to what I had worn at the time, it belonged to that life.

Consequently, I lived in reality, because all events we experienced, the feelings and qualities that we acquired remained in us and will always be part of the soul.

During all those centuries, nothing had changed, only in me, which meant the feeling, my striving for good.

In that life, I perished.

What I now experienced was a miracle to me.

In this way, I could review many lives.

All these lives needed to be awakened.

“The feeling which resides in you, which is you yourself, and which the soul acquired and is felt as feeling, touches this consciousness which manifests itself in your searching and yearning.

If this is clear to you, Alonzo, you will feel that the soul must acquire all of these feelings, which requires many lives.

It cannot be accomplished in one short earthly life.

Marja knew inside that, when she attracted that man to her, she would experience her happiness.

As a child, you will hear that from her later, she already knew that.

Just as the past awakened in me, that knowledge came back to her life.

Every life demands the past consciousness.

When you are therefore born that past comes up.

You cannot do anything about it, those emotional powers force you to accept them.

You are not different, you do not act different.

This is our incredible subconscious.

It is this which the academics make such a fuss about and for which they can never find a conclusive answer, because they do not accept reincarnation.

It is therefore clear that when the soul awakens, you already live in your past, the previous life.

You cannot get round that, Karel!

All those feelings from one life, it is so much feeling from your infinite subconscious, now forms the personality.

What appears like dying is the releasing of the soul, and she goes further!

You doctors too.

You do not know the soul.

You know nothing about her infinite life.

You continue to stand before the ‘coffin’ and do not look over it.

But she now lives there as a spiritual personality.

As if God did not create anything else but such a little material being.

But both the human ‘will’ and the personality are one, is one life, but is also feeling.

And that wonderful machine, Dr Freud, Jung, Kant, Schopenhauer, you were never able to analyse, you do not know this clockwork.

Yes, madam, the soul has returned there to equal harmony and that means: it has gone to sleep, in order to attune itself to the birth.

Just think about what you have to do, today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, in two weeks’ time; in two centuries’ time you will be ready.

You will experience yourself eternally.

Now a different image: Someone has property on earth.

He is happy, because he owns a lot.

Prosperity on earth means happiness to many.

But someone with spiritual feeling said to the rich man: ‘My spiritual knowledge means more to me, my spiritual treasures have more value than all your possessions.’

And these forces, this I want to stress, have induced the person, due to all his material property, to renounce everything belonging to the earth.

He possesses happiness in the spirit and he is poor in matter.

These are two different states of spiritual attunement.

Both dwell on earth.

The one doesn’t understand that the other doesn’t yearn for riches.

Yet another commits a murder to possess matter and riches.

And we see these kinds of conditions by the thousands.

Now for the core of all these conditions: the spiritual being must have lived in a certain condition to renounce all these riches in his present life, to know that they won’t make him happy. They will cause nothing but trouble, which is why he no longer wants them.

He must know what it means to possess a lot of matter on earth.

He can only know by having experienced this once, under all kinds of circumstances.

Those who do possess that knowledge and have attained the appropriate force of feeling, have developed a condition in life which makes them realize that they’re on earth for a higher purpose, which are different conditions again.

So man will go on learning his lessons on earth and will also have to cast off what he wanted to possess in some other condition.

Man will discard and make amends for the destructive traits he manifested in a former life on earth.

I could go on explaining thousands of different conditions of life which would enable me to show you that everything man learns and will still learn is learnt on earth.

What does the human being always look at?

It looks at the human being as material.

I will show you now that you do not yet know the inner human being.

Yes, madam, America, France, Germany, the jungle and all the languages and all the peoples of the earth who live in our hearts, who are part of our subconsciousness.

Sir, do not shout at a Frenchman or a Russian, it was we ourselves!

Do you not feel, do you not find all of this just?

Do you see?

If you say that you are white, sir, it could be that the black radiance runs ahead of you, and we say: ‘Ha, there you have a Negro (see article ‘Against racism and discrimination’ on rulof.org).’

A black white Negro.

People also asked the master this question in Amsterdam and he said: ‘You are now drawing from your previous life.

You can only use that, which you now master after this life.

That means, you still have to master this life.

You now draw from your previous life, your French, your German and your Russian probably, you have talent, that is also a part of it.

Because, when you come to the earth, you still know nothing about this life.

You therefore have to master it!

Where do your countess airs and graces come from?

Received just like that?

All of this belongs to your previous life!

We see arts and sciences again, madam, as a result of our emotional life.

We built up all our characteristics as a result of many lives.

The roots are the same in every religion.

If someone longs to do good, then who cares whether he’s a Jew, a Christian or a Muslim?

All of mankind lives in one human being.