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DYBWAD BROCHMANN THE ART OF READING
THE BIBLE Chapter
17 The Daydreams Is it true that we sleep and dream in the
middle of the day? I know
very well from long experience, that the greater public, and especially the
authorities and the educated, will think much better of my preaching if I
pointed out that we were evil! In that case, people would come and very
seriously thank me, and send me remittances and thank-you letters. If the
Savior had taken up the teachings of the Pharisees about evilness, sin, and
an evil will, then they wouldn’t have crucified Him. However, the teachings
of Jesus about the blind guides for the blind, and the apathetic, sleepy, and
thoughtless frames of mind were disturbing and damaged the system. It is much
more irritating to hear that you “are walking and sleeping in the middle of
the day”, than to hear that you are evil. Everybody who doesn’t believe this
can do just as I did, and try this for a few years. For example, if you will
be popular in the Parliament, and well – liked by all kinds of people, you
should only tell stories about “the egoists” and the ugly people. Everything
you say and do must allude to the fact that you have the correct view on
human selfishness and evilness, and then you will be assured of a broad place
and often a good position her on earth, and if you at the same time give
money to the mission and work at chastising and forcing people so that they
can be better, then maybe you will also receive the travel permission to
heaven that the pastor has. You will
experience your life’s work in a different way if you tell your life
companions that they are sleeping and dreaming, and are not conscious about
what the do. Try to convince a "jøssing" that a member of the NS
(The Norwegian Nazi Party) is an idealist with false ideals, or try to
convince a member of NS that the “jøssing” was a zealous patriot and
chauvinist, so you will see another reaction. You will get everybody against
you. (Jøssing
was a name for anti-Nazi Norwegians during the Second World War. The name was
originally used as a swear word by the newspaper for The Norwegian Nazi Party
(Nasjonal Samling or NS), but it soon became used as a mark of respect). You could
also try to tell the workers that their party leaders are dreamers, or that
scientists are people who play guessing games, or that leading figures in the
Church are “really losing their way”, and you will soon get a cold shoulder
and be met with ridicule. Try to tell an editor or a head of propaganda that
he is lying quicker than a horse can gallop, and that he’s a bad psychologist
who can’t understand himself or discover that he is working for immoral
things, and in reality is splitting people, instead of helping them to come
together. You can be happy if you get out of being thrown down the stairs. There
must be something seriously wrong with the human mentality. The best
result I experienced in this regard was once with a big fat editor. He
understood more than most people. I said to him: “You don’t dare publish my
article even though I include my full name?” He looked me straight in the
eyes, and said: “You must understand that we can serve our readers a little
bit of truth, and we do, but then only a little bit at a time, and not pouring it on the way you do!” Henrik
Ibsen has one of his “figures” say: “Don’t
take the falsehoods of life from people, because then they will die”. The
Savior of the world meant something else. I must admit that He gave people
plenty of time to sleep and to get finished with being sluggish, which is
something that we all naturally have in us. We have grown up from the bottom to the top! We’re dragging that
sleepy nature around with us; if we don’t see that, then we don’t see
anything. We’re like trees walking
around. Have you
ever taken time to think about what it means to sleep and dream? I will give
you a short description of what marks
the condition that we understand as sleeping and dreaming. I believe that
the most common traits of any kind of sleeping and dreaming can be condensed
into the following 7 points. I
request that the reader checks to see if this is correct. If this agrees with
your experience, then the word “sleep walker” or daydreamer doesn’t mean an
exaggeration, a swear word, or wittiness. Daydreaming can be comical, but
that’s something else. Every good comic book speculates on this, but that isn’t why we’re looking at these
traits in our nature now. 1. When
we are dreaming, everything we experience is only in pictures. We are lying
in our bed, but experience the most unbelievable things as living reality. Our
“fantasy” has no “critical censor” and can run freely, while the conscience
“takes a nap”. This first trait is common for all dreaming, both with
children and adults. 2.
Self-contradictory (“ambivalent”) experiences and meaningless things can occur in our dream life without us reacting to them before we
“wake up”. 3. Often
something called “displacing” can
happen while we sleep, so that a little thing can be blown up into something
very meaningful, and big and essential
things can be over looked, as bitty little things. 4. Actions
and experiences that we would blush over and be ashamed of while we’re awake
can be experienced as fairly natural, because the feeling of shame is not
there. 5. Many
times our deepest wishes come true in our dreams. Dreams can be so beautiful
and pleasant that we are fairly frustrated when we wake up and find out “it
was only a dream”. Children often have dreams about wishes coming true, but
adults do too sometimes. If you’re thirsty, maybe you dream non-stop that
you’re drinking, and the hungry person dreams that he is eating. This
explains that the dream often shows what we are consciously or unconsciously
wanting to have, or what we are lacking or missing. We often forget our most
private wants and desires when we’re awake.
The reason for this is that often when we dream, what we are unconsciously
lacking and missing, becomes clear to us, without us knowing this when
we’re “awake”. Sometimes it also happens that we “lose something”, or “forget
something”, or consequently “repress something” inside of us, and then it
often happens when we’re dreaming we “find again” what we have lost or we
come “face to face” with something we have “forgotten” or “repressed”. This
is why it can often be helpful to study our own dream life in order to
understand what lives deep inside of us. 6. In
many cases the dream can protect our sleep so we “over sleep”, as it’s
called. In other cases the dream can worry us, so that we wake up and think
over things that we otherwise hadn’t thought about. 7. The
dream state is different from the “awake” state in that there is something
like a “crevice” between when we’re “sleeping” and when we’re awake. The
transition over this crevice can vary from going very slowly to being very
quick. Isn’t
this true! Haven’t we seen the most conspicuous traits with any common type
of dream state? Therefore, if these traits are also seen in daily life, with every now living natural and normal
person, then we have shown that we are
day dreamers in a literal sense, although we at first, and even second consideration
find it unbelievable, improbable, distasteful, and maybe irritating. Now
we’ll see why this is the case! 1. We
know that money is only symbols or pictures, although we experience it as
reality, and such a hard reality that these “pictures” rule the world. Don’t
deny that “money rules the world”. The reason for this is that the whole
world dreams and cries after “the power of capital”. We have experienced that
there was a bounty on baby pigs, because there was “too much flesh”. We
experience that people dump out some of the ingredients for cheese, ”because
there was too much cheese”. We
have seen the rulers in every country burn wheat, corn, coffee, and ruin the
real values for the sake of the money values. We also experience pictures” as
reality. The social economists at the university, during the war years,
assured us that “the Norwegian krone” “rose” and “fell”, puffed up and then
shrunk, as if it was a living being. Maybe people react a little now and
then, and maybe the one over does the other by saying that “we don’t live of
money”, just to show how wise and “awake” they are. However, in reality
everybody says: “What will we live of, if we don’t have money”? The
picture is experienced as being reality. People dream in such an energetic
way that they make world wars to get markets for a place to see their products! If they don’t, then there will be
a “crisis”, “a financial crisis”, etc., as if money was anything else than
units of measure or bookkeeping resources, or just like a meter and centimeter,
liter and quarter of a liter. “The
state” is also a fantasy picture. No one has seen “the state”; and it doesn’t
exist. No one has ever seen “Moloch”, but millions of people gave up their
lives in history, or took each other’s lives for the sake of some “believed”
Molloch. Again in our lifetime, millions of men and women are dying for their
“state”, which is nothing more than a picture. Everyone knows that it is the
people themselves who do all the work and who pay all their money to the
“state” treasury. In spite of all this, people are dreaming of “the state
working”, “the state paying”, and “the state ruling”. All of this is
experienced just as real as when the little boy feels his wooden horse is
running away or that his sister’s doll “goes to school”, “sleeps”, “drinks”,
“messes in her pants”, etc. All of this is reality in the picture world of
the dream life. We know
that society is real living flesh and blood and spirit, and that “the state”
is only a picture of the totality! We look at the king and the emperor as a
picture of “the greatest” we know. That
is why Samuel chose a “large tall man” as the first king of the Jews. The
Jews dreamt about “great things” and now there was “a great one” walking
among them as living reality, just as the golden calf in the Pentateuch had
become a living god, who could walk around in front of the eyes of the
childish people. Christ
points to the picture of the emperor, and wants to know whose picture that is
and whose symbols those are. Since the people answer in the dream state, He
lets them dream on and doesn’t worry them – “Let the symbol have its share,
and reality its share”. In other words, learn to see the difference between
your own spiritually created “god” and the symbol you have created with the
help of the Spirit! The Mental Savior of the World just gives you an impulse,
something you can think about and discuss for 2000 years. It says that they were very surprised and left Him.
(The thing was that they had come to imprison
Him, and so He let these people imprison themselves!) Still the world was
going to play with their pictures for 2000 years, because the world needed their pictures so they could
sleep more and dream further. Christ gave the truth to them in teaspoons! He did
this because we could still see and not see, still hear and not hear. We are daydreamers, because we believe that
“the state” protects us and blesses us! Even if one “state” built a submarine
harbor in Laksevåg, and another “state” bombed Laksevåg to ruins causing
death and destruction for people, and these people belonged to at least 3
“state” societies (different countries), we experience it in our dreams as if the “state” is protecting us. When
we finally wake up sometime, we
will see the opposite, and understand that it was only “the state”, and no
other private murderer and robber (Barabbas) that could measure up to “the
state”. “I know that the police protect me and mine”, says the
"anarchist", “but who will protect me and mine from the police”? While
dreaming, we don’t react to the meaninglessness and craziness in legalizing
and authorizing murder and robbery. “Occupation” isn’t thievery and assault.
We first become robbers and bandits when we steal and rob in private life. We
will react in another way, when we “wake up”. Those of you who still live
unconsciously in your dreams, will probably have a strong reaction to me
trying to wake you up? Please notice the words of Jesus in Luke 22:25: “The
kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise
authority upon them are called benefactors”. (Copied from the Bible.com
Website). In the dream they are called
benefactors, because the pictures or the symbol building is experienced as reality. In
history the people “buzz” around the state and “the big center point”, like
flies buzzing around the light. That is why The Bible gives the name
“Beelzebub” to “the devil”, which means: “ He who has control over the flies”
= the unawake and dreaming fantasy. “The
state” is “the replacement for the holy living society. The actual and real
are you, me, our neighbor, and the large intense fellowship of fate that
binds us together in an invisible way. As long as we don’t understand this
invisible fellowship of fate, but only “suspect” it or are “enchanted” by it,
or flock around it, we will go to elections and scream for a strong “state”. At
every election we dream about experiencing the reality that we pray about and
desire. We don’t see that we are being shamefully cheated because we “choose”
the wrong thing, by not reacting correctly and critically. We wish to be rich
and happy with contributions from “the state” and taxes. However, Beelzebub
is smiling at us. We will continually be disappointed. In the dream state our
wishes are fulfilled. We believe we will have “peace”, “justice”, “riches”
and “blessings”, but in many thousands of years we have only reached the
opposite, without admitting it. The
censor in us has taken a nap. “The
state” certainly isn’t ruling; “the money” certainly isn’t governing. We are
the ones who are “ruling” (in the fog and while asleep), and we are the ones
who react in such a way that we become a slave to money. We are
slaves to pictures of false gods! We travel
over land and sea to “christen” the heathens who believe that there is life
in stones and trees. However, we don’t see “the plank in our own eye”,
because then we would see that our worshiping of pictures was a thousand
times worse than the game with pictures and symbols with the Negroes, the
Indians, the Chinese, the Zulu, and the Eskimos. Can you
remember from your own childhood how awful you could feel every time you
thought about when you played and fantasized with dolls and pictures? I
remember very well one whole winter when I had played “railroad” with empty
boxes. However, one spring day the illusion broke. Then I hurried up and
threw all of the boxes in the oven so that no one would see me, a “big” boy,
had played with empty boxes. It can feel embarrassing to wake up and go over
“the gap” from dream to reality. It can seem “irritating”, “terrible”,
“embarrassing”, and “painful”, if you wake up too quickly from your dream. To
change sanctuary, ideals, and interests can often be catastrophic in our
life. The Bible talks very much about things like that. For example, read the
description about the day and time when all
of the abducted values were destroyed, and then the world realized that
the Church was a “faithless bride of Christ” – a spiritual harlot that had
been bought by the princes, power people and money collectors in the world! John
heard a sound as if the sea was in chaos and the waves were roaring and very
high. This happens in every human soul when one has a “Sturm and Drang
period” (German for “storm and adversity”. This was the name of a German
romantic literary youth movement at the end of the 1700’s). Old things fall
and “die” on the inside of a person and another kind of vision for life is
found, a new faith, and a new picture of the world. When the whole world
wakes up, those of you who are alive will see the “the waves are high”, and
you will hear on the radio and in the air that “the oceans of people are
roaring”! Just wait and see. There is
no sensation in the history of the world that can match that. When the
war came to Scandinavia in 1940, it hit Norway hardest of all, where every person paid on the average 235
crowns per year in taxes. After that it was Denmark where the average tax
was 190 crowns per year per inhabitant. Sweden had the least to pay where the
average was the lowest at 150 crowns per person. However that would grow too,
and have repercussions. You had to get
something for your dedication and worship of Molloch. You had to get
something for your money, for your zeal in worshipping the pictures, and for
your sacrifice and willingness to give to the pictures of the false idols. When
“the government” returns and the old symbols come back, the people will be
jubilant and continue where they left off. The old “Flies” teach the young
ones; and the classical heathenism has deep roots with everyone who is sleeping
and dreaming. The dynamic powers are the same as before, and the “driving
force” for these almighty powers is the old religious idolatry. Idols and pictures of Madonna and Christ in glass
and frames on the wall and the bedside table are all examples of how we are
satisfied with pictures. As long as the Savior doesn’t live and work inside of us, it’s good to have Him on
the bedside table or on the wall, while we sleep and dream that we are His
disciples. Unfortunately Christ didn’t arrange to have His portrait preserved
for posterity. Many have been sad about that. However, people have created their pictures of the
Savior, just as in all religions they have written and dreamed that they are
the children of God and that they practice Christianity. If you
don’t have a kingdom of God or a holy society, you can “play” and dream that
you have one. All “Church” cult and temple service is imagery for the real
thing. The fact that the cults continually are changing does not mean that
God is always different. What it does mean is that we are changing and
continually creating new pictures, and are always writing and creating a
deity in our own image. For
example, in art we can always find pictures of Christ in all genres from the
sweetest and most virginal to the most manly and powerful, depending on what
mood we’re in! However, the teachings of Jesus are that the Kingdom is inside of us, and that we shall be like our origin, God, and not
that God shall be like us. Just
think when the world wakes up and really sees God and discovers God in the
Son of Man! Only then can we talk about the objective truth and reality. When
the Savior didn’t leave a portrait, it was probably because we shouldn’t
carry on with idolatry with His picture. We should internalize His picture
and learn to see Him with our spiritual eyes. Christ
never even wrote any of His speeches! It was said that there was one time
that He wrote, and then it was in the sand. It looks like maybe writing in
the sand was a poetic whim for Him? Maybe He was saying: “ This is how it is
to guide people in truth! They’re sleeping again. Speaking to peoples’ hearts
is like writing in sand”. A friend
of mine, the writer Olav Aukrust,
used another picture. He gladly listened to my speeches, and noticed people’s
enthusiasm and applause, and then he said: “You’re hitting the water”. “You’re
hitting the water”. It sprays a little to begin with, and “the waves are
high”, but a moment later it’s just as still on the surface. I have
written a lot in the sand, and sown many good grains from the Holy Writings
on stone ground. There are very few people who are alive now who have hit the
water more than I have, but there is a little sprouting and growing anyway. Most
people continue sleeping in their daydreams. There are only a few who are
rubbing their eyes and begin to see in the same way. ------------------------------------------- The
Savior understood our need for building images and completely accepted the
genetic role that symbols have for us in our dream state. His continual use
of pictures, His earlier quoted words, and the role and meaning of parables
all attest to this. Most of all we see this through the establishment of
communion. We all know a little bit about the big role that blood plays in all of the human
conceptions of life. Now when the race theories are again racing through the
world, we need to take a look at blood. Lumholtz and other explorers in
foreign lands talk about the colored and indigenous peoples often being
considered dangerous for the white man, because they believe that when they
drink the white man’s blood and eat his flesh, then they acquire the white
man’s characteristics. Moses teaches that the soul is in the blood. In
Leviticus 17:11, it says: “For the
life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar
to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an
atonement for the soul”. (Copied from the Bible.com Website). Let’s not
discuss or criticize Moses, but just accept that all experience from the past
and from primitive people shows that they gave blood unbelievably many
mystical qualities. The primitive people see, according to the empirical
principle or the so-called “principle of experience”, that when the blood is
tapped from a living person, they die! “Experience” can unfortunately be the
name that daydreamers put on their “delusions”, but that is something else
again. All wild and primitive people look at blood in a “mystical” way. They
offer “blood” to the gods, not because God is blood thirsty, of course, but
because we are or because we think of ourselves in that way. People paint
their doors with a cross of blood against the plague and sickness. A little
bit of blood, for example from a baby or virgin, is always one of the
ingredients in all kinds of witches’ salves and witchcraft. There are still
people who think they will have the strength of an ox if they drink oxen
blood, etc. Norwegian forefathers offered the finest and most clever boys and
girls to the Åsa gods to curry their favor. In this manner they continued the
process that has been throughout the history of religion, in all the
fanatical stories about peoples’ fear on the one side and sacrifice and
willingness to give on the other side. (Åsa is
a polytheistic faith, meaning it has many gods, and they are the gods in
Norwegian mythology. It was a commonly accepted faith, but was pushed to the
side by Olav, the Holy, who Christianized Norway. In 1024 Christianity was
approved as the official religion of Norway. The Church was then tied to the
King, and it became the state church of Norway). When the
old Norwegian Åsa worshipers offered their most beautiful boys and girls to
the highest they could imagine, this wasn’t done because of evilness, but it was a primitive life of reflection
and spirit that looked for some way out, because they lacked more light
and greater knowledge. What Moses did was surely just as well meant and
sincere as what I just quoted above. Then the
Mental Savior of the World comes and sees all of this, including the entire
bloody god cult. He doesn’t judge us for our helpless hunger for blood,
because he knows our fear and that we don’t have light over us. The Savior of
the world sees you in your shame and sin, and in your fear for the unknown
God and the unknown powers of nature. He knows your fear of life, and
especially your fear of death, and He knows that when you offer the dearest
thing you own, your own children, and understanding the unknown that you
fear, He knows that you and your pastor mean well. You don’t know yourself
how you came into being and you still can’t orient yourself to the mighty
thoughts that are running in and out of you. He knows that you have grown
from down below, and He knows your slowness and lethargy, and wants to help
you. For many centuries you will still need pictures and symbols before you
are grown up, and He knows your religious and social longings, and your
instinct that tries to reach the middle point, your eroticism, your wild and
dangerous fantasy. The Savior sees you offering the blood of the lamb and the
blood of children, and He knows the entire Jewish tradition, and doesn’t
judge this. However, He does go right
into that tradition and tries to sublimate it, and fill it, and tries to
realize all of the true and good dreams and the yearnings for the Messiah. Why were
the yearnings for the Jewish Messiah, and the Jews big dream about the great
world kingdom and the great society of brothers, still being played with as a
part of the secret games? Maybe all of these yearnings came from the Spirit
of God? Maybe it was all the peoples’ yearnings and needs in their lives that
called forth a Savior, He Who was born of the Father, from all eternity? ------------------------------------------ So now
Christ wants to get the whole world on the right track, so He takes his
starting point in the whole Jewish tradition and blood offering, and He goes
right in the middle of it. Are you asking how He did that? Don’t you
see? “Here is My blood which is shed for you for the forgiveness of your
sins”, He says. Here is a glass of wine, a “picture” of “the blood”, drink
this. Verily I say unto you, this is my body and my blood that is offered to
make the world healthy. Stop offering the blood of children and animals, and
instead use a glass of wine that symbolizes my blood, if only you will
believe and accept these words that this is done for your sake. It is not God
Who demands the blood, but it is the
Spirit of God in you that up to now wants and must have blood. I know you
so well, says the Savior, that I know that pictures and symbols for you are reality, as long as you sleep and
dream. That’s why a glass of wine does the same amount of good, and then
we’ve come a long step further on the right way. “This is not My will, but
what You want, the Spirit of God in the half-finished person”. Later on
when you are suffering from being afraid to die, have guilty feelings, doubt
and fear of life, and when you have such pain in both your body and soul that
you can’t manage any more, and when the dark of night and evil and delusion
scare you so you don’t know one way or another, come to my table and find
peace and forgiveness, rest and comfort, because I love you child with all of
my heart. I am sent to you from your Creator, and I know your great possibilities
and dangers, and this why I come to you with the true orientation to life to
save your body and soul from the educated, and the sorcerers, and from the
medicine men who play with your innocence and fool you. I am the
way, the truth and the life. Believe in me, and you will be released from
evil and find the way to the victory and crown of life! If anyone
doubts that this is the teaching of Jesus, so try sometime to put yourself in
a situation that was similar to His. Think that you came to a Negro tribe
that was just going to hold a big sacrificial party in honor of their
conception of God! A young girl is brought forward and her feet are tied to a
pole in the earth. A bamboo tree is bent down over her, and the top of the
bamboo tree is fastened in her hair, so that she is in a very taut position. (I
have this description from a missionary who saw this). Then the bishop for
the Negroes, or the highest ranking clergyman, comes forward and cuts the
throat of the young girl so that her head “flies up into heaven” and her
blood flows out of her body, which falls to the ground. The “sinful” and
“faithful” rush forward and dip a finger in the warm blood and cleanse
themselves from sickness, sin, and all kinds of wretchedness. Now
you’re standing and looking at this, and you don’t know exactly what you
should do. Well, today you have the teachings and sacraments of Christ, so
you can just teach them about your own “religion”, so they will immediately
come a few steps further. What if you
were the first one to intervene and use salvation here? Let’s assume that
you, like Christ, maybe knew everything
ahead of time, and knew what it
was that was behind this “sacrifice”. In that case you wouldn’t have “gone
against that evil”, because you knew that it wouldn’t help. You would have
done what the Savior did, and “go into the strong one’s house to bind the
strong one and later steal his goods”. The strong one’s house is the house of
faith and the power of the spirit. The
human conception is the strong one’s house. These are the conceptions
that are important to understand. When you have them, and have acquired the
faith, trust, and dedication of the masses, then you can “steal goods from
the strong one” – “the human heart”,
“the human society”, “the human destiny”. Then it’s your property. That’s
why it says in the Lord’s Prayer: “Thine
is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever”. For the
moment it was delusion and the falsehoods of life that owned the Kingdom, and “the gold”, human values and human
destinies, i.e. the “goods” that the Savior had “stolen” from the falsehoods
of life in the temple of the Pharisees. Don’t you
think that you would have done the same thing if you had been in Jesus’
situation and with His qualifications? You must admit that this was the
correct “positive” mental salvation. The whole blood sacrifice is based on a
primitive mental condition, don’t you think? To drink
a glass of wine, as a picture of blood, is a tentative “sublimation” of the
drinking of blood. When I
heard the prayer of Jesus in Gethsemane: “…all things are possible unto Thee;
take this cup away from me, not what I will, but what You will…” – I stopped
“going to communion”. Hasn’t the world soon had enough blood to drink? Or, do
you want more of His blood over you and your children? The
Savior wanted nothing more than to practice the Kingdom of God in all its
glory immediately. But we were still asleep! We still had to be satisfied
with pictures and symbols a while longer. Many of the most religious groups
won’t wake up anymore. They would have eternally crucified the truth about
themselves, if the spirit of truth hadn’t come to us with “the key to the abyss in us”, otherwise
no flesh would have been saved. (See
Matthew 24:22). The great
delusions and falsehoods of life in our time are so deeply rooted, so
authorized and armed. The religious ones dream, “play”, and sleep so securely
that everything would have passed the whole world by, if God hadn’t gripped
in and “shortened” the crisis. The falsehoods of life are consciously
attempting to eradicate man and the humane. The
slanderer has slandered our nature for such a long time that the world
believes him. The light
of the holy spirit of truth will come in a timely fashion to save us and give
us the Savior back in spirit and truth. He will soon come out of that
spiritual cloud cover that took Him away from our eyes. -------------------------------------- By trying
to show how the Mental Savior of the World works with His mental resources,
we see that in the dream state pictures and symbols are truly reality for us;
it seems like we were awake. We are dreaming with open eyes! As Jesus says,
we have: “Eyes that don’t see, and ears that don’t hear”. The Savior gives us
pictures so that many people will be able to see, and see without discerning,
and hear, and hear without understanding. “But you are entrusted with the
keys to the kingdom of heaven”! Who is Jesus talking to when He says in
Matthew 13:11: “It is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of
heaven, but to them it is not given”. Who is He talking to? Is it the clergy
who got to know the secret? No! The learned have taken “the key to knowledge
for themselves” and refuse to open up for those who want to get into the
kingdom of God. (See Luke 11:52). We hear about the Pope sitting on “Peter’s
throne” in ancient Rome and dreaming that he can open up the kingdom of
heaven, but this is only the dream that
protects the sleep! Those educated men who sat on the “throne of Moses”
dreamed in the same way. (See Mathew 23:2). If the Pope in Rome had known the
truth about the almighty Light that Jesus proclaimed, then Mussolini wouldn’t have needed to
stand and scream out over the whole world that “today the whole western
culture is still ruled by the Roman spirit”. It
certainly was the true Disciples of Christ who had been able to learn the
secrets of the kingdom of God, and this is what we are trying to bring to
light in this book’s testimony about the new Light over our own nature. ------------------------------------------- Before we
leave this section about the pictures in the dream life that are experienced
as reality, let’s take a look at the Norwegian people who dream about finding
their distinctive nationality
again, and who dream about a national self government. Our country and its
natural resources are mortgaged to foreigners, while at the same time the
names of cities are changed back to the old names, and we are turning back to
old language forms, dress, customs, symbols, and practices. When the
pictures, symbols, and forms are “Norwegian”, it doesn’t matter if we throw
out the Norwegian spiritual life and copy the foreigners’ ideas and artistic
life, and sell ourselves to the foreigners. For everyone who dreams in the
middle of the day, the pictures, symbols and formalities are what are real. While
people are asleep, they don’t happen to react to small unimportant things being blown up to great and important
things, and that the great and important realities are going into the
background as unimportant secondary matters. When
people are celebrating and yelling: “Hurrah for the 17th of May!” (Norwegian
Independence Day) and for the Eidsvollsverket: (when the Norwegian
Constitution was approved in the city of Eidsvoll in 1814), and waving with
Norwegian colors and national symbols, the dreaming people and their sleeping
shepherds don’t notice that the wolf is loose. While asleep, people are
dirtying and desecrating the very Constitution and the time it was approved,
while, at the same time, they are celebrating about it. The symbols and the pictures appear to be reality in the political
life, just as in the religious, economic, and social life. Now we
have proven the correctness of our assumption that people are dreaming with
“open” eyes and ears in the middle of the day in the 20th century
after Christ. 2. (Point
2 in showing that we are daydreamers in a literal sense): We said
in trait nr. 2, (of the 7 characteristic traits with every sleep and dream
state), that it was typical for all dream life that people didn’t react
consciously to apparent contradictions and inconsequential things. The censor
is sleeping while we dream. Yes,
let’s take a look at the great technical steps forward being taken in our
times. What are we getting involved in? We are studying the natural powers so
that we can get the mighty power works out of nature. We mobilize all the
intelligence in the world with this goal. The powers of nature illuminate us
and carry us like angels on its “hands”. For thousands of years we have
wanted to fly in the air. Now we can. At the same time we complain, and ask
if the world wasn’t happier before all of these machines and motors were
discovered? We build out enormous power stations so we will no longer have
heavy work. Then we turn around and are “unemployed” and moan about that
fact. Didn’t we want to be free from work? Don’t we have other things to do
than toil from cradle to grave for bread, we who are born children of kings
and of God? Or, what was it we wanted with our technical advances? One day
our statesmen grant millions of crowns so that the farmers can learn rational
agriculture. Why do we do that when tomorrow we complain and moan because the
prices have fallen and because we have too much production from agriculture? In
everything we do we find ambivalence and contradictions over things we
haven’t thought enough about. All of political life is like one big
playhouse. One day
we complain that the prices are too high and everthing's too expensive. Another
day we moan about low prices and bad times. One day we say that damages from
the war and price increases on ships are a taxed income, and “good times”. Another
day we assure people that we lost because of the war. Read the Annual Report
from the Bank of Norway over a period of 10, 15, or 20 years, and remember
that it is serious men with serious faces and troubled expressions, who take
themselves quite seriously, who write these childish reports, so you can’t be
in doubt that all of this is a typical example of day dreaming. One day a
man punishes a man who has stolen a pig or a pair of boots, or a man is
sentenced to death for a murder. But another day the entire police department
is mobilized to protect organized thievery and murder. One day a young
warrior is honored for his patriotism and bravery, and his picture is put in
the paper with “distinctions” on
his chest, and medals for bravery are passed out. In the next moment another
patriot is executed who did the same thing with even more bravery, because he
was struggling alone, and maybe without any weapons, against the entire
military power. The whole world is
meaningless, but no one wakes up and reacts properly. ------------------------------------------ Read
Jesus’ speeches sometime and you will see that He continually points out exactly the same thing - the
unconscious contradictions and inconsistency - and demands that people
shall begin to wake up and look around. Recently
I have read at least 10 times in the newspaper about losses due to the war. Every
time the people who have been saved talk about the goodness and sacrifices,
love and care that the people from the area and the district showed to the
people from the shipwreck. They can’t say enough about the good lodging and
distribution of food and clothes to help their neighbors. You can read until
you shed tears about how nice the private people are, and how evil and
irresponsible everyone is who acts as if they are, and are looked upon as
being the benefactors of the people, but who bomb ships and shoot at sailors
and passengers with machine guns and grenades. In spite of that, people go to
church the next day and learn about the evil people, and about all the
authorities, who are from God. Can anybody explain this better than Freud who assures us that it is all
due to unconscious and well-meaning daydreams? 3. (Point
3 in showing that we are daydreamers in a literal sense): We have
already mentioned quite a bit about displacement and breaking of laws as far
as small and unimportant things goes, while at the same time losing
perspective regarding the large and determining things. The Savior says that
we: “strain the mosquitoes and drink the camels”, which is a good way to
describe the same thing. There must be a reason for this? There is no other
useful explanation besides that while dreaming we don’t separate the
important, essential, and determining from the nonessential and meaningless. When we
read about the son who is born blind in John 9 please notice the following: a. The
Pharisees complain that he had been healed on the Sabbath (John 9:16). b. They
wanted to know who the father of the blind son was. c. How
was he healed? Etc. However,
the one who had been born blind, but learned to use his eyes by the Father,
answers: “If this man is a sinner, I don’t know – I only know one thing, (the main thing) that I was blind and now I can see”. That speaks for itself. I want to
say that everyone should think and reason in this way, and not ask so many
irrelevant questions. I also definitely know that I was born blind before I
found the Savior of the world and met Him in His words. After that meeting I received my sight, so that I could see, or
begin to see. If the pastor was speaking the truth when he said that sin
happens because of an evil will and evil desires, so that people mostly sin deliberately
while knowing better, then the wild behavior and Pharisaism of the Church
would not be easy to forgive. If people were right who murder the clergy
believing that they receive payment for definitely serving the Lord of this
world, and for consciously falsifying The Bible, then I would have lost faith
in the God in people. Luckily sometimes the clergy also make mistakes about
themselves. Luckily it is true what Jesus says on the cross – that they don’t
know what they’re doing. They are living in the dream life where every
objective censor is lacking, and where every meaningless thing,
self-contradiction, and unreasonable thing can happen, until consciousness
returns. Unknowingly
the pastor also judges himself with his teaching about the evil will and with
his statement that there is an “evil desire”, that, for example, got him to
study theology, or his forefathers to make offerings to the unknown! Religious
drive and sensuality are certainly both good and evil, and the pious usually
mean well, even though they should
be able to understand the repression of a big and important thing: to learn to know yourself,
while instead they are busy with hair-splitting, unimportant things, and
empty formalities. In this
book we see how important and informative it is to learn the truth about
yourself, and how great the delusions can be when you are lacking the Light,
and are only satisfied with the name and symbols of the Light. ------------------------------------------- When we
name all of these examples, maybe the reader has the impression that we are
seeing or looking for examples of the dream state? The truth is that
everything we see around us, and daily experience and hear, is one big proof
that daydreaming is characteristic for the people of today. For example,
think about “the leaders of the workers” who learn that owning machines,
houses and cars should “be abolished”, because “private capital” is the root
of all evil. At the same time the organizations and right of ownership and
monopoly on work are all being introduced so that someone who was poor before
doesn’t even have the “right of ownership” to decide himself over his time
and his labor. Think about the introduction of “state capitalism” in every
country, which set fire to the whole world, while everything that “private
capitalism” did was just a joke in comparison. One time
I suggested to the labor unions that since they had so much money in their
union treasury, they should buy some stocks in all of the most important
industries, so that the workers in the respective factories could themselves
be the directors and “own” the factory. In spite of the fact that the workers
have allowed themselves to be voluntarily and forcibly taxed for a
generation, they still don’t own any of the many factories. The money paid
into the union treasury is probably just as much as what “the employers” had
paid into their stocks and bonds. Isn’t this proof that people dream and play
politics and argue about unimportant things, while people are mostly deaf and
blind when it comes to important things? 4. (Point
4 in showing that we are daydreamers in a literal sense): Does
anyone believe that people in their daily life would have had the same kind
of feeling of shame, if they had
been completely awake? How often haven’t I seen grown representatives in
Parliament act in such a way that I can see by looking at them that they
think what they’re doing is shameless? However, if they looked at themselves
as dreamers, and really understood how they looked in the eyes of those that
have passed “the division”, then they would be furious both at themselves and
us, because they had made fools of themselves in their sleep. How often
haven’t I sat and listened to the pastor talk to the people, and said to
myself: “If that pastor knew what we others can see by looking at him, he
would blush and leave the pulpit and not come back until he is “more grown
up”. Since the pastor dreams that he is much more than he is, he doesn’t have
the feeling of shame that he would have later on, with the help of God. For
example, haven’t we all done things in our lives that we blush over later on,
when we think back on it? Why did
we do it? We did it because we were dreaming in the middle of the day, and
weren’t capable of seeing ourselves. Truly, it seems like we will continue on
that path, and would do well to remember Faust’s
last words before he dies: “The only
one who deserves to be set free is the one who daily struggles to be set free
again”. Then we have to see ourselves as a work in
progress in the great creation, and adopt another view on human nature than the phrase we have
learned about the evil wills and the evil egoists. Does anybody think that
our scientists would confide in the public about their great lack of
knowledge, if they understood that they were only talking about their own
lack of knowledge? Does anybody think that they would boast and think they
were empirical if they could understand that they were only participating in
a childish guessing game? Does anybody think that the Director of The Bank of
Norway would sign and print his own Annual Report from The Bank of Norway if
he understood that other people would soon laugh themselves to death at their
childish dreams around “dolls” and symbols? Does
anyone think that the self-opinionated alchemists of the past would have
presented themselves as wise men, if they had known how the future would have
had fun, at their expense, over their blown up delusions? The feeling of
shame is missing, as we see, in all directions in the past and present – and
why is that? The answer is that the great daydreams are becoming known. Does
anybody think that the boastful Germans would have disgraced themselves like
they did in Norway, if they had understood that the Norwegians saw through
them, and in many cases had come further along than they had in their
understanding of life? Does
anybody think that the so-called race theorists would persecute the Jews
because of the eugenics of the Jews, if they had known the reason for the Jewsish eugenics, and if the Germans
themselves had known about the terrible misunderstandings and childish
“unevenness” that are the basis for German science? This is why the Germans
suffer so much because of their disappointments and losses, because they haven’t discovered and recognized the
reason for the losses, which is delusion. No one can help them. They’re
hitting their heads against the wall by themselves. It’s their fault that
they are digging their own graves. This
teaching about our nature doesn’t suit our “selfish” nature. That is why the
truth about ourselves often seems so distasteful, and that’s why Christ and
the evangelists are a “stumbling block” for us. Earlier we pointed out how
much easier and “tasteful” it is to hear that people are evil. Why is that
so? a. Then
it is easier for us to accept that the world is the way it is. b. Then
we don’t have to think so deeply and seriously about things. c. It is
so much more comfortable to sleep and dream. d. It is
so fun to play “the authority” in a world that wants to be betrayed (!!). e. You
don’t have to insult and irritate your neighbor, if you say that he is
sleeping and dreaming, etc. f. It
would be even more difficult to play “the authority” and so-called “over
class”, if there wasn’t enough money, titles, equipment, rich and beautiful
wives, etc. But the
Savior loved mankind so much that, in spite of all of these and other
considerations, He chose to be crucified, which was the narrow and painful
way against all of the foolishness and mirages in the world. If you decide
to stand up and wash your feet and cleanse your soul of all of the remnants
from the heavy sleep of nature in you, you will soon see how much richer life
seems to you, and how the “peace” of Christ will come to you. “My peace I
give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you”. Begin to read Jesus’
speech at the communion table, and you will begin to experience that someone
who is fully awake is speaking to those
who are still sleeping. This is
what is the sting of Christianity. This is what awakens much irritation. We
understand very well that this interpretation of The Bible and understanding
of human nature seems to be and must be irritating for the clergy and its
followers. This cannot be avoided. The Savior also knew this, and He warned
us about it. 5. (Point
5 in showing that we are daydreamers in a literal sense): All
children like to dream that it’s Christmas Eve and their birthday, and that
they will “get” all of their wishes fulfilled. We grown-ups can also
experience that, and what is remarkable is that also that, which we won’t
admit that we are wishing for, also that we can come to experience in a
dream. Both Freud and his students have talked
about there being many examples of this. The wishes don’t have to be
conscious; they can be in us both in “forgotten” and “repressed” mental
states. We will not go more in detail here. The money
collector dreams that he will be richer and earn a lot of money when the
prices go up and “the numbers” reproduce in the form of “securities”. It is
often a terrible awakening for a speculator and for a businessman, when the
illusion breaks, and he discovers that price increases and security increases
in reality mean an effective loss. It
was unbelievably informative to be a Norwegian during the time of “the enormous war profits”, that
everyone talked about and believed in, and suddenly disappeared like snow
that melts “between our hands”. When “the crises” came, in reality there was
no crisis. “The crisis” was only experienced as a “nightmare” in the dream state
of everybody, who dreamed that they had become rich. However, since at least
98% of the Norwegian people had experienced “the enormous war profits” as
reality, it’s obvious that “the crisis” also became something similar to
reality. ---------------------------------- “Snobbery”
consists of people of no consequence dreaming that they have become
“meaningful” when they associate with kings, princes, and princesses, and
every one who is considered “distinguished”. “The snobs” like to borrow a
little glance from those who are supposed to be “well-known”, because then
they experience in their dreams that they are really well known. ------------------------------------------ In
connection with this, I would like to tell my readers something from my own
life experiences. There was a time in my life that I appeared to play a
certain role! It was far from being anything really big. However, the group
of those who listened to me speak grew larger and larger, and this was
something that a certain kind of daydreamer would think was a sure sign that
I had to be “a great man”. Then when I was elected to be a representative to
the Parliament, there could no longer be any doubt that I had a future for
myself. During
that time I had a chance to study many different types of mentality. The type
that is of interest here is the type who dreamed
that he “agreed” and “understood”, at the same time that he from the
beginning to the end shouted out that he unfortunately certainly didn’t
understand. He dreamed that he did,
however. These
types were especially easy to recognize because they always had to be in
opposition or find something to have another viewpoint about. They dreamed
that they were the greatest, and
sometimes they began by themselves, to show and demonstrate how terribly seriously they meant it. Most
important of all, they shouldn’t appear as “supporters without any criticism”
or “followers of Brochmann”, etc. Because of their own internal
insufficiency, they felt insulted by the daily press, when they were called
supporters; and every time the cock crowed, they flatly denied that such was
the case. But when
this type of person presented themselves as belonging to “the party” or “the
movement”, and they even dreamed that they had initiated new movements, that
were even bigger and which caused much fighting and confusion, I was forced
to reply sharply, so that I would not be misunderstood and falsified to
death. Sometimes, for the sake of truth, I was forced to reply rather
strongly. When that happened my opponents fairly automatically divided into 2
camps: a. Those
who were always interested in the true and correct, and b. Those
who were at another level, and who certainly hadn’t joined the information
work due to the love of truth, but because they dreamed about revenge for
their earlier “situations in life” and now they were going to rehabilitate
themselves in the eyes of their fellow members. This was typical daydreaming,
that has an unknown goal of being “greater” and “more meaningful”. The whole
thing had to do with them, without them understanding or seeing it. In time,
this type of daydreamer became more and more hostile toward me, but why? The natural answer was that my
criticism forced them to either pass over “the division” and wake up to a
complete acknowledgement and understanding of their own insufficiency, or to
continue in the dream and energetically hold tight to their own dreams of
greatness. I wonder if this is how Judas also developed? I wonder if the
reason the Savior held on to him was that He saw the path Judas had to follow
because of his own innate quality and personal activity? Christ did not hate him. After a while, however, Judas came to
hate Him – had to hate Him! That is
why the Savior allowed Judas to “play the role” in the great world drama, that
everyone of the same mental attitude always has to play. ----------------------------------------------- In my
struggle for a new orientation to life, I realized that, I and all the other
“persons” involved, were not significant. I was very happy if I found someone
who built with me and gathered with me. If someone came along who was quiet,
but joined us anyway, that was also good. If there was someone who tore down
and created chaos, that was also the way it should be, or had to be. However,
if there were people who came who felt that certain persons were more
important than the cause was, and then they created confusion exclusively for their own goals, then
something had to be done about that. Judas behaved similarly as can be seen
in the story about the nice ointment. It could have been sold to get money
for the poor, and he reproached Jesus that He allowed Himself to be anointed
with such a nice ointment. Judas
carried the bag himself. He had offered
to carry it and had dreamed that he was the most capable to understand the
finances. Judas
didn’t believe that Christ saw through him! When he realized at the communion
table that He did, he went out into the night full of hate for someone who
only wished him well. Christ also took Judas’ guilt on Himself, when He said:
“What you are going to do, do it soon”. That’s the same as saying that Christ
pushed the button and said that now it was time for the curtain to go up for
the last act. I know you Judas. Go out now and get the ones who are to
imprison me and crucify me. This is exactly what I had thought you would do,
and I saw that you would do. You had to be bought by my opponents, because
you fell for the temptation to put personal gain, wishes, and plans ahead of
salvation for the people. When this
became clear for Judas, he went away and was desperate. Then he understood that he hadn’t measured up! Then Judas woke up
from his dream. Then he went over the division, and then, when the daydream
broke for him, then he couldn’t cope
with his own life anymore. There are
many, who have shared his fate, and therefore we have to go forward
carefully, so we are not brutal,
but loving and patient, when we try
to take away both the dream and the desire for wish fulfillment from our
friends. Be careful with the virgin! Be
careful when you wake up your life companions from their dream life, or else
they will hate you as Judas hated Jesus. Let the
child grow away from its dolls by itself, and don’t tramp on the child’s
symbols unless the child has become so
big that it no longer is seemly to play with dolls. You have to help the
child to pass over the division – i.e. transition to being awake. Pilate’s
wife had also dreamed, but in another way than Judas. She wanted everything
to go well for her husband, and had heard about the situation with the Jews
and Jesus. “Don’t have anything to do with this Jesus, I have dreamt
something that worried me”, says Mrs. Pilate, and sends a messenger for her
husband. The former is stated this way in Matthew 27:19:“When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him,
saying: ‘Have nothing to do with that just man: for I
have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him’” (Copied from the Bible.com
Website). Just this little section proves the
historical truth about Christ and the people. It is easier for the woman’s
nature to hear and understand when the unconscious and repressed speak to us
while asleep. The woman’s intuition has probably
unconsciously been included in the story, because all of the character traits of human nature should be
included in the picture. No Shakespeare
could have done better. The artistic capabilities in The Bible are
unchallenged and brilliant. Mrs.
Pilate also documents the truth in the modern mental research. When she was
awake, she didn’t doubt her husband’s great capabilities as a judge and
governor in Jerusalem. During the night she has fearful suspicions, and
“prophesizes” as good as anybody else. “Yes”, says the priest, “it was God
Who wanted to warn Pilate in this way”. Yes, exactly, we say. But how does that go together with
the clergy who flee from mental research and deny what it purports, namely that the spirit of God makes itself known
in our dream state, deep inside where it can speak undisturbed with us,
because the artificial and conventional “censor” has taken a nap. While we
are dreaming we see the repressed, “forgotten”, and “unnoticed”. That’s why
The Bible talks a lot about the dream life and about God talking to us in
dreams. We should
be glad the Mrs. Pilate dreamed correctly. We should thank the spirit of God
that her dream and warning was included in the word of God. It is a
happy man who listens well to his woman when she speaks to him from the intuitive. Often the woman
“sees” correctly without being able to explain “why” and “how”. Kristine Bonnevie is probably an exception? (Kristine Bonnevie, 1872-1948) was the
first female professor in Norway. She was a zoologist who researched in many
areas, but was also well known for her involvement in social issues). However she was educated under the tree of knowledge, which isn’t
always a good thing. When
judging the woman’s intuition, her own character and mental condition also
need to be taken into consideration. Her intuition and visions in her dreams
can be empty conventional and stupid phrases, that don’t talk about anything
other than spiritual poverty. If she is her husband’s “protector” and
“counselor”, she can also be her husband’s snare. There are good and bad
inspirations with women as well as with men. There are men who learn to
listen to the “feminine” in their own nature, and she can also be worth
listening to, because she is more receptive for intuitions than the
superficial, blustering, and selfish in the masculine element in the man’s
mental equipment. Herod is also a typical daydreamer, and it is interesting and very
informative to see how the Savior treats him. Herod is a snob with not many
capabilities. However, he belongs to the group that dreams that they are
especially spiritually endowed and equipped. This is another type than Judas,
who certainly didn’t claim to have great spiritual abilities. He looks at
himself in the opposite way, as “a fairly common man”, “but a man with good
understanding and a sense of the practical and the realistic”. Luckily this
was also the way he was presented in Oberammergau (The name of a
little German village where a passion play about the life of Jesus is shown
each year. The first time this play was performed was in 1634), so that every practical thinking man could find himself and his own
inner being again in him (Judas). Who doesn’t sell his soul “when simply
practical reasons dictate that”? Herod is
quite different. He wants to shine both with his princely exterior and with
“spiritually rich” phrases and with great interest “for higher things”. In
his time, Herod was the representative for “spiritual science” and for
everyone else who had “a sense for higher things” without that meaning that
they would sympathize with the priesthood. Caiaphas represented the classical
Jewish faith. Pilate represented the Roman state heathenism, and Herod
represented “the higher spiritual life” of the time, i. e. superstition,
mysticism, witchcraft, and spiritual snobbery in a purely human and oriental
display. Herod
dreamed that he was a very great and spiritually rich gentleman; and his
daydream was always true because he was surrounded with a large staff of
admirers and hypocrites. There
were many times that Herod and Pilate had exchanged their views on life,
although it hadn’t been a very good experience for them. Pilate was an honest
and open heathen, who didn’t hide the fact that he was an atheist. Herod was
a well-known hypocrite, and as said before, a man who dreamed great dreams
about his own spirit. I have often met both of these types in my life, so I
will allow myself to say that I know both of them very well. Pilate thinks,
when he was going to sentence Jesus, “this would surely be something for
Herod”? This is exactly how every heathen thinks when he is faced with “mystical”
people with “mystical” abilities. “ This must be something for my
anthroposophist friend”! In addition, Pilate was looking for a way to avoid
humoring the Jewish clergy whom he correctly understood to be a simple band
of hypocrites. So he sends this strange carpenter, who calls Himself a king,
and Who threatens to tear down the whole temple and build it up again in
three days (!!) to Herod, so he can look at Him. Pilate doesn’t follow along,
because Herod’s “mystical wisdom” is just as unimportant to him, as is the
“miracle maker from Galilee”. For many
years I had a definite picture of the conflict between the Mental Savior of
the World and all of the Gnostic arts and ways of thinking. Therefore I was
really interested to see Jesus with Herod when I came to the passion play in
Oberammergau, Germany. I felt very confirmed and was happily surprised to
experience that right there they had seen the correct psychological
relationship between these two. Herod was sitting in all his splendor and
glory, surrounded by all of his admirers and hypocrites. It’s clear that he
feels flattered that Pilate has shown him this attention, and now he even
gets the chance to steal and learn a little from the miracle maker, if there
are any tricks and profound remarks to learn from Him. Finally Herod is going
to be able to show his surroundings how deeply he is involved in his
spiritual science, and he is certain that this will be a good experience for
both him and the miracle maker. It’s
important to mention here that it has
never happened in this entire story that the Savior of the world has not
answered when he was asked something. All of the hypocrites, Pharisees,
and other dreamers were answered. Even Caiaphas got a stinging reply! However, here, before Herod, the Savior
remains silent! The story
is presented in Luke 23: “1 And the whole multitude of them
arose, and led him unto Pilate. 2 And they began to accuse him,
saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give
tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King. 3 And
Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answered him
and said, Thou sayest it. 4 Then said Pilate to the chief priests
and to the people, I find no fault in this man. 5 And they were
the more fierce, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all
Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place. 6 When Pilate heard
of Galilee, he asked whether the man were a Galilaean. 7 And as
soon as he knew that he belonged unto Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to
Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem at that time. 8 And when
Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for he was desirous to see him of a
long season, because he had heard many things of him; and he hoped to have
seen some miracle done by him. 9 Then he questioned with him in
many words; but he answered him nothing. 10 And the chief priests
and scribes stood and vehemently accused him. 11 And Herod with
his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a
gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate. 12 And the same day
Pilate and Herod were made friends together: for before they were at enmity
between themselves). (Copied from the Bible.com Website). On the
stage in Oberammergau, first Herod talks about a dream he has had and asks
Christ to interpret it. When Christ doesn’t answer, Herod clearly becomes a
little “worried in his sleep”! He looks around and maybe sees that some
people are smiling? “Alright”, says Herod, “maybe you don’t understand dream
interpretation, I will ask you about something else”. However, Jesus just
stands there, looking him straight in the eye, and doesn’t say one word. The effect is enormous. What Herod, the daydreamer,
wishes is not fulfilled. Something has to be wrong here. Herod wonders: “Is that
miserable wretch making a fool out of me”?, and looks around insecurely to
read other people’s faces to see what they mean. Herod asks a third question
– a short one. One last way out! But when Christ also remains quiet, he yells
to his servants: “He is a fool! Put the fool’s cape on Him!” Herod
saves his dream. His wish is fulfilled anyway. Christ is naturally a fool who
doesn’t understand either “spiritual science” or “higher worlds”. This is the
only way out to protect the illusion. “Jesus has to be dumb”, since he didn’t
even understand that Herod is a wise and “more informed” (!) man, than most
of the people, and in addition Jesus let all of His chances pass by. He could
have been saved so easily if He had just discussed the mysteries of life in a
little high-flying and flattering way, so that Herod could have better
exploited the situation and increased his belief in his greatness. Think if
those who followed after Christ in history had always followed this
consequential line to be totally quiet
in front of Gnostics and never get involved with them! Think if those
following Christ had followed His consequential behavior in front of Pilate
and Caiaphas. But that
is not what they did. The men of Christ’s church have always vacillated back
and forth between humoring “the state”, and listening to the mystics and
discussing the higher worlds with them! “The
shining garment” that Luke talks about, was a fool’s cape in Oberammergau. As
far as I’m concerned, the Savior couldn’t have had better clothing than just
this “fool’s cape”, from those involved with Herod, since true Christianity
must appear foolish to the type of people like Herod. There are
many who think that Christ remained quiet before Herod because Herod had
executed John, the Baptist to satisfy one of his mistresses. ( Matthew 14).
There can be much truth in that. But, I
think the most important thing to learn from is that the Savior wanted
nothing to do with that type of daydreamer that Herod represented. Luke 13:
31-33, talks about Herod wanting to kill Christ. But Christ answers: “The same day there came certain of the
Pharisees, saying unto him, Get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will
kill thee. 32 And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox,
Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third
day I shall be perfected. 33 Nevertheless I must walk to day, and
to morrow, and the day following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out
of Jerusalem”. (Copied from the Bible.com Website). Surely
this answer reached Herod, and his interest is awakened because Jesus greets
him in a seemingly “occult” way, which appealed to Herod. ------------------------------------- My little
experience in life is that the correct way to treat the “ spiritual
scientists” is to be quiet. Then you will be branded as a fool who can’t
speak with them about their high-flying “science”. This is what is most
appropriate for every spiritual movement with an evangelical basis, because
otherwise those interested in spiritual science will come and try to make things difficult. To be the
servant of truth and light and proclaim is really the simplest and cleanest
thing there is. Dealing with caste formations and spiritual snobbery with
signs and mysticism is only “nonsense” and crafty speculation in the
performance life of innocent people. Those kinds of people the Savior will
not recognize or be involved with. And
finally this – After this, people shouldn’t believe that the Savior of the
world was remiss in his duties with Herod, the person. Christ had a strong
effect on his dream state by looking at him and not answering. Silence is a terribly powerful answer to
the self-absorbed Herod. Look at yourself – Herod! This was the only and
last chance that Herod got. However, from that day there was a friendship between “the state heathenism”
and the believers in mystery. They had the same opponent, the Savior of
the world, who will rid the world of both of them. There are
enough examples in church history about the sophisticated way that “the
state” and the mystery wisdom worked together against the Christian church. Just
think about the mystic Maximos, who
got Julian to discontinue the open
hostility and implacability toward
the Christian church. Then it was suggested that Christianity could be on
the same level as “other religions”, on the condition that the state should
have something to say when the people’s teachers and spiritual guides would
be educated and authorized. This was the most dangerous of all the
attempts that the falsehoods of life have invented in their struggle against
Christianity. Christian teachings were reduced to a “religion” in competition
with all kinds of superstition and mysticism, and “the state” would authorize
the teaching force.
When the
world develops and grows, and people begin to wake up from their dream and
play with symbols, so will Christian teachings, the way to live your life,
and all of God’s words be thrown on the scrap heap together with “all the
other scrap”; and that kind of change is now being experienced in the world. On the
other side, “the state”-authorized teaching force in the meantime has
completed the falsifying and misunderstanding of Christian teachings, so that
only a few are able to
differentiate between religion and Christianity. We can
also look at the history of Valentianism, which is discussed another place in
this book. This whole story shows that the open hostility of “the state”
against the Savior’s teachings about God and people was not dangerous for
Christian teachings, compared with all of the mixing that took place between the word of God and Gnosticism in all its forms. The last was worse
than the first. (Valentinus
founded a school of speculative Christian theology in the second century AD.
Because he and his followers drew a distinction between the true God and the
creator of the world, modern scholars classify them as "Gnostics"). Christianity’s
whole being is based on good impulses and inspirations of light and truth,
which is the exact opposite of academic dialectics and metaphysic theology. No
one knows how the wind blows, how the Holy Spirit comes and goes. But the
spirit of school wisdom and authorization is bought with money and is often
measured out into a calculated syllabus, according to expedient
considerations. The
Gnostic Maximos knew enough to give the Christian church the most dangerous
mortal wound of all, and the fall of man in the Christian church after this
time clearly shows that Maximos and Julian were the assistants of the night
in the struggle against the light of day. --------------------------------------- It is
true that the Savior of the world “went into the strong house to bind the
strong and steal his goods”, the time when Christ went into the religious
picture world and tried to guide all kinds of religious (dynamic) instincts
with the conscious goal of winning the peoples’ hearts and faith, feelings,
and mentality. He did it as thoroughly as only He could, who was without
mistake in His knowledge about our nature. Also notice that His enemy, the
falsehoods of life, answered with exactly the same mental methods and
tactics. The
spirits of state heathenism, Judaism, and Gnosticism came together and went
into the strong house of Christianity and “mixed the terms”, and under the
name and mask of Christianity with the idea of winning its “goods” back,
which consisted of the heart, faith, thoughts, and feelings of the people. Now the war in heaven against the army of
Satan is reaching its climax, but fear not. Christ is not duped, surprised, or betrayed, because
we people and our shepherds have been duped and taken advantage of. Christ
both saw ahead of time and said ahead of time everything that would happen,
so that our faith should be strengthened when his predictions were fulfilled.
The holy spirit of truth, which He promised that God would send in His place,
is here on earth, and the new Light comes closer every day. The world has
soon slept enough and the world will soon pass “the division” between the
conscious and unconscious. -------------------------------------- The
scriptures often say that God talks to
us in dreams! This is the best proof available for Freud’s big discovery. The most beautiful example in life I know
is in I Kings, where the wise and sensible Salomon speaks with God in his
dream: “In Gibeon the Lord appeared to
Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee. 6
And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great
mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and
in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great
kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this
day. 7 And now, O Lord my God, thou hast made thy servant king
instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go
out or come in. 8 And thy servant is in the midst of thy people
which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted
for multitude. 9 Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart
to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able
to judge this thy so great a people? 10 And the speech pleased the
Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing. 11 And God said unto him,
Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life;
neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine
enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment; 12
Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and
an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither
after thee shall any arise like unto thee. 13 And I have also
given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, and honour: so that
there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days. 14
And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as
thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days. 15 And
Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and
stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered up burnt
offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his
servants”. (I Kings 3: 5 – 15). (Copied
from the Bible.com Website). Here
Salomon is clearly talking about his innermost being. He has clearly given us
his innermost wish, and here he experiences that it is fulfilled. His heart
speaks out of his inmost longings. He begs for insight and wisdom before
everything else. He has a feeling that this is what God, the Creator, really
wants for us people, and so he experiences the most beautiful reality that
God promises him wisdom, and completely accepts Salomon’s correct evaluation
and understanding of life. If, for
example, Salomon had thought that God didn’t like “the temple for the idol”
that he was building then, God would have warned him about that in his dream.
Or if Salomon had heard our “church”- moral, and heard that living with many
women was supposed to be the most terrible of all the sins, so Salomon would
have dreamt that the Lord God would have powerfully corrected him, since he
had 5000 wives! Everything points to the fact that people in ancient times
looked differently at instinct and reproduction, than we do. Who today thinks
about begging God for wisdom, and dreams that God accepts and fulfills his
highest wishes, while at the same time having 5000 wives? We are looking at a
foreign mentality, and a foreign way of evaluating morality. It looks like
maybe we have to go over to the oriental peoples’ morality and vision of life
in order to be finished with our neuroses? Or how is
it? Maybe the whole Orient has stopped developing in the spiritual area,
because they have a freer sexual life? Maybe that is why in Western Europe we
continually develop and continually create revolutions and wars, conflicts
and chaos, because we try to dam up and close in the erotic instinct as much
as possible? There
aren’t many nervous people in China, according to people who have been there.
In China, the woman believes that the worst thing that can happen to her is that
she could die before being a mother. Here at
home it often looks like the opposite, in that it seems to be shameful to be
a mother unless the pastor, at least the judge, has been involved. If it is
true that the way we understand our
sexual life, decides how irritable and nervous we are, and causes internal
sensitivities, and that these “delicate” qualities make us more radical and
enterprising, genial and good at developing, than when the more platonic
qualities are developed in us (as they are in the Orient), then we have one
of the proofs that Christianity, both the correct and maybe also the
misunderstood, is genetic (= creative) in its whole bias. Intelligence
and spiritual life are combined in many ways with how we live, and with the
conditions and relationships under which we come to the world. Pain, and
not in the least “unhappy love” and resistance to life, often wake higher
levels of consciousness, and often bring forth geniuses and higher
inspirations. It is not by chance that there is a connection between the
following words: Genesis = beginning, creation (one of the books in
The Pentateuch, for example) Genethliakon
= a cradle song, birthday poem Genetic =
has to do with crops and creation Genetrix
= mother Genius =
genii = spiritual power Genitals
= family, species Genus
irritable vatum = the irritated species (the
author’s irritated family). ------------------------------------- There is
an old expression that says: “Too much and too little spoils everything”. The
European cultural life has gotten so far off the track that it soon will
collapse. At the same time there are new thoughts, new forms of life, and new
progress that are being created. Be sure
that Solomon’s relationship to women has played a fairly definite role, just
as the “repression” of our instincts here in Western Europe have played and
are playing their role. In China
people are living just as they did 5000 years ago. They have no neuroses, but
“nerves of steel”, etc. In Europe
there is an eternal restlessness – but also an eternal, restless “new
creation”. Compare
to the deliberate words of Jesus in Luke 12: 49 – 53: "49 I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be
already kindled? 50 But I have a
baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!
51 Suppose ye that I am come to
give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division: 52 For from henceforth there shall be five
in one house divided, three against two, and two against three. 53 The father shall be divided against the
son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the
daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law,
and the daughter in law against her mother in law." (Copied
from Bible.com) It should
not be difficult to understand the Mental Savior of the World in these words.
However, these words are somewhat
similar to those of the oriental “founders of religion” and those who are
in a spiritual deep sleep, that the liberal theologian dares to place on the
same level as the Savior of the world. -------------------------------------- In Mark.
9:45 – 50, it says: “45 And
if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into
life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never
shall be quenched: 46 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is
not quenched. 47 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is
better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having
two eyes to be cast into hell fire: 48 Where their worm dieth not,
and the fire is not quenched. 49 For every one shall be salted
with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt. 50 Salt
is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it?
Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another”. (Copied from
the Bible.com Website). As far as
we know the Savior was celibate. We also know that Paul was certainly not
involved with living with women. It really is a mystery how the Savior was
able to combine maidenly feelings and an all-seeing eye, and at the same time
say such masculine words and do such masculine deeds and limit all
sentimentality, and at the same time was able to have such love for everyone.
This is an example for all of us, who think we can see a little bit. If the
creative spiritual life had followed the words of Paul, then the world
wouldn’t be “over populated”, as some people think it is. As
previously mentioned, Salomon has clearly shared with us his entire inner
being in his dream! At the same time he has “divulged the great secret of
life”, which is that it is wisdom that we are lacking. If our
style of writing in Allegories (from the book "Science and the
Bible") is correct, then there is no prayer that sounds better in the
ear of the Creator than this: “ Give us
a hearing heart”. When I
was a child I dreamed about becoming a pastor and doctor on Madagascar. However,
school was the worse thing I knew, so I couldn’t become a missionary. When I
was an adult, I discovered that it was really unnecessary to travel to
Madagascar to find heathens who offered the blood of their children for their
pictures and symbols. Here we offer many more children and much more blood of
children to our pictures of idols, than they do on Madagascar. My inmost childhood
dream came true – “obviously”. When I
woke up and understood my own dream and longing, “black people” were swarming around me. So we should pay
attention to our dreams. If you
are wandering on the wrong path because your foot (= your situation in life)
is bothering you, so try changing your life. But don’t get mad at me if you
dream that you have a greater call in your life than you think you can fill. “For unto whomsoever much is given, of him
shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will
ask the more”. Luke 12:48. (Copied from the Bible.com Website). None of
us can grow to be greater than we are, but if we have learned to pray as
Solomon did, so we will be totally adjusted to his way of approaching things.
One day God will also speak to us in our dreams and call on us. For God, true
living reality is inside of us. The “strength” God has in us is dependent on
the strength of Light that the
Spirit has inside of us. Whoever meditates without seeking more Light in
their life, will easily sleep and disappoint themselves. Our
readers can continue to look into the correctness of point 5 regarding our
dream life (i.e. in our dreams things that we don’t admit that we want while
we’re awake, we will experience in our dreams). They will often be surprised
over “what they are able to see”. A good
way to understand psychology and the dream life is to closely study small
children, and go into their game without waking them up, disturbing them, or
making them unnecessarily absorbed with themselves. You don’t need to read
books, if you have the ability of reading the child’s mind. There you will
learn the whole truth about yourself and your companions in life. When you
read about the speeches of Jesus, the parables, “miracles” and actions, later
on you will thank your child for your wisdom, and you will not continue as
before to indiscriminately believe in pastors and Sunday schools. 6. (of
the 7 characteristic traits with every sleep and dream state). In many
cases, the dream is a suitable protection for continued sleep, and in other
cases it is the opposite. Consider
the following – You are to be at work, for example at the office with your
boss, at exactly 9:00. However, the evening before you were up late partying,
got to bed late, and overslept two hours. While you are sleeping, you dream
that you are at the office with your boss, and your boss is nodding to you
and smiling and expresses great satisfaction with you! This is an example of
how the dream is protecting your sleep. It is your own nature and your own
body that in “self defense” takes precedence over what time it is and what
your duty is – and in a dynamic way “takes over and lets you continue to
sleep”. It’s a
different story if you are not sleeping restfully, because you are restless. That
kind of “restlessness” is what caused Nicodemus
to visit the Savior at night. The censor said the following to Nicodemus –
You may not go to the carpenter during the day, because that will attract
attention! Your colleagues sleep deeper that you do, Nicodemus, and they
dream that they know everything God wants them to know. God smiles to them
while they’re sleeping and expresses His satisfaction with them, and they
continue to sleep. They’ve been on a spiritual binge for many thousands of years
and they need to sleep a little more. But, Nicodemus, you are worried, and
quietly are requesting God for more Light; therefore you should go to the
carpenter during the night and find out. Maybe
He isn’t as crazy and dangerous as my colleagues believe. It was
unforgettable when I sat and experienced Nicodemus in Oberammergau. The
educated ones had a council meeting and gave Judas the money. But Nicodemus
immediately stood up and yelled to the others as he left them: “I will not be a part of betraying
innocent blood”. That was
enough for Nicodemus! Then he woke up completely. He went over “the division”
and became one of the Savior’s best friends. I want to
repeat again, if science and theology don’t understand that people have a
long spiritual binge behind them, then they don’t understand what to do with
a genetic and mental Savior either. Then they continue to drink the blood
from the Son of God and cry out in their sleep: “His blood is pouring over us and our children”. Once when
I was a little boy, I was sitting in the Cathedral in Kristiansand and I
heard a pietistic bishop call out to the congregation: “I want nothing else
than Jesus Christ, and to have Him crucified”. So, I thought: “If Christ
would come to Kristiansand now, then the bishop would crucify Him again”. This
was truly a mystery for me until I found Freud’s
teachings about our life of daydreaming. That was the first time I understood
the pietistic pastor’s warm thirst for blood, and the big interest that
people have in the military and faith in “the state”, etc. The
religious dream about a Savior and the kingdom of God is correct. The
difference between the religious “state” believers and me is only that their whole lives they are dreaming
and wishing that they were Christian people and that they lived in a
Christian society. They have this dream protecting their sleep, so they don’t
react to our meaningless world. On the other hand, I was so “unlucky”
that I was awakened too early. I have often been along out in the Garden of
Gethsemane and seen all of Jesus’ sleepy disciples and heard the Savior call
to the Spirit: “Father, if it is possible, let this chalice
pass from me, not my will, but thine be done”! And what
do you want? Do you know yourself what you want? Do you want to crucify the
Savior of the world in 2000 years again? Don’t you religious drinkers ever get enough blood? Don’t you ever
learn to see your own wretchedness? Do
you want to see your churches and cultures ruined for eternity, because you
always choose the Barrabas system? Do you
want to eternally invoke His blood over you and over your children? Or will you wake up as Nicodemus did and
be born completely again in spirit and in truth? I am just
asking you this question. Jesus knows you and He is patient with you. He knew
that your dream protected your sleep, and that, for the time being, your
pictures were enough for you. He knows that in your daydreaming you
experience, as true reality, both you and your society as having been
“Christian” for a long time. He knows that you have deterioration in you from
the earth that has produced you. He has given you His blood so that you can
drink it, as long as you need it. God
in the heavens, Jesus Father, doesn’t need blood, but your father needs blood, because he was a man killer completely
from the beginning. Can’t you
understand me? Then read John 8:43 and 45 where it says clearly why you don’t understand. I have a lot
of friends and opponents who don’t understand. However, if they had
understood, and if it had been possible to wake them up from the spiritual
dream where they live, then the whole world would have been spared for these
blood baths. The Jews wouldn’t have had the very last persecution. My
fatherland would have stood as a shining example for the rest of the world,
because Norway had been the country where the light of truth was first in the
heavens! ----------------------------------------- But on
the other side, you have to look out for not ridiculing the symbols, the
daydreaming, and the Jews. You need to be careful that you don’t think you
are completely awake before you really are. Maybe you will talk in your sleep
and expose yourself, and be involved in involuntary scandals before you are
completely awake? Be
careful that you don’t talk in a derogatory way about human nature, because
then you will be guilty of a judgment from hell. ----------------------------------------- There’s a
story about a boy who went out into the woods on a Sunday morning. Out there
he found a fox in a fox trap. The fox had only one foot in the trap and had
begun to chew on that foot to get loose. The boy felt sorry for the fox and
opened the trap and let the fox go. The boy thought that the fox would be
very grateful for this, but the fox didn’t believe there was anything good
about humans, with good reason. In addition the fox was so filled with fear and the fear of death, that the first thing he did was to get right
in front of the boy’s face and give him a terrible bite. This is the
mentality of a fox when it is very afraid. Later on,
when the fox was far away from the boy, maybe it felt some kind of
thankfulness to the boy, and some kind of regret
because he had bitten his benefactor and liberator? When the Savior calls
Herod a fox, He surely means that it is a suitable analogy. In all of our
history, it is very clear that all the geniuses and great spirits who have
been shown to be the greatest benefactors and “liberators” for mankind, first
have been terribly bitten by those
around them, but later they came into other thoughts and regretted, and so
have “the prophets graves been built” and they have been “canonized”. Mankind
is firmly caught with all “four legs” (= science, religion, politics, and
art) in the peoples’ trap, which has been set up by the falsehoods of life. People
are filled with fear and mutual distrust. That’s why most of the people are afraid of freedom and truth, and love organization and force and
discipline. (This is in spite of people saying that they highly regard
freedom, and feign love for both truth and freedom). People fear being set free,
because they don’t believe anything good about themselves. That s why we see
that Jesus is always teaching us to “Fear
not”! At the same time He gives us enough time to sleep and dream
further. When this
book is finally printed and read, I can expect that there will be a reaction
of horror and fear. If I am still around, I am prepared that people will want
to “bite” me quite a bit. But later on, when it’s possible to “talk freely
about everything”, as Christ says, I hope that people will understand me
better. I also hope that they will be able to get rid of all other
“mementoes”, except for those that have been naturally developed in their
mental life, because of my work of “shedding light” for them! Remember – this
is not from me! I could never have
thought these thoughts and seen these visions without the powerful
inspiration from the word of God and without the new Light from the holy
spirit of truth. ------------------------------------------ I
belonged to the group of restless sleepers! The dream couldn’t protect me
anymore. Nothing made sense anymore. Everything became so unreal and
meaningless that I had to go over the
division. That was
the time that I began to work with two types of reality and two types of ways
to think. (Please see my book: The Living Society, Chapter 2). 7. (of
the 7 characteristic traits with every sleep and dream state). We
certainly know about the transition from dream to reality. I don’t think we
need many words about that. Everyone knows the transition from when they’re
sleeping in their bed at night to when they wake up to “the hard” or
“pleasant” reality! Most
people have experienced many times the division between the so-called
illusions or “daydreams” and reality. Some
people dread getting married, but are pleasantly surprised, and others who
had looked forward to being married, are very disappointed. Read Cally Monrad’s poem about “The
Sanctuary of Art” where she tells about her own dreams about art and the life
of the artist, until she discovered and experienced the great betrayal. Since all
people can talk about this side of daydreaming, we don’t need to discuss this
any further. We just want to add that all of the –isms, sects, religions, and parties are an expression for
people’s dream life. In dreams they are fighting about “the correct faith”,
“the correct committee members”, “the correct pictures, symbols, and
theological systems”. When they’re awake, they will all discover that they
all want the same thing. Yes, Russia, Germany, England, Japan, and America
will all have the same things. “Jøssings” and Quislings also want the same
thing. When all
of mankind passes over the division and “wake up”, and the Savior comes out
of the clouds, and we have come out of the fog, and the veil falls for all
the riddles and problems in life, we will all be very pleasantly surprised. It’s
always the case that “reality is a thousand times more beautiful than all of
the lost illusions together”, as Edvard
Grieg used to say. If, after
all of this, you still ask if it is true that people dream in the middle of
the day, and what does it matter if we admit it, than I will answer you that
it is absolutely certain that the world is still dreaming and that the
consequences of such a view are as innumerable as all the stars in the sky. Then we
can look forward to that time when “the sun” that symbolized “the Church” in
our spiritual heaven, and the moon that represents “the state” in the same
heaven, soon will fall down from our “heavens”, and the many shining “stars”
will go out and our whole earth will become something different and it will
be new. It will
be a completely new heaven, with new light and new stars, and there will be a
new earth. “See the old is past – see that everything has become new”, because
we have become new. Sin and death will be “absorbed” into victory, because
we, just as the Savior, will understand that all sin was only delusion or the
fruits of delusion. Thank
your Savior, Jesus Christ, because He is the true and positive Savior for you
and the whole world. |