The

Soul

dictated to

Franz Schumi

Christian Theosophical Script

Nr 55

1906

Translated from German to English in 2020

1. Dear Guests!

In today's lecture:

1. I have to tell you psychic things where the human eyes and ears do not reach, so most of the time, He who is my teacher and whom I have served as my Father for many years, will speak instead of me.  My dear!  Hear the voice of the Most High, Jehovah in Jesus Christ, who speaks to us, His children:

2. "My dear children! Today, I - your God and Father Jesus Christ Jehovah Zebaoth, through My servant Schumi, as once through the prophets Moses, or David, or Isaiah, or Daniel, etc. - am beginning to speak directly to you.

3. Believe Me, your Father and Saviour of Golgotha, your religious opinion is fundamentally wrong that I, as Father of men, do not associate with My children!  If I do not communicate with you, tell Me: is it not folly then to pray to Me?  Is not your prayer communication with the King of spirits?  Hence a highly spiritual spiritualism, since it is communication with a ghost or spirit that you do not see, but only spiritual contact with Him?

4. I ask you: what are the reproaches or remorse in your breast other than My complaint against your sins and offences against Me?  I ask you: Why will you not let Me teach you Myself, and make My prophecy through Isaiah (54:13) impossible for Me, your Father in the New Testament - to teach My children Myself.

5. Why do some flee from the lectures where I, your Father in Jesus, want to teach and have you taught by Myself?  He who does not want to listen to My Voice as that of his heavenly Father and flees from it as heresy, he publicly shows that he is not yet mature to listen to the Divine Truth - he is not yet mature to hear it. -

6. My children, do you believe that I really have retreated behind all the stars and no longer keep an eye on what you are doing?  Oh, you poor ones, who make yourselves orphans, i.e. without your heavenly Father, what is to become of you when you do not want to recognize and hear My voice of love as that of your heavenly Father?  Believe Me; your wrong interpretation of the Holy Scripture, therefore the life of the world, which does not lead to Me, is the cause that I already start to intervene with the terrible events of the Last Judgement.

7. Children!  Do not flee from the voice that I speak through the mouth of My prophets of today, otherwise the extermination events of the Last Judgement of My return - which will soon bring the world through the events of the earthquakes that will follow - will bring you into despair and terrible death and destruction of all worldly glory.

8. The world's judgement is at the door; men have conjured it up through their departure from My eternal truth.

9. May you not hear Me to speak to you personally and teach you the words of eternal love?  Oh, woe unto you, children!  You are thereby moving away and demanding judgement where mountains will split and flames of fire will come out from the bowels of the earth and consume everything and destroy everything through terrible earthquakes.

10. When someone would read to you from the teaching of the future kingdom of love, which I have laid down in Christian Theosophy, you say cold-bloodedly that this is not written in the Bible, and so it is not true!

11. This objection is highly ignorant and unreasonable.  If the Scriptures came from one man - that is, if Moses alone had written them - you would be right; between Moses and the time of My incarnation, about 1500 years have passed, and during this time from one century to another, different prophets appeared and everyone brought new things, new enlightenments as supplements to the former, and so also is Christian Theosophy, as spiritual interpretation of the Bible, a main supplement to My teachings, which I gave through the prophets and apostles.  But My last revelations through the teaching of Christian Theosophy - because they are not in the Bible - are declared as heresy and false prophecy.

12. This way of acting of false Bible wisdom against Me, Jesus Christ, is the greatest weapon of attack against the truth of the Bible itself, because through this, every prophet who appeared after the death of Moses and brought news and additions which do not occur in Moses - according to the judgement of some fanatical Bible-Christians - is a heretic and false prophet, therefore stands as a religious deceiver.

13. But now in the first chapter in John, it is openly and clearly stated that God's Word is God Jesus Jehovah Zebaoth Himself, and because through all the prophets I, Jehovah Myself, have always spoken – I, Who now bear the name Jesus Christ; so the said objections that this is not in the Bible, make Me, your God and Father in Christ, a heretic, false prophet and therefore a religious impostor, according to the conclusions set out; and such Bible-fanatics want to come to Me in the new Jerusalem immediately after death?  It will still take some time until they have expiated their sins against Me!

14. I've told you clearly what the situation is.  Now I give you the explanation that touches the spiritual, or projects into the spirit kingdom - therefore supernatural - which is not possible without Me or a high heavenly spirit, to sense that it is completely in accordance with truth, and that is why you are not to stay stuck to the same [old] opinions and remarks, which are exceedingly harmful for your salvation, when listening to the supernatural enlightenments, which I send to you through My children in the world, so that you do not once have to bitterly regret and weep for them in the spirit kingdom.

15. I found this introduction necessary to precede Schumi's explanations; because he still has to ask Me, his heavenly Father, for clarification about all dark questions and these I, Jesus Myself will explain to him; therefore do not be offended by Me, your God and Father, when I explain this and that to you through the heavenly clouds, in which I come again, speaking for Myself, because the clouds of heaven are just My personal words, through whom you now hear Me speak, but you do not see Me personally.

2. The Prophetic Inner Word

16. The prophets once possessed this word, then the apostles and now My writing mediums.

17. This word is only given to those who distinguish themselves through love for Me and My children as their neighbour.  No lower spirit speaks through the inner word, but only I and heavenly spirits.  I, the Eternal Truth, certainly do not speak a lie; only heavenly spirits speak through a prophet when I allow it, and when they speak, they speak the truth - otherwise they would move away from heaven, therefore from Me and approach My counterpart, the prince of lies.

18. So when you read or hear My words, consider well before you criticize it thoughtlessly!  Because I and My Word are one and the same, he who criticizes My Word, criticizes Me in My Word.  If this is enough for you, then it is good, otherwise an hour will come where you will have to give account of every thoughtless word! - After this introduction, we come to the point:

3. What does the Human Soul Consist of?

The soul of man is an outflow from the Divine Love-flame, it is - when it is in the light of God, that is: when it is sinless - a spiritual light and fine as the ether, therefore invisible to the eyes of the flesh.  In the sinner is no light, but it is a dark grey spiritual figure.

4. What does the soul look like?

The soul looks just like the flesh-body, which it has built up in its image from the blood, and which it inhabits as its material dwelling and uses as a tool to be able to reveal itself materially.

5. Who forms the soul?

19. The soul, as an outpouring of Divine love-rays, born of the basic flame of Divine Love, is put by the Spirit of God into the form as the Spirit of God uses it for this or that living being. The soul of man is the last form in the refinement of the Divine original thoughts, which live and work invisibly in the world as souls in different life-forms.  The final transformation of this soul, which continuously developed in various forms through the stone-, plant- and animal kingdoms and united all soul-specifics that are in the earth, water and air, has been formed into the form of the human soul.

20. But the form of the soul of man is the image of God, so I said through the prophet Isaiah 54:5 - "Soul, He Who made you is your husband, Jehovah of hosts is His name, and is your Redeemer (namely from Golgotha), the Holy One in Israel, who is called God of the whole world.”

21. See, My children, how high and noble your spiritual descent is!  Your soul is My bride, and I, Jesus Jehovah of hosts, the King of heaven and earth, dwell according to the revelation I gave through the apostle Paul in his letters to the Corinthians (2) and Romans (3), as a spark of that Holy Spirit of God in you, who as Jesus Jehovah raised the body of Christ from the dead and incarnated it as the spiritual dwelling of the soul of Christ, which is the soul of God Himself!

22. From this you see who you are as My spiritual children; and that is why you will also understand that I, your God and Father Jesus, who dwells in you, am the One who gave you your soul-life and intelligence that it could so artfully build up your flesh-body in the body of the mother.

23. Schumi: There are already so many proofs about the soul-life here and in the hereafter, that I could give several lectures about this task.  But that would be too much, I will limit myself to a few proofs, which are well certified, and these will be enough for us.

6. Each person sees his own soul

24. When man wants to sleep, the soul, being the life of the flesh-body, must, before man can fall asleep, withdraw and come out of the body; for as long as the soul dwells in the whole body, the body cannot fall asleep, because the sleep of the body is nothing else but the soul coming out of the body, which is the life of the body itself, because the body is dead matter animated by the soul.

25. This proof is given to you both by daily sleep when you have no dreams, and by the death of the body itself.  During the daily sleep only the soul leaves, but the nerve-spirit remains in the body, which has the intelligence from Me to keep the necessary bodily functions going during sleep, such as breathing and heart-activity for the circulation of the blood.

26. But this nerve-spirit is also the telegraph of the soul in the body.  The nerve-spirit is in constant contact with the soul, which is somewhere in the spirit realm during bodily sleep, as its telegraphist in the pit of the stomach.  As soon as a sound, a voice or a touch of the sleeping body is so strong that it makes the electric nerve-spirit tremble, this tremor moves through the electricity of the nerve-spirit into the electric cord that connects the soul with the pit of the stomach, which is otherwise called the solar plexus, and in this way the soul, which is sometimes thousands, even millions of miles away, wherever it is, is telegraphically notified, and because it, as Divine light, consists of pure electricity through Me, its Divine spirit, Jesus Christ, I - who dwell in its soul-heart, is transferred back into its body at the speed of thought.

27. The proof that the soul is often far away from the sleeping body, lies in the fact that it does not see the person who sneaks silently close to it and robs it or makes it either halfway or completely useless as dwelling place of the soul through the injury with a tool, so that the soul then takes its nerve-spirit with it and departs from the body into the spirit realm and forever leaves the body to its fate.  If the soul were in or near the body during the forthcoming robbery or murder, it would immediately enter the body completely, thereby reviving and awakening it and thus drawing attention to the approaching danger.  That the healthy nerves of a young person are incomparably stronger and therefore less sensitive to external events than those of a nerve-ill person, is well known to you all and needs no special justification.

7. The Soul in Dreams

28. When man dreams, he sees his soul.  The soul, as an electric light-form, has the property of being able to decrease in size at will, and if it wants to, also to increase it. Through this property it is possible for it to become so small that it can dwell in the pit of the stomach, like a doll the size of a span.

29. Every soul consists of the original body from which it can separate and send out a thought-body that looks exactly like it, with which it works outside its body.  This body, although only the thought-body of the soul, is spiritual-material, because it is a spiritual fully true reality; because this thought-body is much more real and true to the soul than the material flesh-body, which is only an illusory body for the spirit, or like a cloud or fog-formation.

30. When the soul that has withdrawn from the body into the pit of the stomach, causes the body to fall asleep, or when the soul that has been outside the body for a time, enters the pit of the stomach and begins to work there outwardly, it sends its thought-body out of itself, to where it wants to go.  This thought-body is connected to the soul through the said electric threads, through the cord that comes out of the pit of the stomach; through this cord, the thought-threads of the soul go into the brain of the thought-body, from where the whole thought-body is then directed; but from the flesh-brain also goes an electrical connection to the brain of the thought-body, through which that which the thought-body carries out through the guidance of the soul, is visibly and audibly supplied to the flesh-brain, where the spiritual telegraph machine is located, which receives the telegraphed message, and thus fully consciously hands it over to your reason and mind, where it then remains stored in the small brain as spiritual news for eternity.

31. Every person experiences this process in dreams, and therefore every person also sees his own soul in dreams, which looks just like his flesh-body.  That this is his soul, and not his daily body, can be seen from this, for during dreaming, the flesh-body lies immobile in the bed.  And that in such dreams the dreamer never sees the flesh-body lying in the bed, is because the soul staying in the pit of the stomach, supplies its expressions of will to the thought-body through its thought-channels, speaks through it, walks, works, consorts with the souls of the still living and deceased, sings, acts etc. as it is used to do in the flesh-body.  And what it telegraphs to the thought-body, the thought-body telegraphs to the spiritual-flesh brain of the body as a visibly executed fact.

32. From this you see that every man, when he dreams, sees his own soul, but he also sees the souls of acquaintances, the living and the dead, therefore no man can say that he has never seen the soul, even more than seen it, he has even communicated with the spirits of the dead; for the vivid dreams of deep sleep are full realities and not illusions.

33. So the dreams are the proof that every man knows that he has a soul because in dreams he sees it as his own ego and he knows well that this cannot be the flesh-body, because during dreaming, it lies there like dead while the body that one sees spiritually, is full of life and movement.

8. Dreams

34. Dreams are realities, as already explained in chapter 7 about the explanation of the soul in dreams - but of spiritual nature; that is why people rarely understand how to interpret their dreams correctly.

35. I only want to draw your attention here to those true dreams which are historically proven and attested, so that you may know that dreams are not fluff, as worldly men who are not initiated into the spiritual secrets of human life are in the habit of saying - and so we immediately come to the discussion of some such dreams which are well known to you; for they are precisely the proof that the soul lives on and works as a spirit there in the hereafter after death.

9. The Dreamer seen in his Action

1903, March 9, Graz, Peter Apat, who is personally known to me, Schumi, tells his dream, which he had in Cilli, but which his clairvoyant mother saw being carried out in Graz.

36. I, Peter Apat, born in Graz in Styria in 1878, was drafted in 1899 for eight weeks with the 87th Infantry Regiment for military training in Cilli (since I am conscribed after Franz in Santal).  In the last 14 days of my weapon training, I had a great longing to go home to my mother, and one night I dreamt that I came home, went to the room where my mother was sleeping, stepped up to her bed, stood there for a few seconds with her, but then I went to the table, sat down, and at that moment I woke up.

37. When I came home 8 days before Christmas, my mother told me that although the door of the room was locked, she saw me enter, go to her bed where she could even hear me breathing deeply, then I went to the table, sat down and suddenly disappeared from before her eyes.

38. These concurring facts provide the proof that Apat's mother saw the thought-body of his soul, proceeding and doing in Graz exactly as her son had dreamed in Cilli.  His mother is clairvoyant and saw this dream-event, although in bed, but not asleep, but in a completely awake state.  Therefore this event is a beautiful proof of the reality of the dream experience, and that dreams are not fluff, but truths.

10. God's orders in dreams for Jesus' sake

Year 33, March 25, early, Jerusalem.  The wife of Pilate, Tulia Innocentia, sees in a dream, Jesus as the Judge of the world, who in His love-zeal, takes Jerusalem and the people of the whole world to judgement.

39. When I, Jesus, dressed in a white garment, came back from Herod to Pilate, Tulia Innocentia, Pilate's wife, called her husband and told him her vision, as she saw it with clear eyes, that this Jesus, whom he had just condemned to death, was floating on the clouds of the sky, accompanied by innumerable myriads of the most glorious genii (angels); all cried with a thunderous voice:

40. 'Salvation to our great God, salvation to the eternal, almighty Conqueror of death and hell!  Woe to Jerusalem!  Woe to you who dwell in it, your lot will be eternal death, because you do not want to recognize and align with Jesus!  To the only righteous man of all righteousness be eternal glory, honour and salvation.'  “Then this Jesus looked down upon the earth, and behold, the whole earth was burning all around, and everything was ablaze, and everything that breathed was consumed by this fire!  Therefore, dear Pilate, have nothing to do with this just man!"

41. This dream corresponded perfectly to the truth; for Jerusalem was destroyed; - the earth will be purified and judged in the zeal of Divine Love, either for the new kingdom of love or for hell, where one or the other will have earned his or her living.

12. The Spiritual Double

The doppelganger is either the soul of a person itself or its thought-body, which it sends out, as was said in the explanation above, chapter 7.

13. Evidence of the Spiritual Double

1902, August 3, Graz.  Father Jesus explains through F. Sch. that man often, while he is busy in a place where his flesh-body is located, goes around the world with his soul-double mind-body and pursues quite different occupations than those of the flesh-body.

42. I, Schumi, was on August 3, 1902, at 3:30 afternoon, waiting in the tram shelter at Jakominiplatz in Graz with Brother Prokop for the tram cars, which was heading for the southern line.  It had rained a little.  Suddenly I noticed brother Michael Stroj coming out of Schönau street with an open umbrella in his hand and walking towards the bus shelter, but when he was very close, he turned to the left and walked towards the tram car that had arrived, as if he wanted to get on it, but when he reached the place where he was getting on, he disappeared behind the car among the people.

43. Monday, August 4, I went to Brother Stroj and asked him where he was yesterday at 3:30 in the afternoon.  After a short thought, he answered me: "Here at home".  Now I told him that at the same time I saw him coming back from me in Leitner street through Schönau street, and that I recognized him clearly by his outward appearance, hat, coat, trousers and face, that it was him, but that when he came to the boarding point, he disappeared among the crowd and did not get into the car, although he had hurried there earlier with the firm intention of getting on.

44. Father's explanation: Man often walks around in the world as a spiritual double, while he is busy in the flesh somewhere else and knows nothing about the fact that he is spiritually active in two places, here materially, there spiritually.  So it was the same here: Michael Stroj was at home, thinking of Schumi, and visited him with the soul-body of thought, which is the body that acts outwardly and is reproduced in dreams, which is seen acting and walking, and this doppelganger visited Schumi in his apartment, and since he did not find him at home, he went home again and, because it was raining, he thought of the umbrella, and this too was immediately there, with which Schumi saw him walking across Jakomini Square.  But at the moment when Stroj wanted to get on the tram, the flesh-brain (the outer sense) dropped its thoughts of Schumi and thought of other things, and that is why the double, which Schumi saw with his spiritual eyes opened by Me, was suddenly withdrawn and disappeared from Schumi's eyes.

14. Hypnosis

45. Hypnotism is the opposite of magnetism, that is why hypnotism is frowned upon in My Divine sight, and namely because one maltreats the soul through 'must' and 'command' to have to believe and do what the hypnotist wants, and although one also achieves good with it, hypnosis in this case is still counted as black magic according to Matthew 7:22.

46. But if one refrains from commanding, use the word: 'You must!' only in a friendly sense, without crude emphasis, and if one avoids lying, then hypnosis is not a forbidden healing method from My side.

15. Spiritism

47. Spiritism is the interaction with deceased people who make themselves known through spiritistic mediums.

48. Spiritism was approved for the present time in 1848 for the purpose of convincing the doubters and deniers of the existence of God and to convince these souls of the opposite.  But men have far exceeded this intention of God's and have therefore reached over into the forbidden area, because they were mostly driven by the addiction to entertainment of having interaction with the deceased.

49. It is not My intention here to describe spiritism in detail, but to tell you only so much that through spiritism, many people who came to wrong views were converted and brought back to God and to the faith in the soul and its survival after the death of the body.  If there are pious, morally pure people in the meetings, then there are messages from the spirits of the central paradise; but if there are bound, sinful and vicious people, then only evil, lying and malicious spirits of hell cavort around the attendees.  Heavenly spirits are not represented in spiritism.  From this you can see the lies and truths that prevail in spiritistic sessions.

50. The church's teaching that the spiritistic spirits are from among the spirits who once fell with Lucifer is highly ridiculous and indicative of how little people know of the true teaching of Christianity.  The one who is thoroughly taught in Christian Theosophy, cares little or not at all about spiritism; for you cannot get a better teaching than from Me, your heavenly Father Jesus, anywhere.

51. On the other hand, it cannot be ignored that it is precisely through spiritism that most of the secrets of the spirit realm have been revealed to you.  But the higher insight into the spirit kingdom, on which you can better rely than on the statements of the spiritistic spirits, has been given to you through My children and through Me, your heavenly Father, Jesus Self.  Since the interaction in spiritism has led to the aforementioned abuse and misunderstanding of the truth, which am I, Jesus, the incarnated God Myself, therefore this brief description should suffice for you.  Whoever wants to know the pure truth about Me, should read the book "Christ and the Bible".

16. The Teaching of Reincarnation

52. Also called re-embodiment, it teaches you according to My revelation, that today millions of people live reincarnated on earth who have lived on earth before.  All of these have died and after many hundreds of years of reincarnation in the world, they have recently entered the flesh and are living again as human beings among you.  Therefore they have come back into the world from the dead.

53. The proofs that people die and some (but not all) step into the flesh again as newborn children, can be found in Psalm 90; Ezekiel 34; Malachi 3:1; -4:5,6; Maccabees 7; in the Kabbalist Sochar, twice; in Flavius Josephus from the time of the destruction of Jerusalem twice, thus 9 proofs from Jewish writings.

54. The New Testament tells of this directly and indirectly in the following passages: John 1:23; Matt 11:10; John 9:2; Matt 16:14; Mark 6:14; Matt 11:14; I Corinthians 3:18-19, therefore 7 proofs of reincarnation.  Here are 16 passages in the Bible and in Jewish scriptures as proofs of the belief in reincarnation and 9 church teachers of the first centuries taught it as a highly spiritual Christian doctrine.

55. Finally in the year 553, the Roman Church acted at the Council of Constantinople and condemned and cursed the doctrine of reincarnation, which was proved true by the prophets, by Jehovah in Christ, Apostle Paul and by 9 Fathers of the Roman Church, thus by 25 witnesses.

56. However, before a high spirit who wants to reincarnate, receives the grace of clairvoyance, he must ask for it before reincarnation.  Such grace then often occurs without the person who receives, asking for it.  On such occasions he looks into the past or spiritually into the present, or into the future, namely into the states and things that are hidden from the flesh-eye; and so sometimes the spiritual vision is opened for him, through which he sees the spirits of the deceased; but if he is highly advanced, he can also speak to them, like the clairvoyant Martha of Endor, who spoke with Samuel.

57. A rare case and proof of reincarnation is the following dream, which my friend, on whose honesty I can rely, told me:

17. A Reincarnation-Dream-Vision

1901, April 22nd, Graz.  Brother Gustav Schwarz describes his dream vision that his own soul in the shape and suit of his last incarnation, appeared to him and made itself known to him.

58. He writes: I was asleep and dreaming: I saw a tall, strong, beardless man with beautiful Roman features and short hair, his clothes were a black Roman toga with trimmings around the neck, and he was holding a scroll of paper in his hand.  His eyes were large and spiritualized, his face was nobly formed and young.  I looked up at him, for he was much bigger and stronger than I was and I heard his voice speaking to me: "That was once you," which woke me up.  But I saw the figure in my mind, still awake and vivid before me, as it appeared to me in the dream, and I thought about this strange dream for a whole hour.

59. Explanation of the Father Jesus about the dream of reincarnation: The young Roman was indeed the figure of the brother Gustav Schwarz as he lived in the fifth century after My birth.  He was the son of a bourgeois family from Rimini in Italy (province of Forli, at the mouth of the river Marecchia, flowing into the Adriatic Sea).  The paper scroll he was holding in his hand indicated that he was a scholar, namely a talented poet, who had beautiful dispositions to poetic creations, but which were all lost in the course of the stormy times.  His parents brought him up carefully and he also received an excellent Christian education at school, and he would have been a good teacher to his people if a cold had not plunged him into an early grave.

60. The ability of the soul to consciously and physically put itself into its former incarnation is a gift from Me, which is only granted to few, but is still to take place so that the unbelieving world can experience that all kinds of abilities exist in the soul when the spirit of My 'I', which dwells in the heart of every man, finds it good to endow the soul with this or that gift.

61. The fact that a reincarnation-vision appears here for the first time, is also a proof that it is not the soul that is the omniscient and all-knowing spirit in the body, but only the Spirit of God, who at His discretion endows the soul with this or that ability, so that the errors in the conclusions of the researchers are eliminated.

18. Somnambulism Generated by Magnetic Sleep

62. Somnambulism is a gift of God to a pious soul who wants to step out of the hereafter back into the flesh and gather new merits for the spiritual life in the world, because this can be done [on earth] much easier than in the spirit realm.  There is evidence in the Old and New Testament that such re-embodiments happen.  I only draw your attention to Elijah as John the Baptist and to the man born blind before the temple.

63. There are some clairvoyants, among whom the female gender is particularly well represented.  Such people occasionally see spiritual phenomena of this or that kind and therefore also spirits and sometimes also hear their voices.  Such clairvoyant persons become very clairvoyant when they are put into magnetic sleep, and through them, one can communicate with the inhabitants of the spirit realm.  If deceased parents, siblings, or friends come to the meeting, they ask for something as proof of the truth that the person reported is really the person in question, which nobody else knows, except the person demanding the proof and the deceased person.  If the proof is given, then you know that you are really dealing with the dear departed one.  But the one who demands proof must not think of anything, while the deceased must give him the proof; otherwise the deceased would reproduce the thoughts of the living, because the spirit speaks the words in thoughts, hears them aloud, because the thoughts are audible words to the spirits.

64. Therefore, consider carefully what you silently say to yourselves in your thoughts; if they are evil or sinful words, you yourself sin; for it is your fault that the spirits that accompany and overhear you everywhere are taught or guided to sin by your thoughts, if they are sinful in nature;  thirdly, the soul of the person concerned hears against whom something bad or good is spoken, even because I, as the just Judge of all My children, leave this privilege to the soul or the spirit itself to either reconcile here in goodness or to hand out judgement against each other there in the spirit realm with words or also with tangible proofs of retaliation.

65. So I will let justice be done.  No-one is to be denied to seek and find his justice himself, therefore to be the judge in his own matter himself, and that is why two friends who were the best comrades here on earth, when arrived in the hereafter, become the greatest enemies and wildly pursue and beat each other because one here on earth had spread evil slander about the other behind his back.  Beware of thinking and speaking evil of your neighbour; for if you sow the wind here, you will reap the whirlwind there; for your thoughts, words and deeds will follow you into the hereafter.  After this preliminary explanation of the Father Jesus, we come to some evidence of somnambulism.

19. Experiments with Mizi Schäffer

66. In 1900 I, Schumi, put a young lady with some clairvoyant ability, into magnetic sleep for 4 evenings.  Since I treated three sick people in the city, I gave this somnambulist the name of the alley, the house number, the stairs and the room where the sick people were.  She found them rightaway.  I had the one man's lungs examined and determined what the disease was like inside.  She told me, quite correctly.  With a woman who was sick in her stomach and intestines, she could not quite see through.  The cause was the insufficient strength of clairvoyance of this medium.  With one woman I told her to look at the sick foot and tell what she perceived to be sick about it.  She said, "I see blood on the foot."  Since I told the woman the same day to make a vinegar wrapper, I said that the foot is so red from the strong vinegar and said, "That's not blood, it's the foot that's so red from the vinegar wrapper".  But the clairvoyant opposed me, and since I did not admit this, she said, in great surprise, "What, this is not blood, this shall not be blood?" Later I realized that the psychic was right, it was accumulated blood.

67. I had her take a look into various rooms of well-known families and have her tell me what kind of people she sees in them, and everything was correct.  After I woke her up again, she never knew anything that she had done or said during her sleep.

20. Mrs Ötiker in the hereafter

68. In 1893, on June 4, 1893, Barbara Ötiker died in Hegnau near Volketswyl (in the canton of Zurich).  Barbara Ötiker was baptized with several spiritual gifts or reborn in the spirit, and many healed people know of her apostolic graces, for she was known to many people as a healing and counseling benefactress.

69. In 1904, on 29 December, Mr. R. put a somnambulist in Zurich into magnetic sleep in the presence of 4 other people.  I took this opportunity to ask Mrs. Ötiker, through the somnambulist, to legitimize the teaching of Christian Theosophy that I am presenting, in front of those present, whether it really comes from God the Father Jesus, and she replied that they have no other teaching in heaven either.

70. The medium spoke spiritually personally with the woman Ötiker in her heavenly region. She had a lot of little kids around her that she teaches.  The somnambulist said: "Oh, you are very beautiful!  You are beautiful!"

71. See, this is the interaction with the otherworldly beings by clairvoyants who are put into magnetic sleep.  A somnambulist is not a swindler, but such a clairvoyant is a person gifted by God.  When she is awakened again, she knows nothing of what she has seen, heard or spoken.

72. Somnambulism is the best and most reliable way to establish communication with the hereafter, because the spirit can be seen through the medium, described how it looks like and questioned.

21. Evidence from the Beyond

Jesus says: Many people say that there is no survival after the death of the body, because no-one has come back yet.  This view is very ignorant and comes from the fact that there is a far too insufficient religious instruction among the people, while those who are initiated into spiritual science know of innumerable proofs which show a quite clear picture of the conditions in the hereafter, and some of these will be discussed here as religious instruction.

22. The spirits from Hell Reclaiming the Dirt

1905, May 15, Zurich.  Father Jesus dictates through F. Sch. a ghost story from the year 1837, which took place in the parish village of Glogowitz in the eastern Upper Carniola with a woman there, from which one can see how malicious the spirits of hell are, if they were allowed to deal with people according to their heart's desire.

73. Thirty kilometers from the capital Ljubljana in Carniola, Austria, lies the parish of Glogowitz, called Blagovica in Slovenian.  In this parish I, Schumi, was with relatives from 1855 to 1862, and because my relatives' house was an inn, people from all over the parish came to drink and buy tobacco, so I knew them.

74. Among the visitors was Bizèlka or the wife of the farmer Bizèl, whose house was behind the parish church.  This woman always and very strongly trembled with her head like a gout-ridden person and the following incident was told about it:

75. When the woman was still young, a calf had a disease for which the woman knew no remedy.  At the time of the affliction, an old beggar woman came into the house, and because such people experience various things when they wander about, Bizèlka turned to the beggar woman, complaining and asked her for advice on what to use to cure the calf or young cow.

76. The beggar woman now advised her the following remedy: Go to the cemetery, take a handful of the earth of a fresh grave, knead and bake it into a loaf of bread, give the young cow to eat and she will be healed.  Since the woman was baking the same day, this advice was immediately put to the test.  She went to the cemetery, took a handful of the earth from a freshly dug grave, kneaded it into the dough, baked it and gave it to the calf to eat, but it did not cure her, she died soon afterwards.

77. After this type of healing the day passed without any disturbance.  Finally it became evening and the wife went to cook the evening meal for the house family. When the bell rang at 7 o'clock in the evening, she stood on the doorstep at the cemetery side.  She prayed her Hail Mary prayer, as is the custom among Roman Catholics.  Finally the last chime of the bells rang out and she suddenly saw a crowd of people climbing over the cemetery wall, jumping down on her side and rushing straight at her.

78. Since this apparition seemed quite strange to her, she looked at those who came to her in amazement.  When they were already close by she looked at them more closely, but she recognized no-one, they were all strange faces; at that very moment she heard these words from them: "Give us back the dirt!  And pushed themselves ever closer to her, repeating this demand.

79. Now the woman realized that these were spirits of the deceased who demanded back from her the earth she took.  Scared to death, she jumped into the family room, sat down at the table and told the maid to finish cooking supper, which she did without seeing anything of the spirits.

80. As she sat there so quietly, her husband asked her, "Neza (that is, Agnes), what is wrong with you that you are so quiet and do not want to cook yourself as you do every day?  After they had eaten, they went straight to sleep, as is the custom in the country.

81. As soon as she lay down and turned out the light, the woman began to tremble with fright all over her body, and now she told the man what she had done and experienced, and that the dead were looking at her [standing] side by side at the window in the bedroom, repeating their demand: "Give us back the dirt"!

82. The woman wept, complaining of the impossibility of fulfilling their desire, and shuddered at the dead, trembling and sweating all over her body.  The man comforted her; for he saw nothing, but she saw the dead standing at the window and repeating their desire, "Give us back our dirt".

83. The spiritual following of the poor woman lasted a full eight hours until the bell again announced the dawn.  When the bell rang, the spirits disappeared and now there was silence all day long until the evening bell rang.

84. The peasants were afraid to tell this matter to the priest so as not to be berated, but especially because they thought that the ghostly haunting would not be repeated.  But it didn't happen; the spirits pushed their demand for the return of their dirt even worse than the day before, the poor woman was completely overwhelmed by the exceeding shock, shudder and fear of the dead, so that both spouses cried and could hardly wait for the time of redemption from this hellish torment.  At 4 o'clock in the morning, when the day bell rang, peace was restored and the hellish spirits disappeared; for if they had not been devils, and very wicked devils at that, they would not have let the poor woman suffer such agony.

85. After the mass, at 7 o'clock in the morning, both spouses went to the priest, named Thalmeiner, and told him their experiences and their plight in tears.  The parish priest promised them help and told the woman: "Mrs. Bizèlka, if you come to the parsonage in the evening, but certainly before the Hail Mary ringing, then I will help you," and so it happened.

86. When the Hail Mary ringing began, the priest took a book, a crucifix and a burning candle in his hand and called Bizèlka to come along.  They went to the cemetery entrance, which is right in front of the parish house, and when they got there, the woman began to tremble and said: "I see the deceased rising from all the graves, side by side, and all are coming towards us.  The priest told her to stay calmly with him, as he was about to help.

87. He immediately read from a Latin exorcism book to the spirits who stopped and listened, and as he read through the relevant prohibitions and reprimands, he made a sign of the cross downwards with the crucifix, and at that moment, the spirits sank back into the earth like a mist.  Now the priest accompanied the trembling woman to her house two minutes away and told her in a calm tone that she should never again allow herself to have anything to do with the dead, that the second evil should not be worse than the first.

88. This event happened in 1837, which I, Schumi, heard from others and also from the mouth of Bizèlka herself in the house near Breznik in 1858; and which, according to the truth, was now dictated to me for the public by Father Jesus.

89. The conclusion from this is this: that the dead do not sleep in the grave, but watch, and go about doing what is pleasing to them; for if the dead were to sleep continually, there would be no hell and no heaven in the hereafter for him.

90. On the other hand, you can see from this that these deceased lived in the graves and rose from the graves.  The reason for this fact is the wrong church teaching about the resurrection of the dead on the last day, and that is why the misled believe that they have to wait in the tomb until the Last Judgement for the resurrection of the flesh, while they immediately entered the Last Judgement when they left the earthly world and entered the kingdom of spirits.  Certainly the stench of the rotting body in the grave was a very horrible judgement for the fine olfactory organ of the soul, and the cold grave is a torment for them who, bound in the false church teaching, wait in the grave of death for the Last Judgement that never wants to come.

23. Archangel Raphael as consolidated Spirit and Man

91. In the book Tobias we read that Azariah, a son of the great Ananiah, died and then came as an angel Raphael to the old Tobias, who was completely blinded, and accompanied his son to the city of Rages in Midian, helped him in the city of Ekbatana to a woman named Sarah, the daughter of Raguel and to collect the money lent to Gabael in Rages and to heal his father by means of the gall of a fish from the Star river, so that he regained his sight.

92. This journey lasted 45 days, during which time Raphael ate, drank, slept and behaved like an ordinary person, so that no-one considered him for anything but an ordinary person.  It was only when he returned to Nineveh, after he had done everything, that he told them who he was and disappeared before the eyes of Tobias' family.

24. The Rich Glutton and the poor Lazarus

From the story of the rich glutton and the poor Lazarus, it is clear that what is sown here will be reaped there, that on entering the spirit realm, each one immediately comes to his Last Judgement, either in paradise or in hell, and that in the spirit realm there is no deathlike sleep until the Last Judgement, but a lively activity and movement.

25. King Saul spoke with the deceased prophet Samuel

93. In the last period of his reign, King Saul was abandoned by Me and I did not answer his questions.  In his distress he went to the clairvoyant Martha of Endor and asked her to call the deceased prophet and judge in Israel, Samuel, to him from limbo, for a meeting - who also came and announced the king's downfall to him, because he did not follow God.

94. From this story you learn that there are truly clairvoyant people who can see and hear the deceased and thus talk to them; further that Paul - instead of having him descend from the etheric region - had to let him ascend from the underworld in order to comply with the false teaching of the Jews about limbo, in which the deceased awaited Me as redeemer from the original sin of Adam.  But this limbo was nothing else but the unfulfilled longing of the children to reach Me, their Father in heaven.

26. The Appearance of the Archangel Gabriel

95. The late Patriarch Jared, father of Enoch, appeared under the heavenly name: Archangel Gabriel to the High Priest Zachariah and announced to him the birth of a son named John, the later Baptist at the Jordan.

96. The same archangel Gabriel later brought the message of the conception of Jesus to the Virgin Mary.

97. The communication of Gabriel with Zachariah, who was the reincarnated Moses, also clearly proves that I send out My servants visibly, audibly and working in authority of My power when I have something important to do.

98. The appearance of the archangel Gabriel happened both times at 10 o'clock in the morning.  Zachariah and Mary saw him and talked to him.  He is one of the great angels who hold the highest honorary position before My throne in the New Jerusalem.  Thus the proof is given to you that the communication between this world and the hereafter takes place when the circumstances demand this as a necessity.

27. The Transfiguration at Mount Tabor

99. At the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor, Moses and Elijah appeared and spoke to Me in the presence of My three disciples, Peter, John and Jacob.

100. At the ascension these same two archangels appeared and spoke to the disciples about My return, which is now taking place.  Although it is expected that I will come in the watery clouds of the firmament, but the clouds of heaven are only My doctrines of Christian Theosophy and nothing else.  Who does not acknowledge Me in these clouds, will wait in vain for other clouds because clouds of heaven are spiritually called "Words of God".

101. From the previous reports, you have noticed that My archangels Moses, Elijah, Raphael, Samuel and Gabriel interacted with the people and thus came back from the beyond.

102. You would think, yes, they were archangels, but not ordinary deceased people.  This view would be wrong, because up to now, more than 60 000 deceased people have announced themselves in the spiritistic circles to their survivors, friends, acquaintances and circle leaders through various manifestations, that is, more than 60 000 is certainly a respectable amount of dead people who, as spirits, manifested their survival after death in the spiritistic sessions through personal appearances, speaking, preaching, reaching out to those present, lifting heavy objects or shaking them back and forth or carrying them, playing music, writing and many other performances.  But do not believe those who call it deception and cheating; but also do not believe those who in the spiritistic sessions smell nothing but devils and demons from the angels who fell with Satan-Lucifer.  This is nothing but ignorance and nonsense.  Do not let such false teachers degrade your dear departed parents, siblings, friends, etc. to devils.

103. I, Schumi, am not a spiritist; for as a servant and scribe of the heavenly Father I cannot and must not concern myself with spiritism, but it is my duty to speak the truth, because I am thoroughly informed about spiritism partly by reading, partly by watching, partly by Father Jesus.

28. Lazarus of Bethany

In the year 32, on October 17, I brought back to life Lazarus of Bethany, who had already been dead for 4 days and who emitted a strong smell of death, and who then lived another 15 years after the resurrection.  He returned with a faint memory of what he had seen, heard and experienced in the hereafter; a full memory would have made his life on earth completely miserable.  He died in the year 47 for the second time as a completed man for the first heaven, because he had used his earthly time well for the spiritual life.

29. Personal appearances of 346 deceased

When I pronounced My last word on the cross: "It is finished", My earthly body died and at that moment the earth shook, rocks split and 346 spirits of the pious deceased received permission to show themselves to their survivors living on earth as an extraordinary sign of the catastrophe.  This magnificent event filled the great city of Jerusalem with joy for My expected resurrection on the third day, but at the same time with trembling among the guilty, for what would follow.  It was one of the greatest events in the history of the world that so many deceased appeared at once and showed themselves to their relatives.

30. Jesus as Spirit

104. After the resurrection, My body was a spirit, and only acted as a material presence with the two disciples who went to Emmaus.  I went and talked with Cleophas and Barsabas Justus all the way; but in the inn at Emmaus, when they recognized Me through the blessing and breaking of the bread, I disappeared from before their eyes.

105. In the evening, with the doors closed, I suddenly appeared in the midst of My disciples.  They were frightened because they thought they saw a ghost.  Strengthened by My willpower, I let Myself be touched as flesh and bone and ate a fish and honey cakes before their eyes.  And still I was a spirit from the beyond, because when leaving the disciples, I disappeared just as suddenly before their eyes as when I suddenly appeared at My arrival.

31. The Heavenly sense of Welfare of the Blessed

In 1900, on February 17th, I, Schumi, woke up at half past six in the morning, and when I opened my eyes, I saw my bedroom illuminated with a yellow light, at the same time I felt an indescribable feeling of well-being throughout my whole body.  For I was transferred to the so-called prophet-heaven, where I enjoyed the heavenly well-being of the blessed for 8 seconds, which feels so good, but cannot be described.  Nor did I feel the bed, although I was completely awake, but it was as if I had floated in the air.  The strange thing about this feeling is that I felt a sense of well-being throughout my whole body and not just in my heart or upper body.  This yellow light was the spiritual light of God's love.

32. Report of the departure of Joseph, the foster Father of Jesus

106. The evangelist John says the following in the last two chapters of his gospel:

107. John 20:30 - Jesus also did many other signs before His disciples, which are not written in this book.

108. John 21:25 - There are also many other things Jesus did, but if they were to be written one by one, I fear that the world would not understand the books to be described.

109. Nowadays, mankind is more civilized, and therefore more understanding, to the extent that Jesus had the said books written in 10 thick volumes by His tools, which He Himself dictated, and in them the following is recorded about Joseph's death:

110. Jesus spoke and explained His personality to those present with the following words: "What I submit to the Father in My heart, He does, and what the Son wants, the Father also wants in eternity, and there is never a difference between the will of the Father and the will of the Son! - For, believe Me: "Father and Son are not two, but completely one in everything" (That is to say; Love as Father and Wisdom as the Son, are always one in God and not two, for both represented Jesus.

111. To which Joses, the second son of Joseph, replied, "Lord and brother!  We all believe, and how shall we not believe, since we have been around You from Your birth onward, and have seen signs in countless numbers, which have only too loudly proclaimed to us who You are.  Brother Jacob has written a whole big book, from Your birth up to Your 12th year of life, from which time up to your present age you gave no sign (except the one in the 20th year) and worked and lived with us like an ordinary man, so that we almost forgot Who You were if the physical death of our beloved father Joseph a year ago, had not given us a tremendous blow.

112. For when Joseph died in Your arms, his last words were accompanied by a blissfully transfigured smile, and these last words were: "Oh, my God and Lord, how gracious and merciful You are to me! - Oh - I see now that there is no death; I shall live forever! - Oh, how glorious - God - are Your heavens! - Children, see Him who now supports my dying head in his arms! - it is This, My God, My Creator! - Oh, how blessed it is to die in the almighty arms of my Creator from this wretched world! –"

113. After these words he died, and we wept aloud; only You alone did not cry.  But we understood why You didn't cry!

114. And behold, from that moment on we could never forget who You are, for this is what Joseph said in the last hour of his life on earth in the clearest terms. - How can we not believe everything You say, since we know who You are at the foundation of the foundations of the matter?

115. Joseph died in the year 29, on November 14, at the age of 98.

33. Returned from the Hereafter

1905, 28 October, Zehlendorf near Berlin.  Sister Sophie Kirchner writes about her joy in the beautiful teachings of the Father Jesus and tells us that she had died twice and had been called back to this worldly life by means of revitalizing agents; she tells how wonderful she found life in the beyond and how sad she was that she was called back.  She thereby serves the Father Jesus as a living witness from the hereafter for the doubters of faith.

116. This dear sister in the spirit of Christ wrote me the following: Dear Brother Schumi, God be with you.  I thank the dear Father Jesus daily for everything, everything that we are told and taught by Him in His great grace through His mediation.  It is about asking and understanding in our glorious main teaching and reading leaflet, "Love".

Praise be to God for this His infinite love and kindness to His weak children.

117. Oh, if only all people knew what glorious words of the Lord, our Father Jesus, are contained in our Christian-Theosophical writings, all would become good Christians and love our Father with all their hearts.  Oh, at times I am seized with a great fear that we do so little for God; that no more fiery zeal should enter into the hearts of men and be preached, so that the scriptures, which contain so much that is beautiful, great and necessary to know, might be read, lest all men be lost at the Last Judgement.

118. I myself have been sick since last year, my Lord and God has visited me, He certainly had a lot to tell me that I had to suffer so much to understand what was still missing in my spiritual life.  I have been paralyzed on the left side and a heart condition that can probably never be healed again, has developed; the doctors say, through overexertion and work.  I myself say: by worries of daily life (and these three together caused the paralysis).  It is made so very difficult for us women to stand independently in Germany, in line with the men, to provide for daily bread and to put our knowledge and skills at the service of humanity.

119. I forgot to take care of my health the way I should have.  I was already no longer young when I went to school for the second and third time to study so that I could train myself higher in nursing and medical treatment.  During this time I have also experienced great emotions in my heart.  In February 1905 the paralysis came; but I must thank my God from my heart, for He has helped me wonderfully, He has placed me deep in the misery of the body.  I was told that I had actually been dead twice and had only been painstakingly brought back to life by resuscitation drugs.

120. I remember myself being very sad when I woke up, because I used to feel so good before.  It was so wonderfully peaceful where I had been, light and bright and singing in the distance.  I was quite amazed, but there was no-one there to tell me where to go. Then I woke up again in the almost dark bedroom, and the old life began anew.  I immediately told my condition to my doctors and the nurse, but they did not know what to answer.

121. My God has helped me through prayers and petitions, I have become quite well, but had to give up my naturopathy practice because of my heart condition and move from Wiesbaden, where I first lived and worked, to Zehlendorf near Berlin.

122. Today's lecture is hereby concluded.

[Translator's note: The following text was Franz Schumi's personal notes included in the original, it is added here only for completeness' sake, even though it is not part of the lecture]

We all hold prayer and sermon here on Sunday morning at 9 o'clock, in the Blue Silk Courtyard, but in the front building, 1st staircase, and all Friday evenings at 8 o'clock the discussion and instruction meeting, where I am happy to give thorough information in every direction of Christ's teaching, since my teacher is the Father Jesus Himself.

On the other hand, I advise you to come to our meetings, because the pure teaching of Christ is evident to us; for of this I am as completely convinced as Moses was that he had the 10 Commandments from Jehovah Himself.

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Table of Contents

1. Dear Guests! 2

2. The Prophetic Inner Word 3

3. What does the Human Soul Consist of? 3

4. What does the soul look like? 4

5. Who forms the soul? 4

6. Each person sees his own soul 4

7. The Soul in Dreams 5

8. Dreams 6

9. The Dreamer seen in his Action 6

10. God's orders in dreams for Jesus' sake 7

12. The Spiritual Double 7

13. Evidence of the Spiritual Double 8

14. Hypnosis 8

15. Spiritism 9

16. The Teaching of Reincarnation 9

17. A Reincarnation-Dream-Vision 10

18. Somnambulism Generated by Magnetic Sleep 11

19. Experiments with Mizi Schäffer 11

20. Mrs Ötiker in the hereafter 12

21. Evidence from the Beyond 12

22. The spirits from Hell Reclaiming the Dirt 13

23. Archangel Raphael as consolidated Spirit and Man 15

24. The Rich Glutton and the poor Lazarus 15

25. King Saul spoke with the deceased prophet Samuel 15

26. The Appearance of the Archangel Gabriel 15

27. The Transfiguration at Mount Tabor 16

28. Lazarus of Bethany 16

29. Personal appearances of 346 deceased 17

30. Jesus as Spirit 17

31. The Heavenly sense of Welfare of the Blessed 17

32. Report of the departure of Joseph, the foster Father of Jesus 17

33. Returned from the Hereafter 18

Table of Contents

1. Dear Guests!

2. The Prophetic Inner Word

3. What does the Human Soul Consist of?

4. What does the soul look like?

5. Who forms the soul?

6. Each person sees his own soul

7. The Soul in Dreams

8. Dreams

9. The Dreamer seen in his Action

10. God's orders in dreams for Jesus' sake

12. The Spiritual Double

13. Evidence of the Spiritual Double

14. Hypnosis

15. Spiritism

16. The Teaching of Reincarnation

17. A Reincarnation-Dream-Vision

18. Somnambulism Generated by Magnetic Sleep

19. Experiments with Mizi Schäffer

20. Mrs Ötiker in the hereafter

21. Evidence from the Beyond

22. The spirits from Hell Reclaiming the Dirt

23. Archangel Raphael as consolidated Spirit and Man

24. The Rich Glutton and the poor Lazarus

25. King Saul spoke with the deceased prophet Samuel

26. The Appearance of the Archangel Gabriel

27. The Transfiguration at Mount Tabor

28. Lazarus of Bethany

29. Personal appearances of 346 deceased

30. Jesus as Spirit

31. The Heavenly sense of Welfare of the Blessed

32. Report of the departure of Joseph, the foster Father of Jesus

33. Returned from the Hereafter