Science and Belief

What is science?
What is knowledge, true knowledge?

Up to the present day, we human beings have developed innumerable instruments and methods to be able to present and prove the existence of occurrences in and around us in a scientifically recognised way and manner, that means, according to principles established by men. With advancing technological developments, it will be possible to expand this level of knowledge even further. Theories once established by so-called scientists will be revoked and revised. Diligent work is being done ... to want to master everything through knowledge. – But what is the gain in this?

Apart from achievements aimed at facilitating and improving our life on earth, what eternal values are we left with?

As human beings, we are not to be equated with machines. We bear a very individual personality within us. Although we too are driven by energy and are maintained by it like machine products of science.

But where does this energy come from?
How is it supplied?
How could we once come into being, where does the great building plan for the nature that surrounds us come from, without which we could not live, could not exist at all?
Where do we go after our earthly death?

For science has already realised in principle that life can not be over completely after our death on earth, by establishing the so-called law of conservation of energy, which states that energy can neither be produced nor destroyed.

We can certainly feel within ourselves that there must be more than what we examine scientifically, break down into individual parts and only thus want to recognise and acknowledge as existing. Let us think of our thoughts, our emotional life. How often do we even perceive the thoughts of others, thoughts that lovingly want to accompany us in difficult situations, or thoughts that harmfully want to influence us from the outside. How often do we also experience situations in which memories arise in us that are not at all connected with our present existence on earth. It is like a perception and reawakening of experiences we once had, which is indicative of a life on earth we have lived through earlier. Love for a child, for a fellow man is so powerful ... and yet cannot be captured, cannot simply be reproduced scientifically. Intuitions and inspirations sometimes literally fly at us and allow us to achieve things in music, art, poetry and creativity that are often quite surprising even to ourselves.

If we look at our environment, at nature, then we human beings should actually begin to realise that we are not the masters of it, but that there must be a higher power for this. After all, everything around us and even we ourselves came into being without our intervention.

Even if people today treat their own bodies so reprehensibly, there still seems to be a power that continues to sustain them. – But can we rely on this eternally? Can we, without expecting consequences, act against the existing laws in nature that are easily recognisable to everyone? This would not occur to any upright and honest person with regard to the earthly laws made by man.

In the quiet hours of balance to everyday life with our work, family and friends, our inner self often seems to make itself felt again. To recognise this and to pay attention to it is important for ourselves. To give it more space; for then we will very quickly see how much joy, peace, happiness and serenity it brings us.

What do our earthly achievements count, if indeed we all have to leave this earth again one day? Is it not also necessary to recognise the laws that exist above all earthly things? To comply with the power ruling over everything?

Many doctrines of faith have already been established. Prophets came in early times in order to bring explanations to the human beings. But it remained piecemeal. The gaps could not be closed, and instead demanded unconditional faith.

But where it is a question of eternal values, this is not to suffice. Without a gapless logic, there is neither continuity nor harmony.

If we look for it, we will find the lawfulness that pervades nature and us human beings. If we look further, we will also find the actual origin of all laws and all life. – Only he who is searching for it, will make a find!

As in the study of the sciences on earth, we must strive and make an effort in the great things to recognise and acknowledge the correlations, the origin. Only when belief becomes a conviction in man does it bring true benefit in the existence of a human being.

An inconceivably great help is offered to us human beings for this. In the Light of Truth, all development and decay are illuminated, all beginnings and all endings are described, and on this path, it allows man a divining of the power of the Creator, which is above all that exists. –

The more I delve into this, the more I am allowed to experience the structure of creation, the more I also conceive the purpose of my existence, the more gratitude for what has been granted wells up within me. The path that is lying before me I have found in the Grail Message.

  Elisabeth Maria Bernhardt

Grail Settlement Vomperberg
Austria, in December 2023