Die uralte Weisheit. Eine kurzgefasste Darstellung der Lehren der Theosophie

Morning Glow at the Sunrise. Chapter 3.

not be infatuated with heathen wisdom, nor take offense at the simplicity of the author. For the work does not come from his own reason, but from the impulse of the Spirit. See only that you have the Holy Spirit, who proceeds from God, within your own spirit. He will lead you into all truth and reveal himself to you. Then you will see clearly in his light and power even into the holy Trinity, and understand what is written here.

Of God the Father.

2. When our Savior Jesus Christ taught his disciples to pray, he said: "When you wish to pray, say: Our Father, who art in heaven" original: "Matt. 6.". This does not mean that heaven could grasp or encompass the Father, for heaven itself is made from the divine power.

3. Thus Christ says: "My Father is greater than all" original: "Joh. 10, 29.". And in the prophet, God says: "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool" original: "Esai: 66.". Likewise: "What house will you build for me? I encompass the heaven with a span, and the earth with a three-fingered measure" original: "Esai: 40, 12.". Likewise: "In Jacob will I dwell, and Israel shall be my tent" original: "Psal. 135, 4. Spr. 24, 13.".

4. But when Christ calls his Father a heavenly Father, he means that his Father's radiance and power appear entirely clear, bright, and pure in heaven. Beyond the circle or conclusion that we see with our eyes and call heaven, the entire triumphant, holy Trinity appears: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

5. Also, Christ hereby distinguishes his heavenly Father from the father of nature, which is the stars and elements. These are our natural father, from which we are made, and in whose impulse we live here in this world, and from whom we take our food and nourishment.

6. He is our heavenly Father because our soul constantly yearns for him and desires him. Yes, it constantly thirsts and hungers for him. The body hungers and thirsts for the father of nature, which is the stars and elements, and that same father also feeds and gives it drink. But the soul thirsts and hungers for the heavenly holy Father, and he also feeds and gives it drink with his Holy Spirit and source of joy.

7. Now, however, we do not have two fathers, but only one,

Chapter 3. Morning Glow at the Sunrise.

one, from whose power heaven is made, and the stars from his wisdom, which is in him and goes out from him!

Of the Substance and Property of the Father.

8. When one considers all of nature and its property, one sees the Father. When one gazes upon the heaven and the stars, one sees his eternal power and wisdom. As many stars as stand under the heaven, which are yet innumerable and incomprehensible to reason, and in part invisible, so many and of such various kinds are the power and wisdom of God the Father.

9. Every star in heaven has a different power and quality than the others, which also create so many distinctions in and among the creatures on earth, throughout the whole of creation. Now, however, all powers that are in nature originate from God the Father: such as light, heat, cold, air, water, and all powers of the earth, bitter, sour, sweet, sharp, hard, soft, and that which cannot be recounted. All of this has its exit from the Father.

10. If one wants to compare the Father with something, one must compare him to the round sphere of the heaven. You must not think that every power in the Father stands in a special part and place in the Father, like the stars in the sky. No, instead the Spirit shows that all powers in the Father are within one another, as one power. We have an image of this in the prophet Ezekiel, in the 1st chapter. He sees the Lord in Spirit and in a symbolic image like a wheel, where four wheels are within one another, and all four were one like the other. When they went, they went straight forward; to whichever side the wind went, all four went forward, and none needed to turn. Such also is God the Father, for all powers in the Father are within one another as one power, and all powers exist in the Father in an unsearchable light and clarity.

11. You must not think that God stands and moves in heaven and above the heaven perhaps like a power and quality that has no reason or science within itself, like the sun, which runs in its circle and pours out from itself heat and light, whether it brings harm or benefit to the earth and the creatures, which would indeed happen if the other...