The Life of Abdrushin
By Randolph Freeman Eales
(continuation)
From the East Abdrushin passed to the new world. He
wished to study conditions of life and labour in the land of mammon. He took
lodgings in New York. The inhabitants of Bishofswerda believed him emigrated,
lost or dead. He never returned. His field was the world. One of his old aunts
to whom he wished me to bring the news in 1934 or 1935 that he was still alive
was very doubtful. I handed her the Message. She would not believe it. One of
his nieces started to become proud of so great a relative, but she also did not
understand the kernel of the teaching. The only person who went deeper into the
significance of the mission of the Son of Man was Frau Weiss, an old woman
about 80 years of age, who had served in his parents’ inn and cleaned up the
vessels. Later she entered into correspondence with “the prodigy of a child”,
as she still used to call him.
In 1914, the Mayor of New York, a friend of Abdrushin,
advised him to leave the United States owing to the danger of war. He reached
English soil, but never got to Germany. He missed, he had to miss, the last
boat to the Continent. As a civilian prisoner of war he was interned in Olympia
Palace and later taken to an internment camp on the Isle of Man. In the silence
and solitude of the Island, behind barbed wire and the pacing of the guards, he
received the call from on High, to reveal the Message from the Light to
mankind. He realized within Him the heavenly mission, that the Father had sent
Him for a certain purpose.
After the war was over he returned to Germany and soon
contracted his first marriage. Having been submitted to human law when setting
foot on the earth he came to fulfil it, just as Jesus did, and not to break it.
Thus he felt urged to unite with a woman and married according to the civil
code. His marriage, however, became very unhappy. Indeed, it gave him an
experience of many evil things. He has given a record of his suffering, which,
however, is not available here. In it he deals with all the mean tricks of
female intrigue. When a woman is bad, she is worse, more cruel, more cunning,
more fanatical than a man. Thus Abdrushin’s first marriage in the prime of his
life was his cross road to a modern Golgotha. He was persecuted, dishonored,
and condemned by human law, which is the mere intellect’s law. Parcival in
Abdrushin, rather in Oskar Ernst Bernhardt, had thus to endure experiences in
the darkness of matter to become able to help humanity rise above its suffering
through evil.
I
had the privilege of getting to know his first wife also. Strange to say, the
Son of Man’s first companion saved herself from destruction by at last winning
the victory over herself. Mrs. Bernhardt recognised the Son of Man later on,
came up to the Mountain an worshipped Him. One daughter was born of this
wedlock, Abdrushin’s only child. She married Mr. Nagel, of Toelz, an artist in
gold and silver jewellery, who created jewels beyond the ordinary pattern. He
was consecrated a disciple later on. Young Peter, his son, became Abdrushin’s
only grandchild. But he always stressed to his intimates, so far as one can
speak of intimates at all in connection with the Divine Envoy – that this
relationship was nothing but an earthly one. It is quite different with his
second family.
(To be continued)
This text is part of the collection G+: Grail Message
