Once more Darkness had settled over the earth. Triumphantly it cast its shadow over men, and barred
their way to the Pure-Spiritual Realm. The Light of God had withdrawn from them. The body that had
served It as an earthly vessel hung bleeding and ravaged on the Cross, a victim of the protest of those to
whom It wished to bring happiness and holy peace.
At the summit of the entire Creation, in the radiant vicinity of God, stands the Grail Castle as the
Temple of Light. Great sorrow prevailed there over the human spirits gone astray in the depths who out of
hostility and with their blind know-it-all attitude, closed themselves off from the Truth and allowed
themselves to be driven by the hate-filled Darkness so far as to commit this crime against the Son of God.
The curse thus created by mankind fell heavily on the whole world, pressing them into an ever greater
limitation of understanding. —
In grave wonder, a youth beheld this monstrous happening from the Castle of the Grail... the future
Son of Man. He was already then being prepared for His Mission, a process which took thousands of
years; for He was to descend well-equipped into those lower regions, where Darkness reigned through the
volition of mankind.
A woman’s hand was gently laid on the shoulder of the dreaming youth. The Primordial Queen of
Womanhood stood beside Him, and spoke in a sad and loving voice:
“Take in the full impact of this event, dear Son. Such is the battlefield through which you will have to
pass in the hour of fulfillment; for at the request of the murdered Savior, God the Father grants that before
the Judgment you shall once more proclaim His Word to the faithless, in order to save those who are still
willing to listen to It!”
The youth bowed His head in silence and sent up a fervent prayer for strength, for the echo of such
great Divine Love reverberated mightily within Him!
The tidings of another, final possibility of Grace spread rapidly through all the spheres, and many
souls implored God to grant that they might be permitted to help in the great work of the redemption of
all those who still wish to find the way to God. The Love of God the Father granted this to many a soul,
which was thereby helped in its ascent. In grateful joy the host of these so blessed souls jubilantly gave a
solemn pledge of loyalty for the fulfillment of the opportunity to serve which was granted them.
Thus were prepared those Called ones, who were later to hold themselves at the disposal of the
Envoy of God at His hour of fulfillment on earth. They were carefully developed for these tasks and
incarnated on earth at the right time, so that they might be ready whenever the Call reached them; to
listen for this Call remained the first fulfillment of their duty.
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Meanwhile the legacy of the murdered Son of God, His Living Word, was exploited on earth solely
for selfish purposes. Mankind had no conception of the true Principles of Christ. On the contrary, they
gradually grew into such a wrong and purely earthly servility that eventually they rejected anything else
as not coming from God; they still do so today, rejecting and attacking whatever does not conform to the
loathsome and mushy sentimentality they desire, and whatever does not practice a similar, very
unwholesome and slavish human self-worship. Everything that is not built upon the supremacy of
mankind is simply labeled as false and as not belonging to the Word of God. This behavior, however,
actually only conceals the apprehensive worry that the long-felt hollowness of the false structure might
become apparent.
This is what the sacred legacy of the Son of God was turned into! Upon such degrading assumptions,
His clear words were interpreted and passed on, in ways which were all too human. Adherents were
solicited by wooing human weaknesses, until some earthly power could be gained, which has always been
the ultimate goal. Then, however, their brutal cruelties very soon showed how far removed from the real
understanding of the misconstrued Christ-Principle its bearers were, and how little they lived it.
Continually and ever more clearly there was proof that the very ones who claimed to be the bearers of the
Christ-Principle were shamelessly and unpardonably the worst enemies and greatest offenders against the
true Christ-Principle! After Christ’s life on earth the whole of history, from the beginning of the churches, sets forth these facts so clearly, in letters so indelibly engraved and branded, that they can never be denied
or attenuated. The stigma of conscious hypocrisy was indelibly established throughout the long history of
individual and mass murders under criminal invocations of God. Even today many parts of this structure
are being expanded, only in different forms adapted to the present time.
Thus, thanks to the willingness of all of the human spirits, the Darkness became ever denser as the
time approached when the Son of Man had to be incarnated upon earth.
Joyful activity in the elements heralded the earthly birth. Angels lovingly accompanied Him down to
this earth. Primordial Beings formed a solid rampart around Him and around His earthly childhood. His
earthly youth was allowed to be bright and sunny. In the evenings He saw the Comet, radiant above Him,
like a greeting from God the Father; He regarded it as nothing unusual, as one of the other stars, until the
bandage which He had to wear during His bitter training on earth was put before His eyes.
Then life around Him seemed strange; only a great unquenchable longing filled His soul, and grew to
restlessness, to continual nervous seeking. Nothing of what the earth had to offer could satisfy it.
With the ethereal bandage over His eyes, He now stood on hostile ground facing the Darkness on a
battlefield where everything dark could have a firmer foothold than He Himself had. Therefore it was
only natural that wherever He sought to undertake something He found no response and no success, but
always and only the Darkness erupting in hostility. As long as the time of fulfillment for Him had not
arrived, the Darkness could always remain stronger, and could inflict material damage on Him wherever
He engaged in earthly affairs in some way, whether in private, business or government affairs; for
everything earthly quite naturally had to confront the Envoy of God with nothing but hostility, because all
human volition today is directed against the true Will of God, in spite of the alleged search for Truth,
behind which there always lurks only self-conceit in various forms. The Darkness easily found willing
creatures everywhere to hinder the Envoy from the Light, and to injure Him grievously and painfully.
Thus His time of learning on earth became the path of suffering.
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