The Animistic Servants in the Nearness of Inwardly Pure People
THE WAY OF THE GRAIL – SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS – October 14, 2024
Czech original: Bytostní Služebníci V Blízkosti Niterně Čistých Lidí · cesta-gralu.cz
Many people have no inkling at all of how important and at the same time how immeasurably blessed is that condition in which, thanks to the attainment of a higher degree of spiritual purity, a great multitude of animistic servants may stand at a man's side in his nearness, forming around him a helpfully protecting radiation in everyday life
Of the animistic servants and of their activity only a negligible number of people on earth know anything at all today
It is well-nigh painful to see everywhere only the ignorance prevailing in this matter, in contrast to how it should be
And even those people who belong to that small number, who do know something, when they speak of the animistic servants only dimly sense all that is contained in their manner of working
Above all, what greatness lies in the exalted name Valhalla
The whole picture of the connection and the co-operation between men and the animistic servants is greatly distorted and displaced by the narrowing of the boundaries formed through the ponderous comprehension of the intellect
Only here and there can someone truly grasp and sense something of it
It is therefore something exceptional to perceive something higher which lies in a more vigorous kind of creating, or even that man should comprehend in it why and how all this penetrates into the materiality around him
Nevertheless it happens now and then that man grasps it in his perceiving
These are then those moments which inwardly more sensitive people call a touch of higher help, in part also a miracle, but most often good fortune which has turned to their side in an unexpected hour of some distress
Yet such occurrences are never a chance happening, nor foolish luck, as is mostly held in the empty conception of life of the majority of people
Always in such a moment the wise working of the animistic servants is present
Precisely in such hours the threads of fate often work in the highest vibration for man, so that through helping hands aid of manifold kinds may come
The one concerned should rejoice over it in pure childlikeness
At the same time he should ever more consciously come to know in it the world of animistic forces hitherto unknown to him, which work helpfully for all purely striving human spirits in this materiality
Many a one has surely been permitted already to meet with it in some form
These were the hours when help came to a man in the grave moments of his distress
And he, not seldom freed through the work of the animistic servants, to the very limit of what was possible, from grave consequences which would have arisen for him in the following years of his earth-life, then says only that fortune was on his side
Yes, he was indeed fortunate that in that hour many hands of animistic helpers were permitted to be around him
Often it reaches even into the smallest trifles which, had they come about as they should have come in full force from the standpoint of the Laws of Creation, would have brought a man so many hardships that under their weight he could only despair painfully over his fate
At the last moment many a man can be helped even in that case where the wilfulness of an evil human volition wishes something bad upon another
The evil volition of men and of ethereal souls turned away from the Light can be deflected by the animistic servants, or its effect so weakened that this volition reaches the pure man only as a breath causing a momentary sensation of inward repugnance
All the rest, originally sent out by him who formed the evil, remains without greater effect upon the one who was the object of his volition, if this one is inwardly pure
The Laws of Creation make admirable things possible for the animistic servants who weave the threads of men's fate
It is otherwise with those people who bear something homogeneous within themselves
In such a case the ugliness and the wishing of evil can fight its way through to the man and penetrate into his nearness so as to influence his path through life
Much of this happening is nourished on the ground of the past paths of people who met at some earlier time, caused each other pain and suffering, and with whom forgiveness on at least one of the two sides has not yet been attained
Then the forces can work, and despite certain efforts to break free of their influence neither of the two sides succeeds in raising itself higher towards liberation
The persisting baseness binds the souls chained to each other and holds them below without any possibility of ascending upwards to the Light
Earthly incarnation plays no great part in this, for these are ethereal influences
And such things do indeed happen to people
Therefore we can see again and again the manifold heavy destinies of those with whom the protection could not manifest itself with greater graciousness
This continually creates a world of apparent injustice, in which some suffer, contending with the most incredible afflictions of health and in the experiences that befall them, while at the same time others are strikingly free of all this
They go more lightly through life in all small and greater matters, although their fellow-men pass through everything only in painful stumbling amid a seemingly unending suffering
Instead of those who go more lightly occupying themselves more earnestly with how it is possible that this befalls them so differently from other people, and using fully the help of the animistic servants so favourable to them for further ascent, they often take it superficially, even as a matter of course belonging to their life
Thereby they themselves weaken the full value of all that help which is invisible at first glance
Yet many ought to bear within themselves unceasingly a fervent thanks for the aid of the animistic servants working around them, who help them unselfishly
With many people such help is given only so that they may one day fulfil something important which they promised to fulfil, and for the sake of which they came to this earth as spiritual servants sent forth
They are helped even though it is most often to be expected that a great part of the people thus graciously led by the animistic weavers will in the end evidently not fulfil their mission entirely as fully as they could
Yet from the Light help is still extended to them through the patient labour of the animistic forces, because these servants were called to help
Thus everywhere around many people hands are constantly stretched out in help
Why then will people not see in all this the glimmerings of that great co-operation which should long since have prevailed far more consciously between the spiritual and the animistic on this earth
The animistic servants joyfully fulfil all that is appointed to them by the Will of God, in spite of men who, although they have some spiritual task here, often go through life thoughtlessly and in their irresponsible ways of acting create for the animistic servants many an obstacle to shielding them from threatening consequences and thereby keeping them in order for the time of their possible inner awakening and their subsequent entering into the service of the Light
If only a more conscious co-operation could prevail in this, then many things could become far more effective in another, much more valuable joint working than is the case with the protection of the inwardly still slumbering people who go astray, although they have here yet some other task than the living of life purely for the purpose of their own spiritual ripening
The animistic ones stand readily prepared for this co-operation
Their help is at hand everywhere where a man who came to earth with some task is to be shielded from the dangers and hardships in this world
It could even be near a man lastingly and without cease, if only he worked rightly in it through his inner attunement
Something of this kind is in reality given to man as a natural state, for from the beginning of their wandering on the path of spiritual development the young spiritual sparks were, at the bidding of the Creator, surrounded by helpers who were always to lead them through all happenings in such a way that, maintaining inner purity, they could emerge from everything as victors, thus ever endowed with precious experiences of the benevolent help granted them through the intermediaries sent to them by God
There is not a single happening in the whole of Subsequent Creation which takes place without the co-operation of the animistic servants
The animistic ones are sent out to this task of helping the human spirits from the regions of Valhalla, or also from the somewhat lower-lying planes of the luminous lands of their starting-point in Asgard
There, in a certain sense, is the birthplace and the origin of the animistic servants, who thereafter penetrate into all parts of the lower-lying planes of the materialities
The materialities are for the greatest part of them the field of their activity
The call from the heights of the Grail led these faithful helpers to the realising of the Will of God in the remote worlds of Subsequent Creation
Therefore men also, as spiritual sparks developing in Subsequent Creation, are well acquainted with the existence of these servants
At the beginning of their path they were permitted to know and to experience it in pure comprehension
It therefore lies deep within the inner being of every man
It resounds like the distant ringing of great tales, of fairy stories and legends
But it was not given to man that he should experience it thus as something distant and past, but that it should become the complete naturalness of every day
It was given as part of the knowledge that around the human spirit and its coverings there is always a great multitude of these helpers bearing an animistic origin within themselves
It is therefore a great challenge that this should become for earthmen here on earth something known and also lastingly experienced
The dividing chasm which the materially directed work of the intellect has created in this needs to be closed
Then the awareness of the all-pervading activity of the great, the lesser and the very smallest animistic servants of Valhalla will become the most natural part of the daily life of earthmen
Now is the time when the trench formed by the intellect is to be levelled, so that the two parts which always go side by side, the spiritual and the animistic on earth, may find cause for close accord, as it should always have been
Therefore the speaking of the animistic weaving is also an inseparable part of the coming great spiritual enlightenment on earth
In order that they may bear witness of it to others who in this will still be seekers, all those who go even a little in advance are to become fully experiencing of the nearness of the animistic servants everywhere about them
From this too there will arise for them many an unsuspected helping experience
There is therefore no reason to hesitate in it any longer
Around men there work unceasingly the weavers of the threads, the Vaenen and the Alphar
They weave the vibrations of volition which through the law of movement are continually born in man on all the planes of his coverings
Intuitive perceptions, feelings, thoughts, deeds
There is nothing that remains hidden from them
They know the human inner being better than most earthmen influenced by the material intellect know it in themselves
With great longing these weavers look towards the time when they will be able to take up in man predominantly only that which is pure and filled with a fervent striving to attain maturity and wisdom
People ought to know of their work, for out of their weaving the happenings in the materialities take shape
They are those who make a man's life either heavy, or light, or at least more bearable, if he strives to learn from his faults and shortcomings
Without them there would be no happenings entering into human life
In this they work together with all the other animistic servants who have charge of the living world which men call nature, matter, the universe
It is a perfect loom in which arises all that, as forms destined for the human world, is connected with this gross materiality
People have no inkling how greatly they are interwoven with the animistic species, through the particles of the unconsciously animistic which are present as the animating radiation of their bodies
And there are also the small and the greater Aglami
The Aglami stand ready everywhere around inwardly more luminous people to help in the most ordinary trifles of every day
Just as of the Aglami, so too do people know nothing more precise of the Alphar and of their important activity in the present time
Of the important task of these servants more detailed connections have been written in separate texts on the Way of the Grail
The Alphar hold in readiness many a thread of help in the weaving of the small events in the lives of those people who long to live purely and who in their consciousness seek the connection with the Ray of Parzival
Everything is prepared, and it is only awaited when the perceiving of earthmen will move forward
The pressure which is driven forward by the nearness of the Ray of Parzival also increases in this, for it is no longer possible to delay in it any longer
There is demanded of those who have more awareness of the work of the animistic servants a trust in the just working of the Laws of God, which are present in their activity in every place
Only now are those great happenings drawing near in fine vibrations, which will only then be able to enter into the material world as a part of it, so surprising to the rigid thinking of the people of today
All those small and great servants of God work with such exactitude that never can injustice be found in their fulfilling
This therefore gives certainty to everyone who strives always to act justly and purely towards the surrounding world, that is towards other people and towards nature, that he himself will receive exactly the same kind of treatment from all the servants of Valhalla
Already in this realisation lies the knowledge of the great help which is near to every man earnestly striving towards the Light
Only there, where for some reason the returning threads of fate or a man's deviation into moodiness can still permit a breach in the protection held by the animistic servants, can something then happen which appears to people as a confirmation that such a thing as protection from the Light over man is not fulfilled
Yet the cause of this is always and solely man himself
The hands of the servants would surely have guarded him carefully, if the radiation lying in the threads of fate had permitted it
It should at last be rightly understood that it is precisely that unsuspectedly delicate livingness of the threads which in the experiences of men so often creates a distrust of the Justice of God
This Justice is always and everywhere present
Through its working it plainly confirms only this, that the present earthly perceiving of men is marked by an insufficiency in accepting the fact that everything in Creation is at every moment a supremely living happening, in which the lasting protection of man rests solely upon his own constancy in the pure striving for good
Precisely in this much is still neglected and underestimated on the part of earthmen
Simply put – people content themselves with only a very small effort to be good
It suffices them that in comparison with the people around them they may for a time consider themselves better than others, upon whom they look as those who err more
Although this is often only the work of an intellectual judgment about others and not the fruit of pure intuitive perceiving, it already quickly creates in such people the impression that from the Justice of God they deserve only the very best treatment, and that therefore nothing should befall them of what they regard as unpleasantness
But the Laws of God do not work in this way at all, for they weave the present and all the experiencing that takes place in it as the resultant of the very finest kinds of radiation
All that the hands of the weavers weave for the moments of a man's earthly experiencing can be regarded only as the most kindly guidance from the standpoint of the higher spiritual goal, which bears within itself the inexpressible value of the promise of eternal being in the Light
Of all this people should always think when they suppose that from the side of their life's fate seemingly only unjust things befall them
Injustice may perhaps still come temporarily from the side of men, through their wrongly used free will
But on the part of the animistic servants we shall never and nowhere find even a single particle of injustice
Therefore all that happens to a man striving towards the Light may be regarded as manifestations of help and of strengthening on his path, as a great message from the small and the great animistic servants of Valhalla
It can always be called only the fulfilling of the Just working of the Laws of God
Every man could be surrounded surprisingly quickly by the protection of the helping radiation from the animistic servants
In this radiation, which is nothing other than the determining radiation of the Laws of God in Creation, there would at once be found help for the bettering of everything that still needs to be lived through and laid aside
The condition for this, however, is constancy and a certain humble patience on the part of the inwardly awakened man
Impatience and discontent corrode this protection, and it would have to dissolve again, even though it had perhaps already begun to form around the man, and into his experiencing everything would come at last in manifestations of a heavier kind of living through
Earthman, without being aware of it, is lastingly borne by a streaming radiation of the animistic kind, out of whose vibrations there step forth the outwardly visible and tangible forms which constitute the surroundings for the life of every man
It is a great task to come to know the meaning and the lawfulness of the forming of this streaming radiation of the animistic servants, to penetrate into the fine threads of its shaping, and thereby to become a knower of all that of necessity comes into this world of men
At the first glance, as also in a lifetime of coming to know, there will always come to man in the end one simple and right conclusion
This conclusion will always bear witness to an indisputable result
Solely the measure of the liveliness of the spirit, which with its strength and purity fills the volition for good, is the key to everything that thereafter befalls a man on his path through life
All the rest can be called only small fragments of partial knowledge, out of which here on earth over millennia there arose the philosophical reflections of men about life which endure to this day
Fragments and particles of the great and yet simple Truth coming to men directly from the Creator are held to be great knowledge about life
Yet the Truth is attainable
The Truth will always speak of this, that the beginning of the path to the liberation of the human spirit lies in his volition for good
The measure of the volition for good, or on the contrary the volition for something not good, lawfully influences every single human destiny
Out of volition there were also born many threads of the past, which press upon man either in his very present or which will lawfully still come in a future time, and the release from them lies in the pure striving of the spirit for all-embracing good
Therefore it is needful for everyone to come to know that work of the animistic servants whose very task is all the releasing of the threads flowing out of volition, for this will bring every earnest investigator only to the confirmation of the perfect Wisdom and Justice of God resting therein, and that down to the smallest particle of every experience
Everything must be repaid and balanced to the last farthing
And this repayment lies in the atonement and the living-out which can begin with the entering upon the path of all-embracing good in man
It needs to be a lived condition of lasting attunement in every moment of being
Let no one therefore deceive himself with superficiality and the suppositions arising from it that it perhaps suffices to be here and there somewhat better than others
Any lukewarmness is taken up and incorruptibly spun by the weavers into new threads of a man's fate
For the entering upon the right direction, therefore, only the living of pure fervour in every moment avails
And that also where people often have no wish for it, because it demands of them a self-conquest for new attitudes towards their fellow-men
If, however, a man achieves something of this kind, then there will also gradually die away in him the condemning criticism of others which is so all-pervading today
Together with this, however, there will awaken a higher receptivity for compassion, and thereby also for the seeking of wise help for all who seek help in the striving for their own change
Whoever passes through this transformation within himself, around him there will at once begin to form a protective circle out of the radiation of the animistic servants, who were sent to him as supporters on his path to the Light
Thereby everything around the man will gradually change for the better
If this does not happen, then his own change needs to be still more marked and more fervently experienced
Then in the end everything will turn to a good result
Under the working power of the Ray of Parzival a man who honestly strives for the change of himself for the better may regard it as fulfilled in advance
As he intuitively perceives, thinks and acts today, exactly so will the threads of his fate be woven, so that already in the near time they may become for him a lived present