BEHIND EVERYTHING STANDS the Will of God, moving and sustaining!

On this side, in the gross matter of this earth, we see everywhere only the ramifications, the final effects of this Eternal Will, Which finds expression in His immutable Laws.

For the human spirit it is now particularly stimulating and gladdening to be able to investigate and divine the deeper meaning of outward happenings and events; for that which is real lies beyond earthly comprehension, and can be grasped only with the spiritual faculties.

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       The essays that follow are dealt with from the spiritual viewpoint, and are intended as a stimulus for contemplation on those things which cannot be perceived with our five senses, but only with the intuitive perception of the spirit. May these essays encourage deep reflection, above all about ourselves, without our falling at the same time into unhealthy pondering.

Then a gate may suddenly open that until now had remained closed, behind which emerges an ever brighter path that can lead unswervingly out of many oppressing errors, doubts, and afflictions: Upwards to the Light!

Herbert Vollmann