In providing answers to the questions below, we thought it best to allow the Grail Message to speak for itself. Clearly, on a medium like this, we cannot provide everything that the Grail Message says about each question, neither do we wish nor intend to do so. For each question, therefore, we have simply provided a set of sample excerpts we consider to be relevant from the Grail Message. We call the attention of the reader to this fact and re-emphasize that what is provided here is only an excerpt and not the entire answer, which the reader must build for himself or herself from the Grail Message.

The Grail Message must be examined in its entirety! The individual must complete the answer to each question for himself or herself by examining the Grail Message. It is only through such an examination that the different pieces of the picture can be put together into a complete picture. In this regard, the Author of the Grail Message says encouragingly:

"...I have given you my Message, which contains everything.... It does not allow itself to be taken up lazily as something standing there complete, but upon each of your questions you must exert yourselves to extract from it and put together that which will form the perfect picture."



Thus The Author recommends that the lectures of the Grail Message be read in sequence, and not picked out individually, seeking to judge the Work in this way. The knowledge of the Grail Message cannot be grasped by simply glancing through it.

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Why the Grail Message?

What is Death?

What is Spirit?

What is Reincarnation, Fate or Karma? How are they linked?

Is a New-Born Child Innocent?

What is the Primary Purpose of Procreation?


Why The Grail Message?

The whole of Creation is the Language of God, which you should earnestly strive to read, and which is by no means as difficult as you may think.


You earthmen are in this Creation to find supreme happiness! In the Living Language which God speaks to you! And to understand this Language, to learn it, and to sense inwardly the Will of God in it, that is your goal during your journey through Creation. In Creation itself, to which you belong, lies the explanation of the purpose of your existence, and at the same time also the recognition of your goal! In no other way can you find either.

This demands of you that you live Creation. But you are only able to live or experience it when you really know it.

With my Message I now open the Book of Creation for you! The Message clearly shows you the Language of God in Creation, which you must learn to understand so that you can make it completely your own.

Abd-ru-shin
(From the lecture "The Language of the Lord" Volume I)


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What is Death?

"… the soul must sever itself from a body which has been forcibly destroyed, or from one ruined by disease or weakened by old age, at the very moment when this body, owing to its changed condition, can no longer produce that strength of radiation which brings about such a magnetic attraction-power as is necessary to contribute its share in the firm union between soul and body! This results in earthly death, or the falling back, the falling away of the gross material body from the ethereal covering of the spirit, thus in separation. A process which takes place, in accordance with firmly-established Laws, between two species which only unite at an exactly corresponding degree of heat through the radiation simultaneously produced, but which can never blend, and which fall apart again when one of the two different species can no longer fulfill the condition laid upon it."

From the Lecture "The Name",
In The Light of Truth, The Grail Message. Volume III, Lecture 23

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What is spirit?

"Spirit is not wit, and not intellect! Nor is spirit acquired knowledge. It is erroneous, therefore to call a person 'rich in spirit' because he has studied, read and observed much and knows how to converse well about it. Or because his brilliance expresses itself through original ideas and intellectual wit.

Spirit is something entirely different. It is an independent consistency, coming from the world of its homogeneous species, which is different from the part to which the earth and thus the physical body belong. The spiritual world lies higher, it forms the upper and lightest part of Creation.…

Spirit has nothing to do with the earthly intellect, only with the quality that is described as 'deep inner feeling' ('Gemuet' in German). To be rich in spirit, therefore, is the same as 'having deep inner feelings' ('gemuetvoll' in German), but not the same as being highly intellectual."

From the lecture "Once Upon a Time...!",
In The Light of Truth, The Grail Message. Volume I, Lecture 19

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What is Reincarnation? What is Fate or Karma? How are they Linked?


 On reincarnation and fate
"… one of the principal mistakes so many people make is that they only judge according to gross matter, regarding themselves as the centre therein, and taking into consideration one earth-life, whereas in reality they already have several earth-lives behind them. These, as well as the intervening times in the Ethereal World, are equal to one uniform existence, through which the threads are tightly stretched without breaking, so that in the effects of a particular earthly existence only a small part of these threads therefore become visible." ….

From the Lecture "Fate",
In The Light of Truth, The Grail Message. Volume II, Lecture 2

[To provide some clarification, we add that by "thread" is meant an actual "karmic thread" or "thread of fate" binding the individual to the fruits of his or her thoughts, words and actions. Detailed explanations of this are also contained in the Grail Message.]



On karma or fate
"Now if a person has cultivated within himself an honest good volition, it follows that also the layer surrounding him will be of a like nature. Returning reciprocal actions of an evil nature, dating from former times, are now held up by this layer opposing them, and diverted or absorbed and disintegrated before they are able to strike the person himself; they are thus either completely eliminated or at least considerably weakened, so that through his earnest good volition he has thereby received forgiveness for the former evil."

(From the Lecture "Symbolism in the fate of man",
In The Light of Truth, The Grail Message. Volume II, Lecture 27)

…. Continuing elsewhere, the Grail Message adds:
"Through the continuing good volition in every thought and deed, a constant reinforcement also flows retroactively from the homogeneous source of power, so that the good becomes more and more firmly established in man himself, emerges from him, and first of all forms accordingly the ethereal surrounding that envelops him like a protective covering in much the same way as the atmospheric layer round the earth affords it protection.

"Now when evil reactions from the past return to this man to be redeemed, they slide off the purity of his surrounding or covering, and are thus deflected from him.

"But should they nevertheless penetrate this covering, the evil radiations are either immediately disintegrated or at least appreciably weakened so that the harmful effect cannot manifest at all, or only to a very minor extent." …..

 

(From the Lecture "Fate",
In The Light of Truth, The Grail Message. Volume II, Lecture 2

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Is a New-Born Child Innocent?

"But one of the principal mistakes so many people make is that they only judge according to gross matter, regarding themselves as the centre therein, and taking into consideration one earth-life, whereas in reality they already have several earth-lives behind them. These, as well as the intervening times in the Ethereal World, are equal to one uniform existence, through which the threads are tightly stretched without breaking, so that in the effects of a particular earthly existence only a small part of these threads therefore become visible.

"Hence it is a great mistake to believe that at birth an absolutely new life begins, that a child is thus 'innocent,' and that all happenings can be accounted for in only the short life on earth. If this were true, then the existing justice would naturally require the combined causes, effects and reactions to take place within the span of one earth-life.

"Turn away from this error. You will then soon discover in everything that happens the logic and justice which at present are so often missed!"

From the Lecture "Fate"
In The Light of Truth, The Grail Message. Volume II, Lecture 2


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What is the Primary Purpose of Procreation?

"For spiritually free human beings procreation should be nothing but the proof of their willingness to take a strange human spirit into the family as a permanent guest, offering it the opportunity on earth to atone and to mature! Only when both sides have the fervent wish to achieve this purpose should the opportunity for procreation be sought!"

"The claim of children on their parents"
In The Light of Truth, The Grail Message, Vol II. Lecture 18

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