Dear friends, I would like to talk to you about the true relationship to God. Since our entire fate is a result of returning reactions from the Nature that surrounds us, indeed, from everything that we come into contact with, and all of this is, in its deepest analysis, the Godhead, our fate therefore becomes a result of our relationship to the Godhead. It is therefore of great importance for us to become clear about what to do in order to arrive at the true relationship to God, for it is only through this that we can achieve a perfectly happy fate, a perfect peace of mind.

When the living being in its evolution from animal to human being has reached the stage of the "primitive human being" it has gradually developed the ability to use its intelligence in the service of the instinct of self-preservation, to the degree that it has acquired the power and superiority that is needed in order that it can itself protect its organism from attacks and assaults from the surroundings. This, though, does not change the fact that, due to its habitual consciousness, it still purely automatically has a heartfelt relationship to the Godhead. It is still cut off from being able to understand the existence of the Godhead by means of its intelligence, but it has extraordinary abilities to believe that it exists. At this stage it still lives by means of pure undefined sensory experiences based on feeling. On the basis of these, it creates for itself an image of Providence that fits with its experiences. That this image must be an image of a human being goes without saying. For certain, an enlarged human being provided with all the characteristics that for primitive human beings are the most desirable. Primitive human beings imagine that Nature is animated and believe that the Godhead lives in a tree, a stone, a mountain etc. In spite of the primitiveness of these ideas they express an existing relationship to God, an idea about something greater and higher than their own existence. From the most primitive human beings to the step that we ourselves are on, we see that all human beings live believing in and hoping for a higher form of existence than the one the individual human being is experiencing at present. Without this hope life would be without value to the vast majority of mankind.

Due to the fact that primitive human beings live in a world in which they to a high degree use the killing principle, we see also that their godhead is a being that is equipped with the most perfect killing characteristics. It is a god of war, not a god of love. And it is the aftermath of such a religious cult that we currently find in the expressions "righteous anger" and "holy wrath". But primitive human beings had a much more perfect relationship to God than that which human beings have today. Their ability to think was not so highly developed that their minds could hold any doubt about the existence of the Godhead. Since the life of primitive human beings manifested in a way that involved a strong violation of the laws of existence, it was therefor also full of sufferings. When one sows hatred and killing one reaps hatred and killing. When one hates and persecutes one will oneself be hated and persecuted. Through these sufferings the ability to think is developed, due to the fact that the human being who is persecuted is forced to use its reason in order to avoid the effects of the persecution. The combined effect of the suffering in the animal kingdom is therefore a developed faculty of intelligence. And by means of its developed intelligence the primitive human being became able to create for itself more and more perfect images of the Godhead, which to begin with it could sense only vaguely. This constant change of the perception of the Godhead continued all the way to Christianity, which created the currently most perfect image of the Godhead.

Modern civilised human beings call the way that God was worshipped in former times heathen, but where does heathenism cease to exist? Christianity is still heathen, as long as its followers have not come into direct contact with the Godhead. The worshipping of God cannot be perfect as long as human beings have not experienced the Godhead itself, and when it is not perfect it is heathen. It can be more or less close to the perfect stage, but as long as it is not perfect it is impure.

What I have explained to you here is the primitive human being's idea of God. But it is impossible for a new culture to be built on such an idea. Step by step as all the information that through newspapers, radio, magazines, books, lectures etc. enters the human being's consciousness and informs them of one large imperfection after the other of the killing principle, and step by step, as the tremendous amount of experience that human beings gain from the practical experiences develops them further, it will be unavoidable that the image of the Godhead that Christianity has laid down will become obsolete and outdated. The structure of Christianity's image of God cannot support a new world culture. And we can also see that the churches are gradually becoming more empty. We can see that it is becoming more and more difficult for the priests to make people believe in an "eternal hell" and to believe that when they are not good they will suffer an "eternal punishment". It is difficult for human beings to have as an ideal that we should be punished from the moment of our death and into eternity for one single mistake. If one can consider this to be correct, one has to oneself stand on a step where one can hate very deeply. It cannot possibly be correct that there should be such a disproportion between sin and punishment. If the priests would at least teach that there is a reasonable relationship between offence and punishment, they could maybe make people believe in "hell" as being something real. Add to this the idea that a human being, who is said to be created, and therefore has not lived earlier, and therefore in no way can be said to have wished to have this life, in no way can be blamed for its inborn characteristics. If the Christian image of God is correct and God is in general seen as almighty, he must know in advance what the result would be when he created a being, and he must therefore have wished that this human being should be condemned to an awful state of suffering, while other beings would experience a fantastically happy existence. If the Christian image of the Godhead is correct, the consequence will be that God is able to create a human being completely and according to his plan and will. But as it is claimed that the human being has not lived earlier and therefore has no responsibility in relation to being born misshapen, with defective sensory faculties and into very unhappy circumstances, and maybe is brought up to become a criminal, is it then an expression of justice to demand that these human beings should be good, because if they are not they will be punished in an eternal hell? It is easy to see that such an attitude of thought belongs to the world of ideas of a primitive human consciousness. As long as human beings believe that the greatest being is a being that is able to hate and punish and that can possibly be appeased through a great sacrifice through the crucifixion of a son of God in order to liberate the guilty ones, human beings will be subject to a primitive idea, a state of feeling that has nothing to do with an ability to think logically. It must be totally obvious that one cannot justify a committed crime by letting an innocent human being suffer. One might think that it is strange that the Godhead wishes such a sacrifice in order to be appeased. And if he can be appeased in this way one might suppose that he could also let the one who has committed the crime be liberated from punishment without an innocent being having to suffer.

All these ideas, however, are merely an expression of a primitive terminology that has to be dashed to the ground by a person with a fairly well developed intelligence. But it has had its mission for those human beings who came into Christianity directly from barbarism. To the human being that has lived many lives in mental states where it was considered to be primitive and unworthy to die a natural death due to old age and where killing is the ideal, it is not possible to make a sudden jump to such a high attitude to life as the one that Jesus taught human beings. Because of this the words of Jesus and the other world redeemers have been changed and adapted to the world of ideas of those who were to be converted. One has tried to cope with the unfortunate consequences that the handed down image of the Godhead had. One cannot continue trying to save what has to be dashed to the ground in order for the Godhead to really be revealed in the world. When human beings reach a stage where they themselves feel unpleasantness at the idea of hatred or revenge, and to a much higher degree feel a need to forgive and understand, they will inevitably come into conflict with the image of the Godhead that has been handed down. They then begin to doubt, and due to the fact that they have not yet developed their ability to think enough in order to be able to solve the problems themselves, they become free thinkers. They now investigate life merely within the purely materialistic areas and hope to find the solution to the mystery of life. They research into matter so deeply and become so thrilled by the great problems that reveal themselves here, that they believe that physical matter (including rays and waves) makes up everything that exists. They have at that point moved further away from the Godhead than when they were primitive human beings.

When one mentions the word "God" to human beings who are deeply involved in research into matter, one can hear them say: "God, preserve us!" Religion has become something naive, something one has "grown" out of. The materialistically orientated scientist believes that he has worked himself away from religion, he only worships the material world, which in its deepest sense is also a worshipping of God, but it is not expressed in that way. But all our experience, all our thinking, all our manifestation is a worshipping of God. We can quite simply not live without consciously or unconsciously being in contact with Providence. The vast majority do not see that it is Providence they are surrounded by when they see beautiful landscapes, admirable scientific inventions, art or whatever it might be. All these things have been created on the basis of the knowledge that human beings have captured from Nature. This thoughtless enjoyment of things can for a period of time in evolution be enough for them, all this fascination can for a period of time fill their consciousness so that they do not miss the Godhead. They believe that the concept of the Godhead is something that belongs to primitive human beings. And nevertheless, it is completely obvious to the thinking human being that mankind cannot become really happy until its relationship to the Godhead has become perfect. And it is not, as long as one is satisfied by merely being clever at doing research into physical matter and thereby having attained a so-called high ability of reasoning. This is not enough in order to prevent sorrow and suffering. We see that also scientists as well as geniuses are subjected to the same sufferings as everybody else. They come up against the same difficulties, economic as well as bodily, as everybody else. This shows us that their own life has not become more perfect than ours, and that all their knowledge has not made the world brighter and easier to live in. Apparently, those who state that the world is becoming an increasingly worse place to live in, are right. But the mental darkness that you are now experiencing has its deep mission. It creates in all normal beings a longing for its opposite. Human beings today have a heartfelt longing for peace, and this peace will come. Human beings are longing for "a kingdom that is not of this world" and this kingdom is about to be born. Just as the present world is a result of a mental attitude, a new world will also be a result of a mental attitude. But this attitude will be different from the one that forms the basis of everything that we experience today. Mankind is now on its way towards this new attitude. Through all the presently existing circumstances that are hurrying towards their resolution, human beings will see that their earlier idealism was not enough. They will see that they need a new spiritual foundation to stand on. Mankind is on its way towards a new understanding of existence, on its way towards experiencing a new relationship to the Godhead.

You all know the story from the Bible about the creation of Adam and Eve, but this must not mislead you to believe that the "creation" of the human being is complete. The account of creation is symbolic and written in a form that suited the mentality of ancient times. If it had been otherwise, the human beings of that time would not have been able to be inspired by it. These human beings, who only had the ability to believe, imagined the Godhead to be a mighty authority in the form of an elevated almighty being somewhere out in space. And due to the fact that he was almighty, he must have been able to create the human being perfectly all at once. But the developed human being cannot live on such an image of a godhead as an authority with supernatural abilities. It needs to have an image of the Godhead that can satisfy both its feeling and its intelligence, its sense of logic. And such an image has also been promised mankind through "the Comforter, the Holy Spirit". "The Holy Spirit" is, as I have often said, not a person but a state of consciousness. "Spirit" is the same as "consciousness". The holy spirit is the state of consciousness in which one is able – through one's faculty of feeling as well as one's faculty of intelligence – to understand the knowledge that creates the link between the great basic answers of Christianity and daily, practical life. It is this link that is missing today in Christian society out in the world. Without this there would be no possibility of finding meaning and justice in daily life. It is also the lack of this link that has made human beings turn their back on official Christianity and turn to material science. But due to the fact that material science merely offers answers based on weight and measure, and that its followers believe that one can reach the truth only by weighing, measuring and registering, there are quite a few human beings who cannot have their hunger for the solution to the mystery of life satisfied through material science. These human beings then seek spiritual science. Due to the fact that material science is currently dazzled by its own scientific results and is not willing to acknowledge that spiritual science has pointed out the missing link, which provides the final truth, there will for the time being exist a certain degree of animosity between material science and spiritual science.

Even though neither material science nor official Christianity has been able to satisfy the true seeker, it is nonetheless a fact that Christianity, in spite of the missing link, has been a colossal supporting power throughout the centuries. We have Christianity to thank for the building of hospitals, sanatoriums, institutions for mentally disabled, mental hospitals – which in principle are the story of the good Samaritan transformed into a modern, enlarged form – and that we have an organised society with police, fire brigade, universities, schools etc. All this is the fruit of Christianity's changing of human beings from Vikings and great warriors into civilised human beings. There is of course a large group that have not yet been through this transformation. This group has only reached the point where it still worships the killing principle and all the illusory concepts of fame that are associated with it. But these human beings will be taught the laws of existence through life's own speech. As long as one worships the killing principle's concepts of fame, one is not in harmony with the laws of existence. When one kills one creates killing. And by doing so, one propagates war. And one does not abolish war through propagating it. War can only be abolished through one single factor – love. Love is the opposite of war. Manifesting love is, among other things, turning the right cheek when one is hit on the left. A human being who does this, does much more to abolish war than a whole army. It is the understanding of this that is the purpose of my analyses.

I have created my analyses in order to give you an insight into the solution to the mystery of existence, which can help you to have a happier and more peaceful life. The purpose of my work is, among other things, to give you knowledge by means of which you will be able to attain the wellbeing that you hunger for and also find the meaning of many of the issues that earlier you could not find the meaning of. But the primary purpose of my work is to create the missing link between official Christianity and daily life. This link consists of the illumination of the great answers of the cosmic analyses: reincarnation and immortality, so that one can see their ramification in practical life. Furthermore, the purpose of my work is to encourage you to work with yourself and influence your way of thinking and exercising of will in such a way that you more and more think and act logically. Because when you find out that this or that way of acting is logical, you cannot in the long run act against it without being abnormal, and one cannot count on the actions of abnormal human beings. A human being who acts in a logical way is healthy, one who acts in an abnormal way is unhealthy.

The reason I am recreating the missing link, as I am in the process of doing, is in order to make it possible to bring the Christian world picture further. In the Christian terminology there are, side by side with the great answers concepts like "baptism", "the forgiveness of sins", "grace" and so on. These concepts express modest attempts to create a bridge between the great truths and daily life, but they are only substitutes for the link that is missing. But substitutes cannot satisfy the faculty of intelligence. They can, on the other hand, give a temporary state of reassurance and, also temporarily, a peace of mind in human beings who are still able to believe. The same goes for the thought-image "the ways of the Lord are beyond understanding".

The reason why this question has become topical is because the ability to use the faculty of intelligence has now become so prominent that the Christian teaching in its current form has become outdated due to the missing link. As I have already mentioned this missing link consists of the analysis of reincarnation. Since the advocates of Christianity have completely removed it, the unhappy consequence emerged that all the great basic answers in Christianity, such as: "you shall love your neighbour as yourself", "whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also", "I will render to each one according to his deeds, says the Lord" must seem totally illogical to the thinking human being, which in this case means that all these statements have been deprived of the power that they, with a connection to reincarnation, otherwise would have had. But despite the current terminology of Christianity, its great basic answers are eternal realities and they form such a solid foundation to build upon, that the kernel of Christianity has in itself natural conditions to be "the seed in which all the families of the earth will be blessed". When all outdated ideas fall away and the missing link is inserted, Christianity will become the basis on which a new culture will be created, just as it will also be the basis of a real, permanent world peace.

But back to the great answers. The question is whether these answers can be made to correspond to daily life, without rebirth. They cannot. No human being can find an intelligent meaning or justice in existence without reincarnation. This is why it is the analysis of one's own life, the analysis of rebirth, the analysis that one has existed before this existence in an eternal past and will continue to exist in an eternal future, that wins. Not until one adds to Christianity the analysis of reincarnation and rebirth, will it be possible to make it correspond to the real world picture, which is logical in all areas, and only then will one have reached the point where one can see that the great answer "everything is very good" is both true and loving.

Only when one knows the mentality behind all physical phenomena, can one see the lavish perfection behind everything taking place, and this results in a completely new attitude to life. And it is only with this new attitude that one has the possibility of experiencing the Godhead. And it is only through the experience of the Godhead that one becomes a fundamentally liberated being, totally conscious in one's own I. One cannot have this experience as long as one only sees one's surroundings as "dead" things. One needs to reach the point where one sees one's fellow beings, Nature and "dead" matter as the body of God. And when one sees everything as the body of God, the logical consequence of this is that everything one does to this or that person, one does to God. I cannot do anything without it hitting all of us. Whatever you do will affect the whole world. We are so immeasurably interlinked, so immeasurably dependent on each other, that we cannot move without it having an influence on our fellow beings. Every sigh that we let out vibrates in the most distant regions of the universe. Through cosmic clearsightedness one is able to receive the attitude through which one can see the vast unit that we constitute. But you have the right attitude only when you have reached the point where every encroachment on our fellow being's flesh and blood, feels like an encroachment on your own flesh and blood. Your fellow beings and all your surroundings are the true image of the Godhead. You must learn to understand that everything that hits you, everything that happens to you, everything that is said to you and about you, everything you experience as suffering or as pleasure, all of this is an expression of a collected correspondence between you and the Godhead. This correspondence is manifested through your surroundings, so that when you want to find the right relationship to God, you should not believe that God is a radiant being in some place or other that one day will show itself to you, because that is not how the experience of the Godhead forms itself. To see the Godhead as a radiant being is to see a son of God. It is an imaginary image in God's consciousness. To "see" the Godhead is on the other hand to see the surroundings as an expression of a consciousness. But reaching such an experience naturally takes time and demands practice, thought and experiences. If you have a tendency to become angry with this or that person, if you have a tendency to let all your experience of unpleasantness pour out onto this or that person, this shows that it has not become clear to you that it is the Godhead itself that you are dealing with in all these situations. We have these primitive tendencies of revenge from the time when we lived on a very low mental step, and now we carry them with us as habitual consciousness. If some person or other persecutes us, we believe that it is only a fellow being that we are dealing with, and we become indignant towards this person. But in reality it is the Godhead that through this experience wishes to communicate something to us. And if we persecute this person it is really God we are persecuting. With such an attitude our relationship to God is still by nature heathen. Heathenism is an expression of the states where we still persecute the true God – even though this persecution is by nature unconscious.

In essence, it does not matter if one is conscious or unconscious of the existence of the Godhead, but when one is conscious of the fact that everything that one has anything to do with is God, one can no longer persecute him. What is required in order to have the correct relationship to God is to bring one's attitude into line with the fact that everything that takes place is not something that is made in order to persecute or torment us. We are not sinners, there is nothing whatsoever called "sin". We can never do something that we are not allowed to do. You probably all remember the words: "If you do not do well, sin lies at the door, if you do well you will be accepted". This is the same as: "You can do what you want, but you must face the consequences of your actions!" We are eternal cosmic chemists and, within the area in which we have knowledge, we have a free will to mix the mental energies as we wish, but we must face the fact that the matter we use functions according to subtle laws and that we ourselves will experience the reactions that our mixtures bring about. It is an expression of the greatest love that we ourselves are free to mix the energies according to our wishes and that we thereby can begin to find out about the reactions caused by the way we mix our thoughts. The reactions consist of our experiences. Creating experiences therefore becomes our life. We build our fate on the experiences we ourselves have had. That this is the case is divine and has nothing to do with punishment. But when one understands that it is divine one is able to see the love in it, and one therefore also understands that everything that we call obstacles and setbacks is something other than what it seems to be. For instance, many people complain about the cold and all the difficulties it causes. We experience that birds suffer and that human beings die on the snowfields and people say that there are "devilish" powers that have been set free. But what is it that dies? It is not the living being, because that can never die. That which dies is merely the physical body, a collection of matter that is undergoing a transformation. The beings that die on the snowfields have experimented with substances without knowing the law governing the reaction of the substances. Substances always react as they should, but often in another way than human beings think. But in this way the human beings learn about the law of the reaction of substances and learn to mix their thoughts and wishes in such a way that their future lives become far happier. Earlier, human beings believed that war was a favourable form of cosmic chemistry, and it was so in a certain zone, but it is not any longer. The current events are teaching human beings to mix the mental energies in a new way. The fact is that today mankind does not wage war because it feels happy about it, but because it believes that by waging war it can create for itself the perfect existence, the everlasting peace that from its heart it is longing to experience. But peace cannot be created by propagating war. On the other hand, through war there will arise a knowledge about its nature that will enable future generations to see that war is something unworthy of human beings, because it is an incorrect cosmic-chemical process that is exclusively due to lack of knowledge. War is an incorrect mixture of the mental energies and creates the complete opposite of what one had wished for.

There was a time when war was an ideal. At that time one was not a real man if one did not die by the sword, because only in this way one would come to Valhalla where one would enjoy its bliss in the form of pork, mead and Valkyries. But that is not how things are any more. Present-day human beings do not wage war because they become happy by killing, because they have a longing to see blood, on the contrary, they feel terrorised by the horrors of war. War is like an avalanche that once it is started is nearly impossible to stop. Those who began the war could not see what a conflagration it would give rise to, but it should and must be manifested in order that human beings have the experiences they need, in order for them to see, through their own experience, that war does not lead to peace. But at the same time as war is raging over the continents, the forces that caused it are burned out of its consciousness and organism. The severe winters we have had the in last few years are connected to the war. The Earth being is being shaken by violent fever and therefore has to mobilise all its energy of feeling in order to bind the violent outbreak of the energy of gravity. Since the coldness of the universe is the same as what you otherwise call "feeling", and the "fire" that produces fever and war is the same as the energy of gravity, this enables us to see the collaboration between two of the fundamental forces in what is at the moment taking place in the Earth's organism. The Earth being is presently in the midst of a great religious experience. It is about to experience the "great birth" and before this experience a religious crisis takes place that puts a tremendous pressure on its organism. This pressure is what mankind is experiencing in the form of war and mutilation. To us this state seems so vast and difficult to view as a whole because we are microbeings in the Earth's organism. But what is taking place is really nothing other than the returning effect of the way in which mankind has treated matter. Through this returning, mankind experiences the formation of the body of experience that creates the condition for a real, lasting peace. Just because a great many human beings are killed these days on the battlefields around the world, one should not believe that these human beings really die. What takes place is only a disintegration of matter. It is a practising of cosmic chemistry that is not in contact with the great laws of existence. If human beings actually want a bright and happy existence, they also need to learn about the laws of life so that they can mix the thought substances in a correct way. Without conscious knowledge about the law of the reaction of substances, you cannot reach the state in which you are able to see your own immortality, experience your own earlier existences, look into the future and with your own senses consciously experience the entire history of the Earth. It will not be possible for you to achieve these things until your attitude towards the mental energies is changed. But since the vast majority actually want to widen their horizon, and want to live under other circumstances than they do at the moment, this changed attitude of consciousness is already on its way. What we are currently experiencing is the effect of human beings' former way of thinking. As the darkness in the world gradually increases, there will be an immense longing for a real lasting peace bringing happiness to the whole of mankind.

In order to experience a lasting peace, it first needs to be built in one's own inner world. It is not enough that all parties involved in war make peace with each other, the individual human beings may still be unhappy. Lasting peace is not something that one can get from the outside. It does not depend on whether those that today are at war with each other make peace. On the deepest level this is absolutely of no importance to you yourself. You stand high above matter. Not until you have experienced victory in your own inner world will you experience real peace. When you have conquered your own lower nature and inclinations, real peace will come to your mind. By focusing your mind on this battle, you will discover in which direction you should act. You will then see that if you want to reap love, understanding and everything that you long to meet in your daily life and surroundings, you first have to sow it yourself. If you want peace, you yourself must stop releasing outbursts of hot temper, irritation, rage and violence. These states are mental thunderstorms and do not create peace. Wherever you in your daily life meet mental thunderstorms from another human being, you need to meet it with calmness and balance, and try not to be disturbed, in this way you will create peace.

I have created my analyses in order to make it easier for you to resist these things. These analyses will show you that "turning the right cheek when you have been slapped on the left" is in contact with the law of existence and is therefore logical. If one does not have a logical explanation as to why one should act differently than the way one is used to, one will not want to change one's way of acting. But when one receives a logical reason for this change, and moreover becomes clear about the fact that the mental energies work exactly according to their inherent nature, one will be able to accept every kind of insult. It is very important to become clear about the fact that when somebody does something or other against us, this person is only doing something that he or she is absolutely compelled to do, because this person cannot at this moment be different than he or she is. We are all, in what you call the present, at the height of our development, our knowledge and our experience, and we act in the present according to the real, that is to say the self-experienced, knowledge that we possess. The exercising of our will takes place on the basis our knowledge – from where would it otherwise take place? Since we all stand on different steps in development, we are all bound to act differently. Expecting us all to act in the same way has nothing to do with logic. Through our lack of knowledge and resultant incorrect way of thinking and acting we learn about the laws of thought. Through our thinking we can see how the great religious answers that are expressed in Christianity connect with our daily practical life. With our own awake consciousness we will gradually be able to see that these great answers constitute the unshakable foundation of all future cultures. Human beings will acknowledge these answers because they will be analysed in such a way that every thinking human being will be able to see their ramifications down into every form of behaviour. And when one with one's own eyes can see that being sympathetic and loving is the only correct way of being, the only way of being that really brings happiness, the only really logical way of acting, regardless of how illogical it might seem from the outside, one will only be able to adjust one's attitude so that one is in contact with this way of acting. And by adjusting one's attitude to this, by understanding that the entire mystery of life is an expression of the existence of a logical and loving Providence's expressions of life and manifestations of will, one will then begin to experience that everything is very good, that everything has nothing other than love as its purpose, and that everything will result in love – and one is thereby taking part in building the foundation of a new world culture.

Even if you today have experienced suffering the purpose of which you right now cannot understand, this suffering is nevertheless preparing this state of love inside you. The human beings that have suffered most are also the ones that understand and forgive most. By refraining from taking sides in favour of one or the other power, by maintaining one's peace and balance undisturbed, by bestowing a loving understanding to our surroundings, regardless of what our surroundings do to us or think of us, life begins to open itself to us and the unity of it all reveals itself to us. By acting in this way, you will one day suddenly experience something wonderful. Mostly when you the least expect it. It can happen when you are in the countryside looking at a beautiful landscape, or when you are sitting at home in your living room, that in an instance you experience a tremendous sensation of bliss. A great light will radiate from you that connects you with your surroundings, with the rest of the world. You will feel this as a great fire that becomes a flame. I call this experience a baptism of fire, but it is more than that. It would in reality mean nothing if it was merely a vision, an experience. But due to the fact that this "fire" hits the brain, this experience means that certain cells or centres that previously were latent are now opened and everything that was previously unclear to you now shines in an immense clarity to you. You will encounter the strange experience that regardless of where you direct your thoughts, things deliver their secrets to you with such clarity that you can analyse everything you experience. You can now see with your own eyes that "a thousand years is as one day, and one day as a thousand years". You will discover that "time" is merely something that belongs to the physical body, that it is a physical thing, a created reality, and that which in reality is you, your I, is beyond the physical body and can never cease to exist. At the same time as this ocean of fire envelops you, you will sense the Godhead. This is not so easy to understand, and you might think that the Godhead in such an instant could very well say: "I am the Father", so that you could more easily become clear about it, but this cannot very easily be said in words. When it comes to the real personal experience of the Father, it is not heard in words, but it is experienced with every single one of your nerve fibres that you are standing before the eternal Father. When one has experienced this personally, it will in the future be impossible to see things as separate.

When I am standing here before you, I am standing before the Godhead. I can, of course, see you separately, but I can nevertheless see you as a united whole. I can see that you, through your spiritual radiance, are connected to each other in a brilliant light. Your spiritual radiance is again connected with the spiritual radiance of the Earth, with the radiance of the Universe. Everything is light and this ocean of light is the Godhead and he is tuned into me. He is using your mouths and your actions in order to come within the range of my sensory abilities. All your actions and all that you say I connect with what others say and do, and when I investigate all these actions and statements it turns out that life is in reality a united, living manifestation of thought created by the Godhead. I can see that the Godhead through daily life is telling me something, in this way I live together with the Godhead as one lives together with one's neighbour. I speak to God as a man speaks to his neighbour. When one has reached this stage, peace comes into one's consciousness. The consciousness is then united with the Godhead in such a way that one can see that everything that takes place is perfectly logical, that it is God's love that is behind the at present accelerated development that mankind is now experiencing and that will bring the different nations forth to roughly the same step, so that the Earth through this will experience a harmonious organisation of society. If this development was not accelerated, it would take a long time before one could speak of a real fundamental change. If the sufferings were not as concentrated as they are now, human beings would live for centuries without coming into contact with the experience that I have just told you about. This accelerated development will lead the states of the Earth to become united on a higher level, a state that could not come about without all that is taking place today.

But there needs to be someone who tells human beings about all these things, to help them a little bit on their way, or else they would continue living without really learning about the cosmic laws. One cannot meet the Godhead in those areas where one hates and persecutes, where one feels antipathy against somebody or something. Where one does this, one closes down one's sensory organs so that one cannot come into contact with the Godhead. In order to be able to "speak" to the Godhead it is therefore a condition that one cleanses oneself from all killing tendencies and brings one's attitude in line with being loving and forgiving. This attitude is not very difficult to achieve when one knows that the individual human being cannot be different than it is. One does not become angry with a thistle because it is a thistle and therefore stings you when you come too close to it. But in the case of human beings, one often thinks that a "thistle" could just as well be a "violet", but just as it is impossible in the plant world for a thistle to be a violet, it is equally impossible for human beings to be any different than they are. Human beings are just as different as flowers and plants. Some human beings have characteristics that can result in unpleasantness for others and for themselves; others have characteristics that can only promote joy and happiness. If we begin to bombard those who are "evil" with moral preaching and expect them to immediately become different, we are in reality no better ourselves. We need to understand that what surrounds us is one single vast blazing ocean of light, an ocean of will power, of caresses from the Godhead. Whenever we become angry and hot-tempered towards those who feel antipathy towards us, we shatter our consciousness of God and miss out on the experience that I earlier described to you. This does not mean that one should shout hurray about all the unpleasantness that one experiences, but merely that we should leave things as they are if we cannot manage to improve them through love and understanding. Only there where we are able to improve things through love is where we have our field of work.

It is written that we should love our neighbour as ourselves. But our neighbour is not only the one that is closest to us, our neighbour is all of our surroundings. Matter consists of living beings, it is a part of the body of God. But God does not have a form, he is, if you can understand what I mean, the form of all forms. Regardless of what we see, we see the Godhead. The different human beings, plants, animals, minerals, molecules, atoms, electrons and so on are all the body of God, his sensory organs through which he reveals himself. If this were not the case the image of God would shrink to an imperfect, temporal phenomenon. Since everything that exists is the Godhead, one can caress the Godhead anywhere, and only when one can do this, will one have the correct image of God as identical to all our surroundings.

As I mentioned earlier, the primitive human being's relationship to the Godhead rests on an automatic function; it is not able to understand with its awake consciousness the true connection. The civilised human being of today has removed itself as far away from the Godhead as is altogether possible, but this state has brought about suffering and yet more suffering. In Jesus' account of the prodigal son who only came back to his father once he had "eaten with the swine", we have an excellent illustration of present day human beings' relationship to God. "Eating with the swine", which means manifesting animal ways of thinking and acting, is worshipping heathenism. We no longer need to kill in order to live. Far less do we need to kill our fellow human beings. This is why it is necessary to talk about how one should break the habit of doing these things, not only in their more robust forms, but also where it is, for instance, only 10% murder. All dark thoughts are murder on a smaller scale, and it is therefore a question of reaching the point where one is able to hold all dark and destructive thoughts at a distance and to be concerned only to love one's neighbour as oneself.

You need to learn to bring yourselves onto the same wavelength as the fact that, just as you are always surrounded by physical beings, you are also surrounded by a host of beings that to you are invisible. You are never left completely to yourselves, you are always, consciously or unconsciously, in a correspondence with the Godhead. You need to know that, no matter which eyes you look into, it is the Godhead's sensory tools that you meet. Whatever you experience it is the Godhead that is talking to you. Many human beings have ceased to pray, because they doubt the value of prayer. This attitude is very wrong. Prayer is the most valuable means of communication between the Godhead and the son of God. When you understand that the things I have told you are true, you will experience peace in your consciousness. You will then enter a sensory state in which there is peace and balance. I have complete peace and balance in my consciousness, no matter how severe the war is. I know that it will be the light forces that will win the battle that is raging over the world today and that they will promote a "new heaven" and a "new Earth". I know that only what is most perfect will take place and therefore I can do nothing but praise the Godhead.