In the history of mankind there are certain great names that stand out, whose divine glory still shines to this day even thousands of years later. There are even some that shine so strongly that each of them individually is still a spiritual guide for millions of human beings. The originators of these names that still shine so brightly we know as "Buddha", "Christ" and "Mohammed". The spiritual light revealed through these beings forms the foundation of the great world religions: "Buddhism", "Christianity" and "Islam". Before these shining beings, which we know under the concept of "world redeemers", there have existed other radiant beings that have guided mankind. Such beings' cosmic guidance regarding morality and behaviour has guaranteed that mankind will arrive at the great goal: to become mankind in God's image after his likeness.

Many people find world redemption and world redeemers a mystery. In this article we will draw the veil aside and reveal world redemption and its agents as identical to a cosmic, organic Providence that, from behind the physical world, watches over, steers and guides the beings' transformation from animal to human being. For as long as terrestrial mankind has existed its mentality and behaviour has been guided and shaped by this Providence, revealed in the form of world redemption. This Providence is maintained and supported by a force that streams into our mesocosmos from outside. Its root or true origin does not therefore lie within our mesocosmos. As a result its origin cannot be a terrestrial human being or any other being within this mesocosmic physical and spiritual world. The force behind this Providence or world redemption is transmitted in cosmic or spiritual impulses that, in macrocosmic proportions, penetrate mankind.

As these impulses are macrocosmic in nature, they can only have a macrocosmic being as their originator. And since we have been given the physical and spiritual body of the Earth as our living space or plane of existence, the Earth must of necessity be the immediate originator of these macrocosmic impulses. In order to understand the impulses of world redemption we have to come to the point where we realise that the Earth is a living being in whose physical and spiritual area terrestrial human beings and other terrestrial living beings are to be found as microbeings. The Earth is therefore our macrobeing. Its organism is the area in which we live, just as our organism is the area in which our microbeings, our organs, cells, molecules etc., live It is not so difficult to see that the Earth does not consist of a lifeless mass of dead matter. Within its area there is not one single tiny spot, even as small as the point of a needle, where movement cannot be found. Even cliffs and rocks are subject to transformation and therefore also reveal movement. Movement is the foremost symptom of life. The matter and movements of the Earth are extremely logically organised. If we examine the combined structure and appearance of the Earth it shows itself to be a living being. Its breathing takes place through evaporation and its ocean of air. The seas are its blood. Its nourishment is nothing other than solar matter that shines onto it twenty four hours a day, maintaining its organic life. What would it look like if the sun did not exist? The Earth would be a dark, dead world, a corpse. But the Earth is not a corpse. It is a living being's radiant and perfect organism, at the same time as it is a correspondingly perfect macro-organism for myriads of microbeings: human beings and animals as well as plant and mineral life forms.

The Earth does not only have a physical organism that is where its microbeings that are incarnated in physical matter live. It also has a spiritual organism, like all other living beings. This spiritual organism constitutes its consciousness. Through this it interacts or corresponds with other planets, both within our solar system and outside it. At the same time its consciousness or spiritual organism is the place where its microbeings in their discarnate or spiritual condition live. The Earth's consciousness and mental structure, which makes up its spiritual organism or body, is therefore terrestrial mankind's spiritual world. Its life in the mesocosmos to which it belongs and in which it day-consciously manifests can be experienced and acknowledged to a certain extent through the environment and living conditions that are manifested in its physical organism, which is mankind's physical world. As a physical organism, it has a completely different structure from the organism of terrestrial human beings. Whereas the physical organism of terrestrial human beings is intended as a tool for activity that is completely physical, the physical organism of the Earth being, that is to say the physical planet, is intended only as a tool for a lesser degree of physical activity. The Earth being has already arrived at the point in its own mesocosmos where it is beginning to experience "the great birth". Its organism is therefore a world that is preparing to become the scene of the totally perfect human kingdom, the home of microbeings that have become human beings in God's image after his likeness. And it is the beginning of the Earth being's great cosmic experience that is casting its reflected effects or spiritual impulses into the creation of terrestrial mankind's consciousness and behaviour.

The Earth's activity is predominantly spiritual or cosmic in nature. The Earth is connected with other planets or worlds through reciprocal, macrocosmic thought impulses. These create a large, active area of rays and waves around the physical planet. Behind this area there exists the Earth's cosmic, organic structure, its superconsciousness and its subconsciousness, its basic-energy organs that form its sphere of consciousness, that is its spiritual body and physical body. These two bodies form respectively our spiritual world and our physical world. The spiritual world's spheres of the basic energies are the spiritual dwelling place of the Earth's discarnate beings. From here they are born into the physical world and this is where they return to at the onset of physical death. They are each especially connected to that sphere whose combination of the basic energies they have through their development become most in harmony with. These spiritual spheres constitute the spiritual area of the mineral kingdom, the spiritual area of the plant kingdom, the spiritual area of the animal kingdom and the spiritual area of unfinished human beings. After this comes the kingdom of finished human beings, but this does not yet appear within the Earth's organism. But since the Earth is on the point of experiencing the great birth it will become the dwelling or the macrocosmos for finished human beings when this birth is over, that is to say, in roughly three thousand years' time. The next spiritual spheres – the kingdom of wisdom and the divine world – are not finished worlds in the Earth's spiritual body either. They can become finished worlds only once the macrobeing, that is to say the Earth, has completed the development of its faculty to love, its intelligence and its intuition. Until that time they can only constitute latent phenomena. But they nevertheless cause the Earth to be able to receive intellectual and intuitive impulses from its more highly evolved fellow planet beings, and it is upon this principle that world redemption as a whole rests.

Just as the Earth itself constitutes an organism of macrocosmic or gigantic proportions compared with the organisms of its microbeings, so are naturally its thoughts and consciousness also of macrocosmic or gigantic proportions. As the Earth's organism is millions of times greater in size than a human being's organism, and its lifetime is similarly millions of times longer than a terrestrial human being's physical life, a thought from a being the size of the Earth will naturally also be gigantic in size or of a macrocosmic perspective compared with a human being's thought. As a result we can see that the macrobeing's sense of time and space is completely different in size compared to the microbeing's. While the macrobeing, in this case the Earth, experiences one physical life, the microbeing, in this case the human being, experiences millions of physical earthly lives. A microbeing and a macrobeing are therefore totally prevented from exchanging thoughts or being able to talk to one another. A human being can therefore neither sense nor experience what the Earth's thought interaction with another planet being is about nor carry on a conversation with the Earth. Its physical lifetime is so short that it would die and be reborn several times before the Earth had even begun such a conversation. So it is not so surprising that human beings do not see planets and worlds, suns and milky ways as the organisms of living beings, or that the stars in the dark night sky are the shining organs for gigantic beings' manifestation and experience of life.

Though the darkness of the night the eternal light therefore twinkles and beams towards us from the shining bodies of gigantic beings, the eternal light that reveals itself to us as almightiness, infinite wisdom and universal love, which can absolutely only exist as one single all-encompassing being's consciousness and life. This totally all-outshining being, the being in relation to which there cannot exist any being above it, beside it or below it, or any being inside or outside it, since it constitutes in itself absolutely everything that exists, can only be the all-encompassing, eternal Godhead. We are therefore in contact here with the being that human beings, from their first tentative beginnings, have viewed and worshipped in a great variety of ways, and, guided by world redemption, have worshipped as their fixed point or the basis of their view of life, their morality and behaviour. To look at the stars out in the darkness of space is to look at God's organs at work. It is to see the macrocosmos populated by living beings. It is to see our own little world enclosed within God's organism. To be enclosed within God's organism is the same as being in God's care and protection.

As we have already pointed out, human beings are microbeings in the Earth being's organism. And spiritual or mental impulses from this being's exchanging of thoughts with its fellow planet beings pass through this organism. Such impulses form the basis of the great world religions and the various cultures that have been born, flourished and disintegrated again, to be followed by other culture-creating impulses of consciousness. In the same way mental impulses from our exchanging of thoughts or conversations with other human beings pass through our own physical body and reach the microbeings in this body. If this exchanging of thoughts takes the form of an outburst of anger towards our neighbour, this sends reflected impulses of the same dark energy through our organism, and these can be fatal to the microbeings. If someone experiences many disappointments and difficulties, this also creates darkness in the being's temperament and thought impulses that stream through its organism, and this can cause nervous breakdown, stomach ulcers and ensuing weakness. Sadness, melancholy and a tendency to depression also send reflected impulses through the organism, where they create weakness, fatigue and an increased susceptibility to disease. If a being experiences something very encouraging that promotes a sense of joy, this energy also sends reflected effects through the organism. These are extraordinarily health- and life-promoting. Healthy laughter sends an enormously healthy and life-promoting impulse through the organism. If a person devotes himself to some object of interest or some creative endeavour that causes great joy in his temperament, this also sends health- or life-promoting impulses through his organism. In this way every single thought-impulse or impulse of temperament that passes through the being's mentality sends constructive or destructive impulses through the being's organism, all according to the thoughts or state of mind the being is in.

But a living being's organism does not exist for its originator alone. It also exists in order to provide a living place for microbeings: organs, cells, molecules and even smaller beings. It is inevitable that these microbeings cannot be unaffected by the flow of the macrobeing's thought-impulses or impulses of temperament through its organism, which is their living place or plane of existence. The normal microbeings in the organism are in fact a vital necessity for its survival. It is therefore clear that the flow of the dark and evil thought-impulses and impulses of temperament through the organism is destructive towards its microbeings' living conditions. And owing to the destruction of these small beings' lives and wellbeing they can no longer carry out their mission of maintaining the organism that it is dependent on, and this gives rise to the condition in the organism that the macrobeing or its originator senses as illness. Of course in the same way health, vitality and wellbeing arise in the organism when it is permeated by reflected impulses from the macrobeing's bright and happy exchanging of thoughts with other beings. As the Earth is also an organism for a living being, there also stream through this organism light and dark reflected impulses from its originator's exchanging of thoughts with its fellow planet beings. The reason we do not see this exchange of thoughts with other planets is merely due to the fact that, as we mentioned before, it takes place in a macrocosmic perspective that is millions of times larger than the sensory perspective that is normal for us. But even though we cannot listen to or see the Earth's exchange of thoughts with other planets or worlds, we are most definitely not cut off from being able to experience the effects that these exchanges of thoughts send in over the human beings, which are microbeings in the Earth being's – our macrobeing's – organism.

The reason we are interested in these cosmic impulses from the Earth or our macrobeing is because of the extraordinarily great significance that they have had and still have for the evolution of mankind. We can see that this evolution and the resultant religiosity and creation of culture has, as we have already said, been guided by these impulses from the very first signs that the beings are moving in the direction of becoming human beings. These impulses do not take the form of a conscious transference of thought between the macrobeing and its microbeings, which would be totally impossible due to the enormous difference in sensory perspective between the two parties. But this does not prevent these impulses from being able to be registered as various combinations of the six energies of consciousness that we know as the cosmic, basic energies. It is from the combinations of these basic energies that all consciousness is created. By following mankind's evolution starting from its first, tentative beginnings we can actually register which basic energies the macrobeing's reflected impulses, which were received by human beings on their various evolutionary steps, have been combinations of. They are reflected impulses of the macrobeing's day-conscious exchanging of thoughts with its fellow planet beings in their common mesocosmos. And since these impulses, just like all other functions of consciousness, can only be formed and exist as combinations of the six basic energies, it is not so remarkable that the reflected impulses from this macrobeing's exchanging of consciousness or thought with its mesocosmic fellow beings consist of the same combinations of basic energies.

Human beings' life and behaviour in their first, tentative stages as early human beings was based on the killing principle. They had to protect themselves against other human beings who were rough and barbaric and had absolutely no idea about humaneness. They also had to protect themselves from the wild animals, just as they also, to a large extent, had to hunt and kill animals in order to use their organisms as food. If these primitive, ape-like human beings could be guided in morality and behaviour it could definitely not be in the direction of obeying the sixth commandment: "Thou shalt not kill". And neither could it be in the direction of forgiving one's neighbour and turning the right cheek when one was smitten on the left. The great foundation of these beings' lives was fighting and killing in order to protect and stand up for themselves in the normally so hostile world at this primitive stage of consciousness. Guiding the behaviour of these beings would therefore have to be of such a nature that it could make them more skilled and raise them to an even higher situation regarding physical power and ability to fight than the one they are in. And this is where the principle of world redemption and its agents or world redeemers intervene and take the lead regarding the ongoing development of human beings' morality and behaviour, in fact their entire process of transformation from darkness to light, from animal to human being.

If we look back to the first primitive human beings' consciousness, we can see that it is a combination containing predominantly the "energy of instinct" that to a certain extent automatically guides the being's life. This is combined with the "energy of gravity", which forms the basis of the being's capacity to kill, that is to say, its talent for defending and attacking, and which is by and large the foundation of its physical existence. In addition there is primitive or inhumane feeling, that is to say, hatred or thirst for revenge. True humane feeling or love does not exist at this stage of evolution, other than the artificial affection we know as the state of being in love that maintains the urge to mate and the resultant affection for the beings' offspring. The faculty for defending and attacking is the fundamental factor in these beings' lives. These beings can only exist as microbeings in a macrobeing whose consciousness is to a certain extent a combination of these same basic energies, but of course in a macrocosmic format. Such a being's reflected impulses constitute precisely the atmosphere or energy of consciousness that can form the basis of the lives of this first form of human beings. But in order that this can truly be stimulating and guide the lives and behaviour of these primitive beings, it has to be adapted to their way of thinking and view of life. Beings are therefore needed that are absolute geniuses or are particularly gifted in practising and developing this form of life. And, as we mentioned before, it is here that the agents of world redemption begin to intervene. But these first agents of world redemption do not need to be highly evolved beings with cosmic consciousness or Christ consciousness. The primitive beings that they are going to guide and help are on their way into the sphere of darkness where they will be initiated into the contrast to light, that is to say into darkness. Without the personal experience of this contrast the beings will never ever be able to become human beings in God's image. Consequently the guidance or world redemption in the case of these beings had to be a process of developing and perfecting these beings' talents for defence and attack. It was an absolutely vital necessity to perfect their ability to stand their ground, through murder and killing, in the normally so hostile world that they lived in, a world that was indeed maintained by the macrobeing's reflected impulses of the same killing combination of basic energies. And for this reason the beings were not left alone. Beings incarnated that, in the form of outstanding tribal chiefs, psychic medicine men and such like, were sufficiently far advanced in evolution that they were able to provide the necessary guidance in morality and behaviour. This guidance took the form of leading the beings towards eating of the "tree of knowledge". And in the Bible we can read the account of how the "serpent seduced Eve". But since eating of the tree of knowledge is a vital necessity if the beings are to gain knowledge of what is good and what is evil, preventing the beings from eating of the tree of knowledge would mean that they would be unable to gain knowledge. But how can a being without knowledge, that is, without the knowledge of good and evil, become a human being in God's image after his likeness? Without this knowledge, God's wish and plan in relation to the creation of the human being in his image after his likeness could therefore never ever be fulfilled.

Human beings' eating of the tree of knowledge and the resultant expansion of their consciousness and development of competence in the dark basis of their lives, in other words the killing principle, rendered them open to an even higher degree of guidance from world redemption. They were therefore able to receive an even greater interpretation of the macrobeing's dark thought reflected impulses. And more advanced or more highly developed agents of world redemption incarnated on Earth and led the human beings further into the dark area of the killing principle. And ever new reflected macro-impulses from the macrobeing streamed in over the human beings, ensuring the continuation of world redemption. These impulses were still a combination of the energy of instinct, the energy of gravity, inhumane feeling and of course also the copulatory nature, which at this stage dominates the beings' manifestation and experience of life. The beings' instinct began to give rise to the religious faculty. They began to have an inkling that there must be higher forces or gods behind physical existence. Their religious instinct allowed them also to have an inkling that there was a spiritual existence and world beyond the physical existence, which one continued to live in after physical death. And this is where the higher beings or gods belonged. This religious inkling arose automatically as a result of their instinct, and absolutely not through any kind of intellectual stimulus from outside or as a result of wild imagination without any grounding in reality. This inkling therefore arose quite organically. It is an "inkling", and at a later stage a "feeling", that arises automatically in all human beings' mentality or consciousness during the first, tentative stages of human existence. But they have no idea of the structure of this spiritual world or existence after death. Their mentality was not sufficiently developed for that. This religious inkling gave them no real spiritual knowledge or detailed impression of these higher forces and the spiritual existence after death. But this religious inkling gave them the ability to believe in the assertions of authorities. They blindly believed in authorities just like a little child blindly believes as a matter of course in the assertions of its parents, without having any ability whatsoever to check whether these assertions are right or not. In the same way that little children need parents or other people who are older than themselves to give them the necessary answers to the vital questions that are beginning to arise or to satisfy their thirst for knowledge, so too must human beings during their initial evolutionary epochs have beings who are older in evolutionary terms to answer the questions that they cannot answer or understand themselves – on account of their lack of development and their limited sensory abilities – or to satisfy their thirst for knowledge that crops up during these stages of evolution. And here the principle of world redemption emerges as a kind of cosmic parent principle, since it is the very mission of its agents or world redeemers to guide the human beings that in evolutionary terms are still very tender and unfinished and give them suitable answers to their vital questions and thirst for knowledge.

Gradually as human beings increasingly based their lives on the killing principle and had murder, killing and stealing as the foundation of their lives, this existence would naturally in the course of time be bound to undermine itself. According to the law of karma or retribution, one reaps what one has sown, which means that what one has done to others in the way of evil or good one gets back in equal measure as evil or good. And human beings had to be increasingly persecuted and killed as they themselves increasingly persecuted, killed and destroyed other human beings' existence. Making the killing principle, in other words killing others and being killed oneself, into the highest ideal can only be the very peak of sabotage of one's own life. It is quite obvious that this enormous sabotage of oneself and others could not continue. Gradually all this dark karma in the being gave rise to the beginnings of a faculty for humaneness. One began to be super-satiated with the killing principle's religiosity and heroic aura. One began to long for a humane existence. The heathen way of life, in other words the dark way of life that was lacking in humaneness, degenerated. And one began to be receptive to humane ideals. The human beings were still to a large extent guided by the faculty of instinct, the energy of gravity and inhumane feeling, together with inhumane religiosity involving the sacrifice of animals and human beings to the gods. But the good thing about this way of being and its consequential dark, painful death karma is that, as we have already said, it gave rise in the being's mentality to the faculty for humaneness. And the reflected macro-impulses also consisted of a higher combination of the basic energies. And a new epoch of world redemption therefore then became possible. In this new epoch the agents of world redemption began to formulate and guide human beings in a new view of life, in which humaneness was the highest ideal. And world redeemers incarnated, including Buddha, Christ and Mohammed. Through Christianity neighbourly love was revealed to be the fulfilment of all the laws and the way for human beings to attain a greater and brighter way of being. And a new and higher reflected macro-impulse could be transformed by the world redeemers into the great world religions that are still in existence: Buddhism, Christianity and Islam. Through these religions, which constitute reflected macro-impulses transformed into human words and speech by the world redeemers, human beings have been guided forwards to the present day.

We have now arrived at the twentieth century, which will be a landmark in mankind's religious history. Very strong cosmic, reflected macro-impulses are penetrating mankind and have already brought about an enormous change in its mentality. Since our macrobeing, the Earth, is experiencing the first stages of the great birth, it is not so remarkable that it is extremely active in its thinking or in its exchanging of thoughts with its fellow planet beings in its own mesocosmos. These high exchanges of thoughts with like-minded planet beings constitute to a significant degree combinations of the basic energies of intelligence and feeling, which, as a result of the planet's double-poled state, appear to a certain extent as intellectualised feeling, which is the same as pure love. But this reflected macro-impulse contains a great deal of energy of intuition. As there are a considerable number of human beings within mankind on Earth that are so far advanced in evolution that they can receive faint intuitive impulses directly from the reflected macro-impulse, this has resulted in a very strong, accelerated evolution in material inventions and creations. But as these beings were not so far advanced regarding humaneness that they were able to receive information in the purely spiritual or cosmic area, and since they at the same time, as a result of a well-developed intelligence, could no longer believe in Christianity, they became materialists, without any real concept of the Godhead. These beings promoted an enormous materialistic creation. And since to a large extent schools and colleges have been built for the development of this materialistic knowledge and creative faculty, a large part of the human beings of the Earth have become godless materialists.