Volume 8:
The Kiss of Friendship
Much has been said of it all over the world. The kiss of friendship has been embellished in poetry and exalted in the worlds of thought. But all this is only a figment of the imagination, far removed from the ground of naturalness.
It is a beautiful cloak which man, as in so many things, has made for himself in order to admire himself or others in it. But admiration is not at all appropriate; for hypocrisy it is in reality, nothing else. It is a disgraceful attempt to shift, to bend the Laws of Creation, to deprive them of their splendid and simple naturalness!
It is true that the intention of a kiss is often different, but this does not change the fact that every kiss in itself remains a kiss, that is, a touch of a physical kind, which by its nature triggers feelings that can never be anything other than the physical! Those who know my message already know this. Man should not always cloak himself in such cowardice, wanting to deny what he is really doing, but he should always remain quite clearly conscious of it! A hypocrite is even worse than a sacrilegious person!
The term “kiss of friendship” certainly presupposes the age of maturity.
But the kiss of two sexes in the age of maturity is subject to the vibrating original Laws of Creation, even if purity is intended! Excuses are ridiculous. Man knows very well that the Laws of Nature do not ask for his opinion. The kiss of a friend, brother, or father to a mature girl or woman, in spite of the strongest self-conceit, remains at all times the kiss of two sexes, and every kiss of a mother to her son, as soon as the latter has reached maturity, is no different. The Laws of Nature know and grant no difference in this. Therefore, every man must exercise much more restraint!
Human tendency of adapting the Laws of Nature to his own desires is the only thing that gives rise to such ideas contrary to the Laws of Nature as the kisses of friendship, the affections of family, and the many abuses that exist in them. Under the most hypocritical cloaks, man even deliberately seeks to sin often!
Nothing will change in this fact, of such violations of the Laws of Nature, because some people really believe themselves harmless in their transgressions, and imagine themselves to be perfectly pure in them. It is and remains a distortion of the purest Laws of Nature, if they are to be stripped of their beautiful simplicity by false interpretation! And only unhealthy things come of it, for every abuse and every shift only debases the original wholesomeness of the Law, only soils it, degrades it.
Therefore, away with this hypocrisy! Honour at last the Laws of Nature in their simple and therefore sublime greatness, as they really are. Just adjust yourselves to them and live according to them, direct your thoughts, your actions, your customs within and without your families according to them, become natural in the purest sense, and then you will be happy and pleasing to God.
The unhealthy life will then flee from you. Honesty among yourselves and towards one another will come in, and you will be spared many unnecessary turmoils of the soul, since they only follow from such false imaginings, and often torment you throughout your earthly life.
The unhealthiness of these harmful shenanigans, of false tenderness, which have throughout only a purely gross basis, can be seen most clearly in the immature and harmless children of tender age. Children who are heavily showered with family affections, let us say “harassed”, always have an unhealthy appearance. Also, almost every child shows a sensitive resistance to such intrusive affections, never desire, because the child is in reality “naturally harmless”! In the beginning, the child must always be taught to tolerate and to give tenderness. This education, however, is only the desire of adults who, through the maturity of their physical bodies, instinctively feel the need for it. Not the child! All this speaks plainly enough of the dangerous violence done to the child in a desecrating way! But little by little it becomes accustomed to it, and out of habit it feels the need for it, until the maturing body itself awakens in the urge!
Disgraceful that mankind should ever seek to cover their lusts and their own weaknesses by hypocrisies! Or commits thoughtless acts therein.
Man should know that real love is only spiritual! And everything else is only instinct. Soul love, on the other hand, has nothing to do with the physical body, nor does it demand it, since the separation of all species of Creation always remains perfect. Spiritual is spiritual, soul is soul, and physical is and always will be only physical.
When the body dies, not one atom of the soul dies with it. This shows in all simplicity that each one stands alone and that there is no mixing.
A soulful kiss, for instance, exists only in imagination, because every kiss is and remains merely a gross material act. What a man feels in the soul is quite a separate matter. Soul-love goes beside the bodily impulse, not with it or even in it.
Every other conception is gross self-deception, because it does not correspond to the Laws of Nature. It is only the intellect that has invented these different forms in order to excuse itself and to create a new distorted image to mutilate the truth, which in its purest form should bring men to awakening, to knowledge, and thus to the purity and truthfulness of their attitudes, and finally to the ascent towards the Light.
Man, have courage at last to be true in all you do! Even in the kiss. Break through the deceptive structures that your vanity and sensual lust have created for you! Wake up!
It is a beautiful cloak which man, as in so many things, has made for himself in order to admire himself or others in it. But admiration is not at all appropriate; for hypocrisy it is in reality, nothing else. It is a disgraceful attempt to shift, to bend the Laws of Creation, to deprive them of their splendid and simple naturalness!
It is true that the intention of a kiss is often different, but this does not change the fact that every kiss in itself remains a kiss, that is, a touch of a physical kind, which by its nature triggers feelings that can never be anything other than the physical! Those who know my message already know this. Man should not always cloak himself in such cowardice, wanting to deny what he is really doing, but he should always remain quite clearly conscious of it! A hypocrite is even worse than a sacrilegious person!
The term “kiss of friendship” certainly presupposes the age of maturity.
But the kiss of two sexes in the age of maturity is subject to the vibrating original Laws of Creation, even if purity is intended! Excuses are ridiculous. Man knows very well that the Laws of Nature do not ask for his opinion. The kiss of a friend, brother, or father to a mature girl or woman, in spite of the strongest self-conceit, remains at all times the kiss of two sexes, and every kiss of a mother to her son, as soon as the latter has reached maturity, is no different. The Laws of Nature know and grant no difference in this. Therefore, every man must exercise much more restraint!
Human tendency of adapting the Laws of Nature to his own desires is the only thing that gives rise to such ideas contrary to the Laws of Nature as the kisses of friendship, the affections of family, and the many abuses that exist in them. Under the most hypocritical cloaks, man even deliberately seeks to sin often!
Nothing will change in this fact, of such violations of the Laws of Nature, because some people really believe themselves harmless in their transgressions, and imagine themselves to be perfectly pure in them. It is and remains a distortion of the purest Laws of Nature, if they are to be stripped of their beautiful simplicity by false interpretation! And only unhealthy things come of it, for every abuse and every shift only debases the original wholesomeness of the Law, only soils it, degrades it.
Therefore, away with this hypocrisy! Honour at last the Laws of Nature in their simple and therefore sublime greatness, as they really are. Just adjust yourselves to them and live according to them, direct your thoughts, your actions, your customs within and without your families according to them, become natural in the purest sense, and then you will be happy and pleasing to God.
The unhealthy life will then flee from you. Honesty among yourselves and towards one another will come in, and you will be spared many unnecessary turmoils of the soul, since they only follow from such false imaginings, and often torment you throughout your earthly life.
The unhealthiness of these harmful shenanigans, of false tenderness, which have throughout only a purely gross basis, can be seen most clearly in the immature and harmless children of tender age. Children who are heavily showered with family affections, let us say “harassed”, always have an unhealthy appearance. Also, almost every child shows a sensitive resistance to such intrusive affections, never desire, because the child is in reality “naturally harmless”! In the beginning, the child must always be taught to tolerate and to give tenderness. This education, however, is only the desire of adults who, through the maturity of their physical bodies, instinctively feel the need for it. Not the child! All this speaks plainly enough of the dangerous violence done to the child in a desecrating way! But little by little it becomes accustomed to it, and out of habit it feels the need for it, until the maturing body itself awakens in the urge!
Disgraceful that mankind should ever seek to cover their lusts and their own weaknesses by hypocrisies! Or commits thoughtless acts therein.
Man should know that real love is only spiritual! And everything else is only instinct. Soul love, on the other hand, has nothing to do with the physical body, nor does it demand it, since the separation of all species of Creation always remains perfect. Spiritual is spiritual, soul is soul, and physical is and always will be only physical.
When the body dies, not one atom of the soul dies with it. This shows in all simplicity that each one stands alone and that there is no mixing.
A soulful kiss, for instance, exists only in imagination, because every kiss is and remains merely a gross material act. What a man feels in the soul is quite a separate matter. Soul-love goes beside the bodily impulse, not with it or even in it.
Every other conception is gross self-deception, because it does not correspond to the Laws of Nature. It is only the intellect that has invented these different forms in order to excuse itself and to create a new distorted image to mutilate the truth, which in its purest form should bring men to awakening, to knowledge, and thus to the purity and truthfulness of their attitudes, and finally to the ascent towards the Light.
Man, have courage at last to be true in all you do! Even in the kiss. Break through the deceptive structures that your vanity and sensual lust have created for you! Wake up!