Word of the publisher
Dear reader,
This book belongs to the series of 27 books which came to earth via Jozef Rulof between 1933 and 1952.
These books are published by Foundation Spiritual-Scientific Association “The Age of Christ”, which was set up in 1946 by Jozef Rulof.
As the board of this foundation, we guarantee the original text of the books which we are making available today.
In that text, the additions by the publisher are in (round) brackets, to distinguish them from the original text.
We have also published an explanation for the books, which contains 140 articles.
We consider the publication of the 27 books and this explanation as an inextricable whole.
For some passages from the books, we refer to relevant articles from the explanation.
For instance (see article ‘Explanation at soul level’ on rulof.org) refers to the basic article ‘Explanation at soul level’ as you can read that on the website rulof.org.
Between 2003 and 2007, there was some controversy with regard to ‘The Peoples of the Earth seen by the Other Side’.
In this book, sensitive subjects are dealt with, such as the role of Adolf Hitler during World War II and the reason for his hatred of the Jewish people.
A number of people found that passages from this book were discriminating and racist, and that the writer justified and/or approved of the genocide of the Jewish people.
This led in 2003 in Belgium to a court case against the publisher of this book.
The complainants asked the court of Dendermonde to sentence the foundation due to violation of the Belgian Negationism Act and Antiracism Act.
After years of investigation, on 3 April 2007 the three judges of the Court of First Instance in Dendermonde passed a sentence, in which the foundation was acquitted of all charges.
We quote a few passages here from their sentence.
The judges first of all point to the way in which the complainants set to work, which was solely based on a few quotations:
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1.3. Judgement by the court
1.3.1. With regard to the incompleteness of the investigation
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A book or a document must always be assessed in its entirety for potential violation of the selected indictments A (Negationism Act) and B (Antiracism Act).
It is therefore not enough to take a few quotations from a vast oeuvre (more than 11,000 pages) to then state that each book separately or the oeuvre as a whole constitutes a violation of the Antiracism Act and/or the Negationism Act.
Furthermore the context of the words, gestures or actions expressed must be taken into account, and linked to this, the potential impact of this.
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The historical context also plays a role in this, whereby everything therefore must be placed within a particular timeframe.
The first book by Jozef Rulof was published in 1933.
Jozef Rulof died in 1952.
The books therefore were written between 1933 and 1952.
The books ‘Mental illnesses seen from the Other Side’ and ‘The Origin of the Universe’ were written in 1939.
‘The Peoples of the Earth seen by the Other Side’ was written during World War II (see the ‘Foreword’ in the book with the mention of ‘spring 1941’; in the justification it is mentioned that the first edition was published in 1946).
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A check regarding the quotations referred to in the indictments is necessary, on the one hand to find out whether they are indeed mentioned and on the other hand to find out in what context they were mentioned.
In this way, the court must establish that a part of the quotations under the indictments A.2 and B.23, in particular “Anyone who curses Hitler slanders Jesus” cannot be found in any case in the three books presented to the correctional registry.
In the book ‘The Peoples of the Earth seen by the Other Side’ presented to the correctional registry, the court reads something else.
It concerns the reprint 2001.
The quoted text can be found on page 208:
Adolf Hitler causes deeper suffering than one ruler before him has ever done.
He is the only being for the universe, who does and can do the most evil.
After him there will not be another human being who will get so much power and not another human being who will create so much suffering, because then it will no longer be possible, no longer be necessary!
This is why Adolf Hitler is the lowest being in the universe, Christ the Highest!
The Peoples of the Earth seen by the Other Side, 1941
During his questioning on 28 September 2005, Koenraad Cooreman (Centrum voor Gelijkheid van Kansen en Racismebestrijding; Equal Opportunities and Anti-racism Centre) stated among other things on the matter (item 154 of the criminal file):
“(...) With regard to the disputed quotation “Anyone who curses Hitler slanders Jesus”, I enquired with a Herman NIMIS mentioned from the Netherlands who is also engaged in matters similar to these.
He answered me that the quotation in question does not occur literally in the book but it concerns a summary of all kinds of quotations which I can no longer quote. (...)”.
Thus, the danger of using mere quotations or claimed quotations from a book cannot be better illustrated.
The importance of placing quotations in the total context of a book will further appear during this sentence when quoting passages from the books by Jozef Rulof made available to the court.
1.3.2. The indictment A (Violation of the Negationism Act)
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The court took the trouble to go through the book ‘The Peoples of the Earth seen by the Other Side’.
It is clear from this book that the genocide is not denied, is not minimised, is not justified and is not approved of.
The court limits itself to quoting a passage from the book ‘The Peoples of the Earth seen by the Other Side’ presented to the correctional registry.
It concerns the 2001 edition (the first edition was published in 1946).
The quoted text can be found on pages 168 and 169:
The children of (the House of) Israel amongst his people shiver at everything which they get to see and to hear.
The Jews are declared enemies of the German people and treated as such.
Hitler also shows himself to be an enemy of the churches.
They receive a slap in the face from him.
What Hitler gathers around him, are people haters, brutes and sadists.
They live out their passions at the expense of thousands.
The emotional being flees from Germany and meanwhile Hitler and his people continue to bring death and horror amongst the Jews.
They have become crazy, all of this is bestial, but it becomes even worse.
The horrors pile up, the tortures become more and more horrific.
Adolf Hitler has now already become the enemy of mankind.
Now that Hitler has surrendered to his feelings, he completely dissolves in evil; the past in him reveals itself to the day conscious self, which must now make way completely for his bad personality.
Evil has made itself master of this life, the devils of hell create an own world as a result of him and his type and live it up in the sphere of the Earth.
And Adolf Hitler can no longer stop the evil which he has evoked.
Every one of his followers lives it up, they exceed each other in cruelty.
Adolf Hitler is inspired by hells and heavens, he serves the plans of two worlds.
Hitler thinks that it is Providence which helps him.
He motivates all his deeds by putting Providence behind them.
On its authority he places the sweep over the Jews and he keeps whipping away mercilessly.
He sterilises the life of God in order to get a healthy people.
Providence wants it!
He sullies marriage and makes a manure pit out of it.
The child belongs to the state.
Providence wants it!
He lives with his people in the prehistoric age.
He feels the new, the coming through evil and wrong, but what comes from his hands, is contaminated with animal-like poison.
And yet does this man have a task to fulfil for the Other Side?
And he is ordered to do this task by the Age of Christ?
What lives in this human being?
Why does he hate the Jews?
Why does he attack the churches?
Was he really sent by God or is he Satan himself?
In Germany itself people see him as a God.
God and Christ are pushed aside for this.
The peoples of the Earth are powerless, because in his own country the Fuhrer can do what he sees fit.
Millions of souls pray to God and beg him to take this demon away from the Earth.
However, the peoples see the opposite happen, Hitler’s power grows by the hour.
Will it soon not destroy all of mankind?
People cling to the predictions of male and female clairvoyants, who are particularly frank with this and see Hitler dying all kinds of deaths.
However, Adolf Hitler does not die and is not murdered either.
Has God turned away from mankind?
God appears to curse all his life, God must hate mankind.
The terrible thing happens, Hitler begins the war and the suffering which he vents upon millions is unbearable.
And he is still not satiated, the animal continues and where he puts his footsteps, blood flows, houses change into rubble and people are tortured.
Yet he will lose himself in the violence unleashed by him and his people, you will experience it.
He will start to doubt his Providence, speak nonsense now and again and wage a terrible battle inside himself, since he no longer knows then, what he is doing correctly or wrongly.
The writers of history will record all of this, I will not go into it further, I will follow the spiritual path further.
The Peoples of the Earth seen by the Other Side, 1941
Jozef Rulof leaves the historiography to other people.
Rulof then continues to ‘philosophise’.
He states that he must prove that Adolf Hitler is the instrument on which this century plays and he specifies:
You had certainly not thought that it is Golgotha, the ‘Kingdom of God’ and mankind, who need him as an instrument.
It is exclusively and only as a result of his past that Adolf Hitler could become that instrument.
I must now take you into that past, if you wish to understand everything.
The Peoples of the Earth seen by the Other Side, 1941
(previously mentioned book on page 169)
From this ‘philosophising’ by Rulof, it appears nowhere that he denies, approves of, grossly minimises or attempts to justify the genocide and nor does he have any intention to do so.
The court will no longer quote on this matter, but refers for this purpose to the content of the book ‘The Peoples of the Earth seen by the Other Side’ (2001) in its entirety.
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The books attributed to Rulof must also be seen within the spirit of the times in which they were written.
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1.3.3. The indictment B (Violation of the Antiracism Act):
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From the preface in the book ‘The Origin of the Universe’, this book appears to date from 1939.
This book was thus written within a certain zeitgeist.
In this case too, the quotations cannot be seen separately from the total content of the book, the zeitgeist (very important) in which it was written and the placement of the wording and its meaning during that time period.
Everything must be seen within the ‘philosophising’ context of this book with regard to the origin of creation.
The first part is about ‘The Material Organism’.
The second part deals with ‘The Soul Life’.
The third part ‘Reincarnation on earth’.
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The court is therefore of the opinion that the contents of the three books, of which it was able to take note (including ‘The Origin of the Universe’ and ‘The Peoples of the Earth seen by the Other Side, editor’s note), are not of a nature to be able to incite (encourage or stimulate) discrimination, segregation, hatred or violence and these books were not written with that goal either.
The particular will to incite discrimination, segregation, hatred or violence is not present.
Taking into account the outlined legal framework and the elements of the indictment B which the court could verify through the three available books, the court must thus conclude that no violation of the Antiracism Act can be considered.
Since these books do not violate the Antiracism Act, the distributors of those writings (books) of course cannot be sentenced on the basis of the Antiracism Act.
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To this far the quoted words of the three judges from Dendermonde.
As the board of the foundation, we are of the opinion that this sentence is self-evident and we hope that it has been established once and for all (legally) that these books by Jozef Rulof are not racist, negotionistic or discriminatory.
To clearly chart what the books actually are, we have published the ‘explanation of the books by Jozef Rulof’.
This explanation contains 30 articles in the main theme ‘University of Christ’.
These articles summarize what can be found in all the 27 books by Jozef Rulof about the theme which is dealt with in the book ‘The Peoples of the Earth seen by the Other Side’, with the emphasis on explanations about this at soul level.
We have added these 30 articles to the appendix at the back of this book.
In addition, we have also added 3 articles from the main theme ‘Our Cosmic Soul’, which likewise summarize relevant key points.
With the addition of the 33 articles, we hope that it will emerge that Jozef Rulof and his masters do not find any distinction based on people, country, continent, so-called race, skin colour or physical attribute relevant, because universal love only focuses on the essence of man: his soul.
With kind regards,
The board of directors of the Foundation The Age of Christ
2023
