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1568 Coarse material.... Form.... Substance....

August 15, 1940: Book 25

The coarse materialisation of originally spiritual substance cannot be avoided as long as an external form is necessary in order to force the spiritual to serve in this form. In its unbound state, the spiritual is also a free being that can determine its own destiny.... However, as soon as this spiritual being is surrounded by a shell, it is hindered in its self-determination. It is bound by a material cover which it must now overcome in a certain time in order to be freed from it again. Everything material around the spiritual substance is condensed spiritual, therefore in itself likewise spiritual substance, that is, it emerged from the all-creating Power, but through divine will became matter, which is supposed to harbour immature spiritual in itself. For everything that has emerged from God is spiritual substance, only the degree of maturity of this substance is different, and therefore a difference has to be made between the spiritual that is inside the form and the spiritual that has become form.

The spiritual inside the form is already so far developed through divine will that it is often allowed to change its stay in the different forms, while the spiritual, which has become form, is still in the beginning of its higher development. The still undeveloped spiritual substance now enables the already more mature spiritual substance.... to fulfil the task assigned to it.... It thereby serves this spiritual substance by also helping it to serve. And thus everything in creation progresses in its development. The coarse material appears transient to man, but in its substance it is just as little transient as the spiritual, which is enclosed in the material shell. For it may seem to disintegrate into nothing, but in reality it only dissolves into its substance once it has fulfilled its actual task. A distinction is therefore made between the spiritual fleeing from the form and the form itself evaporating. The spiritual substance that has been released from the form seeks a new shell depending on its state of maturity.... while the form itself dissolves into its original substance and is again a volatile element until it condenses once more into a new form through God's will. The coarse material is therefore nothing other than something spiritual which becomes visible to the earthly human being in accordance with God's will.... which therefore takes on the form God determines for it, and which remains form as long as divine will requires such a form for the spiritual substance which is in the process of higher development. The form is visible as long as the spiritual has not yet properly solved its task, but becomes invisible as soon as the task has been fulfilled.... Amen

Translated by Sven Immecke