die in the sense of ceasing to exist. For the spirit death is defined differently and represents eternal separation from God. This is the threat that looms over the indolent for although physically awake and intellectually alert, such a person may actually have progressed far on the path to spiritual death and only continues a semblance of existence while awaiting the judgement.
While it is still possible for the indolent and somnolent individual to awaken, the spiritually dead can no longer be helped. This is the vaguely perceived pressure that urges indolent humanity to spiritual awakening. This is why the last Message from the Light is so vital for, as Christ who promised this Message and the Message itself confirms, the period of grace is now exhausted. It is now either a choice for Life or for Death.
Another great tragedy of this deadly circumstance is that the indolent human spirit is often unaware of his state. He/she often lives a morally worthy life as defined by societal laws and frequently is also zealous in religious externals. He believes he is doing well and this wrong perception is often reinforced by the general public opinion. Yet unless the spirit, the living core, becomes active the inevitable path is towards death.
It should be obvious that since failure to find fulfilment and to achieve the purpose of our existence is personal and indeed spiritual, what is needed is a personal spiritual quickening. Since almost all human beings, except a few who have allowed the Light of God into their lives, are spiritually indolent if not asleep, spiritual awakening, which has been likened to a new birth3 or a new consciousness in the kingdom of our God, is the only way forward. This condition was stipulated over 2000 years ago, when the Son of God, in His pristine wisdom told us “unless a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God - that which is born of flesh is flesh and that which is born of spirit is spirit.” This was misunderstood then and remains poorly understood today.
In our own time, in the great Love and Justice of our Creator we have again been admonished to “Awake, ye men, out of your leaden slumber!”1
The call and guidance to spiritual awakening is one of the most important events of our time. At this time when the World of Matter in which we live and experience is approaching its end, this call must be seen as an act of sublime Love, which will forever remain beyond our understanding; a Love that will not allow even one flickering spiritual flame to go without help. And this Love is abundantly manifest in the guidance once more sent by the Creator in the Grail Message.
The availability of the help however does not enforce its acceptance. The human spirit must reach out for the help to be able to use it to free itself and for its development. The situation is similar to that of a drowning man to whom a lifeline is thrown. Since the helper cannot reach him in any other way, the only possibility of salvation rests with his reaching out for the lifeline, an event that becomes increasingly more difficult as his confusion increases.
The spirit of man, drowning in the suffocating darkness that has arisen from our individual and collective activities, must make the personal effort to swing out of the swift current of contrary human will, which is driving everything along the broad path to the abyss. He must reach out for the help, which in Omniscience has been determined as the only way in which he can still find the right path.
Our path back home to Paradise lies in our life and experiencing here on earth and in the other planes of Subsequent Creation. We must tread these paths in a spiritually awake and conscious state, supported by help granted and accepted in the word and guidance from our Creator. No one else can do this for us and without following this path we can never hope to reach the luminous Realm of our Creator.
Because it lies in the Will of the Creator for His Creation, the way to life is open to all humanity. However, in the free will inherent in man’s spirituality he may choose otherwise, but he then remains unalterably bound to the consequences of his volition.
With the choices we have made and what we have formed by our activities in Creation thus far, the path back home will not be easy. We have cluttered the way with the products of our materially oriented activity, most of which is contrary to the Will of God, allowing the path to life to become unbelievably overgrown with physical and ethereal obstacles. That the path, which leads to life, is narrow and tortuous is thus due to the activity of the individual human spirits and not a Divine ordination as has been imagined. It is therefore not surprising that only a few will find this path again.3
It is not difficult to understand that only that path which is little used and which is left badly cared, or indeed, uncared for will become overgrown with thorns and difficulties. From the very beginning we are told, the path to the Light has been luminous and beautiful and remains so today.1 Any obstacles that one may meet have been put there by that one himself; by his or her careless use of the power of the Creator lent to him or her. He or she alone must face and remove this obstacle. This to some extent is the thesis of ‘Pilgrims Progress’ by Bunyan7.
A parallel can easily be drawn from our daily experiences. The path that leads to our earthly homes is subject to the same principles. If we neglect these paths for any reason, perhaps because we have travelled, are sick or even from sheer laziness, it becomes quickly or slowly overgrown by briars. Quicker if the path had been poorly built, less well maintained or less frequently used. To get back to our home, we must address and clear these obstacles. Similarly, the path to eternal life requires personal striving and is often surrounded and hedged by the consequences of our previous activities. It is therefore not surprising that for most people it is narrow and often difficult.
Untold efforts are expended in various so-called schools of thought, both occult and overt to find a broad and easy way that will nevertheless lead to the longed for Light. It is not surprising that in our generation with the intellectual conceit and spiritual indolence of the overwhelming majority, we have evolved all possible and sometimes impossible arguments to advocate that the way to life is effortless. Sometimes scriptures are quoted usually out of context to support this. We must however remember that, as the Lord said, broad and easy is the road that leads to destruction and many are they who travel it.
We must be aware that the impure currents of human degradation is wide and swift, giving a ‘heady’ feeling of progress and lulling all who are not alert to the danger into a false sense of achievement. This is particularly soothing to the indolent sprit, which is thereby encouraged to remain in its lukewarm state of spiritual slumber.
Increasingly people are known to declare, flushed with pride of consequence and confident in apparent human intellectual achievements, that they have no need of God. Puffed up with narrow and limited knowledge gained from observations of evolutionary trends in matter, with absolutely no sense of the wider Creation, intellectual man croaks a denial of God in favor of science; even demanding that this grossly limited understanding become the only basis for educating our children. The less extreme intellectuals, but equally indolent majority make similar decisions passively, indolently following where others lead. Even those who wish to serve the Will of God succumb to the pressures of the extreme materialism of the prevailing social environment.
All these have been said repeatedly. Messengers and Prophets of God sent to help us have proclaimed and admonished over millennia and today these vital Messages have been distorted for personal gains. The pivotal point on which everything hinges however is the necessity for us to take a personal decision to awaken and free our spirits. This necessity for a free decision to seek and serve the Will of the Creator has proven so difficult as to constitute a stumbling block for many. Yet only this can permit the possibility of beginning our ascent. In addition, however, a firm resolution and an uncompromising follower-ship must also sustain the decision.
The religious movements have not helped and indeed cannot help. All we have to do, it is argued by the devout of all religious affiliations, is believe. Amongst the Muslims the demand is to believe in Allah and His Prophet Mohammed and observe a set of external rules and regulations. This belief
