God was before the creation of the world, for He is from eternity and He will be for all eternity. This mystery will remain a mystery to people, for beings whose existence takes place in the midst of matter cannot grasp that which is outside of matter, thus completely independent of it. Yet material creation is only a small realm of beings which require things that have become form in order to be able to rejoin the spiritual realm.... The spiritual realm, however, has no space and time limits.... it is always and everywhere.... because in it is God, and God is always and everywhere.... The only explanation that could be given to you humans is to present thought as a parallel to this, the thought that is nothing visible and nothing tangible and yet constitutes the greatest thing in human existence.... What would man be without thought.... a machine-like being that would have to be called dead despite external activity.... Thought is only the living thing in man, and yet it is something for which man cannot give himself an explanation. It is through his thought activity that man has become a free being, as it were, for neither compulsion nor external influence can determine man's thought.... Thought is his sole property, which can never be taken away from him; for thought is something spiritual, something that has nothing to do with matter per se, which therefore also remains when the being has become free of all matter. So man can be in the midst of matter and still switch off everything around him and dwell in the spiritual as soon as he lets his thoughts run free. Even if the thought turns to earthly things, it nevertheless remains something spiritual, because the thought itself is nothing material, it is spiritual power, which is only utilized wrongly. As soon as the human being, unimpressed by his earthly material environment, lets his thoughts wander, no matter where, the beingness in the human being moves in the spiritual kingdom, and thus it will now be understandable that everything material, everything visible, can disappear and yet the essence remains.... that the thinking beingness does not need a material environment.... that it only matters to which goal the being's thoughts turn....

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