World of harmony

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All of us people of the world have lost the balance and harmony between different elements of our lives. In my life i have made it a goal to try to discover how to live in an original, that is harmonious way.

Some examples are needed to make clear what i mean. When people produce goods in a minimum of time and the manufacturers have no feeling anymore for what they make, then such products can be sold cheap but the whole process is not one of harmony between different aspects of life. There is little or no love in the things that are made. The products therefore don’t have much original value and can hardly contribute to a meaningful life.

Some people in this world get very rich. Many others are dying from hunger each day. How can rich people be happy with their money, knowing about the unequal distribution of food and property all over the world? God created all people together as one large family under God. How can some people think to become happy if other people are suffering? It doesn’t help if such rich people are spending much money for charities. That may temporarily ease their conscience, but it doesn't help to find a real solution.

Some people have much power, while others have nothing to say. Those with much power often do not excel in wisdom and love. There is a imbalance of power in the world. There is imbalance everywhere, in every aspect of life.

Farmers drive over their land with huge machines. In countries like America, farmers cannot anymore make ends meet if they have fewer than 250 acres of land. Those 250 acres are usually not at all taken well care of. Many farmers are daily destroying the nature from which they also want to get profit. Those farmers who can still financially make it must work many boring hours each day, driving in big machines over their land without having much relation to the world of nature around them.

It is my conviction that all problems of human society can only be solved if we are able to find out how to live in good harmony. First of all, we must learn to live in harmony with God Who created us. We also must learn to live in good harmony with the world of creation, the animals, the plants and the earth. We also must learn to live in good harmony with the world of angels and with our many ancestors who are living in spirit world. We have to learn to live in good harmony with the members of our own family, and we must learn to have good relations to all people whom we meet. We must learn to understand that the value of physical things is very much determined by the good love that was put into those things.

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Sometimes people ask me why i spend so much time with working on the land, growing vegetables, milking the goats, etc. In financial terms this hardly brings good profit.

Let me try to give you an example from my own recent life to explain you what i mean. I have been cultivating land my whole life. Usually i worked in smaller gardens. Since some years i have been growing crops on almost 15 acres of land. Ask yourself some simple questions.

If a farmer wants to make enough money for his living, how little time can he spend for really taking care of his land? How quick should his machines do the work for him? How much love could a farmer put into a field of many acres of grain? How much good energy? If the farmer did not put enough love and energy into a field of cabbage, is he not failing in relation to the people who eat his food? Is the farmer not harming his customers by selling products with residues of herbicides and sinning toward his own descendants if he destroys the land by putting poison into it?

There are so many questions to be answered and i feel that my own life is just one big experiment, but an experiment as serious as life and death, to find out how to do it right.

Can we be happy if we are not growing our own food for our own children? Would you allow your children to grow up in the love of anything less than your own good parental love? Our food that we have grown ourselves is full with good love and good energy. Our children develop from this. It is and should be a big question to all parents how they can give enough good love and good energy to their own children. Growing your own food is just one terrific way of investing your own parental love in your own children.

In my experimenting with all this and trying to find a better way, i have put away the bigger machines and began using smaller ones. Sometimes i also put away the smaller machines to employ hand tools to cultivate the land. And often i am inclined to take a smaller hand tool instead of a bigger one. All this comes from my desire to put as much as possible good love and energy into the work that i am doing. When i race over the land with a big tractor, it is rather difficult to put my mind on bringing good love and energy into the earth. I am not saying that it is impossible, but it is much more difficult. I like it very much to have my hands move through the soil. It is the best and most direct way to put love and energy into the soil. But i think it is not wrong to use machines as well. It is a matter of what the earth needs.

If money dictates that you use big machines, then that surely cannot be right. Money means creation. In our world, does money still really have any meaningful relation to the original world of creation made by God? I believe that there is not much relation left.

In the original world, God created love. Out of God’s love, there came energy in a certain form. There came about certain creations made by God. Beautiful creations, full with God’s love and full of life. Even the so-called dead creation, stones and sand and water, were all filled with God’s love and God’s life. A stone or a piece of land or a certain plant derived its value from the love and energy that God had put into it. There was no contradiction, no discrepancy between God’s love and efforts and the singular creation.

But how is it in today’s world? Worldly money has little anymore to do with love put into it. Things of creation get less and less value. And if we are living surrounded by such things, by a world void of love and life, then we can only feel that our life has no meaning anymore.

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In these days i have been working to make a connection between the energy of our house and of wild nature to the gardens. God’s love and energy that is present in nature, and that is flowing from our own house into the land, must come into the plants. Instead of destroying God’s love and energy in nature, we are trying to make it flow and thrive.

We are experiencing many smaller and bigger miracles. Some days ago, God sent big lightning over our land. Three times massive lightning exploded above us and loads of cleansing energy were put into our land. Our beds in the greenhouse were shaking for several minutes while God cleansed the land from the bad energies of past mistreatment. That is how it felt to me.

When i plant a tree or a seed, i put it in a flow of already existing energy. It is necessary to know and feel where those energy channels are running in the earth. And it is necessary to consciously connect the tree or the seed with that flow of energy. Otherwise it doesn’t work. You have to make a conscious action if you want such things to work. One cannot just plant trees or sow seeds. Each plant and seed must be put into the soil with awareness. Then there are made new creations, new creations of seeds and plants but actually love and energy growing in our beautiful earth.

There are so many great things to discover in God’s world. A few days ago i had the inspiration to make an extract of the leaves of three different plants, plants that grow in my garden, nothing so special i thought. I took three drops from this extract and a shock went through my body. For several hours, my ability to see the auras of energy radiated by all beings and things was enhanced extremely. Without making any effort i could see the auras of each plant and each person.

We are not at all finished in finding out how God wants our world to be. It may be that not even God knows exactly how the ideal world will be. There is such a great world lying ahead of us. If only we can have faith in God. If only we can give up that foolish greed for money, for sex and for power.

May 5, 2001

Some general remarks about spirit world on earth

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There is a spiritual world connected to everything on earth. When you look at a physical stone, then that stone does also exist in the spiritual world, as a spiritual stone. As long as the physical stone does exist, it also exists in the spiritual world.

When there is a house in the physical world, then that house also exists in the spiritual world. All plants, all animals, all living beings, all people in the physical world do also exist in the spiritual world.

The way of appearance of something in the spiritual world can be rather different from that same thing in the physical world. Let me give an example of two stones. Two stones might have the same appearance in the physical world, but in spirit world, the one stone is gray and dark and practically invisible, while the other stone is brightly yellow-colored and gives off a far-reaching light. The difference in appearance of the spiritual stones is a result of different histories of the stones. The stones might have come from the same rock and might have been in the water of the same river for the same time period, but the dark stone could have been in the possession of a person with a dark and ugly spirit, while the other stone was filled with good energy by a spiritually elevated person.

When we look at the spiritual bodies of people, they have very different appearances. Let us look at a well-developed young child. The child was educated in a good way and only received pure and good love. The child was also conceived in a deed of elevating love centered on a good purpose. This child does have a good and beautifully looking spirit body. The spirit body is strong and healthy and has no deformations. But another child, which has a comparable good physical health and appearance, was conceived with impure love and was educated by self-centered and materialistic parents. The spirit body of the second child could look dark and ugly and the shapes of the spirit body are deformed.

Let us look at a piece of physical land. Depending on many factors, the spiritual land that exists on this physical land might look completely different. The spiritual land in one country looks very different from the spiritual land in another country. When you pass a border between two countries, there is an immediate change of spirit connected to the physical fields. The change in spirit is a result of the different histories connected to the two different nations. Each nation did have its own history of culture, religion, politics, war, etc. These differences in character between two countries are visible in the spiritual world that is connected to the physical regions.

Once we are in a country, on a specific piece of land, that land has its own typical spiritual atmosphere connected to it. Again, this is dependent on the physical and spiritual history of that particular piece of land. First of all, a piece of land on a mountain has a different spirit than a piece of land situated in a valley. When trees are standing on the land, that fact determines something about the spiritual atmosphere of the land. One tree is not another. Each kind of tree brings its own spiritual atmosphere around it. The motivation with which a tree is planted will be spiritually visible in the tree for the rest of the tree’s life. If a tree is used or misused for certain purposes, this does affect the spiritual atmosphere around the tree. For example, a tree could have been used to hang someone. That spirit of death will be forever connected to the tree and it would not be wise to use the timber of that tree for building your house. Another tree could have been used as a place for prayer and meditation. The tree has taken in the spiritual elements spread by those who were meditating there and in spirit world the tree also becomes a place for spirits to receive deeper insights.

The spiritual atmosphere on a piece of land is very much affected by what people have desired, thought, felt and done while they were staying on that land. Each person who comes on a piece of physical land will influence the spiritual atmosphere on that land and will leave behind something good or bad. People with beautiful thoughts leave good traces on a piece of land, but people with ugly, negative or jealous thoughts leave bad traces. People with a crazy mind bring confusion and craziness into the spiritual atmosphere. Other people who are sensitive for it might again be influenced by those waves of confusion.

All spiritual entities influence the physical world and all physical beings and things influence the spiritual world. Some things in the physical world do hardly have spiritual energy in them, and such things can almost not be seen or felt in the spiritual world. But other physical things might have a strong spiritual presence. I already gave the example of two different stones.

In spirit world, on a piece of land, one could for example observe a road which is not visible in the physical world. Other roads in spirit world are connected to roads in the physical world. Usually, when there is a road or a path in the physical world, it means that there also is some kind of road in spirit world. But there also are roads in the spiritual world which cannot directly be seen in the physical world. Sometimes, such a road in spirit world is still a remains of a road which once existed in the physical world. But sometimes such a road was only established in the spiritual world, for example by angels long ago. When there is a road in spirit world, it means that spiritual beings can go over that road and there is a spiritual connection between all places through which the road goes. If the spiritual road goes from one house to another, it means that spirits can easily go from that one physical house into the other physical house. Physical people living in these houses might not be aware of this but they will be influenced by the same spirits.

There also do exist constructions or creations in spirit world that were made with the purpose to gain influence over spirit world and then, of course, also over the physical world. Usually such constructions in spirit world are connected to physical objects. For example, a spirit wants to have control over situations on earth. The spirit influences someone on earth, a person who is largely under the control of that spirit. The spirit moves the person on earth to build an altar. Even though the person on earth might not be so much aware of the spirit, the altar is built with materials chosen by the spirit. Also the form of the altar is controlled by the spirit. For the spirit, this is his or her altar. The spirit influences the person on earth to make offerings on the altar. The person on earth offers prayers and also physical objects on the altar. The energy of the offerings is used by the spirit to influence all kind of situations on earth and in spirit world. All people in the house and also many visitors come under the influence of the spirit. On earth is standing an altar. But the spirit has used the energy coming to him or her through the altar to make a spiritual throne for him- or herself. The altar does exist both in spirit world and on earth, but the throne only exists in spirit world. It is just a spiritual construction which enhances the esteem of the spirit who sits on that throne. Using the throne as object to enlarge his or her authority, the spirit could gather a circle of other spirits as his or her disciples. These disciples receive tasks to influence life in spirit world and in the physical world, in and around the house where the altar was made.

This is an example of how something was made in spirit world, a throne, which does not exist in the physical world. The throne, however, is connected to the physical altar, which functions as a channel for energy from which the spiritual throne is built. Constructions such as that throne can be made by spirits who during their life on earth acquired some experience in dealing with spiritual matters.

Let me now try to explain something about lamps and lights. When a lamp is made and installed, it is done with a certain motivation. For example, a lamp is put in a room for the purpose of study by a person who wants to use his studies to gain external power in the world. The light of the lamp gives energy in the form of light that helps the man to reach his purpose. From the moment that the lamp is used for that purpose, the lamp will send out a spiritual light which reflects the motivation of the person who installed the lamp. In spirit world, spirits with enough experience can immediately see the evil motivation of the man in the light of the lamp. That lamp will beam out that ugly, power-seeking light for the rest of its existence.

We could say that lamps are initiated at the moment that they are put in use. To put a light in use is a meaningful affair that should be done with awareness of the purpose for the lamp and with purity of heart. A lamp can of course later be used for another purpose. Then the lamp is re-initiated, but the first initiation cannot be entirely taken away again. Therefore, a lamp once used to give light for an evil purpose can never be used again for good purposes. It doesn’t make much difference if you put new light bulbs in the lamp.

Whoever wants to build up something with influence in the world, will have to obey certain rules for the making and use of things. When people only see the physical aspect of things, they are mostly unaware of this. Take, for example, a chair. Though there might be many of the same chairs produced in the same factory, after some time no chair will be the same anymore spiritually. One chair could be used in a restaurant. Whoever comes into the restaurant and pays the bill can sit on that chair. This is one of the rules connected to the chair. You can sit on that chair under the condition that you pay for your food, that you behave yourself in a decent manner in the restaurant and that you are clothed in a certain style fitting to that restaurant. For example, the chair cannot be used by someone in bathing suit. It also cannot be used by someone who speaks much too loud. The chair, after having been in use for some time, will spiritually reflect those rules and will also show spiritual elements of all people who once used the chair.

But another chair from that same factory is used by a professor who sits on it whenever he studies. None of his children or friends are allowed to sit on the chair. Bit by bit, the chair gets the spiritual elements from that professor. And because the professor is only using the chair when he is concentrated in study, the chair will get that same spirit of concentration and give off energy that helps the professor to be concentrated whenever he sits on that chair. The professor has spiritually conditioned the chair to become his study chair and that is very well visible in spirit world.

June 13, 2000

Spiritual awareness and our relationship to the Earth

All that exists is connected through invisible threads. The connections are maintained through love. All creations make part of this. All of creation can be seen as the body of God and so all people, all living beings and also the stars and the planets and the moons are part of God's body of love.

When a soldier engaged in war and rampage tramples a bed of beautiful flowers, he does not only destroy the beauty of these flowers, but he also causes pain in the heart of the person who cultivated them and he causes pain in the heart of God who is the origin of the love that brought forth such beauty.

The earth is the organism largest and closest to us. Many people see the earth as a dead thing, but how could the earth be dead knowing that the earth produces the mountains and the seas, the trees and the flowers and all the beauty of life that lives on and in its surface.

What is the relationship between Heaven and Earth? Heaven means the world of spirit, the world of God in spirit and the world of angels and of our ancestors. Heaven also is the place of our eternal home. Earth is the environment where we grow up. Since oldest times cultures have known the principle that we must keep to friends Heaven and Earth. We are situated between Heaven and Earth and to live a good life we need to maintain a good relationship to either one of these.

Making out our physical environment, the Earth nourishes us and gives life to our physical bodies. No day passes by without us being in total dependency of the Earth and all it gives us. But the Earth also is our main spiritual environment. Our ancestors who are with us in the spiritual world live on the spiritual Earth.

When we maltreat the physical Earth, it cannot but respond to the inflictions brought upon it. When we deplete the soil of the Earth of its fertility, one day the Earth will refuse to give us bread. We are connected with the Earth through invisible connections of love as the Earth and all other creations of God are one body. If one of the organs of the body are ill, the entire body suffers. We cannot speak about love for fellow man if we cannot love the Earth and all living creatures and things on it.

This is not only an external or a physical concept. This idea has deep spiritual meaning. When we mistreat the Earth, it cannot but be in pain because its harmony and beauty are being destroyed. It may sound strange to some to speak about the pain of the Earth, but why would it be abnormal to speak of pain in what makes out part of God's body? It is God who suffers when our Earth is mistreated because God made the Earth for all of us to have good life. Without a healthy and prospering earth there cannot be good life for all people. Because we are children of God, God suffers when God's love as expressed through the Earth is not well understood.

Because the Earth also is our main spiritual habitat, we cannot have a good life in the afterlife when we made a bad relationship to the Earth. When love is missing for the Earth, love is missing for all people who are dependent on the Earth. When love is missing, also true spiritual life will fail.

This is why in our lives of faith we should not be out for power in the world of man, but we should learn to cultivate the Earth well. A profession such as that of farmer can become a deeply religious and spiritual experience. This is when the farmer learns how to relate well to the Earth, if he replenishes the fertility of the Earth, if he comes to understand about how everything is interconnected, if he discovers about the energetic qualities of the Earth and its rivers and mountains, the air and the birds. If however the goal of a person is to acquire power and wealth, whatever his intended religious goals may be, he will fail in the end because he separates himself from the love and beauty and spirituality that God has created in our home that we call Earth.

Some thoughts about the unity of the cosmos

We try to imagine God, man, the cosmos, the earth and we try to understand relations between them.

What is the earth? It is right to say that the earth is alive.

What is alive? Alive means to grow. Does the earth grow? The earth is growing, yes. The waters are flowing through and over the earth and they move with the sun and moon making cycles. Trees and plants are growing in the earth. They take out and bring in fluids and gases. Inside of the earth there are rivers and oceans of molten stone. The earth develops, changes and grows all the time.

Our relation to the earth is so close. Our bodies are made from the cells that the earth provided. Gases from the air, water, energy and stone were brought together by plants to form new cells. Plants did this and provided the materials out of that our bodies are made. Once our bodies are created they are entirely dependent from the earth and what the earth gives. Our bodies would not exist long without the gravity of the earth.

Already we concluded that man is the heart of the cosmos, while the Living is the mind and the Earth is the body. God lives in man, who lives in the Living, who lives in the Earth.

The Earth is mankind’s body. A body gives you birth, and the earth gives birth to man. In that sense, the Earth can be seen as the mother’s womb in that we were conceived and in which we grew until birth. The Earth also is the instrument for man’s growth. By living on the earth and exploring ourselves in relation to the earth we learn and develop ourselves.

God is expressing Himself in all of mankind and all of mankind’s love is in the sun and all stars. This is a description of God’s Ideal in which mankind’s love has entered and immersed the entire universe.

We can say that the earth is animated by the sun and the stars. In the light of the sun and the stars that reaches the earth directly, or indirectly via planets and the moon, there is creative energy that inspires, moves and directs.

The sun and stars are mankind’s mind or must take that position. Be aware that sun and stars have a spiritual component. Presently man’s love is not much in the sun and stars. But God’s love is already in them and it is through the shining of sun and stars that God brings creative and shaping energy into the earth, into all things and beings on the earth, but also directly into man’s body that was created from the earth.

The earth can be seen as mankind’s body, but as long as man does not so realize this, we can at least say that the earth is God’s body. Man is in-between God and the earth and is shaped and created from God’s love directly and from the earth’s forces and living materials.

One difficulty in understanding all this correctly is because we tend to think in linear dimensions. But to understand the relations between all elements in the cosmos we must think in three-dimensional images that are contained in other three-dimensional images which are contained in yet other three-dimensional images. I don’t know how long this goes on, how many three-dimensional images are merging into each other.

One way to understand one relation between God, man, sun & stars and the earth is that God is breathing into the earth. The earth breathes into the sun & stars and they into man, and man breathes into God. At the same time, the earth keeps alive all things of creation on the earth and these make God to continue to exist. This is like the heart of man that pushes blood through the body and at the same time receives new breath by steering blood through the lungs.

What i try to make clear in this article is that God cannot be thought apart from man, that sun & stars cannot be thought apart from the earth, and that we, man are in desperate need of a harmonious relation to the earth, which, after all, is the body of mankind and which is our womb.

God is a pulsing heart that pushes into man, and through man into the Living (sun and stars and planets) and through the Living into the Earth. A heart of love lives in a mind. But a mind needs a body or else it would not have an instrument to express itself. What does a thought mean when you could not express it and pass it on? What were the meaning of God if God could not express Himself into man and all of creation?

When man does not learn to love the earth and himself and herself and the stars and the sun, man cannot love God and man is lost.

The heart of God is pulsing from inside to outside but as a heart does, what it gave out comes back to itself. So God is giving out His love into all of creation. It is by passing on and spreading God’s love that we ourselves can receive God’s love again and again.