The Life of Abdrushin
By Randolph Freeman Eales
(continuation)
I will now speak of Abdrushin’s second marriage, and
ask you to follow me to Koetzschenbroda, between Meissen and Dresden, where
Frau Maria lived as a widow with her three children, Irmingard, Alexander and
Elisabeth. Frau Maria was born in Leipzig, Saxony, on the 17th of
August in 1885 or 1886. She had never seen her parents; her mother died at
childbirth. The consulting surgeon (Sanita????rat) of the Hospital where she
was born took care of the babe. He later gave her into the care of a childless
parson-couple, staying near Oschatz.
The old foster-mother, Mrs. Kauffer, enlightened me on
many details about Maria’s childhood, when I visited her several times at
Dresden in a home for parsons’ widows, at the request of Frau Maria herself. I
did so in the years of 1935 and 1936. In Maria, as we know, Cassandra is
incarnate. Cassandra was an incarnation of the Light. Through her God’s Love
manifested on earth for the first time. Many a soul now incarnate carries
within him or within her the emanation of the Cassandra ray. They must accept
the Message of Abdrushin, otherwise their egos are doomed. God’s second love
incarnation was that of Jesus. Both the Cassandra and the Jesus rays carry
within them the Divine healing ray. It is Maria now who will heal the wounds
which the Sword of Imanuel struck.
Maria, in her youth, loved above all the art of
singing. She used to sing at funerals, in Churches and in private. When she
sang, I was told, even the birds ceased to trill. She was brought up in the
famous Luisenstift in Niederloessnitz, a girl’s high school of repute. She was
taken to dances, arranged by the Rector of the “Fuerstenschule” in Meissen –
the German Harrow or Winchester School where, as we remembered in later years
on the Mountain, we had mutual friends.
Frau Maria married Mr. August Freyer. He was an
officer in the last war and died from a wound. Hence Frau Maria lived alone in
her house in Koetschenbroda with her three children. She loved the sunny valley
of the river Elbe with its healthy climate, its flowers, strawberries, birds,
and white cherry trees. She perceived and still perceives the elementals and
understands their language and talks to them. It was in Koetzschenbroda that
one day, which had bean designed by the finger of God, Abdrushin set his foot
over the threshold of her home. He came as a stranger, worried, tired of human
experiences, after his sojourn abroad and the years of internment; he longed
for a home an enquired whether he might hire a furnished room in Maria’s house.
Thus the Son of Man met Maria; the two oil trees; standing before the God of
this earth, as John revealed from Patmos, found themselves again and united
soon in human wedlock.
The respective verses in the 11th Chapter
of the Revelation read thus:
“These are the two oil trees and the two candlesticks
“standing before the Lord of the earth. If any man
“desireth to hurt them; fire proceedeth out of their
mouth
“and devoureth their enemies. They have power to shut
the
“heaven that it rain not during the days of their
prophecy.
“And they have power over the waters to turn them into
“blood, and to smite the earth with every plague as
often
“as they shall desire”.
The widow, Mrs. Freyer, became Mrs. Bernhardt. Hence
the life of Abdrushin moved along a different stream. Both soon left Saxony and
settled in Bavaria. They stayed successively in Peissenberg, Penzberg, Bad
Toelz and Tutzing. Abdrushin bought a huge country house, later called
“Gralshaus” near Toelz. He bought it from a rich land-owner of the name of
Schaar, who owned a big estate also in Necklenburg. It was in that Gralshaus
that he began the first writing of the “Grail Lectures”. It was in 1921, when
Hitler started the propagation of his cause under the title of “N.S.D.A.P.”
(National Socialostische Deustche Arbeiter Partri). Abdrushin read this
manuscripts to a circle of his intimate friends. Frau Maria started healing.
The Gralshaus became famous: the news of “miracle
healings” spread over Germany and beyond her borders. Irene Schaar was the only
daughter of the former landlord of the Gralshaus, both of whom joined the first
reading group in Bavaria. Abdrushin asked Miss Schaar to help him with the
writing of the manuscripts. She, however, refused; she was engaged at the time
to a Mr. Blakeley. Thus she missed making use of the first call from the Light.
Later she had to pay bitterly for her negligence. Her marriage became more than
unhappy, it became, a mental torture to her. She lost her faith and all hope,
till, after about fifteen years, she got the last chance to acknowledge the
truth. Broken in heart she seized her salvation. But she was not granted again
to see Abdrushin, for the law is adamantine. Not many men can stand the craving
of the soul for truth and light, and above all, the longing after the Bringer
of Truth. When they miss the first opportunity granted to them by the Light,
seldom does a second occasion occur, and the craving and longing then
extinguishes their egos. This takes place after physical decomposition.
So
far for to-day. In the second part I will tell something about the mission of
the children of Maria, of the approach of those who first recognised the Divine
Envoy in Abdrushin, and were elected His disciples, and lastly, where and how
Abdrushin laid the first fundamental stones of a building which, in future,
will safely harbour those who outlive the Day of Reckoning.