These days the terrestrial human beings are increasingly focused on physical matter, and in one way, physical science is just as significant to them now as religion was previously. Material science has certainly also the answers to many of the questions concerning material knowledge and capability. But as it merely concerns itself with movement, speed, wavelengths, measure, and weight, which are its natural boundaries, it cannot provide human beings with a fixed point in existence. For this reason, many human beings find themselves in a spiritual emptiness. They have let go of something old that could no longer inspire them, but they have not yet found something new that can help them to find the inner balance, out of which the outer chaos can be transformed into cosmic harmony. The transitional state in which terrestrial mankind finds itself is the final phase of the change from animal to human being and this will bring the individuals such experiences that make them receptive to a new world impulse that is already radiating in over the Earth. Many human beings have begun to be receptive to its influence and are working more or less unconsciously for it, but it is of great importance that more and more people acquire knowledge about what it actually is that is taking place with the Earth and mankind at the moment. It has been my task, through my cosmic analyses and symbols, to give an account of the eternal laws of the universe in such a way that those terrestrial human beings who are prepared for them, and there will in the future be more and more of them, will through them be able to see the world situation in the eternal perspective and at the same time in a current perspective, so that they understand what is at the moment the most important thing to do, and that every single human being has a task and a mission when it comes to creating peace on Earth.

This naivety should of course not be criticised, since the human beings have not been developed enough to see it in any other way. But today when thousands of terrestrial human beings have grown out of such a naive standpoint without having found a new standpoint that can help them in life and death, it is very important that the cosmic symbolism that is hidden in the old narrative is revealed to human beings so that they can see how relevant it is today.

Many human beings in our time and even more in the century ahead will be mature enough to understand that that which is characterised as a "fall" is in reality the first form of world redemption. It is the symbol of an ancient cosmic impulse that has influenced terrestrial mankind for many long-gone millennia. It is "the dark world redemption", and it is an absolutely necessary factor in evolution, in fact, without it the subsequent "light world redemption" would not be able to influence human beings at all. It is in the darkness that the light shall be lit, in order that it can be experienced as light. It is for this reason that the living beings need to experience darkness before they can experience light.

The general view of life in the West today is a short life in a harsh, hard-hearted world, lit up only by a few short joys, a life that began at birth and was destroyed at death. Seen in this perspective it is quite understandable that many human beings see the whole thing as meaningless and intolerable and commit suicide, and that some think that everything is unimportant and that one can therefore just as well derive as much pleasure as possible out of the short time, even though it is at the cost of another. Why is today's world so absurd? Because human beings have acted, and continue to act, according to the laws of the animal kingdom. But they will learn to stop doing so. Christ's words on the cross: "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do", are words that are almost as relevant today as they were in the times of Christ. Almost as much, but not entirely. Why not? Because since then mankind has gained certain experiences. There are certain things that today one knows more about, for example, atoms, heavenly bodies, technology and certain ideas concerning a more human way of organising society. But what good does that do if mankind has not become happier and more joyful as a result? And it quite clearly is not. No, because the knowledge of material things that human beings have acquired is still only a beginning of a new knowledge. Only when they also begin to acknowledge and know something about life's spiritual realities, will they be able to change their world. And here it is first and foremost the understanding of the principle of reincarnation and the forming of fate, where one sows and reaps from one life to another that is important to have explained to human beings, so that they understand it and see how natural it is. As long as human beings believe that they have only one life, one cannot explain to them the real truth about life. And neither can one explain the real truth about life as long as they think that other beings can be to blame for their unhappiness and suffering.

Through spiritual science, human beings will gradually understand that their life absolutely did not begin at conception or birth and neither will it come to an end at death. They will learn to understand that the universe's principle of cycles that is in force in the world of matter and is similarly in force in the gigantic systems of the stellar worlds, that is to say in microcosmos and macrocosmos; this principle of cycles also applies to the life that is lived between the microscopic and the gigantic cycles, that is the one consisting of the plants, animals and human beings in the field I call mesocosmos. Everything to do with cycles within cycles that the physical science reveals to us is truth. But it is not the final truth about the universe, a materialistic science cannot reveal this. The final truth cannot be measured and weighed and estimated in speeds, volume and wavelengths.

The truth about our world situation at present is that, from the cosmic point of view, terrestrial human beings are undergoing an initiation process. They are in the process of being initiated in what it means to be a human being. One tries in one's ignorance, to humanise the principles of the animal kingdom, thereby creating an intellectualised jungle where war prevails in innumerable variations. It is what I call "devil consciousness". Those human beings who today are against war and show it, not only by demonstrating against war and violence, but also by standing back from it in their own way of being in everyday life, are human beings that in many previous lives have experienced the effects of war on their own body and in their own consciousness. They have eaten sufficiently of those kinds of "fruits" of the "tree of the knowledge". The world situation at present and in the years to come will teach those human beings who have still not made the necessary experiences, to distance themselves from war and from trying to humanise or intellectualise the animal principles, and instead get to know the principles of a human existence. It is a cosmic initiation, not only for human beings but for the Earth itself as a living being. Consequently, there is no reason to be afraid that some human beings will be able to blow the whole thing into the air with nuclear weapons. The universal power that we call the Godhead, which has sent the impulses to the Earth that have brought about mankind's evolution until now, unceasingly stands behind what is happening. But human beings will develop to become conscious co-creators of a world in which war in all its nuances will be replaced by peace and mutual understanding and love, which will set free and develop the human power to create to such heights that today's human beings will stand open-mouthed if they knew what radiant, divine characteristics are lying latent in every single human being.