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DISCOURSE 11

“LET THERE BE
LIGHT”!

CREATION! THE SPIRITUAL AND
PHYSICAL ORIGINS OF MAN

Genesis and Science Agree!

“But Where Stand Islam and Judaism?”

“When we consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,
The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained,
What is man, that thou art mindful of him?”

(The Gospel of the Essenes. E. B. Szekely, p. 176.)

“...evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true...
The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome.”

(Francis S. Collins. M.D. Ph.D. Emphases mine.)

The above quote by Dr. Francis Collins -- Doctor of Medicine, and scientist -- was voiced when he was interviewed on “Anderson Cooper 360^◦” [CNN] some years ago. In a few very insightful words he captures the fundamental truth of a large measure of humankind’s “whence”, and therewith leads us into the concomitant and equally crucial question of our “whither and why”.

Author of the book: “The Language of God; A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief”, Dr. Collins’s correct insights here resonate perfectly with the following “human reality”.

That we, as human beings of planet earth, are not solely a physical entity, but also necessarily possess a non-material inner animating core. For physical matter cannot --- and therefore does not --- animate physical matter.’

In addition: As we are clearly more than just a physical body means we naturally and inherently possess a separable entity within our material form. And that that is the actual life-force, the animating core, that is actually each one of us.

Clearly, those two realities obviously mean that we are either a physical body solely; with a pump for oxygenated blood to the brain (our inbuilt computer) to power our intellectual thought processes, or we are more than just that and therefore possess a separable “life-force” that is only associated with the physical body during its life on earth. It cannot be both, it’s one, OR, the other. There is no third or fourth way here! So, reader, take your pick: Only one is right! That being the case, and since there is only one correct reality for the human species, the whole thrust of this Discourse will unequivocally illuminate “the right one”!

We’ll begin by quoting from The Grail Message, for only there do we find clear answers and explanations to EVERYTHING! However, since the collective “scholars” of the “big three” do not accept that Final Work for global humanity, and the individual “scholars” of that “grouping” only discuss their religion in their “institutions of learning” --- and probably also compare their “truth” to the other religious “truths” therein --- much of this Discourse will be sourced from other modes of thought besides just the religious notions of “how we got here”.

It is a fact, reader, that the religions of the world do not discuss THE TRUTH; they only discuss their doctrines. So, too, do all the thousands of Ph.D. people associated with the business of teaching or examining religion. In order to really illuminate the knowledge of our Genesis; whilst the religions will contribute some value to this great question in this necessarily lengthy Discourse, their so-called knowledge is nowhere near sufficient to provide any kind of definitive answer.

Why? Simple! Too much religiosity, too much associated religious emotionalism, too many assumptions and, most important of all --- too little logic.

So, in order to “put right” all incorrect notions of human teachings, we’ll start with just the first few introductory paragraphs on precisely our “genesis” from the wondrous and absolute Truth of The Grail Message!

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Abd-ru-shin: “SON OF MAN”
And “ETERNAL MEDIATOR”!

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Now, reader, the very first two sentences in that part-Lecture hold the key to our beginnings on earth. For from it can be extrapolated a basic picture of how we “formed”. However, because of what I said before that lecture; from many different sources much more will have to be explained if we are to make any inroads into both the religious and scientific paradigms that have been zealously guarded by the two camps for a very long time.

What we have quoted is, of course, exactly what the Bible says. So, are we saying that the Bible is the same as The Grail Message? No, we are certainly not. What is obviously inferred here is that many different disciplines and religions have elements of Truth within their teachings, so those aspects of Truth will naturally be present, either in fact or in essence, in Imanuel’s All-Truth --- His Grail Message!

Now: In direct concert with the crucial Title of this Work, the next obvious question is: “Where stand Islam and Judaism”? Would they agree with an actual “forever truism”, irrespective of where it might stem from? Surely that is the mark of spiritual maturity; to accept only Truth and logic!

Let’s look at Islam first --- for the Christian viewpoint is essentially that from the Bible --- and then later see where Judaism stands on our beginnings. Orthodox science, of course, will have no truck with any religious viewpoint, but let’s all keep a very open mind here. For we will discover that the supposedly opposing viewpoints of earth science and the Creation-process, as indicated in the Bible, but comprehensively elucidated in The Grail Message, are closer than the respective protagonists would ever admit to. So: Islam!

ISLAM AND CREATION

Perhaps a basic understanding of the Muslim viewpoint might be gleaned from the terms, “Abd” and “Rab”. From The HOLY QUR’AAN: With Complete Arabic Text; by Eliyasee and Pickthall. Introduction:

Here we have two very well-respected Muslim scholars offering their brand of “Islamic wisdom” for the followers of the religion and surely, in their estimation of course, for the “necessary education” of the wider world. Unfortunately for them, however, such views very seriously transgress the very order of Creation in terms of ‘who stands where’ --- and why!

(*) The very idea that a religious scholar would put forward the following opinion, vis-à-vis: “... dispenses with the need of the Sons or (Avatars) incarnations of God Himself (in human or other form)”, clearly speaks for itself. Despite the use of the term “dispenses with”, the two “scholars” nonetheless show that the Islamic world tries to drag down to a convenient earthly religious level its ostensibly exalted reference to God as Lord of All the Worlds, and in the same breath talk about “incarnations of God Himself”.

This fact may be readily noted in the following asterisk point, for there is only ONE GOD. Even with the entry of Jesus and Imanuel onto the earth plane, they are not “incarnations of HIM” down here on earth. They are, however, a Part of Him incarnated on earth to try to awaken us; the obtuse, blind and quite stupid humans to the Truth of Creation and the Living Laws of God! Thus:

(**) The whole notion of “Abd’s” (human beings) being superior to Angels and therefore are “capable of wider and higher manifestations of the Supreme Being”, reveal not just appalling religious arrogance, but also the stark fact that in its present state there is not a single shred of genuine Spiritual knowledge in Islamic thought.

Hard Fact: The “Supreme Being” as --- THE SUPREME BEING --- cannot be emulated in any way whatsoever; for under the inviolable aegis of THE DIVINE LAWS OF CREATION, there cannot possibly be a “higher manifestation” of HIM!

That must forever stand as self-evident reality, and no religious book can change that. They may label themselves scholars, but scholars of what? Reader: Where are these people’s heads?

At least the two next verses have gotten it right, for Truth means Creation-Law and all that that entails and encompasses.

(*) The single asterisk points in the above two verses essentially state what this Discourse reveals about Creation as it concerns man on earth; that Truth and serious purpose wrought It, and for a fixed term. Since this Discourse is about our genesis, and within the stupendous “construct” of the Greater Creation, let’s hear Eliyasee and Pickthall’s interpretation of the human soul; vis-à-vis:

Now, reader; let’s get back to our stalwart Islamic scholar, M.M. Ali, and hear his interpretation about The Creator and the Creation-process --- for it surely has to be a process of some kind, and progressive in its processes.

Our next verses from M. M. Ali migrate into areas of Creation and the Creative-process. Ali’s commentary offers insight into our subject matter of the moment as per a Koranic or Muslim interpretation of it. From Verse 20:50:

(*) Ali’s comment that; “pairs exist...even in the vegetable kingdom” delivered almost as some kind of latter-day Koranic revelation, is surprising. Most young children whose upbringing as a matter of course included planting and harvesting fruits and vegetables understood the reality of “pairs”, particularly in the case of fruit trees. (From 39:62. M.M. Ali):

‘Allah is the Creator of all things and He has charge over everything.’

That verse leads us into the whole area of the “six days of Creation” of Christianity and into the very different concept of “Creation-time” that Islam espouses. Six “earth days” versus “something else” means that as we track through this Discourse, this very issue has to stand as a major one in attempting to arrive at a clear and logical determination of the Truth of “Creation’s time-frame”.

‘And certainly We created the heavens and the earth and what is between them in six periods, and no fatigue touched Us.^a’ (50:38. M.M. Ali).

We will shortly hear what M.M. Ali has to say on the curious reference in the above verse to The Power of All Creation somehow getting “tired”. For whilst the Koran does not actually say that The Creator became “tired” and therefore “rested” afterwards, it seems very strange that the Koran nonetheless needs to use the phrase “and no fatigue touched Us”.

Noting anecdotally that in everyday life; along with Christians and Jews, Muslims, in certain scenarios, seem to also regard themselves as “people of the Book”, the phrase seems very suspiciously like a counter to Bible Scripture --- something like; we of the Muslim religion “understand” the Creator better than you “other people of the book” do.

The truth is that the notion of “rested” in this scenario cannot possibly be likened to a human being becoming tired after heavy exertion. Reader: It is exactly what you have already read from The Grail Message of Abd-ru-shin in a previous Discourse; that human beings cannot get past the foolish belief of The Creator being deemed as “the highest of what is human”. Ali on 50:38a seems to have done exactly that with his interpretation of the word, “rested”:

In the case of the following verse 7:54 and Ali’s commentary pertaining to it, we have used it previously. Despite that, it also fits well here too, for we are now getting into something very different from the Creation process as described in the Bible, which stands as the sacrosanct orthodox or literal Christian view of it. Islam, however, holds a different view on a very crucial aspect of the “process”.

Ali’s commentary on 54a leads us into the contentious area of primarily Christian orthodoxy and the six days of creation versus “something else”. It is the hoary-old “creation versus evolution” time-frame debate.

(*) M.M. Ali’s description of the various stages of the earth’s creation would make interesting reading for volcanologists. No intimation that a number of things might just be happening at the same time, and not as a precise step-by-step progression in that one thing cannot happen until the preceding stage is completed. In addition, his Islamic belief of the creation of man is identical to that of the Christian doctrine. Both are wrong. In both beliefs, man on earth takes centre stage, seemingly to the exclusion of the rest of the far greater part of Creation and the other “inhabitants” therein as Isaiah informs us. So, what we have looked at thus far is not how it is, as you will also discover further on once we have dispensed with all the “wrong” in the religious interpretations of the “big three”.

The very reality of knowing how it all began must surely be a primary and fundamental foundation upon which to build all absolutes. For not knowing and understanding how we got here leaves us in the dark; it leaves us open ---- as is the very case today in the supposedly enlightened and intelligent 21^st century --- to all sorts of fantastic and illogically-unworkable and often just plain silly ideas of the how and why of Creation.

JUDAISM AND CREATION

Now it’s the turn of Judaism to offer its interpretation or opinion on this crucial subject. So: Firstly, a very literal, simplistic interpretation of an event that probably defies any kind of human description anyway. Nonetheless, because it is basically also the belief of a very large number of Christians, the general fundamentalist outline of the “so-believed six days of creation” of Jewish Orthodoxy needs to be aired --- before we illuminate the actual, stupendous, and humanly-incomprehensible Creation-Process for you reader!

Now, the sixth day, in this particular order of Creation from a Jewish “scholar”, is of especial interest to us, so we will reproduce it verbatim.

(*) This we must comment on once more, for we ostensibly have a Creator-Being of such immense Power that we cannot even fathom the stupendous nature of the unfathomable immensity of just one galaxy in a universe of billions in just the material world. Yes, we know that cosmologists throw out numbers in a blasé manner --- as though most of them have grasped the “beyond comprehension” nature of it all reasonably well, but I think only in a mathematical sense.

On the question of the “creation of man”; in the final analysis, to hold to a really childish notion that that Power would somehow descend to earth just to fashion a mud and clay figure of a human, and then place within it the same life-force --- the Divine aspect --- that belongs solely to the Very Highest? Sorry, for despite what some religions seriously believe, we humans are not that elevated.

(**) Well, that’s one view of a well-meaning Jewish “scholar”, and would no doubt represent the thinking of a large number in the Jewish race. We must say, however, a pharisaic attitude is clearly evident there due to an over-simplified view. If we take the obvious reality of societies throughout history, there has never been the possibility for everyone within it “to rest on every Sabbath”, for the simple reason that societies could not function safely. We are not talking about amusement parks and especially shopping malls being open 24/7 where, reader, you can “shop ‘till you drop”.

No: There are the necessary needs of hospitals, fire-fighting requirements, rescue services, law enforcement etc. This attitude represents the old story of the Pharisees attempting to trap Jesus and his disciples for picking and eating corn on the Sabbath, and then receiving the admonishing reality from Him of not leaving an animal stranded to die just because it was the Sabbath. It’s the hoary old argument of the “Letter” versus the “Spirit” of The Law! Only one makes sense and, for the society concerned, is the only one that could work. So: That is what should be embraced.

No one is going to burn “in hellfire” for being “a good Samaritan” on the Sabbath. How puerile a notion, how spiritually “primitive” such views are. Yes: It really is that; but it’s all more “just religion”! Now let’s look at a very different, and, in my opinion, far more logical take on Creation itself, and the “Creation of man”. From:

Now: Let’s add my twopence worth to Jewish thought on the salient, asterisked points.

(*) Reader, do you not think it very surprising and not a little hypocritical that some ultra-religious, over-zealous members of a race of people --- the “chosen” --- who suffered terribly under the Nazi Regime, are now banning books that they deem dangerous? Moreover, in exactly the same way and for the same reasons that Hitler’s madness decreed. There was the famous observation during this period of “book-burning” that the next logical step after that would be “the burning of people”. How ironic, but then this is the time of “the end of days”, when everything will be forced to the surface in order to reveal to the world its true face!

(**) Rejecting the Bible account of Creation because it ostensibly contradicts “evolutionary theory”, thus needing to “look to modern science to explain the origin of the world”, presupposes that such views use the standard Bible account that dates back many centuries. We have already shown that the “Church fathers” of antiquity relegated the Books of The Apocrypha to virtual anonymity, yet only in there have we found the clear answer to Peter’s end-time warning of “Destruction by Fire” Get the right Bible and a whole new world of reconciliation between science and religion, creation versus evolution, emerges perfectly reconciled as you will shortly discover in our use of Ferrar Fenton’s seminal translation.

(***) This is an interesting one, reader. Here we have the stated notion that God is not perfect because the world “has so many faults in its design”. Does that mean a flawed and imperfect God Who does not know what He is doing? Or does it mean that we live in a “one-off” absolute Creation where no evolutionary development takes place, where no mutation or adaptation should occur, which in Jewish terms was always the plan from the very beginning, and that The Creator therefore somehow got it wrong? The natural world of predator and prey actually reveals the very Perfection of Creation, in that nothing stands still, nothing “stagnates”.

Reader: Get that word, stagnate; for after that must come some sort of retrogression, a “falling away” from a previous “peak” of, in that moment, perfected evolution. Retrogression is most definitely not what is “Willed” by God. Neither is any kind of “static stagnation”, a truly stupid notion. Creation is Perfect; precisely because it is not static, but is vibrant, living, dynamic, forever growing and developing, and therewith striving for Perfection in all creatures and natural processes. Even the collision of galaxies means renewal for both, but, of course, on a truly gigantic scale. It is, nonetheless, still the same principle and its requirement for constant, never-ceasing “movement”!

(****) Now, reader; these points are so refreshing, and we are totally in agreement with those views; for what those clear-thinking Jewish citizens espouse is exactly what you will shortly learn as being the Truth about the Creation-Process. There is no conflict here. It exists solely in the foolish debates, and thus in the minds, of men --- nowhere else.

(*****) To argue that “the Bible is not meant to provide an accurate scientific description of the origins of the world” is nonsense. Certainly, there is the “spiritual account”, simply because Creation is far more than just The World of Matter, which, of course, we can all readily identify with. It is, however, the last and lowest part of the whole Creation to “come into being”. As you will learn more and more in this Work, the Bible is precisely a scientific Work. All the modern “university disciplines” are represented, such as evolution to begin with, also geology, palaeontology, and especially cosmology. Even the very contentious “human/chimp” split argument is reconciled very clearly in the Book of Genesis.

It’s simply a matter of knowing where to look in the first place, but more importantly possessing the knowledge of The All-Truth to then absolutely confirm it. We humans have made the Bible a religious book by not “seeing” what is truly there. Religion does not rule Creation. It does, however, rule the lives of billions; too often in ignorance of so much wondrous Truth, including the stupendous greatness of Creation.

AN ESPECIAL NOTE:

Now, reader, we will take you through the actual Creation Process, the final knowledge of which was brought to earth in the 20th century in The Grail Message of Imanuel/Abd-ru-shin --- The Son of Man --- Who is: The One and Only Spirit of Truth!

Some logic, once more, especially for the obtuse! A Spirit of Truth must be of The Truth and thus must inherently possess Absolute Truth --- every last nuance of It! That can never be the preserve of a human being. So, no prophet could ever be that Exalted Being! Be therefore thankful that He and His Perfect Truth have been revealed to you!

Therefore, as you track through the following explanations of the Creation-Process, do look back to these other-religion explanations and, for yourself, along with what we will reveal for you, decide, for yourself, where you wish to stand on this matter.

We will use the same following Sub-title that is present at the start of this Discourse to head this vital Section to remind us all that there really is no separation --- either in religious belief or scientific reality --- between Creation and Evolution, because they are “both sides of the same Creation-Process coin”!

Now, despite the fact that we have revealed this final knowledge to you, it will not be anywhere near enough for the greater bulk of global humanity, more especially the 2 billion odd Christians who hold to the Bible as the last word of God. We have therefore used that Book to reveal the same Truth to them reader; simply because this “collective” could not tear themselves loose from their dogma to embrace the True and Final Word of God. Their “collective ego” will not let them!

THE ORIGINS OF MAN: --- GENESIS AND SCIENCE AGREE!

SO: From Francis S. Collins. M.D. Ph.D.: A clear Truth once more:
“...evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true...
The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome.”

In direct concert, the National Geographic Documentary Channel, in two separate Documentaries decisive for human knowledge -- “Birth of Life” and “Human Ape” -- in essence stated the same in the form of two questions, respectively:
   “How did non-living material come to life?”

And in reference to the 98.4% of human DNA shared with chimpanzees, the documentary posed this question:
   “What is in the less-than-two % that sets the two species apart?”

The History Channel, too, sought the same kind of definitive answer. The series, “How Life Began”, asked:
   “Where did [this] life come from?” -----and ----- “What IS life, exactly?”

And in a ‘space’ of perhaps, ‘insightful prescience’, the Series further and crucially asked:
   “Is it chemical, spiritual, or a combination of both?”

Reader: That is exactly the right question to ask! Unfortunately, however, without the recognition and thus knowledge of Creation-Law, no documentary could ever correctly answer the questions they themselves pose. That means, of course, that whilst the content is usually fascinating, the many millions who watch such presentations are nonetheless always left “without final answers”!

In this Discourse we reveal precisely the spiritual/material processes surrounding those key ‘scientific’ queries; thus, that sequence of events which gifted to us conscious life. So, notwithstanding the very strong ‘scientific mindset’ that ‘current education’ holds to, in a curious paradox at exactly this crucial point in our evolutionary journey, science nonetheless still questions whether a ‘possible’ spiritual paradigm might also be present with the human entity. To immediately answer that question succinctly in terms of both scientific and spiritual ‘Truth’:

The ultimate and thus final answer does not lie “in the genes”!

Now, reader, let’s learn those exact processes --- ultimately from the Knowledge of The All-Truth of Imanuel. Islam and Judaism have had their say, and Christianity basically follows a fundamental line more or less similar to the views of Orthodox Judaism. Strange, don’t you think; that so many different ideas about how “we got here” have not just been mooted by the religions historically, but oft-times brutally forced onto the populace by religious authorities. The nub of it all is this: Irrespective of whichever view one might personally choose, the divisions themselves are ultimately rendered irrelevant, precisely because of our very presence here. For we arrived, we are here, living and breathing on the earth. Simple logic, don’t you think?

Given the acrimonious history of the Creation versus Evolution debate, the clear and strong sub-title of this particular Discourse stating that “Genesis and Science” agree will, I am sure; cause many on either side of the debate to be derisively dismissive of such a claim. So, what is the debate really all about? Could it ultimately be about protecting ideas so long considered sacrosanct that pride and perhaps ego will no longer even consider any kind of accommodation whatsoever?

Obviously, we should seek to know our origins, for such knowledge permits us not only the “where from”, but also the why and the how! While all three aspects naturally offer the complete picture, the key, why, singularly allows us to focus on what we as a collective humanity have produced on our blue planet home over the many thousands of years of our tenure. The picture is not a good one, yet it is crucial to know the precise reason why.

It would be fair to say that for the most part science, particularly “Anthropological Science”, would shy away from any notion that Creation, as it is currently accepted and promoted by the mainstream Christian Churches especially, could find accommodation with their views. Therefore, the solidly entrenched beliefs of Evolutionists and Creationists appear to be so diametrically opposed that attempting to show the opposite from The Book of Genesis would, on the surface at least, seem futile. Yet that is exactly what we can reveal, and therefore what we will do.

For Christians, particularly; the key lies in reading the Book of Genesis very, very carefully line by line! A critical examination of the meaning of, and connection to, every other line is imperative for a complete understanding. Obviously, all assumptions and preconceptions should be discarded before undertaking such an analysis. One should also examine a number of different Bibles at the same time for there are translations which, in their interpretations, mask the great revelation and knowledge about the science behind Creation in Genesis.

Of course, we do not at all place human science before the great Creative Process. For the nature of the process as described in Genesis cannot ever be fully understood by either science or religion --- simply because it describes an event utterly stupendous and incomprehensible, originating out of a very high non-material sphere or level, to its lowest precipitation in the material worlds of the physical universes. Incomprehensible as it is, however, it should nevertheless still be the role of the earth-sciences to at least strive to understand them.

The time-frame that Creationism espouses is also clearly at odds with Evolutionism and probably represents the greatest sticking point in the whole debate. The 4.5 billion years that cosmology accepts versus the 6000 years of fundamentalist Christianity is clearly insurmountable.

However, either a thing is so, or it is not. It cannot be both at the same time. It certainly cannot in terms of the huge unbridgeable difference in opposing views here.

Notwithstanding such an obvious reality, is it possible for one key aspect of the debate to be immediately and perfectly reconciled? In other words, can Evolution actually be Creation? Thus, can the Creation Process, in its actual outworking to produce the great universes, at the same time also be the Evolutionary Process? If so, then the apparently irreconcilable and huge time difference can be automatically resolved too.

This particular Discourse thus offers a very different look at a subject that, for many hundreds of millions, is simply intractable in its seemingly unbridgeable chasm. So, let’s examine in closer detail this apparent quandary. From the bestseller, Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder.

The questions that young Sophie finds herself faced with in Gaarder’s International bestseller are the very same that men have asked since time immemorial. The fact that this particular publication was a “best-seller” illustrates the keen, ongoing interest to such ideas from far more than the scientific or philosophic community. For, quite logically, there should be a natural, inherent curiosity in each of us which brings forth these very same questions by virtue of the fact that we exist on planet Earth in the first place. Let’s join Sophie as she asks more questions! From page 12. Italics mine.

Sophie’s second question of “any meaning behind what happens” is addressed further on in the book from the standpoint of The Divine Laws of Creation. This, in turn, provides the answers to the fourth question, namely how we should live. The third question on ‘life’ after death is also addressed further on in its relevant Discourse. For if we do not know from where we originate, we cannot know who we are, what we are, or what our purpose is. That leaves only the first question to be answered, “How was the world created?” That question we examine here – in this Discourse.

From Greek philosophy! The philosopher Plato believed that there had to be a reality behind what he termed the “world of ideas”. He thought that we could never have true knowledge of anything that is in a constant state of change. We can only have true knowledge of things that we can understand with our reason. Plato also believed that man is a dual creature with a body bound to the world of the senses --– which he thought were unreliable --– and an immortal soul which is the realm of reason. He also believed that the soul existed before it inhabited the body.

Even though Plato wrote extensively about this dual concept, it was widely believed by many Greeks before him. Plotinus (ca. 205-270 AD) knew of similar ideas from Asia. Plotinus also believed that the world is a span between two poles with the Divine Light at one end, and absolute darkness at the other which receives none of the light. He believed that this darkness was simply the absence of light, without any existence. Thus, the Divine Light becomes increasingly dimmer the further one travels from it. Finally, he believed, there is a point that it cannot reach. He believed, moreover, that the soul is both a spark from, and illuminated by, the Divine Light: a fascinating insight because this particular view contains much basic truth, as we will illustrate.

Whilst the philosophers have mulled over this question for millennia, the mainstream religions have generally not needed to do so. The acceptance of an immortal soul or spirit --– whether it becomes “one with the universe” or retains its “personal self-conscious form” after earthly death --– is part and parcel of most religious beliefs. Even within this field, however, there is no clear position either. Yet pre-dating the early philosophers and the main religions, we find that in some places “cave-men” buried their dead with plants in bloom, and other items that were probably personal possessions.

This indicates that the funeral ceremony was conducted with a certain ritualistic air, perhaps paralleling the first stirrings of a belief in the duality of man in the early progenitors of humankind. A degree of reverence for either the burial process or in the belief of a soul departing from the body is evident here. This offers a different perception of these early humans, once stereotypically depicted as brutish.

Democritus (ca. 450-370 BC), on the other hand, believed that people and animals were constructed solely of atoms, and that neither possessed immortal “souls”. According to him, souls were built up of atoms that are dispersed to the winds when people die. In contrast to that particular view, The Laws of Creation, the driving power of everything in Creation -- both the non-material Eternal and the non-eternal material --- decree that there are both animate and inanimate life-forms. The inanimate we may designate as that which is anchored in place such as trees and mountains. Rivers, lakes and glaciers etc., also come into this category. The animate is naturally the opposite and comprises those life-forms that are, in essence, mobile! They include the insects, birds, fishes, animals and, of course, man.

The “mobile group” is further divided into those forms that have free will and those that do not. In fact, only man possesses free will. The mobile life-forms of the natural world do not. They do, however, possess instinct. The designation “mobile” means that all such creatures possess an “inner animating core” separate from their “physical form”. We can picture that “inner core” as a “power pack”; the “battery in the machine”, so to speak.

However, because there is a huge and fundamental inherent difference between the free will of humans and the basic instinct of all other mobile life-forms, there is, similarly, the same great difference in the respective kinds of animating power contained within the “individual species”.

For the greater understanding of this Discourse, the concept of free will needs to be thought about deeply. Because its nature has puzzled thinkers for centuries -- free will being inherently necessary for any decision-making process --– the non-understanding of what free will actually is and how it works, effectively prevents the understanding of the many problems that beset us. At times, problems appear which seem to have no causal reason, no apparent origin.

Immanuel Kant, (1724-1804) a German idealist philosopher, Protestant, and an ethical man, believed strongly in three things; that man has an immortal soul, that God exists, and that man has a free will. These aspects, he believed, were essential factors under which the necessary virtue of morality could grow. By exercising free will in his decision-making process, man moulds and shapes his individual personality in accordance with the strict outworking of certain immutable Laws, thereby determining his future. The subsequent “level of development” attained is then his alone. This simple yet absolute mechanism explains how inequalities occur --– why men are not equal.

Now reader, let’s get to the heart of the matter in one bold stroke! So: In order to fully understand our true nature as human beings, it is important to also recognise what exactly constitutes the primary parts of the complete entity, earthman. In simple and basic terms at this point, there are three.

They comprise the material or physical body, the soul, and the spirit. (The mind and emotions are part of the physical aspect because their contribution largely stems from the activity of the brain.) Unfortunately, the designations, ‘soul’, and ‘spirit’, either cause great confusion in the differences not being understood, or are thought to be the same thing.

Essentially, we can designate “Spirit” as being the innermost animating core of man. His “spirit” is that “primary aspect” which inhabits the material body. It is the actual animating power or force in each one of us.

The “Spirit” is thus the actual person!

The soul body and physical shell are respective outer coverings that clothe the “spirit”. We may thus regard the soul as being composed of all the “other-world” coverings that envelop the spirit but is not that which is the material body. (In the Ethereal World of the beyond, however, it is the ethereal body that envelops the spirit, for the material body has now been vacated.)

So, whilst spirit and soul are closely linked together inside man’s physical form as part of the complete entity, by virtue of their different origins they serve a slightly different purpose, even though still being animating aspects of that singular entity. Therefore, in addition to knowing the process by which we arrived here, what we also need to know is the how and why of our Spirit, the how and why of our various “coverings” of the “soul-body”, and finally how they all fit together.

Now, whilst man possesses spirit as his “innermost animating power”, this is not the case with animals. Their “inner life force” may be designated as being soul only, because their ultimate place of origin stands at a lower level in Creation than man’s higher level of Spiritual Origin.

Therefore, animals do not possess the spiritual responsibility inherent with a free-will attribute as does humankind and are thus not subject to the reciprocal outworking of particular, immutable Laws as humans are. Unfortunately for them, however, they are subject to every whim of mankind.

From those brief explanations it can be safely deduced that inanimate objects cannot therefore possess either soul or spirit. What is sometimes perceived or felt around great trees and around waterfalls or in mountains and forests is something entirely different, which in a sense can be called “soul” but is not of the same kind.

Now: Having determined the nature of free will, soul and spirit –-- the origins of which we will discover in this Discourse –-- the next vital step is to address the question of the Creation-Process itself. Since there has never yet been complete agreement about the “origin of the world” and all that it contains, let’s now add our voice to the debate and offer our explanations for mankind’s beginnings so as to resolve that first question Sophie is struggling to come to terms with. You should thus discover for yourself that the following explanations do finally provide clear and logical enlightenment to this seemingly perplexing question.

Firstly, in concert with the discoveries of anthropological science, traditional, cultural and indigenous beliefs which state that ancestors were “things” or “beings” other than human, should be dismissed out of hand. Human beings are not descended from rivers or mountains or half-men or demi-gods that some indigenous beliefs allude to. Nor from any other form that superstitious conviction or legend has dreamed up, and neither are any races different with respect to the truth of this.

Interestingly, this is not a religious truth, or even a “scientific” one. It is the Truth simply because the human form is the only one ordained for all of humankind under the outworking of Creation-Law --- that Law which overrides and transcends all man-made beliefs.

Let us state here, therefore, an emphatic and bold statement! Those souls presently living on planet Earth have, as their common spiritual origin and therefore their true home:

The Spiritual Realm of Creation!

A few questions to begin with. What do we mean by this, and what is the Spiritual Realm of Creation? Is there such a place? Can there be such a place? If there is, are we possibly “related” to all other races on earth by virtue of our same place of origin? If so, were we once all there together as different races as is the case on Earth, or are those differences “evolutionary developments” which permit reference points by which we can trace natural, physical and regional differences in the human race? And do we all automatically return to our place of origin at earthly death as a member of “our own particular earthly race” as a matter of course --- or does something else happen here?

Where lies the answer to this most necessary of questions --- our origins? For there is surely little point in journeying through life uncertain, confused, even angry at vexing questions such as race, racial mix and ethnic origins or whether one truly belongs to one race or country more than to any other. So, purely in the context of this particular composition, where should we begin? For, surely; if there were a blessed and single acknowledgement of the actual Truth of Creation in the minds of all peoples --- as was once Divinely-ordained --- an earthly paradise would now be the reality for all too. But no; that was always too much to expect; too much religiosity from too many sources.

For we know that most races, cultures and religions have, as a common theme, a story of “Creation”. The myriad views expressed in cosmology and Creation-theory etc., are as diverse and as numerous as the thought-processes that have spawned them. Yet very few of the many thousands of varying ideas completely agree with each other and will therefore not be completely correct in their entirety. Certainly, many aspects may be similar and have elements of The Truth contained within them. It would be equally true to also say that in the natural process of Evolution and development, certain races would have garnered insights which would have required previously accepted beliefs of “truth” to be discarded, in the sure knowledge that the “new” contained more “truth” than the “old”.

The transition to the “new” was not necessarily without great travail and societal and religious upheaval, for man’s precious ego does not easily allow him to “let go” what he considers to be his “great well of truth”. Yet in the major issues relating to our origin and to our entry and exit from the earth, collective humanity, for the most part, unfortunately remains just as ignorant and without real knowledge as it always has.

Through the great Wisdom contained within The Creative Will, however, certain especially chosen ones unveiled relevant aspects of The Truth to humankind in accordance with the developing spiritual maturity of the particular people into whose midst they were incarnated. Those teachings were given to mankind in a manner that could be understood by the race or Nation that had been specifically prepared to receive it from the particular “Truth-bringer” incarnated for that people at the appropriate time in their “spiritual” journey. This took place over many thousands of years. Man, however, could not leave them alone. He had to alter the original clarity of them.

In essence, the reluctance to discard precious pet beliefs reveals the inexplicable inability of mankind to leave such teachings in their pure and uncorrupted state. Rather than simply living the teachings as instructed, man chose to dissect them to suit his personal wants. This unfortunate fate has befallen all the great spiritual teachings --- without exception. Even the setting up of the major religious institutions of so-called “higher-learning” has not advanced the cause of Truth a great deal.

In reality, the unfortunate “dissection” of those original Truths has been directly responsible for the incredible proliferation of so many different religions, with each generally purporting to be the only true one. After being offered the great Truths, man subsequently converted them all to “just religions”.

As we have already read from The Hand of Imanuel: In a kind of perverse irony, if all the Teachings had been lived in a purely unadulterated way by those peoples to whom it was given, there would now only be one single unified Teaching throughout the world today. And that would have been the complete Truth.

Reader: We’re going to repeat that text here for serious reinforcement of how obtuse we have been to so much Divine Guidance when we thought we could do better ----- blind fools all!

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There you have it --- once more reader: ---- “the pedestal on which the Truth is to stand”. Note: Not has stood, but “is to stand”. Therefore, in terms of global non-recognition of that “Willed Destiny” for man, the fact is that that has not yet “taken its place” in our collective human consciousness but, of course, It will; and in exact accordance with Divine Creation-Law! For that’s exactly what we are talking about here, but it will only be with “the few”. Such is the crucial nature of what you have just read --- again --- that it is very likely you will meet this Text further on in the Work!

The German philosopher, Hegel, (1770-1831); even though admitting to the existence of an “unattainable truth”, believed that “truth is subjective”, and “all knowledge is human knowledge”. He thus rejected the existence of any “truth above or beyond human reason”. He believed, moreover, that because human ideas changed from one generation to the next, there could not be such a thing as “eternal truths” or “timeless reason”. In his view history provided the only fixed point that philosophy could cling to. Since history in the philosophic sense is more or less constant ‘contemplative-thought’, Hegel believed that certain rules applied for this chain of ‘introspective reasoning’.

Thus, a thought is usually proposed on the basis of other, previously proposed, thoughts. However, the proposal of one thought is invariably contradicted by another, thereby producing tension between two opposing views. That is basically the current position with regard to the Creation versus Evolution debate. Hegel postulates a method whereby such entrenched positions can be “softened” so that the tension is resolved by the proposal of a third thought which accommodates the best of both points of view. Hegel calls this a “dialectic process”.