components, are the negative pole until, after much absorbing and repelling, which is equivalent to movement, or life, finally My positive pole, as Spiritual forever and immutably existing, will alone remain and all that was absorbed, spiritualized like Me, will enjoy eternal peace and bliss and only gentle attraction, but no repulsion can occur any longer.

Of course, eons upon eons of time will pass until then, but it will happen that spirit and matter, thus purified and spiritualized, will renounce their principles given them as first impulse and what once could only secure its permanence through conflict and dissolution, will be living peacefully side by side and within each other, so that there will be unity among all.

Now you see, My dear children, beginning with the minor question and L.’s answer and ending with the spirit-man, the same bond linking them with all the creations; there as a minor question as to the syntax in your language, and here in immense, for you unthinkable distances as power of attraction and repulsion.

From this you may learn how little is required to discover and elucidate a whole great truth, a great fundamental law of My divine Household. Of course, it requires also Him who can explain it to you; who has ordained the same way to all these great and small worlds, to all these objects, be they spiritual or material. It requires your Father, who wants to explain to you such great miracles in minor questions, thereby showing you how much and how little is needed to understand, firstly, My magnitude and, secondly, My love, and learn to value the same! Amen.”