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Question ‘Why’.... (Anthroposophist Cologne).... Fall of the angels.... Sin....

It remains perpetually unfathomable for human beings what moves God to rule and work as He does, because human intellect cannot comprehend what motives form the basis for God’s expression of strength; neither can it comprehend the interactions because it can only see and feel the result of what primordially had happened in the spiritual realm, in a world, of which all visible creations are mere weak reflections that cannot even comparatively be referred to and which were only created as a result of what had taken place a long time ago in the realm of God’s created spirits. These were the purest expression of His strength, consequently they too were powerful and strong, they were of the highest perfection. God’s creative will had transferred itself to His created beings too, with the result that all His thoughts urged to express themselves in them as well and therefore a creative will of unimaginable extent inspired these beings which now became active without restriction. In other words, new creations were produced which surpassed themselves; however, these new creations were always inspired beings and of greatest perfection too, therefore also cognitive and in possession of free will.

The first entity which came forth out of God outshone everything with its light and strength because it had developed from God Himself and found its bliss in the constant use of its unlimited strength. Its creations increased and its bliss grew immeasurably, God had imposed on it no limitations. However, He put it to the test because He wanted the entity to become aware of itself as the carrier of God’s outgoing strength.... This test required that the entity.... Lucifer.... should depict God to his creations as their origin, in order that he too would continue to always consciously accept the strength, which enabled him to be creatively active, from God. Thus he was meant to acknowledge God as his Creator and source of strength and his bliss would be unlimited for all eternity. He was not put to the test merely for the sake of this acknowledgment but he was expected to make a decision of his own free will that was intended to elevate him from the perfectly created being to a perfect being of his own volition, so that he too could use his power and strength as a truly divine being within the will of God....

And he failed.... He did not want to be the recipient but the source of strength himself, and the amount of strength at his disposal seemed proof enough to him.... Therefore he volitionally separated himself from God, although a separation from Him was not possible since he couldn’t exist without God. And since his will, with the use of God’s strength, had created innumerable beings, he considered himself as their creator and of enormous strength and power; consequently he volitionally separated from God in arrogance and lust for power, thereby becoming sinful and pulling all of his creations into sin too. Although they themselves were still innocent they were completely under the influence of him who had given them life.

And these were now given the right of self-determination by God, they were permitted to see the light and in their perfection also recognised their origin, they could therefore also stay with God and participate in His glory. However, only few followed Him, that is, only few chose to stay with God of their own free will and, as His angels, were constantly with Him and worked for Him in the spiritual realm. The greater part, however, fell.... they followed their creator, freely chose to accept his will as their own and by doing so fell into a state of spiritual darkness.... His awareness was taken from him because the effect of the strength reduces as soon as the entity distances itself from God....

But everything was and is strength out of God which eternally cannot be lost and therefore must return to Him in a way that God’s wisdom has judged to be effective. And this way is the progression through the earthly physical creation, which God had brought into being for the purpose of leading the fallen spirit back to Him. The spirit moves through this creation with a bound will, that is, in a state of compulsion on the slow path of upward development until it reaches the stage when its free will is returned to it and it is once again confronted with the decision to choose the power it wants to adhere to.

The being is burdened with the sin of its past opposition to God but can release itself by using God’s strength which it once had rejected; however, it has to acquire this through works of love and by consciously requesting it from God in prayer. It has to use its free will during its earthly life in the right manner.... it has to turn towards God again and acknowledge Him as eternal Father and Creator.... Then it returns once more to the state of light, it becomes a recipient of strength and can work again in accordance to its will which now is also God’s will.... and it shall be able to create and shape for its own happiness and thus be eternally blessed....

Amen

VPRAŠANJE "ZAKAJ" .... (Antropozof Köln) PADEC ANGELOV .... GREH ....

Za ljudi ostaja večno nedoumljivo, kaj premika Boga, da odloča in ukrepa tako, kot to dela On, ker človeški um ne more razumeti, kateri motivi so temelj Božjega izraza Moči; niti on ne more razumeti medsebojnih odnosov, ker lahko vidi in občuti le vpliv tega, kar se je izvirno-prvobitno bilo zgodilo v duhovnem kraljestvu, v svetu v katerem so vse vidne stvaritve le šibki odsevi, ki jih nikoli ne moremo vzeti za primerjavo in katere so ustvarjene le kot rezultat tega, kar se je bilo zgodilo davno prej v kraljestvu od Boga ustvarjenih Duhov. Bili so najčistejši izraz Njegove moči, zato so tudi bili polni oblasti in Moči in so bili najvišja popolnost.

Božja ustvarjalna volja se je prav tako prenesla na Njegova ustvarjena bitja, tako, da so vse Njegove misli imele prav tako impulz, sebe izraziti v njih, in zatorej je ustvarjalna volja nepredstavljivega obsega navdihnila ta (duhovna) Bitja, ki so sedaj postala aktivna brez omejitve. To pomeni, bile so ustvarjene nove stvaritve, ki so presegale same sebe. Te nove stvaritve pa so prav tako bile vedno znova navdihnjena Bitja najvišje popolnosti, torej tudi s sposobnostjo razmišljanja in obdarjena s svobodno voljo.

Prvo bitje, ki je izšlo iz Boga, je preseglo vse s svojo Svetlobo in Močjo, ker se je razvilo iz Boga Samega in našlo svojo blaženost v stalni uporabi njegove neomejene Moči. Njegove stvaritve so se množile in njegova blaženost je rasla neizmerno, Bog mu ni vsilil nobenih omejitev. Pa vendar ga je On postavil na preizkus, ker je želel, da Bitje sebe prepozna kot nosilca od Boga izhajajoče Moči.... Ta preizkus je zahteval, da bi Bitje.... Lucifer.... moral prikazati Boga svojim bitjem kot njihov izvor, česar se je tudi on sam zavedal, ker je neprestano prejemal Moč od Boga, ki ga je usposobila za njegovo ustvarjalno aktivnost.

Moral je torej priznati Boga kot svojega Stvarnika in Vir moči, in njegova blaženost bi bila neomejena za vso večnost. On ni bil na preizkušnji samo zaradi tega priznavanja, ampak se je od njega pričakovalo, da sprejme odločitev s svojo lastno svobodno voljo, katere namen je bil dvigniti ga od popolnega ustvarjenega Bitja do popolnega Bitja z njegovo lastno voljo, tako, da bi on sedaj kot resnično Božansko bitje lahko uporabil svojo oblast in moč znotraj Božje volje.... In on je odpovedal.... On ni želel biti prejemnik, temveč sam-osebno izvor moči, in obilje moči, ki jo je imel na razpolago, je za njega izgledalo zadosten dokaz.... Zatorej je on sebe namerno ločil od Boga, čeprav ločitev od Njega ni bila mogoča, ker brez Boga on ne bi mogel obstajati.

In ker so skozi njegovo voljo in ob uporabi moči iz Boga bila ustvarjena nešteta (duhovna) Bitja, se je počutil kot njihov stvarnik v ogromni moči in oblasti; posledično temu se je on namerno ločil od Boga v vzvišenosti (aroganci) in s hrepenenjem po vladanju. S tem je on postal grešen in je s seboj potegnil vsa svoja bitja v greh. Čeprav so oni sami bili še vedno brez krivde, vendar popolnoma pod vplivom njega, kateri jim je bil dal življenje.

In njim je Bog sedaj dal pravico do lastne odločitve, njim je bilo dovoljeno videti Svetlobo, in oni so v njihovi popolnosti prav tako prepoznali svoj izvor, zatorej bi prav tako lahko bili ostali z Bogom in sodelovali v Njegovi slavi. Vendar je bilo le nekaj njih, ki so Mu sledili, to pomeni, da se jih je le nekaj odločilo ostati z Bogom po svoji lastni svobodni volji, in ti so kot Njegovi (nepadli) angeli ves čas z Njim in delajo za Njega v duhovnem kraljestvu. Večji del njih pa je (od) padel.... oni so sledili svojega ustvarjalca (Luciferja), svobodno so se odločili, da sprejmejo njegovo voljo kot svojo lastno in s tem so padli v stanje duhovne teme.... Njegova zavest mu je bila odvzeta, saj se učinek Moči zmanjšuje, ko se bitje oddaljuje od Boga....

Vendar je vse bila in je Moč od Boga, katera večno ne more biti izgubljena, in zato se Mu mora vrniti na način, katerega je Božja modrost ocenila kot učinkovitega. In ta način je napredek skozi zemeljsko materialno stvarstvo, ki ga je Bog ustvaril z namenom vodenja nekoč padlega Duhovnega nazaj k Sebi. Duhovno se giblje skozi to stvarstvo z zavezano voljo, to je v stanju prisile na počasni poti razvoja navzgor, dokler ne doseže stopnje, ko mu bo njegova svobodna volja vrnjena in bo še enkrat postavljeno pred odločitev, da izbere moč (oblast), kateri želi pripadati.

Bitje je obremenjeno z grehom svojega preteklega nasprotovanja Bogu, vendar se tega lahko osvobodi z uporabo Božje moči, katero je nekoč bilo zavrnilo; vendar pa si mora bitje to Moč pridobiti samo skozi dela Ljubezni in tako, da jo bo zavestno zaprosilo od Boga v molitvi. Ono (bitje) mora uporabljati svojo svobodno voljo v času svojega življenja na Zemlji na pravilen način.... ono se mora ponovno obrniti k Bogu in Ga priznati kot večnega Očeta in Stvarnika.... Potem se ono še enkrat vrne v stanje Svetlobe, postane prejemnik Moči in lahko ponovno dela v skladu s svojo voljo, katera pa je sedaj prav tako Božja volja.... in ono bo sposobno ustvarjati in oblikovati za svojo lastno srečo, in s tem bo večno blagoslovljeno (srečno in blaženo). AMEN