THERE ARE TWO MAIN kinds of life in the whole of Creation: unconscious and conscious life.

Only through experiencing can the unconscious state be transformed into a conscious one. So is it also with the human spirit.

When it leaves its point of origin, mankind’s Paradise, it is a spiritgerm which as yet has no consciousness of its own, and solely under the urge of becoming conscious, sinks down into the Worlds of Matter in order first of all as a spirit-germ to experience consciousness of its existence.

The further development from consciousness of existence to being conscious of oneself, with the rising degrees of becoming conscious of oneself, is a long journey with many reembodiments (reincarnations) in human bodies.

For this the stage of consciousness of existence as transition is of course absolutely necessary, but the spirit-germ may remain there only a certain time if it does not wish to lag behind in its development, and thus in a state similar to that still to be found among some primitive tribes.

The full maturity of a human spirit is equivalent to consciousness of oneself, the basis of which is self-recognition, that the core of man is spiritual and that his true home lies in the Spiritual Realm.

The completion of this last great stage of development should have been reached today by all human beings sojourning in the World of Matter, because the time for this is fulfilled, according to the Laws of Creation.

At the same time, with the full maturity that can grow only out of experiencing, men would have come into possession of the true knowledge that lies only in the cognizance, without gaps, of the Laws woven into Creation by God.