Love is the beginning and the end of laws. The Spirit of the universe can override all laws. And what about us? We too can love.
I am standing like the famous camel in front of the eye of the needle.
Universal laws ? That’s too much for my little camel mind. How should I recognise what is universally, absolutely and immutably valid?
Nevertheless, haven’t I been thinking regularly about the laws of life for over five decades? What do you do as a little girl when your two even younger brothers are fighting? Why aren’t people as peaceful as the flowers in the field? What meaningful job could I do? Then it goes on from the optimum cooking time for pasta to the question of the origin of good and evil. How do you live a healthy, motivated and ecological life? Unfortunately, my school education didn’t provide me with much support, which I only realised decades later. What’s more, I was only able to pass on my hard-won insights to my children with dubious success. They came from my future. That’s why I’ve learnt all the more from them. Everything is so uncertain, and the more I learn, the more uncertain things seem to me. Everything flows. Everything is in motion. With these words, the ruminating – as camels do – suddenly stops. Movement is beautiful. Flowing is beautiful. Uncertainty is beautiful. Diversity is beautiful. Flexibility is life. I like a law like this, one that is flexible, gentle, loving, inclusive, integrative, generous, light.
The scribes asked Jesus about the highest commandment. He told them: “This is the highest commandment: love God with all your heart and with all your soul. And this second is like the first: Love your neighbour as yourself.” I take a commandment as an offer that is open, there is nothing legalised about it.
Love is the beginning and the end of the laws. In this way, the laws of cause and effect, causality and karma can be cancelled out, as can the laws of resonance, polarity, weak and strong attraction and gravity. The spirit of the universe can override all laws. Jesus tells us that we can do this too, because we can love. Now I can breathe again. There is hope.
Laws and regularities
Nevertheless, I am concerned with the laws of life. Because whatever I want to or should do, it is connected with knowledge and mastery of laws and regularities. I want to know many of them and use them to have an impact in the world, speak different languages and communicate with people, plant a garden, make music, cook healthily, observe the earthly and heavenly traffic rules and not drive both my tinny and my energetic vehicle, which is my “sevenfold body”, to ruin.
The heavenly, universal law is love. On this basis, I try to experience the natural, social, metaphysical laws and experience this:
The world is a mountain, and everything
you ever get back from it
is the echo of your own voice.
Rumi
Hypotheses and questions
Thus, in the limitations of my camel mind, some hypotheses and questions emerge:
– World laws exist only in relation to the percipient’s perception and consciousness, his position in the universe, the instruments at his disposal.
– We and the most intelligent scientists are still not able to explain or reproduce the most fundamental laws of the world.
– What we say about universal laws is based on hypotheses, philosophical considerations, concepts or subjective experiences.
– We do not know the framework and the basic condition of all regularities and laws.
– Regularities and laws help me to find my way in life and with people.
– Why do we feel compelled to speak of universal laws? Why are we not content with world laws, natural laws, moral laws?
– If God or reality is infinite, is there any framework at all?
– How free do I feel on a scale of 0 – 100?
The human activities of discovering, formulating and refuting regularities and laws are like a sport by means of which our intellect and our consciousness attempt to climb up from earthly reality to universal dimensions. Will this attempt succeed?
Shimmying up
Should we have any doubts about the result, it is still certain that we will experience a lot.
- Competition: How close can I get to my heaven in the short time of a lifetime? Competition creates winners and losers, progress and division. We are constantly reaching new levels of consciousness, freedom, responsibility, creativity and love. Those who recognise and try to fulfil the highest laws, who strive to overcome the gravity of their ego and time, can reach heaven. Is that so?
- Security and care: As with other mammals, our first achievements are our own territory and a clan that we feed and protect. Our focus on what we have slows down the vitality of our system – and the soul fire suffocates.
- Power: Power: Mastering ever new skills leads to creativity, awareness, friendship and love, but also to selfishness, fear and struggle. The right of the strongest will give us apparent power and security. But can this last as long as there is still a spark of true love in our hearts? Can I dare to “sell everything” and follow Jesus on the basis of this power and security?
- Hubris: Since narcissistic behaviour is recognised and honoured in our Western culture, spiritual seekers are also tempted to regard their egocentric habits as normal. Even the slightest overemphasis on “vertical striving” can lead us to neglect the social aspects. We experience ourselves as unique individuals. Where people used to feel connected by nationality, blood ties or social structures, today every I is separated from every you. No one but myself can realise the path that has been given to me. Today, at the nadir of materiality, we cannot avoid the threshold of exaggerated individualism. For only where I recognise and acknowledge the otherness of other people can I consciously love them. This is how true love, the deepest love, can be born through egocentrism.
- The need to control is another expression of striving for power and avoiding fear. Control can keep insecure striving somewhat stable. However, life depends on universal laws that are uncontrollable for us, and at some point there will be a follow-up control from these levels. As long as we cannot fulfil the universal law of love, the laws of nature and the world will help us. They appear as fate or miracles, coincidence or guardians of the thresholds. Obsession with control transforms the guardrails of the laws into prisons.
- Striving for goodness: In principle, we want to accomplish everything out of the original love and goodness of our heart. This gives rise to a sense of duty, loyalty, perfectionism, discipline, striving for justice, thirst for knowledge, motivation, helpfulness, religion, fanaticism and dogmatism. What if our loyalty mistakenly belongs to “the emperor of this world”, if we are in bondage to him?
- Failure: Our upward striving, our vertical striving for heavenly conditions, for love, truth and justice, is repeatedly shattered by laws that are still unknown to us. In the biographies of the most intelligent people, such as the influential physicists Albert Einstein or Werner Heisenberg, you can see how they speak of the unrecognisable divine after such experiences. “The first sip from the cup of science makes you atheistic, but God is waiting at the bottom of the cup!” (Werner Heisenberg)
The camel does not fit through the eye of the needle.
The rich man does not go to heaven.
But we can accept the offer of love. We can learn to read its generously scattered hints. The Rosicrucian School of Spirit mentions seven keys that we all carry within us. We are free to apply them. The following formulations may not correspond to the traditional ones. They are intended as an invitation to find the keys within ourselves, in our own experience, again and again.
Seven keys
- Faith: My faith can turn the 1% scientifically proven knowledge of the world into my set, manageable, individual illusory reality. However, the faith that moves mountains lies, uniquely and only accessible to myself, in my heart and only comes into force where there is no more evidence.
- Integration is the gradual realisation of love on my journey through the 99 percent of unknown, “dark matter”. Integration encounters everything with openness, amazement, patience and acceptance of uncertainties. This is how self-assertion, belief in authority, obsession with control and fear disappear. The consequences are an ability to deal with conflict, the emergence of peace, courage, communication and love.
- Clear orientation: If my life pendulum is firmly attached to the light at the top, I can swing to the left and right without worrying, I can meet the contradictions and contrasts of life and people without getting tangled up in them.
- Harmony in the alternation of activities: My camel mind cannot recognise everything at once. That’s why I have to deal with things one after the other, get involved in processes. I can also enter into the roles that life offers me, fulfil them as well as possible and then let them go again. Solve and coagula, the alchemical principle means: connect and release. I am connected to life in all its nuances, I act and let go again.
- Serviceability: Those who can “detach and connect” penetrate the illusion of separation. Everything is connected through infinity, polarity, resonance, cause and effect. Action becomes free from role constraints that turn us into rulers, victims or saviours. The conscience frees itself from the fixation on guilt. As a result, our actions serve the Whole.
- Magical action: Through the first five stages, the soul has connected with the light and lost its egocentricity. It lives from reality. The power of the universe flows through its actions. It transforms the camel’s mind, the life in the desert and creates oases.
- Mindfulness: Through the experience of shimmying upwards and using the keys, the soul has become silent. It realises how mobile the things of the world, their outlines, concepts and laws are, like symbols, like music. My mindfulness is open to what is. Everything is in motion, part of a process. I have become a process myself and see the processes of life as being suffused and illuminated by love. I live like a neutrino, myself invisible and open to the power, the energy, the warmth and the sounds of life, music and dance in the harmony of the spheres. This is the end of the laws. Even if my camel mind can’t quite grasp it.
