Our lessons for you

21 • KNOWLEDGE imposes the responsibilities (!) on you to understand FREEDOM to be the one thing, namely the thing that enables you to live in harmony with natural LAWS and to help others to achieve the same results. There is another aspect to this I would like to touch upon: The child . Your world is burdened with a great responsibility, because it allows that young, inexperienced minds are filled with doctrines that are untrue and this at an age where the children are still unable to reject such things. Distorted images are impressed on their minds that prevent their natural unfoldment. Their minds are forced to close where they should be open and receptive instead. The result of this is that children will suffer from the damage done in later years. • When man reaches maturity, his outlook is clouded by the false doctrines received as a child. This leads to erroneous adjudications that prevent the TRUTH from being recognised! 6.1 Questions and answers Question : Would it be possible for this mankind to exist without any kind of BELIEF in a GOD? AREDOS : An individual life without GOD is impossible . – The proof lies in wars, in intolerance and in destruction. The result would be the worldwide enslavement of all of mankind. Even if this humanity were in direct alliance with GOD, all of these things would still be possible. Question : According to our opinion there exists a whole series of people with an evil intellect that stops them from comprehending the divine TRUTHS. What does their situation look like? ELIAS : They all live in a millennium where their intellect has to be developed to such a degree that they must be able to comprehend what objective TRUTH is all about. We are dealing with nonconformity out of spite here. – But their environment can also suppress their willingness. This would be excusable. Question : Is there a specific reason for this non-conformity? ELIAS : The art of applying positive thought processes is forcefully suppressed in most individuals. Question : The word “spiritualization” is used in connection with the higher TRUTH. What meaning does this word have for you? ELIAS : It is part and parcel of esoteric thought. – We are dealing with the attainment of a spiritual level of development from whence one can contemplate and assess spiritual VALUES better . Spiritualization represents the starting-point to a higher level. When there is no spiritualization present, man finds himself in spiritual darkness; he is unable to assess things correctly. Question : Why is it that most people have the wrong ideas about spiritualism, this connection to