“If wisdom now be held in low esteem, it is not wisdom’s loss but the loss of man. Wisdom cries outside the palace and the hovel. She is heard in the streets and in the gathering places. Her voice says, “O fools and sons of fools, how long will you delight in your foolishness?” But the pleasure of fools is in their foolishness, and the pleasure of the weak is in their own weakness, and therefore, they scorn the voice of wisdom.

“Let the fool eat of his tree; it will provide no sustenance in times of evil. When the whirlwind sweeps across the face of the land, bringing destruction in its wake, fools will be swallowed up, and Earth will

be as if they had never been.

“The nature of life is such that the fool does not always fail, nor is the wise man always successful. Yet failure will always be the attendant of fools and success the servant of the wise. But how is earthly success or failure measured in regions greater than Earth?

“Wisdom is the food of the soul. The wise man nourishes his soul, and it grows in beauty and strength. The fool starves his soul, and it shrivels and is distorted by weakness.

“He who has grown to wisdom never acts but at wisdom’s command. To some has been granted the ability to soak up wisdom, as the sand soaks up water. If this be your gift from God, then hug it not to your own breast as would the mean man. Share it with those who are less wise for their instruction, and hide it not from the wise, for they will multiply it.”

-The Kolbrin Bible (MPR:20:10-14)

Wisdom in Low Esteem

Wisdom is held in low esteem today. Conservatives refer to those who seek spiritual development as “Woke,” a word that they say as if it were something evil instead of being the best thing that could happen to a person. As the quote says, it is Man’s loss, not Wisdom’s. Wisdom will continue to exist without Man. It is true, however, that if few people seek the Spiritual Light of the Spiritual Sun, that Light will go out again, and humanity will be trapped in a world of materialism.

The Pleasure of Fools

The material pleasures that are sought by fools are hard to resist. Even some who have started down the path of Spiritual Enlightenment can fall to the temptations of the material world when the Evil Ones whisper lies in their ears. That is why it is best for those developing their Spiritual Self to do so as part of a group that can help protect them from failure.

When the Whirlwind Sweeps

The whirlwind that sweeps away the material world is not an ordinary whirlwind. This is an allegorical reference to the power of God that will gradually change the world and the entire realm of matter, back into Spirit as it was in the beginning. Most of us have seen videos of people clinging to trees near the shore when a huge tidal wave is approaching, instead of going to higher ground where they will be safe. That is much like those who will cling to the material world as it disappears around them instead of making the effort to become Spiritual Beings.

Wisdom is the Food of the Soul

It is not true that wisdom is the food of the soul, although it is understandable why the Kolbrin Bible says this. It is God’s Light that feeds the Soul, but only those who seek wisdom through Spiritual Development gain access to that light. It is true that the Light of the Sun of Righteousness shines on all of us, but only those who seek it with the proper attitude of love and humility can absorb it in any significant amount. So continue to seek Wisdom and Spiritual Light, and do what you can to help others awaken.

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

This past Saturday’s readings were from the prophet Jeremiah and, once again, the Prophecy to the Races of Man, Chapter 66: A Holy Family (pp. 424 – 432). Click here to read the first scriptural reading, and click the audio button below to hear the reading from our Second Advent scripture.

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In Light+,

Gene

“Only through the building up of a moral world order by intelligent self-conscious individuals can the world process be led towards its goal. … True existence is the incarnation of the Godhead; the world process is the Passion of the incarnated Godhead and at the same time the way of redemption for Him who was crucified in the flesh; morality, however, is the collaboration in the shortening of this path of suffering and redemption. Here, man does not act because he wants to, but he shall act because it is God’s will to be redeemed. Whereas the materialistic dualist makes man an automaton whose actions are only the result of a purely mechanical system, the spiritualistic dualist (that is, one who sees the Absolute, the Being-in-itself, as something spiritual in which man has no share in his conscious experience) makes him a slave to the will of the Absolute. As in materialism, so also in one-sided spiritualism, in fact, in any kind of metaphysical realism inferring but not experiencing something extra-human as the true reality, freedom is out of the question.

“Metaphysical as well as naïve realism, consistently followed out, must deny freedom for one and the same reason: they both see man as doing no more than putting into effect, or carrying out, principles forced upon him by necessity. Naive realism destroys freedom by subjecting man to the authority of a perceptible being or of one conceived on the analogy of a perceptible being, or eventually to the authority of the abstract inner voice which it interprets as “conscience”; the metaphysician, who merely infers the extra-human reality, cannot acknowledge freedom because he sees man as being determined, mechanically or morally, by a “Being-in-itself”.

-Rudolf Steiner

Moral World Order

It is true that we need to build up a moral world order in order to reach that state where the world can be one with the Godhead. Unfortunately, the number of people doing that is quite small, although growing. It is God’s Will that humanity be redeemed, but God is not going to force us to do so. God gave us a certain degree of free will so that we can choose to serve Him, or not. Without that free will, we would be little more than automatons doing what we are programmed to do.

Materialist and Spiritualist

The materialist acts according to what is happening in the physical realm, with no regard for the spiritual. As a result, they lack empathy and humility and are likely to be greedy and unkind. Most of them don’t believe in an afterlife. A few do, but their idea of an afterlife is probably something very similar to life in the material realm. You can see example of this on social media where they post memes of dogs with the message “This is what I think Heaven is,” or an image of fishing with the text, “I hope the fishing is good in Heaven”. None of that shows Heaven as the spiritual place that it truly is.

On the other hand, the pure spiritualist concentrates so much on the spiritual that he becomes ineffective in the physical realm. They may find it impossible to keep a job or to stay physically healthy.

Neither of these extremes is good. We all need to know that there is a God and we must obey his will, even in the physical realm. We must also recognize that while we are in the physical realm, we need to function in it to the best of our abilities.