1. What seek ye?
By Abdrushin
What seek ye? What is all this tumultuous agitation? It
permeates the world like ferment, and a flood of books overwhelms all peoples.
Scholars pore over ancient writings, investigating and pondering until
spiritually exhausted. Prophets arise to warn, to predict... suddenly from all
sides people strive feverishly to spread new light!
Thus it rages now over the troubled soul of mankind, not refreshing and
invigorating, but scorching, consuming, absorbing the last vestiges of strength
still left to the afflicted one in this gloominess of the present time.
Here and there also a whispering is heard, rumors of a growing expectation
of something impending. Every nerve is restless, tense with subconscious
longing. There is seething and surging, and over everything lies a kind of
ominously brooding stupor. Fraught with disaster. What must it bring?
Confusion, despondency and ruin, unless a mighty hand tears asunder the dark
layer that now envelops the terrestrial globe spiritually, which with the slimy
tenacity of a dirty morass absorbs and smothers every ascending free
light-thought before it has become strong, and with the gruesome silence of a
swamp, suppresses, disintegrates and destroys every good volition even in the
bud, before any action can arise from it.
But the seekers’ cry for light, imbued with strength to cleave through the
mire, is turned aside and dies away beneath an impenetrable canopy, assiduously
set up by the very people who think they help: They offer stones for bread!
Look at the innumerable books:
They do not animate, they only weary the human spirit! And this is
the proof of the barrenness of all they offer. For whatever wearies the spirit
is never right.
Spiritual bread immediately refreshes, Truth revitalizes and Light animates!
Simple people must surely despair when they see what walls are being built
around the beyond by so-called psychic science. Who among the simple is to
grasp the learned sentences and strange expressions? Is the beyond, then,
intended exclusively for psychic scientists?
They speak of God! But is it necessary to set up a university in order first
of all to acquire the abilities to recognize the conception of the Godhead? To
what lengths will this mania, which is mostly rooted only in ambition, drive them?
Readers and listeners stagger along like drunkards from one place to
another, unsteady, not free in themselves, one-sided, because they have been
diverted from the simple path.
Listen, you despondent ones! Lift up your eyes, you who are seriously
seeking: The way to the Highest lies open to every human being! Proficiency
in learning is not the gate to it!
Did Christ Jesus, that great example on the true path to the Light, choose His
disciples among the learned Pharisees? Among the Scribes? He took them from the
simple, natural people, because they had no need to struggle against this great
delusion that the way to the Light is hard to master, and must be difficult.
This thought is man’s greatest enemy, it is a lie!
Thus turn away from all scientific knowledge, where it is a question of what
is most sacred in man, which must be fully grasped! Leave it alone, for
science, being a product of the human brain, is piecework and must remain
piecework.
Consider, how should scientific knowledge, acquired by laborious study, lead
to the Godhead? What, after all, is knowledge? Knowledge is what the
brain can conceive. Yet, how very limited is the perceptive capacity of the
brain, which remains firmly bound to space and time. Even eternity and the
meaning of infinity cannot be grasped by a human brain. Just that which is
inseparably linked with the Godhead. But the brain stands silent before the
incomprehensible power streaming through all that exists, from which it derives
its own activity. The power which everyone intuitively perceives as a matter of
course every day, every hour, every moment, whose existence science has also
always recognized, and which with the brain, that is with knowledge and
intellect, one seeks in vain to grasp and comprehend.
So inadequate is the activity of a brain, the basis and instrument of
science, and this limitation naturally also affects what it produces, hence all
science itself. Thus science does indeed subsequently help to elucidate,
classify and arrange all that it receives ready-made from the creative power
which precedes it, however, when it seeks to assume leadership or offer
criticism, it must inevitably fail so long as it binds itself so firmly to the
intellect, that is, to the perceptive capacity of the brain, as it has done
hitherto.
For this reason erudition, along with those who adjust themselves to it,
always remains clinging to details, while each man carries within himself, as a
gift, the great inconceivable whole, and is fully capable of attaining to the
noblest and highest without laborious study!
Therefore away with this needless torture of spiritual enslavement! Not for
nothing does the great Master exhort us: Become like children!
He who bears within himself the firm volition for what is good, and strives
to give purity to his thoughts, has already found the way to the Highest!
All else will then be added unto him. This requires neither books, nor
spiritual strain; neither asceticism, nor solitude. He will become sound in
body and soul, freed from all pressure of morbid pondering, for all
exaggeration is harmful. You are meant to be human beings, not hothouse plants
which through one-sided cultivation succumb to the first puff of wind!
Awake! Look around you! Listen to your inner voice! That alone can open the
way!
Heed not the dissensions of
the churches. The great Bringer of Truth, Christ Jesus, the personification of
Divine Love, did not concern Himself with creeds. After all, what are the
creeds today? A shackling of the free spirit of man, enslavement of the Divine
spark dwelling within you; dogmas *(Teachings of the church) that seek to compress the
work of the Creator, and also His great Love, into forms molded by the human
mind, which amounts to a dishonoring of Divinity, a systematic disparaging.
Every serious seeker is repulsed by such things, because they prevent him from
ever experiencing the great reality within himself, as a result of which his
longing for the Truth becomes increasingly hopeless, and finally he despairs of
himself and of the world! Therefore awake! Shatter the walls of dogma within
you, tear off the bandage, so that the pure Light of the Highest may reach you
undimmed. Then your spirit will soar aloft in exultation, jubilantly sensing
all the great Love of the Father, which knows no limitations of earthly
intellect. You will at last know that you are a part of it, and you will grasp
It easily and completely, unite with It, and thus gain new strength daily and
hourly as a gift, enabling you to ascend out of the chaos as a matter of
course!
In the Light of Truth
