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From Blood Sacrifice to Thanksgiving

Dear visitors, a very warm welcome to our program today here in the International Gathering Place of People of All Cultures Worldwide.

A few followers of Jesus, the Christ, sat together to prepare for the meeting today. From this conversation, we have put together this program and have given it the title: “From Blood Sacrifices to Thanksgiving.”

We also asked ourselves, for what, actually, shall we give thanks?

For the endless suffering that we have caused to the Mother Earth, of which each person more or less has a part? We should gives thanks to God for our health, for our eternal life, which was again given to us by Jesus, the Christ, through His Deed of Redemption. We should do this throughout the year. But what about Thanksgiving? We said to each other: Thanksgiving – off hand, just simply “Thanksgiving”? With Mother Earth calling to her Creator for Redemption!?

We came up with the following thoughts, which we would like to present for Thanksgiving.

But before this, we could turn within, to become quiet. And whoever would like to can pray silently along with us.

After several minutes of silence:

God is always the same, yesterday, today and tomorrow. He is the eternity, in all eternity. He is love and All-life.

All of infinity is color, form and sound. All in all things, the Spirit of God calls this the symphony of life. The symphonies are harmonies, which stream throughout all of infinity. Symphonies, which are harmonies, go out from the seven basic powers of God, which nourish the whole universe.

Every fruit has a different color, every fruit, another form. And just as the color and form is, that is how the fruit sounds, because this is the fruit’s state of consciousness.

When we hear this and, at the same time, have in mind the conditions that prevail on our planet Earth today, we can simply say that the entire world has become a cacophony of sound. It may very well be Thanksgiving, but for what should we give thanks? For the fruit that man wrests from the earth, by spreading manure and slurry on the soil, including pesticides, insecticides and much more? All that is forced onto the soil. This causes countless life in the soil to die, but also animals such as hares, field hamsters, larks, hedgehogs, insects, butterflies, beetles, worms; all the microorganisms and the many mammals that live in the hedges and bushes and in the fields, perish with this.

This is the fruit of mankind; this is the state of mankind’s consciousness. So how can we say that we are celebrating Thanksgiving!? We force the earth to feed us; we do violence to her so that she gives us what we demand of her. We demand it.

The earth would voluntarily give, give, give, if we would supply her with what she needs from nature. It is also what we, of course, need. We also need nurtrients such as minerals and trace elements, just like the earth. Does she get from us what she needs? No – we give her poison and what will we harvest? Poison. People who know how very much nature is maltreated, how the animals are tortured and slaughtered, cannot celebrate Thanksgiving. So, we don’t want to celebrate Thanksgiving, but point out who we human beings truly are today. No one can exclude himself from taking stock of this, for we have all contributed to the fact that it is as it is. As a result of this, what will the coming time bring to us?

The fruit of a tree is the expression of this tree and corresponds to the kind of tree it is. And what about us? Let’s go back to our life. What is our fruit? It is what goes out from us, that which we sense, feel, think, say and do, what we bring forth, accomplish, but it is also all that, which we energetically – visibly or invisibly – bring about. This shows who we truly are; it reveals our kind, which, in turn, shapes our human nature, and this is the person’s state of consciousness.

And so, a person’s fruit is the expression of his maturity. What kinds of fruit can we show? Many of us are in the autumn of our earthly existence. What fruits will we take with us into the beyond? Are they truly ripe fruits? Do they show the life that is permeated by the Creator-God? Or are they, rather, still very meager fruits, which are rotten within, that is, immature, unfinished?

In spring we determine how things will be in autumn. So the young people are asked: How do young people determine their lives? How does a young person feel, think, speak and act? How does his body sound, already now? The body is the fruit that shows itself. Is it a good-sounding tone? Is the sound filled with harmony, or are there already discordances? Time is speeding by and the hours fly. How will it look for the young people in autumn? What has a person who now lives in autumn done for today’s youth, which is also growing toward autumn? What will be bestowed upon them? What the forefathers of the youth have expected them to put up with: a cacophony, discordances, rotten fruit, a shaken and kaput earth – the balance results are devastating.

Thanksgiving certainly is not called for here.

And what about our fellow people, our brothers and sisters, at a so-called riper age, for example in late summer? Are good fruits ripening here? Can a single one of us say: “Yes, Lord, I am standing in your life more and more. I have raised my feeling, thinking, speaking and acting to You.” The one who can say this of himself and lives accordingly will bear ripe fruits.

And so, summer is the time of ripening. Autumn is the season of being ripe. Have we people in autumn reached the ripeness of life? Are we fully ripe, so that we can say: After passing on, we can return to the Kingdom of God?

And so, do we bear good, valuable fruits? Can we rightly say: “I have not wasted my earthly life, but dedicated it to you, O Lord!”? This statement, spoken from a fulfilled, fully mature heart, is decisive. For God will not be mocked.

At the end of his days, each person determines himself which fruit he will take with himself into the beyond. Are they ripe fruits, which already bear the full maturity of the heart, or is it the unripe fruit, which is again inclined toward the earth, because the radiation of the shell garment is matter, for as the tree falls, so will it lie?

And as mentioned: God will not be mocked. We can speak the word God ever so often and pray to God – the question is always asked of us, here and in the beyond: Are you living according to your prayer? Are you living according to the word of God, which is the law of love, unity and peace?

Let’s assume that the unripe fruit is already inclining toward the earth, and thus, becoming a new human being, reincarnation, is pre-programmed. And assuming that this person again goes through all the chances that the days on earth offer him: Will he, this time, finally go right into the eternal homeland?

Dear fellow people, let’s check ourselves: Can we say: “No matter where life has placed me, I’ve given my best?”

In each case, we can give only that which we previously have unfolded and developed in ourselves as a gift of the heart. Do we always give our best – that which God wants?

For a person’s gifts grow out of his thinking, his whole behavior. That is the criteria for the person, on which he himself can read: Is he a giver or mostly only a taker?

We see the attitude of all of mankind in the state of the earth. Can we celebrate Thanksgiving? Or should we, particularly during this time, beat on our breasts and ask ourselves: What have I, what have we, contributed to the fact that Mother Earth is the way she is?

Let us let this question resound in us while accompanied by some music. But let us not think about ourselves, as we so often do – let us truly reflect about ourselves.

After some music:

In nature everything is arranged simply and according to its purpose. Wherever a tree is planted, it always does everything possible to bring forth what lies in the nature of its species. Let us now think again of our life. Let us realize: Do we, each one of us, do our very best, to bring forth what is in our innermost being – purity, beauty, the noble and fine? Do we unfold and let develop in us that which corresponds to the Kingdom of God?

Nature is suffering – why? Because we have not served nature. She, for her part, serves us untiringly. If mankind had also served nature, then we would have a paradise on this earth. Let us remember that the eternally unending heavenly Being is unity, which is based on all-encompassing communication. Where there is no communication, everything turns marshy; everything there is destroyed; nothing can really ripen or flourish. The result is this world: a marshy landscape, in which decay and carrion are increasing. Who would want to celebrate Thanksgiving there?

We must always bear in mind that the earth wants to give us healthy fruit, but we gave her poison. What results from this? Again, poison! And so, we can say that our food is poisoned. Do we want to give thanks for this?

This season is now autumn. What does nature say? “I am always here, always present.” She is always willing to help, to serve, to give and to bring forth the good that lies in her. And what does the person say? “At some point or other I will also come.” Or: “I’m trying.” If nature were to say this, we would have nothing to eat.

Many people have nothing to eat. Over one billion people on this earth live in poverty and suffer hunger. And why are they impoverished and hungry? Because mankind nurtures the satanic principle “I am my own best friend,” instead of fostering communication. The rich and mighty of this world should and could not only give bread to the hungry, but also land, in order to help them farm the land. Instead of that, they even rob them of their raw materials.

The earth would bring forth enough healthy food, enough healthy grain, enough healthy vegetables, to feed all the people on this earth. But what happens instead? Much of what is violently wrested from the earth is fed to artificially bred, so-called lifestock, which then, after a life filled with suffering ad nauseum, the rich nations slaughter and eat, if not to say, devour. Should we give thanks for this?

Considering this brutality toward Mother Earth with her animals and nature, which has come out of balance through this, many a one asks about justice. With human beings, justice can be found in only a very limited way. But the justice of God is the proportion in all things, because the life is unity. Mankind has created the imbalance on our planet, which resulted in the law of cause and effect. God’s justice is not the law of cause and effect – we, the human beings, have created the law of action brings reaction, of cause and effect, sowing and reaping, through our malicious and evil seed. The effect of the malicious, evil seed often bears fruit only at the end of a person’s life on earth.

But whether one is poor or rich, sated or hungry – everyone dies for himself, alone. Woe to the guilty one! At the latest, his guilt will become apparent to him in the spheres of purification. Perhaps he will have nothing to eat in a future incarnation. The badly nourished soul must learn – if not in the beyond, then here, again, as a human being. For: What a person sows he will reap.

According to the law of God, giving and receiving is communication – All-communication is life.

In autumn, people talk a lot about the fruits that should be gathered in, that must be harvested.

What actually is the difference between fruit and fear? True fruit, that is, a mature consciousness, is the cosmic fruit that knows no fear, because it has ripened in God. The one who has remained a so-called spiritually fruit is afraid. Does he have reason to be afraid? Of what? Of his own fruit. Each one is afraid only of himself, of his spiritual coldness, which has a destructive effect on him and which he ultimately is, himself.

On the other hand, if we should be afraid of our fellow humans, then we should ask ourselves: What is behind our fear? Where does the fear come from? Are we perhaps the spiritually “good-for-nothing” fruit, which has a lot of spiritual knowledge, but has, in fact, accepted the knowledge, but tossed actualization to the wind?

And so, what are we afraid of? Of what? The one is more afraid, the other less. But the question always is: What are we afraid of?

Many people are lonely and alone. Many people seek community and do not find it. What can be the reason for this? Most people think: “I am my own best friend.” But then, why look for community with others – if each one is his own best friend, in thought, word and deed?

True community is communication, which seeks peace, because peace radiates from the mature soul and seeks community. And so, true communication also seeks true friends, brothers and sisters. True friends are with each other; they help and serve each other. The true help for a friend is the help and the serving of our neighbor. That is unity, which is communication, which is peace, which is the beginning of true love.

And so, where is our neighbor? Have we remained true to ourselves only, in the awareness “I am my own best friend,” and have we thereby forgotten our fellow man?

Many, many questions at Thanksgiving. Let us ask ourselves: What does it mean to serve? True life is to serve. True life is giving, it is communication in an exchange of life forces, in which the divine resonates more and more. If we do not serve nature and our neighbor, then we do not have any true friends, either. Then we feel lonely, because we hardly have any communication with the true life, which is God, but only with the ego of the other one who corresponds to our ego.

In the long run, ego-friends do not get along.

This and much more marks the world of today: One is against the other – and yet seeks friendship, unity, communion. Where should these come from? The immature consciousness has forgotten God, the life. For what then, should we give thanks? And many a one says: “I pray. I give thanks to God.” Let us ask ourselves, let us all ask ourselves: Has God become mostly a catchword, with which we more or less soothe ourselves, in order to say: “I am on the path to Him.” I am the path to Him or do I walk the path to Him?

The more we think of our personal well-being, of our base ego, the more self-absorbed we become, which means that we think only of ourselves. How, then, does our body sound? Muffled. How does our body radiate? Darkly. Whom or what do we attract with this? Again, solely what is self-absorbed and dark. That is our world.

Whom or for what should we give thanks? For the the violated nature, which calls out: “Help! Help! Help me, O man, because I want to give, give, give to you!?” But nature can no longer give anything healthy, in order to serve mankind, for we are destroying Mother Earth, and we are poisoning the fields. We maltreat and kill the animals and, in the end, also consume them. This is our world.

Dear viewers, dear listeners, for what then, shall we give thanks? I speak this question into my heart, I speak this question into all our hearts: For what then, shall we give thanks? For health, for our more or less well-being, we should give thanks for these each day. We should give thanks for the fact that we still have food, shelter, clothing. From this, comes the question: How long will we still have something to eat? How long will we still have shelter, clothing? From this, comes the question: Does my brother, my sister have enough to eat – or are they living in want and starving?

God loves all of us. He has called on us to give from our heart and we will never live in want.

Let us take these thoughts with us in a prayer together, in the sung ‘Lord’s Prayer.” Let us become quiet and ask the music to accompany us in the “Lord’s Prayer.”

The Prayer of Unity, the Lord’s Prayer is sung together.

Dear brothers and sisters, today we have given a not-so-nice picture for Thanksgiving, almost a joyless picture. But that’s just the way it is. The hope, the only hope, lies in the Lord’s Prayer, which Jesus of Nazareth taught us. He, God, our Father, calls and calls and calls and never gives up, because the redeeming power of His Son, our Redeemer, is in us. We have the way to God, our Father, in us. But when we take it, how we take it, in sorrow, in illness, in hardship, in loneliness or in joy, so that we draw closer to Him through the fulfillment of the commandments of God and the Sermon on the Mount of Jesus, we are the ones who determine this – we, ourselves, each and every one of us.

Let us remember that the divine beings, we often speak of guardian beings or guardian angels, go with us; they are close to us; they want to help and serve us. But if we do not set out, to fulfill the laws of life step by step, then they cannot draw closer to us, because our aura is emitting sparks. And the more it does this, the more dangerous it is for us, because the adversary never sleeps. He can nestle into a sparking aura, because he is like this, himself. But he cannot nestle into a calmly flowing aura, in colors, forms and fragrance that is like the symphony of the heavens. On the contrary: He backs away from it. But our guardian beings, the spirit beings, draw closer to us, to help us, to serve us and, each day, which is our day, to show us what the next step is, toward God, our Father.

The Lord’s Prayer could show us our path to the guardian beings, to a calmer aura, if we think about the Lord’s Prayer, being aware of the following: I pray the Lord’s Prayer; I sing the Lord’s Prayer – but how do I act? How do I think? How do I talk? What do I do?

The Lord’s Prayer is the unity, the great, mighty thought of Creation, the great, mighty power of Creation, which Jesus of Nazareth taught us: “Our Father, who art in heaven; hallowed is Your name.” If we hallow His name day by day, then our aura will become calmer and the divine world, our guardian beings, will draw closer to us. This alone brings joy, through which the fear recedes and the fruit of life ripens.

Dear visitors, it is quiet in the tent of God on earth, here in the International Gathering Place of All Cultures Worldwide. And when we see the hardship of Mother Earth, perhaps even our own hardship, if we explore ourselves, then we can sometimes feel depressed. And I think all of us can really be happy and thankful that a treasure of the heavens is among us and again gives us courage, hope and trust, as Gabriele just did.

Let us take Gabriele’s words seriously. Let us take them with us when we now, each for himself, return to our earthly place of residence. And we wish all of us God’s strength and His blessing for the coming time. For I think there is much to think about and much to do.

May we see each other again soon and: Greetings in God!.