The
Life of Abdrushin
By Randolph Freeman Eales
Foreword
This
is the first account of Abdrushin’s
Earthly
life ever revealed in any country.
It
contains intimate features, which must
be
kept strictly confidential. It is no
coincidence
that it should have been read
in
the home of Mrs. Frydberg where for the
first
time in Great Britain the Message of
Abdrushin
was read – on May 30th, 1940,
When
the Festival of the Holy Dove was
Celebrated.
This was the beginning of
The
presentation of the cause of the World
Teacher
in the British Isles.
PART I
I have been asked by Mr. Kingdon to expound at large
on the private life of Abdrushin. I do so with pleasure so that a few in this
country may know some of intimate features of the earthly life of the Divine
Envoy.
Oskar Ernst Bernhardt was born on Saxon soil, in the
centre of Europe, the physical abode in gross matter of what is known by the
name of “Armageddon”. It was given in the Bible to the place in which the final
great battle is to be fought on the Judgment Day between the forces of good and
evil; this is revealed in the 16th verse of the 16th
chapter of the Revelation of John the Baptist.
The Son of Man was born on the 18th of
April 1875, at Bishofswerda Lausitz. His manger stood neither in a castle of
the decadent and often foul aristocracy, nor in the slums of the poor. His
parents belonged to the normal and healthy middle classes. His father owned an
inn and his profession was a tanner. This inn lay in Kirchstrasse No. 10, an
old-world house with thick white walls and very low ceilings which still dreams
in the shadow of the huge Protestant Church in which the babe was baptised and
confirmed.
I have visited this place and seen with my own eyes
the room where he was borne and all the other rooms, in which Oskar Ernst
Bernhardt, together with his brother Alwin, were brought up by pious parents. I
have also visited the Church with holy awe and perceived the pulpit above the
altar from which, as Abdrushin had revealed to me before I set out on this
pilgrimage, he would deliver one oration, when the world and his native place
had recognised him and acknowledged him as the Redeemer and King. Mrs.
Borgamann has sung in this Church on the occasion of the celebration of the
seventh centenary of the town of Bishofsweda and, no doubt, she then
experienced the first impact of the radiation of the Divine Envoy.
Young Oskar grew up under the charge of Emma, his
earthly mother. She was pure and homely, and spiritually prepared as Mary was
when Christ incarnated, to receive a part of the “Living Light” - - I mean
Parcival, to King of the Grail, the Alpha and Omega for man’s conception.
Abdrushin spoke with love of his father and mother. He well remembered his
first phase of physical life, when he still perceived the Comet high up in
Primordial Creation, which he believed to be an ordinary star in heaven.
Archangels protected the babe’s simple manger and at the entrance to the house stood
Knights of the Grail.
Then the babe grew older. He was not by any means an
extraordinary child. He visited the parish elementary school, and I have seen
the schoolroom in which he sat. I have also spoken to the town watchmaker;
a famous man in that tiny country town, such as Bischofswerda was and still is
until the world will acknowledge its very fame. The Watchmaker, whose name was
“Neumann”, could remember clearly the two boys of Bernhardt. I have visited
also the firm of Huste & Co., not far from the market place, in which Oskar
Ernst worked as an apprentice after he left school. His father had decided he
should become a merchant.
(to
be continued)
This text is part of the collection G+: Grail Message
