THE CYCLE OF THE SOUL
Part II
The Spiritual Life

Jozef Rulof

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© 2014 'De Eeuw van Christus'

I visited those places where mankind preserves artworks and also the earthly artists, for I was interested in finding out how they made their work. I roamed the whole earth and finally returned to my last homeland. It was my intention to help an artist on earth with his work, I wanted to try to make my final work of art through that earthly person. It seemed to me that it would be easy, for now I had learned to make connections with people on earth. My feelings had deepened, I had come to know God and loved life. My dearest wish was to be allowed to make this happen. A very long time I hunted for such an instrument. Months and years went by and I thought already that I would have to give up. But at last I found what I was looking for and I received assistance with this too.

It was a youth of eighteen years, who was surrounded and inspired by many masters, for he possessed many gifts and an enviable feeling for art. Through intercession of my master I was granted to make contact with those masters from the higher spheres. I asked them whether they would allow me to make a last artwork, which I intended to name ‘Life’. It was granted me, but I had to wait patiently for several years. I left, but returned to them from time to time and saw that they made great progress. This young fellow was urged to study art, which was worked through the masters. His feelings and love for art were raised to a very high degree.

In this way I learned the true inspiration; now I understood my own life on earth and how man received these inspirations. It was marvellous to watch it done. From this side they guided his way, and for this there were special beings – that are spirits – who protected him on earth from ruin, until he became aware of his life himself. With my fullest attention I followed all this and I learned from it. From this side influence was exerted only in art, and in his own life they left him alone. He would have to live his life himself; living another person’s life for him is not done here.

Several years passed. At last the time came that I could work through him. I was ready, had prepared myself and meditated deeply with my whole inner being tuned to the subject. The great moment that I would be connected with him had come. The great masters made the connection and I too was given help.

Can you image this limitless depth in feeling and in art? Can you feel this inspiration from human to human, from spirit to spirit, from feeling to feeling, that goes higher and higher until the ultimate is given and human powers and feelings cease to exist? The earth person was inspired, I was assisted by still higher beings, and beyond that, higher still and even further and further, and still deeper lies perfection, the All-Feeling power. That is the highest love, the holiest of all created by God. To be allowed to draw from that source supplies an artist the ultimate that can be given him from the life of the spirit.

My work of art was a great success for him, and an enormous satisfaction for me. It carried the approval of the masters with it, which pleased me greatly. How happy I felt, and thankful to God for all this. During my own life on earth I had never thought about it. The inspiration we humans receive is a great blessing for the artist, and mighty joy for the spirit. But the spirit must carry his feeling for art in his innermost being, a feeling he has mastered in one or other life.

Once we are connected the earthly instrument works practically day and night, in a trance condition. The closer the inspiration, which is our connection, the deeper the artist feels the product of his creation and knows of no stopping. The powers of his soul and all his love he lays down in this piece of art, but increased by the masters on this side.

As I said before: Through him I created what I had been intending to make on earth when the opportunity was taken from me. In that situation I felt no hate, in me lay love.

But how was my thinking on earth? In my life on earth I wanted to ruin an other life with my art. There I was in revolt, and did neither know myself nor God, nor life, nor animal or human. And at that animal-like attunement I had wanted to attain the ultimate, the holiest. How low I bowed my head and asked for forgiveness now. I now was exceedingly grateful that this blessing had been granted me.

The masters created through him several great works, and this art will not die out, at least if mankind will not desecrate these statues.

But how did this person on earth feel? Did this human appreciate what he received? Did he feel our influence, this spiritual help? Did he know and understand how he received this inspiration? I followed his doings and wanted to know whether he understood his own life, I was thoroughly disillusioned.

When I asked the master about it he said to me: ‘Listen, my brother Lantos, in his own life he is an ordinary person like many others, but he possesses a heightened feeling for art that he has acquired in other lives. This man still thinks that it is his own ability. But you can see what he is if he had to do it alone and on his own powers. All that counts for us is that we can reach him, that is all that matters. What he does with his own life on earth is his business. But no one on earth can ever reach this height in art without help from us.

We have set ourselves the task to help man on earth and open his eyes to the higher things. This artist had to return to earth, and we knew this beforehand. You see that all his ways are observed, but he will have to live as he wants and feels. Your question therefore I can answer with a resounding ‘no’. He places himself on a pedestal, and that pedestal only has meaning on earth. However, he feels very clearly that he is being helped, but he ignores it, because he puts his personality in the foreground and feels accordingly. His vanity plays him tricks. When he starts to enrich his inner being, begins to feel love and to understand his God, bows himself before God’s holy Guidance, is and remains humble, then after death a person can enter the spheres of light. Do you feel what I mean?

But when he thinks that he himself created all this, and lives his life as a human of the coarse-material attunement would, then his skills and knowledge will be the cause of his spiritual downfall. He created wonders, but those wonders were given to him, and materialized by us. He is only an instrument, nothing more!

We on this side have totally laid off our egos, but he will have to learn that yet. There are but few individuals who have reached this height on earth and whose inner life is a combination of spiritual development and then it is the most beautiful thing that can be acquired on earth. Only then God’s holy blessing rests upon it. Then joy covers both situations, art grows and blossoms and forces the human being to feel awe for everything that is given him. Then all is love and contact with us.

Not just one, but thousands have brought themselves to ruin this way. They could not stand up under the wealth; they forgot and lost themselves only because they did not understand their life on earth. The earth master is carried on people’s shoulders. The being ‘carried’ one has to wish for, and the person who wishes it is too weak for a higher life. As you know from your experience, man receives his inspirations from here. From here they are raised to the ultimate height. In this world everything is calculated, thought out and felt through. Still the people on earth think that it is they who have those inner powers. Once more, brother Lantos, no man who lives on earth can achieve that on his own. The spirit, that human, the life that lives on this side, brings him his inspirations. Every artist feels and knows that when he is not himself anymore and everything works all by itself, he is living in an other and for him unknown situation. This then is what it means.’

‘But’, I asked the master, ‘what then should we do?’

‘Nothing, brother Lantos, nothing, we can do nothing. Were you any different? Did you not live a similar life on earth? Did you live it spiritually? Check yourself and see how you lived your life. The one drinks to whip up the necessary inspiration, the other tries to find it in living, in passion and bestiality. But in order to receive spiritual inspiration one has to be searching for the higher ideals. A spirit of light knows all this, and it saddens him when he has to watch a person ruin himself through his talents. Yet we cannot step in, for they must live their own life and cannot be lived by us. We do not tie our instruments hand and feet, we only take care that in their life on earth they are themselves.

We know why we return to earth. We go there to serve mankind and to shake them awake. We bring them life, and more specific, eternal life. We bring them happiness and sculpt our life from stone, to which they can compare their own. This art will radiantly shine in proportion to the strength of our inner powers. That is the love we have. We ask the people to open up for us. They will discover that there is more between heaven and earth than they ever imagined. A person who receives this inspiration is a blessed human child.

However, we have instruments who pray to God to beg for strength before they commence a new work of art, and this sacred influence then will be granted them. This kind of art is alive, for the eternal life shows in it. We too feel awe when this is born on earth, and then we all kneel down – no one excepted – to thank our Father for everything. For His will be done. In an exalted and religious mood the creation will be accomplished. You should see them, these artists! Wherever they go they bring happiness; they understand their life on earth and for what they serve, and to whom they owe all this. The magnitude of their inspirations they cannot sense, but still they know and say that it is not they, but their Father in heaven Who gave it to them. See, then all is love, and the people will anxiously guard this art. They bow their heads when they admire such a statue. They learn to sense that these are God’s holy Powers, the ambassadors of God, who returned to earth to bring this art.

Therefore I would like to shout it to the people: Bow your heads for all these products of the soul. In them lies love, the pure, clear love, the feelings of a higher being. From the Highest Source this was given to you, learn to feel this. Know that everything signifies grief and sorrow, the sorrow of the soul of those who once lived on earth. Drive your feelings always deeper, on and on until you feel the eternal life in that artwork. Then you feel that there is continuation of life and you thank God from the depth of your soul that you were allowed to receive and observe this on earth. Once again our only aim is reach mankind through the arts. The one may express it through music, others through writing, the word, and through prayer, and we through the art of painting and the modelling arts.

Human of the earth, see in this all eternity. Then the work of the person who lives on this side is rewarded, and we know that tears did not fall for nothing. Only then can we move further to prepare ourselves in the spirit. Sense and know, that the ultimate has now been brought on earth. Feel right through that stone statue, feel beyond it and you feel the eternal life. When you stretch your senses further, you feel your God, and you know that He is a Father of Love. All that you can reach through our art. When you finally feel the art of the spirit, you will kneel down and pray, and you will lay down your deepest feelings in your prayer. Gaze at that stone face and merge with it. When you gently step inside there you will feel the love of the being that created it. It makes you sensitive too and tears will come to your eyes. Then you kneel and thank your God for everything you have received on earth. In the art rests the secret of your life, it is religion and faith, it is pure love.

Brother Lantos, and so God granted you, yet still to sculpt your feelings in stone while you were living in the life of the spirit. Keep going, my brother, in the spheres of light they are waiting for you.’

‘Do you know about that?’ I asked the master.

‘We are connected with one another. We work for one goal: to convince mankind that life goes on eternally.’

‘I thank you whole-heartedly’, I said, ‘that you granted me this blessing and allowed me this experience.’

Then I took leave of the masters.

Again I went on my way. I had found out that it is possible to make contact with man on earth in various manners. Then it would be possible also to tell of my experiences verbally. But for that I had to prepare myself, and I would try to reach the spheres of light. There was only one possibility to accomplish this, and to that I wanted to devote myself completely.

For a time I followed the suicides, and learned all the different transitions of the spirit. When I knew them all, a great desire grew in me to help those people. It grew ever more intense inside me and with every step I took it increased, so that I could not put it out of my mind any more. I completely entered into this new condition, and I wanted to make myself useful. I wanted to serve, help the people who lived in grief and sorrow. In the spheres of light people were waiting for me, and when I finally would get there I would meet new wonders.

Therefore I started on my way, and the first person I met I would help, for before me lay endlessly much work. All is misery, grief and sorrow, which man has heaped upon himself. I shall go and give support to people on this side, and protect man on earth to guard them against total destruction.

End of part two