Lucifer's Sting

THE WAY OF THE GRAIL – SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS – October 26, 2026

Czech original: Luciferův Osten · cesta-gralu.cz

And without the earthly man being aware of it, he carries within himself a remnant of the wound of Lucifer's sting

The poisonous thorn penetrated into his thinking and caused a paralysis whereby the knowledge of God became so veiled for earthly men that they no longer distinguish at all anything of what has its origin in the Primordially Eternal radiance of God and what is of evil

They do not distinguish what is pure and genuine from what is low and distorted, because they have closed themselves off from the connection with all spiritual and animistic weaving in Creation

Many an earthly man therefore no longer recognises the Truth coming from the All-Wisdom of God and is not capable of distinguishing anything more valuable from the thousandfold untruths and confusions

The sting also brought into the thinking of man a corrosive mistrust of all higher supra-earthly happenings in Creation

Thereby it separated by a deep abyss even all those who still today try to flee in their thoughts to God

Under the influence of the intellectual calling into question of all finer happenings, men are separated from the help which God sends them

The pure connection with everything supra-earthly has been replaced by blind faith

The animistic helpers and the spiritual helpers were given the designation of phantoms and demons

If Lucifer wanted to bring mankind into such a menacing state of going astray, he could not have succeeded better

Creeds and religions speaking of God combat one another, and not a single direction of human thinking is able, in calmness, to listen to the sounding of the Ray of Parzival streaming to Earth through the universe

The whole human world is therefore now in tension, for all understanding is subject to the intellect and the minds of men are tossed about as in a fever

And even when a man then quietly asks on his own account and takes an interest in something higher, or is even seriously drawn to thoughts directed towards spiritual concepts, he has everything permanently dragged down into matter, and in the end it is precisely everything connected with the spiritual that he seeks only within the framework of the dense intricacy of his intellectual thinking

The concept spiritual does remain, but its content is distorted

Precisely for this reason the fact holds true that when such a man, in whom the effect of Lucifer's sting persists, encounters genuine spiritual happenings coming through the still few open people on Earth, he sets himself against them and, either in mockery or in aggressiveness, stands on the side of those who in the narrowness of their brains cry out that what cannot be proved materially is not real

People today speak of many concepts

On the one hand there is open talk of everything that ever came to Earth from the heights

At the same time, however, in the case of many concepts completely distorted ideas have become anchored in thoughts

The stream of millions of books and films has corroded almost the whole world of thought, in which today the highest sublime concepts are mixed without hesitation with the most foolish baseness

The confusion is the result of the long-lasting working of Lucifer's sting, which has poisoned everything more valuable

Such a thing, however, is harmful to the inner being of man

The inner being cannot rise higher along the distorted ideas of concepts and remains continually imprisoned in the earthboundness of the brain, which seeks all fulfilment only in the gross material dimension of existence

Thereby tension and excess pressure arise in man and in society

It is the reason why some are combated by others who have a different view of the world

Clarity and calm are lacking in the serious exploration of the spirit, so that a clearer knowledge of the way to the Light could arise

The bridge to the heights has long been damaged for the human spirit

Among other things, it is precisely thereby that the helping power of prayer is completely paralysed

Prayer has become an empty sound, instead of bringing the possibility of a living connection of the inner being with the Light

Man recites words, but there is no rightly, intuitively felt relationship in them if trust in everything supra-earthly is lacking

And mistrust has penetrated into the here and now of everyday life

The result is a complete inability to open oneself to everything higher that is usually connected with prayer

Through a deflected understanding of the world, mistrust is precisely being shown even towards God Himself

This state of disposition in men is part of all thinking and acting every day, every hour

Lucifer's sting prevents man from opening himself through intuitive perception to such a degree that the intellect, which calls everything into question, would be overcome and the spirit could soar high upwards to the Light through the sounding of the concept God

The day-consciousness in man thus always stands as a dense obstacle to spiritual intuitive perception

The concepts resound in the head, but they cannot bring the necessary fervour and trust, because man regards himself as an inhabitant of the Earth, but no longer as an inhabitant of God's work of Creation

The earthly world with its form and the conditions created in it has become a prison for the greatest part of mankind

Trust in God is shaken and is broken in the wrong understanding of His Will

Lack of understanding is contained in everything, and it goes down to the smallest trifles, in which, when gaps and ignorance prevail, estrangement from the knowledge of God and of all His servants sets in very quickly

Not directly, but nevertheless men stand against God when in their doubts they try to shake the fact that His Will is decisive for the whole development of happening in the work of Creation

It is the echo of the doubts which the fallen Lucifer brought in as the principle of temptation, for it is his own open wound

And the greatest part of mankind on Earth bears today the said wound, which was caused by the stupefying effect of the sting that made its way into the intellect, which consequently does not in reality acknowledge anything that is above gross matter

It does not consider it equal to the certainty which it places in its belief in the material world

However many valuable people there are on Earth even today who want to fill their path with thoughts of God in order to draw nearer to the heralds of the Light of old, their efforts are marked by mistrust, whereas precisely these great heralds had trust inseparably ingrained in their spirit and body

If a step forward is not taken in this matter by each individual man, then it cannot be expected that a confirmation of the existence of God will descend to him from heaven in such a way that his intellectual brain would wholly accept it

The step forward lies in the awakening of pure childlikeness, which is an inseparable part of the human spirit

Childlikeness is not a condition for the simple understanding of great happenings, but it is a condition for inquisitiveness

And precisely today a large part of mankind lacks a free inquisitiveness, liberated from all distortions, regarding the knowledge of the work of Creation

It is not that the inquisitiveness of man today is only faintly burning, but we can say that in many cases it is almost completely lacking in people, because it has already gone out

Lucifer's sting has poisoned the will of man in his inner being to such an extent that he often completely refuses to know anything more about the meaning of his life and also about why life on this Earth came into being at all

He refuses to know anything more precise about how the formation of the materialities here came about, which from the moment of their shaping were and also still are a part of the great work of Creation

The limited intellect can give about all this only misty and in no way refreshing answers, which in many directions of scientific research contradict one another

Mistrust towards levels which are even only a small step above gross matter makes man a vassal of matter

But at the same time, through the intellect, it has also made him an enemy of everything that in reality grants him the possibility of existence

The wretchedness of the world here, which is dependent only on what it plunders from the womb of the material form of the working in nature of the animistic servants, has brought mankind to a stage that we can call a crime, for in return for drawing upon all the gifts man has nothing to offer

The original exchange, which consisted in the spiritual radiation of man being a gift for everything animistic in nature, has already been badly distorted by the presumption that man is master over all material living creatures and over the treasures of the earth

Something so badly twisted could not have formed itself from man's own spiritual spark, but only from the brain organ badly afflicted by the intellect

And behind this is found the effect of Lucifer's sting

All the seemingly sublime texts from ancient religious writings, which are glorified by their adherents and drawn upon as the supposed wisdom of those who served God, are distorted dogmas without deeper comprehension of the true structure of knowledge about the work of Creation

All the less is there in them knowledge about God Himself

Lucifer's sting has worked in men in such a way that they have formed out of the crystal-clear Justice, Purity and Love of God distorted caricatures, in which, to be sure, the human role occupies a very exalted place

And it is not the role of man as a childlike pure human spirit, but it is the cunning of the material intellect, which always and in all circumstances pushes itself forward, for together with mistrust towards the higher spheres this calls forth in it the impression of its own idea that it knows everything best

The childlike pure spiritual in man would always be welcomed and supported in its development both by the animistic helpers and by the spiritual helpers who come right down to the Earth in order to develop in men, through intuitive perception and conscience, a relationship to harmony and thereby a relationship to the whole work of Creation

Lucifer's thorn has lodged in the heads of men in the form of conceit and thereby in the rejection of everything that might in any way surpass them in its wisdom

And because both everything animistic and also the spiritual from more luminous levels surpasses the man of today in wisdom, the intellect in its lack of humility will always set itself against accepting these inhabitants of the work of Creation

Pride in their knowledge, which however is no true recognition, has made of the human world a lonely, unhappy place of shipwrecked spiritual sparks, which, instead of the original glorious prospects of ascent and of the growth of joy, abundance and happiness for all mankind, turn round and round in the delusions of their supposed uniqueness

But everything described above is fortunately already only a short-lived phenomenon of the present, which is becoming the past

In the threads woven for the further time on Earth there is contained a fundamental change for everything, which will throw out of the saddle everything that has so far been ingrained in human thinking

The sting will be driven out of the places where it has lodged

The world of thought will be purified by the original plainness being restored to everything

Simplicity and plainness are the companions of childlikeness

And precisely this childlikeness now needs to be awakened anew

Thereby the trust in salvation, until now severely undermined, will be released and healed, and thereby the foundation of a better world will be formed

The present complicated world will become the past, in order to be replaced by a world of simple colours and forms, as is the case with all life that comes directly from the hands of the animistic servants

However endless the after-echoes of the past may seem, the measure of their working on Earth is already fixed

It will be a revolutionary period, which is coming with the approaching earthly years

And for this time the great and immensely necessary task of the Circles of the Calm is destined

Those people who have knowledge so firmly anchored within them that their conviction about all parts of the work of Creation above the gross matter here will not doubt even for a moment are to become a support for many of those whose blind faith will collapse in the coming time

But it is solely and only the inner being of man, not the thinking brain, where trust in the Light and in God can dwell

To lean on the knowledge of the brain will not suffice, for everything that is connected with the intellect will now be severely shaken

Therefore all knowledge about the work of Creation gained from the work THE GRAIL MESSAGE needs to pass wholly as a kind of radiation into the inner being and to become part of a fully anchored maturity of the spirit

It needs to pass into a calm and balanced maturity

Maturity proves itself through experiencing

This is the hardest thing that at this time, as the necessary confirmation and proving, lies before each of the people who hold the Word of Truth in their hands

The necessity of passing through experiences that will bring complete liberation from Lucifer's influence now lies before us all

It will demand of the spiritual inner being the highest liveliness, so that intuitive perceiving and the spiritual ability of a higher receptivity for the fine happenings around man may succeed in taking over all parts of the bodily nervous system and of the brain

Where everything remains stored only in the part that is connected with the intellect, there it can still very quickly come to a manifestation of the mistrust of man's thinking in the Wisdom of God

There, too, the connection with the finer parts of supra-earthly nature will not come about

Thereby, however, all the refreshment and help granted to the human spirit on its way through earthly incarnation is then shut off

The way to the strengthening flow of the Aether is also closed, which all parts of the human coverings need for the nourishment of the soul, of the astral radiation and of the earthly body itself

There then comes about an undernourishment of those coverings which are immensely valuable and create the necessary ground for man's gaining of maturity

Intuitive perception and inner joy full of peace need to draw strength from those levels which, precisely for the majority of people, are unattainably high above the material world here and thus provide no support for them

All this brings tension and unrest into human souls

But for those who strive to free themselves wholly from the influence of Lucifer's sting, it is especially necessary to occupy themselves with these degrees of the individual levels, for therein lies the whole pure full value of the existence of the human spirit in the Subsequent work of Creation

On the one hand pure simplicity and plainness are to be sought in the earthly understanding of things, at the same time, on the other hand, knowledge about levels of which today almost nothing correct is known is to be newly taken into thinking as something self-evident

The simplification of concepts will at the same time be enriched by a wealth of new things which people have yet to take into their consciousness as part of the knowledge of their great home – the work of Creation

And precisely about everything higher that is above the materialities, people know nothing correctly

Enthusiastically they hold in their hands only crumbs of real knowledge and regard these trifles as great learning belonging only to those who claim of themselves that they are in direct connection with the Light and God

This false presumption will crash down into nothingness together with the disappearance of Lucifer's sting, which has been at work until now

And this is already happening step by step, and there truly remains only a small stretch of history before it closes as a past at which people will no longer want to look, because they will be ashamed of it and the awareness that they were once part of it will burn them

The time of the working of Lucifer's sting, implanted in human thinking, is coming to an end

And as always, earthly men know nothing of this serious period

They are drawn along by outer social events, to which they devote the greatest part of their valuable spiritual powers, and they do not perceive how in reality the finer world around them is changing

Here is the time of urgent need for the enlivening of the highest movement of intuitive perceiving in man

Here is the time calling for the stepping out of all kinds of inertia of human thinking

Here is the moment of change which brings the so longed-for help to all those who want to attain the supra-earthly experiencing of something mighty and valuable for their existence

And all this is possible because here is the opportunity of a fervently close connection with the radiance of the Ray of Parzival

Exert yourself, therefore, each one who longs for liberation from the stupefying influence coming from the thorn of mistrust in the Light and Life

The effort put into every quiver of intuitive perception in the new recognising of connections will now be repaid a thousandfold

Therein lies the ancient promise of all the help and salvation sent to the human spirit from the source of the Grace-filled Love of God