The Coming New Year Offers a Great Opportunity For Ascent

THE WAY OF THE GRAIL – SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS – December 31, 2023

Czech original: Přicházející Nový Rok Poskytuje Velikou Příležitost Ke Vzestupu · cesta-gralu.cz

Everything that the year now departing has held within it has become unchangeably inscribed in the threads of fate of mankind and of all individual people

Every day, every hour, and every single movement in the individual moment which but a while ago was the present, have already become something past, and thereby unchangeable in retrospect for the human spirit

However much men no longer remember the content of all the days of the year that is now moving into the past, everything down to the smallest shade of radiation is nevertheless recorded by the hands of the weavers, so that it may bear witness before the Judge of what each one is

Many people have already forgotten all that took place in their conduct and in their thinking in the individual days and hours, even if it is only a few months back

It comes of this, that for the most part men are so strongly overwhelmed by further new events that they do not perceive them as they should, that is with their spirit, so that it might find in all this the way to the fullness of peace and to harmony

Alas it is so, the people of the present time hardly experience the moment of the present in spiritual consciousness any longer

Every event now unfolding quickly covers over the past one, which has thus become for the perception of the majority something long ago

Thus it rolls over mankind, and no one recognises in it the fulfilling happening of the announced Judgment upon mankind

Those who hold themselves to be more knowing wait meanwhile still for the coming of yet more visible happenings, because they too are swept along by the lukewarmness of the majority and therefore suppose that something further, far greater, must yet come, so that for them too it would be a clear sign that the long-announced Judgment upon mankind is really here

In connection with the foretold turning point of the ages there are, according to the prophets, to come unquestionable signs which will leave no one among men in doubt

No one, however, wishes to recognise that precisely those awaited, prophesied happenings, which will reveal God's nearness above this small world of men, will come only at the very close, when for the hesitating it will already be far too late to change anything in themselves

Only at the close will there come that which will reveal to all unbelievers how greatly they were mistaken when they passed over with superficial rejection everything that had taken place before

The close of that Judgment is only now drawing near, and it will bring truly powerful happenings, visible to all men, on the earth and in the heavens

It will therefore be a confirmation that here on earth too mankind has already been sorted by the Just Judgment of God into those who are granted grace by the Light and those others who will belong to those foolish virgins who missed the bridegroom

But all this is yet to come

Yet already today it can be recognisable for every more receptive human being how many unexpected events are pressing towards the earth from every side

And so today too the events of the past year appear to most people only as though in a mist, for daily there roll along ever new forms of the outward world with all that is contained in them for the human spirits on earth

Forms which but a few moments ago were alive and in their unexpectedness appeared as unbelievable events are already swiftly receding, in order to make room for new forms, woven by the Alphar out of human volition and rushing towards this gross material world

The ending year is already almost past, and everything in it that became the present in the hour of ripeness for gross materially visible happening is already unchangeable

Nothing of it can be brought back

Nevertheless everything contained in it bears within it much that is important for the human spirit, for in all those moments his spiritual inner being was always permitted to vibrate in some kind of attunement

A pure, receiving attunement of the inner being, which makes it possible to share in the experiencing of the joys and the sorrows of one's fellow men to which many are exposed, is the path marked out by God for the ripening of the human spirit

In all sharing of experience the wish, and thus the thoughts as well, are always to be held to a pure outcome and to the hope of a liberating influx of the Light upon the earth for all men

This wish, led along the courses of pure thoughts, also forms those helping ways for the working of the Light in its victorious overcoming of all that is base and not good

Thereby already the foundation is formed for the building of a new world of men in a knowing finding of the further development of events

It is the living happening of the founding of a new realm of peace and calm among men on earth

That is what is also the most important thing for the fate of men, what issues out of all their living on earth as the resultant for the Judgment of God upon every human being

Man need not personally experience much of what may be taking place among other people on earth

Nor is it possible for all men to be enabled to experience it all directly

Life on earth is not fashioned for that, and this small planet would not bear so much experiencing as would have to discharge itself all at once for every human being personally

That is why the ability to share in the experiencing of one's fellow men in events which take place, for example, on the opposite continents is so very important for the individual human spirit

Everything that happens and that is also permitted to reach man in some form is surely meant to call forth in him, in his spiritual liveliness, the ability of right fellow-feeling

In this alone many opportunities for redemption are made ready for him, if he is able rightly to share in the experiencing of everything in connection with the knowledge of the Truth, provided the grace of recognising the Truth has been granted to him

That is a great art, which is to be bound up with the real spiritual work of a human spirit who is knowing

The ability of right intuitive perception in the sense of a knowing recognition of all the Laws of Creation, and in the knowledge of the Justice of God and of the Love of God, and also in a right recognition of the work of the animistic servants, that is the art which he who longs to belong to the people granted grace by the Light is to wield briskly and untiringly through his intuitive perception

The sharing of experience through intuitive perception is the art of a spirit that bears within it its inner spark, radiating strongly and brightly up to the degree of a leaping flame of an all-embracing vibrating in accord with the Ray of Parzival

It is not, however, to be a condemning of other people or an occupying oneself with what they once did, in searching out why this or that happens to them, but it is to be a fervent longing that, along with the knowledge of the Truth, there may come as a help more mutual willingness towards one another, and also meaningful help to those people who are in need of it

The great knowledge of the Truth was not granted to the human spirit so that he should make himself a judge of his fellow men, in the sense of wishing them something that is to show itself in them as pain or suffering for their conduct

Nor is it ever to be hidden behind lofty talk of God's retribution upon people who walk wrongly

If in such reflections and talk there is but a flicker of a glowing unlovely wish of the soul, then in its manifestation it always works at once as a misuse of the living power of God bestowed upon man for further forming through his intuitive perception

Something of that sort is also a misuse of the preciousness of the knowledge of the Word of Truth, if in doing so a man exalts himself as seemingly knowing above the rest

Every such disposition goes against the ordering of the great harmony of the work of Creation, of which the human spirit is by his very being a part

Therefore it must carry further only a continuation of demolishing and destroying, instead of upbuilding and liberating enlightenment

There is also always hidden in it a certain smallness of one's own, which shows itself whenever a man wishes something unlovely upon other people and has a feeling of satisfaction

All this goes against God's intention of a solely beneficent development in the work of Creation

Therefore a great warning also descends to those people who hold in their hands the knowledge of the Truth out of the Ray of Parzival, that those who count themselves among His hosts should do such a thing no more, for in this way, despite the knowledge they have gained, they work only further for destruction and for new ruins

People who bear within them a livingly burning spirit are at last to free themselves from these unlovely inward impulses

The leading power for them in this is to be solely and only a genuine intuitive perception filled with the willingness to help wherever pain and distress prevail

In this sense knowing people who have let the knowledge of the Truth penetrate into their spirit should be among the first who are in a certain sense the new, true Christians, confessing the Son of God Jesus in the purest manner of humanity

In this too all will at last have to stand the test, however much they think today that it will pass them by and that in their hidden manner of living they will remain invisible to the outward world

Everything, however, is to be otherwise

In the giving of genuine, helping, pure mercy lies the furnishing of the proof of one's understanding of the Word of Truth

Whoever exalts himself above this and supposes that it is not for him does not vibrate in harmony with the Will of God, however much he may suppose it of himself a thousand times over

In reality all those who exalt themselves above the rest of mankind from the standpoint of their knowledge, holding themselves to be co-judges in God's Judgment, show that they do not know what to do with the knowledge of the Truth

They act like fools into whose hands there has come the manual for operating a mighty machine, which according to the manner of its use calls forth either great blessing or, on the contrary, dreadful ruin

Through their long trifling with the immeasurably precious, life-giving knowledge of the Word of Truth, to which, however, they never wished to give of themselves a portion of the spiritual vibration of their inner being, they appear to the Light rather as an obstacle to true co-operation in this time here on earth than as purified human grain destined by the Light to spring up in the new age on earth

The beginning of a real sounding in harmony with the Light lies in a human spirit who is already truly mature for vibrating in a great service reaching beyond the bounds of his own self

In the pure and fervent attunement of pure intuitive perception such a spirit is to assert itself in creative, noble thoughts, but also in deeds through which he can mediate to his fellow men on earth visible helps of a purely earthly or of a higher spiritual kind

Of forms and ways for such helping there are always countless numbers on earth for everyone, if only anyone will it

With the ability of a wakeful inward sharing of experience with other people everything is thereby only just beginning

If man really willed it, he would also gradually recall everything he experienced in the year 2023 in its whole flow, and would revive within himself all that he lived through in every single minute of the near and of the distant days

He would recognise in it in how many places he stood rightly as a humanly spiritual inhabitant of the work of Creation, and where, on the contrary, his spiritual attunement was being lost

Through the fact that everything was lived through in the past year, it has already become unchangeable

The only thing of it that still has worth, apart from the changes imprinted visibly and invisibly into matter, is the experiencing of the spirit

The experiencing of the spirit is that which is to be regarded as the most precious possession for every spirit, which he carries away with him from this earthly life

In fact it is only for the sake of this experiencing that men are on earth, that is why they live their lives here with other people

Worth is given to his life solely and only by man himself, through the measure of his experiencing, which moves him further on his path

It should therefore be something that leads man to joyful rejoicing, if he now looks back and may perceive that his spirit experienced more joy out of its harmony with the Harmony of Creation than when in his groping he was losing himself and stumbling, not knowing in that moment what was taking place within him

Blessed are those who may look back in this way and behold that out of the bestowed content of the past year they carry much blessing for their spirit, which strove towards good and to which it was thereby given to sound in harmony with the Will of the Light

But those who in looking back must see themselves standing with half-empty hands, let them not lament and not grieve over what has already been missed

Here new opportunities are drawing near to them, calling for a yet more genuine spiritual briskness

Together with the advancing Judgment there also comes at the same time a wisely guided enlightenment, which is to draw near to an ever greater number of people on earth

The enlightenment is a sign of the ebbing away of that age of darkness in which the greater part of all doing on earth belonged to Lucifer's henchmen

This age, however much it may not yet seem so to many a person today, is flowing away like sludge losing itself in the distance in the renewed current of a stream that has hitherto been held back

The stream of Life which brings refreshment is set in motion again by the power of the nearness of the Ray of Parzival

And in this new flowing, in which everything becomes luminous in the radiance of enlightenment, everyone who is inwardly ready for it can now take part

It may be called an enlightenment which, in the reborn, purified spirit of the knowledge of the Truth, will one day be named the age of the Gospel of the Grail

The age of the Gospel is in its essence the age of a true and pure apostleship of those who long to take part in the proclaiming of the Truth on earth

Such people need, in their readiness, to be filled together with a living power in their spirit also with kindliness, patience and conciliatoriness

In this they now need, with a multiplied effort, to surpass all that was beautiful and living in the working of the first Christians

In the spirit of the followers of Christ these new proclaimers of the Gospel of the Grail are to unite and to support one another in their thoughts of the coming age of the great enlightenment of mankind

It is therefore not merely a speaking about the work of the Grail Message among men, but it means a sounding in harmony with all the helps that can come to every human spirit who lives in a pure enthusiasm for trust in the Wisdom of God's guidance in all the moments of the day

It is enthusiasm and trust, welling up out of an unshakeable conviction in the victory of Goodness and of the Light in all the happening on this earth, that is now to come about

The footprints of this path were once already impressed into the world of gross materiality here by those very first Christians already mentioned

All this is now to be raised far higher still, for it is solely and precisely to this that the knowledge of the Truth is to help

Above this earth there is a strong clamour in the animistic doing, and everything trembles, like an accelerating mighty current of waters rushing down from the heights to the lowlands

That is what the coming happening on this earth holds within it for all men

To those who will be spared many of the impacts of the approaching forms of events it is to bring a still greater strengthening of the ability of fellow-feeling with those who may be struck by them

In this attunement, therefore, let everyone who longs to stand rightly enter into the coming, unique radiation of the new year which for the earthly world bears the date 2024

For the animistic servants, however, it is nothing other than a new fulfilling of the promises, to which they are called by Parzival, standing among all the servants of the Light who radiate into the far distances

He and all His faithful will now once again draw still nearer to the earth

What this will call forth need not be taken by knowing people as a ground for questions, but only as a luminous call to the wakeful readiness of their spirit

The coming year will bring everyone many opportunities to apply his abilities of intuitive perception in the sharing of experience and in helping

Thereby this year will also bring much blessing flowing from it for the spiritual ascent of all who stand the test

May the number of such people be as great as possible