Table of contents for November 2021 in PEARL

The season turns, a blanket of frost, a flurry of snow and other harbingers of the approaching northern hemisphere winter with its hibernation of the natural surrounds emerge in the air and we prepare to batten down the hatches. Although a recurring phenomenon at this time of the year in the temperate zone, there is added on this occasion a poignant resonance to the enforced limbo from the global health crisis that is only just now tentatively receding.The pandemic turned the old predictable world on itself. Yet it also curbed somewhat the background noise that has forever been the daily companion to modern life. The strange recession of the incessant din of traffic, the enforced curtailment of travel near and far that saw cars parked up and planes grounded, has…

Even if we do not recognise it, we have all secretly harboured the false friend of self-pity in our hearts. It is a sympathetic friend when no one else notices our sorrow. It does not contradict; it never blames us for our misfortune but always only others. It assures us that we are mistreated and afflicted with unjust suffering, and all our toil is in vain. Such words are comforting, but they are dangerous; for they prevent us from looking at a misfortune from which we suffer from a wider and higher perspective than our egoism allows us, and from recognising the deeper meaning of this misfortune. The false consolation wraps us in a fog, it blurs our clear thinking with the tears of self-pity. The really serious danger is…

For your guidance! 1 What seek ye? 2 The call for the helper 3 The Antichrist 4 Morality 5 Awake! 6 Silence 7 Ascent 8 Cult 9 Rigidity 10 Childlikeness 11 Chastity 12 The first step 13 TheWorld 14 The Star of Bethlehem 15 The conflict 16 Modern psychic science 17 Wrong courses 18 What separates so many from the Light today? 19 Once upon a time...! 20 Errors 21 The human word 22 The woman of Subsequent Creation 23 Submission 24 Indolence of the spirit 25 Earthman before his God 26 All that is dead in Creation shall be awakened, so that it may pass judgment upon itself! 27 The Book of Life 28 The Millennium 29 A necessary word 30 The great Comet 31 TheWorldTeacher 32 The Stranger…

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Fairy tales belong to ancient human heritage. They are not tied to any particular country or people, so we find the same or similar themes everywhere. They are stories that have no relationship at all to earthly human history. Fairy tales tell nothing of past times, of historical events, of the deeds of notable personalities and about great destinies. They convey inner life experiences in simple allegories; the people in the fairy tale act as bearers of meaning and sense, while creative powers and forces are experienced realities. Here man is still vitally connected with all the weaving of nature and lives with the elementals, the nature beings, the great and small animistic beings in a harmonious uniform swinging. And the human being who does not respect the help of…

1 Responsibility 2 Fate 3 The creation of man 4 Man in Creation 5 Hereditary sin 6 God 7 The inner voice 8 The religion of love 9 The Redeemer 10 The mystery of birth 11 Is occult training advisable? 12 Spiritism 13 Earthbound 14 Does sexual continence further spiritual development? 15 Thought-forms 16 Watch and pray! 17 Marriage 18 The claim of children on their parents 19 Prayer 20 The Lord’ Prayer 21 The worship of God 22 Man and his free will 23 Ideal human beings 24 Cast all your guilt upon him! 25 The crime of hypnotism 26 Astrology 27 Symbolism in the fate of man 28 Faith 29 Earthly possessions 30 Death 31 Departed this life! 32 Miracles 33 Baptism 34 The Holy Grail 35 The…

THE THREE VOLUMES of In the Light of Truth contain a total of 168 lectures whose contents, building upon one another, give a picture of Creation in entirety. The Author’s all-embracing view is based on well-known natural laws, which reveal the hidden connections of our existence and offer valuable guidance for the journey through life. The lectures assembled in these three volumes were written and developed by the Author, Abd-ru-shin, between the years 1923 and 1938. Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? The Work In the Light of Truth is known throughout the world for its conclusive answers to the great questions of humanity, such as the meaning of life, justice, fate and why we live after death. Written originally in German, it is…