1838. We have now gone through the mission of the highest fire in the darkness.We have seen how Providence, using the particular setting of the mutual relationship of the two poles to one another in every single one of these living beings, has been able to lead these beings forward to a state in which they could become one with matter, one with ignorance and thereby one with the limited or latent state of consciousness in the individual's mentality that constitutes the imagined death, illusion or superstition that manifests itself in denial of the entire psychic or spiritual world, and is thereby a denial of the Godhead, Providence or the eternal Father.And with this denial the living being is thus an individual that does not know his Father.It must therefore believe that it is a son or a result of mere chance.But a being that considers itself to be a son or a product of mere chance and has a fate that is likewise subject to chance, the final result or after-effect of which is a presumed death, dissolution or annihilation, which can also only be chance, is in reality only a reed bending in the storm, the abandonment of a speck of dust to the slightest puff of wind, the dismemberment of a microbe by the elephantine weight of the forces of Nature.That the Bible has called this being the "prodigal son" is easy to understand.That it has also described this being's mental state as "death", "hell", and "darkness" is simply a matter of course.Can an experience of life be more disheartening and undermining?Can it create more hopelessness and be more destructive of all humaneness than such a lifeless and ice-cold, god-forsaken world picture?That this mental or psychic state must be the very culmination of the domain of the killing principle is here one hundred per cent logical.How can there be human morality in a sphere whose highest creative force and laws are directed or released by mere chance?How can logic, humaneness or neighbourly love and the resulting morality be ideal forces in the universe when they are to be found only in the microbe under the feet of an elephant?When the leading force of the universe is but mere chance, the sky is chance, the Earth, the moon, the planets, the suns and galaxies are chance, continents, oceans, mountains, rocks and caves are chance, cyclones, storms, lightning and thunder are chance, fire, water, air and electricity, indeed everything that we call Nature is chance, the universe that we live in constitutes in principle only an elephant's foot, a gigantic weight whose millions upon millions of tons rest crushingly on the relatively tiny microbes that we call plants, animals and human beings.Imagine what a world picture!And imagine the degree of megalomania it is when the terrestrial human being or the most outstanding of these microbes, under the oppressive, crushing, soulless, gigantic weight of the universe, claims to be the highest life, the only rational being in existence!It is a strange world picture and a strange mental state.Does one not believe that it is the microbe that is too small and insignificant to take in the situation?
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