Several weeks had passed since the last disembodiment André had made with his leader Alcar.

He had to assimilate everything he had experienced on this journey and was again prepared to receive nourishment for the mind.

Alcar had told him that he would spiritually leave his body today.

He would be shown inner life from the beginning of creation.

He had gone to his room early and waited for things to come and Alcar to release him from his material body.

It had been difficult for him lately.

His mind had had to absorbe all this.

Night and day he had meditated and pondered on everything he had experienced during his last journey.

During the first days, Alcar had said, he should not think of anything but his material life.

He had done so, but time and again all those spiritual experiences came back in his mind and he did not know how to cope with them.

Yet, he had to go through it, as it was within him, his spirit had experienced it.

His inner and spiritual life dominated and his nerves could not bear that.

There were moments he could not tell one thing from an other which made it very difficult for him.

He felt he lived between two worlds, of which spiritual life dominated, and yet he had to remain himself, which was not easy.

The first days after he had made his disembodiment went by as usual.

He felt free from all these spiritual laws and experiences.

Yet, all these feelings returned consciously and he lived in an inconceivable condition.

He felt very far away from the earth and yet he was on earth like everybody else.

Deep within him resided all that power, nevertheless he had to acquire all this, in order to possess his experiences.

Alcar had told him to meditate.

On the side beyond everybody meditated.

When people had died on earth and entered spiritual life and were convinced of this life, they secluded themselves to contemplate all this.

When they had finished, it was their possession and they were ready for fresh nourishment for the mind.

He, too, now had to do likewise, and he understood why Alcar had said that it would now be more difficult than after all those other disembodiments he had experienced.

The tremendous power of everything he had experienced weighed heavily on him.

In the spirit, when he was on the side beyond, everything was straightforward.

But now he had to digest this in his material life on earth.

However difficult it was for him, it was a marvellous period, because he went through everything again.

Once he had started, he left no time unused and the days passed in a flash.

In this condition he was no longer aware of time; in thought he was constantly on the side beyond.

He followed everything where he had been with his leader Alcar, and in doing so he progressed step by step.

Whenever it became too much for him, he stopped and waited for new energy.

He had been doing this for several days when he felt he could not go on any longer; his nerves could not digest this awe-inspiring experience.

From the start of his connection with Alcar, his leader had always seen to it that he could sleep.

A good night’s sleep was vital, he could not miss an hour.

His life on earth was too intense, because he lived a double life: the life of a spirit and that of man on earth.

Inner rest was essential and this rest was always given him in his sleep.

But now he could no longer sleep and it frightened him.

He had gone to bed early, but could not fall asleep.

He concentrated on his sleep, but he could not control his material body, though he had succeeded before.

He was aware of this danger.

A mighty problem faced him.

He overlooked everything, pondered what powers he could use, but he failed, because his inner life dominated.

My God, he thought, will this work out well, how do I get through this.

These problems had never thrown him out of balance.

He was always in control of himself, he watched everything, as his material body should be free from disturbances.

He often wondered how his nerves could digest all that spiritual wisdom, but he knew, that somebody was watching and that was his leader Alcar.

But this time he was in a disharmonic condition.

All these spiritual degrees, attunements, stars and planets, all these animal conditions and all that he had seen in the temple of the soul, were swimming before his eyes, so that he could not tell one thing from another and all this prevented him from sleeping.

His head and nerves could no longer cope and he was afraid to lose himself.

He had been awake for several hours and could not sleep.

He turned from one side to the other, concentrated on sleep, but where he usually was successful, this time it did not work.

He concentrated on his leader Alcar and after a while he began to observe.

There was Alcar; he would soon be asleep now and be fit in the morning to start to meditate, and acquire everything.

How happy he was when he heard his leader say: ‘Can’t you sleep, André?’

‘No’, he said, ‘I cannot get asleep, my mind keeps me awake.’

Better meditate now and ponder on everything until sleep overtakes you.

Day time is now too short for your inner life; together we shall try to harmonize again.

Do you see what I mean, André?’

‘Yes, Alcar, it is quite clear to me.’

You clearly feel that your mind dominates.

That is because of all those problems I made you experience and the nourishment for the mind you received on this side.

I have given and shown you, André, the very last you can receive as our instrument, and which we reveal to mankind.

A few years ago it would not have been possible, you would have succumbed; but I proceeded cautiously and guided you from one spiritual condition to the other.

As a result you awakened, André.

We passed from one sphere to another.

On our first journey to the darkness, as you remember, our life overwhelmed you, and we had to return to earth.

Yet you had to go through it, so that I could explain everything concerning our life to give mankind a picture of what is waiting for them on this side.

Ten, nay twenty times you fainted, because the powers of darkness dominated your inner self.

Those who do not know the darkness, which is hell on this side, cannot form an idea of it.

But everybody dying on earth and entering here, will experience it and they will wonder how you could have endured and assimilated that on earth without disturbing your life on earth and particularly without sapping your material body.

You got through that as well, because you earnestly want and want to serve us.

Your faith in our work and your love for it gave you that strength and opened you to our help.

And another thing.

If you had not kept your gifts pure and clean, you would irrevocably have perished and have landed in some asylum, because you would have fallen into the hands of evil.

However, I could always reach you and I am grateful to you, so that I could explain our life.

I progressed further and deeper and knew many years beforehand that the time would come when I would be allowed to show you the very last of our life.

You know, André, nothing for nothing: this too, all this spiritual wisdom, you will have to pay for with your inner energy.

But I am with you and I’ll help you with everything and we shall get through this as well.

If you have understood me correctly, you feel that daytime is too short to have spiritual and material harmony and to fall asleep.

The seven degrees of sleep I explained to you before.

You cannot attain the fourth degree now, your spiritual body will not allow it, as the preponderance present in your spiritual life is too great.

This strain dissolves by thinking, staying awake and meditating, and natural harmony between spiritual and material life returns.

But man who does not know this, leans over backward and wants to sleep.

Yet he will not fall asleep, and when he takes to medicine he tries to attain the desired condition by force.

Yet he will not achieve his aim.

For isn’t it true, that the spirit will free itself and man will wake up and sedatives have no effect on the material organism?

The tremendous power of emotional life which is the spiritual body, man or scholar cannot fathom, as he does not know the spiritual body and does not accept its action.

They will wake up anyway and no material means nor concentration will be of any use.

They consult various doctors, or turn to natural cure, but they forget they have to go back to their youth, to the first moment they could not sleep, because that is the cause of the disturbance.

The disturbance occurred in that period and the spirit cannot omit anything.

You do feel how deep this is and I could tell a lot about it, as it concerns life on our side and is the eternal action of inner life.

Inner life compels them to meditate, but they do not think of that.

You know our life, André, you know how we meditate before we can settle down.

Even if you were not able to sleep for days on end, it would not be as bad as forcing yourself to sleep.

On our side we cannot move an inch when our mind is not at peace and problems keep us occupied, which are present within ourselves and our lives.

Having woken up, our inner life is ready again to receive fresh nourishment for the mind, but we cannot fall asleep before our mind is idle and another action can set in.

This action manifests itself in natural tiredness, and that is for our life, our inner life and for man on earth the material organism.

When it is not completely in harmony and the material organism or the spiritual body dominates, a disease is caused.

It usually concerns the nervous system, but people suffering from some disease will experience an aggravation of their complaint.

This has an enormous action, because when someone suffers from a complaint; when vital organs are affected, for instance the kidneys, these organs dominate the mind, because the illness is more intensive than spiritual life and the latter responds to the action of the material organism.

Although their sleep is not normal, that sleep is better than the other condition when inner life is directly concentrated on the nervous system and overburdens the material organism.

With you, André, this is not the case; your material body is in perfect health.

Only your spirit is awake and conscious, even over conscious, and now we check this so that you will fall asleep in a few hours.

You should try to stay fully conscious and not fall asleep.

Slowly the dominating force will flow back into your inner life; this will restore the balance and the inner strain is reduced.

When you are ready, your consciousness descends into your inner life and your material body experiences sleep.

The human body and its inner life are profound; both are powerful, one is dependent on the other; although inner life dominates the material organism on earth in everything.

It directs, guides and keeps it intact, as the material organism lives through our inner life.

It is now four o’clock in the morning, André.

Wait a moment and you will hear.’

‘It is amazing, Alcar, that you know that too and think of it.’

‘Do not forget, my boy, that I also live on earth, and follow you in everything and know everything that happens on earth.

Listen, the clock strikes four and now you will soon sleep.

Inner life has performed its task and the material body can now sleep.

You feel that sleep slowly returns, and you yourself control it.’

André felt that he got tired and let himself flow away, he felt a blissful peace coming over him.

He knew where this relaxation came from and who brought it about.

Though very far away, he heard say: ‘Sleep, my boy, know that I am watching and will continue to watch until our work is finished.’

Then he didn't know anything anymore.

When he woke up in the morning, he felt fit and cheerful.

He did not feel tired any more and remembered what Alcar had told him.

He immediately began to meditate once again, and continued until that day was past and he was going to sleep again.

Yet, there was something within him, he had not yet experienced in all those years.

He felt a terrible stress at the back of his head.

He felt like he had to carry all these planets and was in the middle of those enormous objects and that all this was in and around his head.

It was an awful sensation; yet he felt composed.

His entire body was tense and strained, and he felt he could not cope with it himself.

If only this will not be too much for me, he thought, I am not myself now, my nerves cannot stand this.

He concentrated on his leader Alcar; soon he saw Alcar near him and heard him say: ‘I am going to help you again, André.

You will leave your body, and you will see from this side what I am going to do and what the condition of your nervous system is like.’

‘Are we going to make an other journey, Alcar?’

‘No, not yet, first you must be fully prepared and have assimilated everything in day-consciousness, before you can receive fresh nourishment for the mind.’

André felt himself sink away and knew what would happen.

When he opened his eyes he was in the life of the spirit.

Alcar stood in front of him and received him.

‘Alcar, my good Alcar!’

‘You are hard put now, André, but all those difficulties are outweighed by what you have experienced.

You will get through and your nervous system will again obey the will you impose.’

‘Does being here give any rest, Alcar?

My body is now fast asleep, and I am on this side.

Isn’t that rest, or is it not the same?’

‘I can answer all those questions.

No, this is not the rest you receive, when you are yourself in your material body.

First of all it would not be possible to leave your body if I did not bring that about; and second, if I should leave now and we would visit the spheres, you would find in the morning that you could no longer think.

The material body, but only the nervous system is overstrained by the tremendous power you impose on it; which is, when you are in your material body, the inner life or the spiritual body.

Do not forget when you leave your material body, that your body is free from spiritual life, because this life which moves and directs that body, then lives on this side outside the material organism.

To those living on earth, your material body is apparently dead.

It is therefore clear that your material garment cannot live at full power and what does not live at full power cannot undergo any working, is out of operation and therefore no healing can come about in this case.

Is that clear, André?’

‘Yes, Alcar.’

‘Well then, my will-power dominates all this; also your leaving your body, and, as I said, your material body is under my control and your material body is experiencing nothing, because inner life, you yourself, has left its organism.

When something is paralyzed it cannot function.

When the nervous system is strained and sedatives are administered in order to sleep, the natural functioning is paralyzed and recovery is excluded.

Sedatives only give temporary relief, but later we are confronted with the same process; the organs are affected and forced out of action.

Therefore, André, it is wrong to take too many sedatives for this disorder.

You will understand that a disembodiment does not provide your material organism with the same thing as you receive during a good night's sleep.

The present condition of your material organism is deeper than normal sleep and the organism is deprived of its normal functioning.

A disembodiment cannot help either, unless both bodies are in harmony.

To leave the body, the spirit must be sensitive and not be strained or overburdened and there should be no sorrow or misery.

You will also understand what these gifts require before we can use them.

Thousands of people could leave their body and all of them would become mentally ill.

One or other of the bodies would dominate and completely destroy the material organism.

This, and this only, is the reason why the mystic warns against occultism, it is the domain of the spirit, and those not acquainted with all these effects are irrevocably lost.

But I guide you in everything, and watch over both bodies, the material and the spiritual.

I’ll do the following.

I’ll descend into your material body and relax your nervous system, therefore I’ll completely pass into your material body.

I will live on earth again and you will live in my world.

My concentration restores rest and peace in your organism, after which that nervous stress has disappeared.

Farewell, André, I take possession of your body.’

André saw this miracle happen and Alcar descend into his material body.

How miraculous life on this side is, he thought.

How well he was protected; his leader saw to everything.

Now he was alone on the side beyond.

He observed an amazing scene.

How great Alcar was and how mighty everything he experienced.

How well Alcar took care of him!

Whoever could accept this and all that he had experienced a short time ago?

Nothing was known on earth of what happened now.

They were all miracles in the spirit.

He saw Alcar completely pass into his material body and then awaken.

His material organism came in working now and he saw that the material organs resumed their task and working.

If anything could convince people of eternal life, it was this miracle he now experienced.

And they would believe it if only they could see and calculate it.

But how could scientists on earth calculate it?

Those who could not accept it would never find out.

To him it was a great miracle, and the amazing thing was, that a spirit, a man who had lived on earth and now lived in eternity, could descend into a material organism and take possession of it again.

But there was another miracle, which he felt.

He fully understood what his leader meant.

Alcar commanded great mental and tremendous will-power.

Because his leader was further advanced than he was, Alcar could bring this about.

He himself had no complete command of his material body, which was quite natural.

He heard Alcar say: ‘Think of yourself, André, and reflect on everything given to you recently.’

He did as Alcar wished and found it quite amazing; everything was straightforward, he penetrated the deepest problems without the least trouble.

He did not want nor dare to move away from his body although it was possible.

He also felt that he remained in communication with Alcar and that he could even speak.

Spiritual life was awe-inspiring.

He watched Alcar and saw a powerful blue light radiating from the back of his head.

Yes, he thought, there it is, that is where the strain is.

How amazing this is, he thought, Alcar radiated his head, because the nerves in his head were overstrained.

That powerful light was his leader’s.

He could now see through his own material body.

Nothing was concealed from him.

He saw and felt the severe strain and understood what Alcar did.

Meanwhile, he followed everything he had experienced, which was easy now.

He saw himself in the temple of the soul, he descended to all those planets and slowly returned to his material body.

Yet he remained near his organism, but he experienced and contemplated what he had received on that journey.

He felt that several hours had passed.

Within him was the quiet and stillness of spiritual life.

He felt that he was getting tired and understood that this feeling came from his body.

When he had sensed this, Alcar had left his body and rejoined him.

‘Well, my boy, that is done.’

‘Did you achieve what you wanted, Alcar?’

‘Yes, André, completely.

Aren’t you tired?’

‘Yes, I felt tired a moment ago.’

‘You see how intensely the solar plexus reacts and conveys material strength.

This plexus enables you to feel your material condition.

I have relaxed your nervous system.

When you return into your material body, you will soon fall asleep.

You have experienced everything again and have therefore reached here.

But you have to start anew tomorrow because it happened outside your body and your material organism must also experience it.

Here, on our side, everything is different; you are free from all those disturbances and you are yourself.

That body still belongs to you, and you are its working power and operate it.

I have rendered you a service; you relaxed through my power.

When you wake up in the morning, that strain in your head will be over.

In a few days we can continue and resume our work.

You have understood what I did, haven’t you?’

‘Yes, Alcar, I think so.’

‘I merely concentrated on the nervous system, that was all.

I relaxed it by concentration and tomorrow you do the same and meditate calmly.

Farewell, my boy, I will watch.’

André descended into his material body and woke up.

How tired I am, he thought.

His body felt very tired, he could hardly lift his legs.

He looked at his leader, who was near him, and fell asleep.

In the morning, when he woke up, he felt very fit and knew what he had experienced that night.

He began to think again.

The whole day he thought and so he came to the end.

He saw the moment he entered his organism, when leaving his body and the disembodiment had ended.

In the evening he heard Alcar say: ‘Wash yourself with cold water tonight, André, before you go to bed.

Go also for a walk and concentrate on nature.’

André went for a walk and felt very fit when he entered his house.

Then, before going to sleep, he washed himself with cold water and after a short while enjoyed a sound and natural sleep.

When he woke up, he had slept for nine hours and felt he could move mountains.

When he was ready – he clearly felt this – he could, if Alcar would connect him, speak for ten hours on end and tell people of the universe and all those planets.

It had now become his own knowledge, his own inner possession; his material body had absorbed it and he was happy with the experience.

He also felt different, as if he had grown older and had lived for hundreds of years.

Yet only eight days had passed since he had made this disembodyment.

He had been Alcar’s instrument for nine years, but to him those nine years seemed nine hundred years.

That was how he felt, for he had had to digest so very much in those nine years.

It took all his energy, his deepest inner strength and personality, but when he had gone through he would not like to do without.

How well he now knew people; how could he see through everybody!

Now he knew how God’s creation had come into being; how everything was created.

It was awe-inspiring, and yet so simple.

How difficult all those days had been, but he was ready again to leave his body.

Several weeks had passed.

He would now learn about the life of the soul, which was even deeper than what he had experienced.

He would get through and acquire it and then he would understand creation.

Human sleep is a blessed thing.

People do not know what it really is, but you badly need your sleep, because during your sleep, you acquire new strengths, or the organs of the human machine would succumb.

People who cannot sleep well, you see that immediately, usually have one thing or another, as a result of which, the personality feels provoked, however, no one knows where these disorders come from; even the academic, your psychologist or psychiatrist, or the neurologist don’t know; a thorough study is necessary for this purpose and then you are still faced with the human machine, of which you do not know the half!

Fair is fair, where do those people live, who can say: I know the human machine, I have taken that thing apart thoroughly, I know each cog, each thing about it, you will get your health back from me?

Not one learned person out of hundreds of thousands, Jeus, who now live on the earth, knows the human machine.

Those people with knowledge of the soul must admit that, because for the soul and the spirit, therefore the inner life, they must still lay the foundations for their faculty.

They think that they know something about it, but when they take the machine apart, they are left with, them of all people, a half-empty box of nuts and bolts, which they don’t know what to do with, this is fatal to a sick and stressed person, of course, because now you are faced with your stripped down ‘self’, which has lived in desperation since childhood, because, this is the case at home, Crisje, the human being has not finished his thoughts; the personality thought: ‘What difference does it make to me,’ you just throw them away, they mean nothing.

But still, it was an unfinished thought like that, such a problem as well, Jeus, as a result of which people at a certain age felt beaten and they could no longer sleep.

Then the academics became involved.

People were given medicine to take, and those medicines, Crisje, brought about anaesthesia, they wanted to cure one thing with another, and it was nothing more than patching up, what they had were only potions ... no more than that, and when nothing reacted anymore, they had to accept a terrible feeling of powerlessness and felt broken in soul, life and spirit!

There was nothing to be found in the world which could bring them back their health, their sleep, those medicines didn’t exist, and learning now had no meaning, because those learned people did not know soul, nor life nor spirit!

However, Jan Lemmekus knows: those fellows from the East knew a lot about it.

They were able to take apart the human machine and put it properly back together, however, they did that in their own way and it was something completely different to what people here in Leiden, Utrecht or Amsterdam knew.

For Jan it was a fact: they would never make it!

The means or methods, which people in the East used, reached the objective, those means penetrated the soul and the spirit of the machine and sometimes infallibly, the person as a personality recognized himself.

But, those priests descended into the human machine, they turned the personality upside down and only now they saw what was wrong, and what the real ‘self’ had been forgotten, they created space between those trivial, but awe-inspiring cogs, and in this way earlier disorders dissolved completely.

For this purpose, they sometimes also used the powers of the sun and the moon, and Jan has read that they did it through hypnosis, they sometimes let people wander around in their world for months, so that they could forget those things about themselves, and that was completely successful.

Then those souls got their normal sleep back and life became bearable and worthwhile again on earth and for society.

However, what those priests established was that you did not think, you just lived aimlessly.

You did not think that those thoughts would disturb you, but you see that is where it started!

If you had experienced those thoughts naturally and according to the laws of space, and had wanted to think about them, then nothing would have happened, nothing, however, inside those thoughts piled up, until it became a mountain of un-formulated feelings, and then the personality was smothered.

Do you see it differently, perhaps?

Jan can tell you about it, are these people not right?

It is remarkable; many learned people have already accepted these methods, because they understand: in this way you will be rid of your misery.

Millions of people, dear Crisje, are guilty of their own misery because of this.

They did not think, they do not wish to think.

Of course, strong bodies could put up with it, lives go by without thought, but still, the personality did not feel any physical disorders.

They are the fortunate ones then, the people who just live aimlessly, who do not need to think, and they cannot think either, and it means that you can be healthy anyway, even if you are not aware of your everyday problems, it is true, there are people like that as well,

But if you reach deep inner thinking, we enter the grades for human physical and spiritual sensitivity, then we are faced with very different problems; we also see those symptoms coming to us, and there is no longer a question of a healthy sleep.

However, thousands of people, Crisje, have experienced frightening things during their youth, as a result of which, later, as an adult, they underwent the merciless burden and then were faced with their psychologist, neurologist or psychiatrist, at this point they no longer felt suitable for society, they shook and trembled inside all day long, but no one knew where it actually came from.

Nevertheless, those learned people asked the following questions:

‘Did you not experience anything in your youth, which gave you a shock or made you afraid?

Think about it.’

Usually, Crisje, those people had experienced something.

And now those learned people began to study the human soul, spirit and life, by examining the personality, they did it by going back to that situation, and completely or partly explained it, however, as a result of this the sick person felt a release, because the doctor cut away a bit of that mountain inside and, you will not believe it, that already brought about an improvement in that condition, and the daily consciousness was unburdened, and sleep sometimes came back!

Nerves already have to adjust and if they get that space, Crisje, the personality will soon be able to stand rough handling, which is the intention!

After a heavy day’s work, you fall asleep, but suddenly you are wakened.

What is it?

Who wakened you?

Are these Our Lord’s statues?

You sit up straight in bed.

Now you have to start thinking.

But the rest of these millions of people throw themselves onto their other side, the personality wants to sleep and nothing else.

A person must decide for himself, you are lord and master over your sleep, but later?

When you are older?

If you possess this sensitivity?

Will these feelings then return to your consciousness?

You would like that, they are part of your subconscious, and there those dirty ill-considered feelings turn everything upside down, they will destroy you, they will undermine what is natural, your own so expensive and precious health!

What wakened him?

He did not experience a funeral yesterday.

The very smallest cog of the human machine can now waken you, because that thing is under high pressure and it is you yourself, Jeus.

Such a thought is now under the control of your feelings and that is understandable.

What do you want?

If he now thinks: ‘What difference does it make to me, statues can drop dead, can’t they’, then this problem still attaches itself unclearly to his personality.

If he later understands everything, then that will be a gain for his thinking and feeling.

And Jeus will later understand it, but now there is a possibility to learn to think and that, Crisje, is what it is all about now.

Anyone who thinks properly, Jeus, and that also applies to you, Crisje, this is for everyone, can possess love.

And anyone who possesses love is also open to Our Lord.

Then the person is loved, but he can now achieve something for his own life and give something to this humanity.

By learning to think, Jeus, you can start to act like Socrates.

A person, who thinks, obtains the possession of this world, and that always happens again through thinking.

People, who do not wish to think, achieve nothing!

That is really simple!

Everyone who has achieved something can say that, and explain it to you!

Because they have thought, it does not matter what, they have another more spacious personality and they usually became the social leaders.

The willpower is not there and anyone who does not want to know, will be standing still!

Something else again, because we now have to do with spatial problems, Crisje, each person possesses his own world, but also has to accept his conscience.

Now you can widen your own conscience through thinking.