THE ALLEGORY OF THE LAST JUDGEMENT
Oh my God! …The entire horizon is getting dark. Some light can be seen here and there and yet in close by me. Oh, what an awful storm is about to approach! How dangerously the clouds are swirling. The far humming is making the marrow freeze in the bone. They are swirling as if they were not clouds but some huge things which would be heavy objects with constant changing in their forms. Oh my goodness, what is going on? I can see far-far away from here at the moment but the humming and the impending murmur is making my heart shiver although it is still light in front of me, the sun is still shining here.
Here, the people are behaving as if they did not know anything about it, they are laughing and crying, enjoying themselves and they are mischievous.
Or are they blind or deaf to see it directly over their heads what I see from here, from this huge distance?
People, run away from here!
Now an awful clap as if sky and ground has come crashing down. What is a breaking storm at blue sea compared with this where the people are shaking for their souls? What are the thunder-like crashes of the clouds and waves compared with this?
People as horrified animals are starting to run to and fro and escaping into their shelters head over heels, treading on one another. …
The storm is booming, the booming is getting stronger and stronger; the air is being trembled with a raging thunder. Awful. … Where towns were there before this, where the horrified crowd escaped, it is now being swept smooth with a rumbling flood. … In front of me the sun is still shining, people live here in brightness.
However, the storm is still on and chasing the escaping crowd in front of itself.
Why do I have to see and experience this terror?
Now, I can see a huge church. From its gloomy walls, long centuries look down. A rushing mass of people is besieging its door and the house-of-prayers is being filled with them.
It is quiet inside; centuries of prayers are flying in the air. The packed crowd believes they have saved their lives from the destruction of the awful storm. They may have. …
Oh, mighty God! This is your shelter, take care of them!
The rumbling flood is reaching the stairs of the church and the walls are being washed around. Frightful high wind is blowing the roof. …
The church will not be able to stand in this storm for too long. Its tower is unsteady. …
Now, it has crashed down. Now, the walls are collapsing. …
There is only a ruin in the place of the church, and the crushed bodies with the debris are being rolled away by the filthy flood towards me. …
Dreadful view! …
I do not want to see it any longer! (Pause)
However, the humming is stronger and stronger. …
(A bit more revived): Oh, there is a brave team erecting a big building! It has been made from iron. Yes, here science can show what results have been made throughout centuries with researches, struggles, thinking, learning and collecting. Oh, yes, it is incontrovertible. It has been measured out to endure every storm, disaster, flood, destruction and even earthquake. It is enormous! Yes, humanity can show what they know and the people who are entering in this with proud consciousness and closing its gate behind them they know what they are doing. They will escape. …
The storm is tearing along; its wild flood is approaching, coming, rumbling. Lightings are flashing and the thunder is making the listeners crazy.
But, the iron palace is still standing; knowledge is resistant to blind power.
(Terrified shout): What is that? Dreadful!
When a fire-brand is thrown a piece of paper on, it flames up and then there are only shrivelled, black flying ashes remain. The product of science has disappeared like this.
There is something awful power in this humming which melted down and destroyed the whole thing as if it had been a worthless paper-rag. …
The storm is humming onward.
We will perish, we all will perish!
The swirling clouds are very close now, the sun is darkening and a small terrified group of people is rushing into shelter.
A beautiful, big and green tree stands there which has not been reached by the storm.
They are escaping under the tree. …
The people are anxiously and hopelessly putting their arms around the trunk of the tree.
The storm which has not taken care of anything and has made even with the ground that was created by faith, knowledge, ambition and men, maybe the storm will save the tree.
Foolish hope! There is no escaping it! …
Oh, what a frightful lighting!
The foliage and the bark of the nice living tree have crushingly buried the people under it. Its trunk was empty inside, just the bark was alive, and there was only an illusion of life inside it.
Oh, I do not want to see anything else. My God, take it away from my eyes.
(Pause) It seems I got deaf. There is silence. Or, have I dreamt all of these?
A very friendly, smiling-face spirit is coming towards me. He wants to talk to you.
Another spirit: Peace is with you.
(To the first spirit): Calm down, look at these as a picture indeed a shady side of the picture. I want to show you the sunny side of this picture too. I will return to every single details of the picture and I will point out them for you.
Children are made to give up their fears by letting them close to the object of their fears. When they see that their fantasy made the things so fearful then their fears disappear.
There always must be a storm. The sweltering heat of a summer day lifts up water from the ground to the sky and the water as a mass of steam squeezes up into clouds.
After this, from the sun countless types of energies stream down to the ground and mix with lower types of energies radiating from the earth. Together they produce a huge power which cause stress in these clouds, so then everything is prepared up for the storm to break.
The premonitory signs of the storm warn the people to escape and save the things which may be ruined by the storm.
Next, the storm arrives but the people who know they do not have anything to fear of they will not fear.
Water pours down to the earth again, the assembled power with stress bursts out, lightings flash, thunder shivers the land – then the sun comes out and shines, the nature smiles and raindrops in the calyxes of the flowers as a crying but cheered up child’s teardrops on his eyelashes glitter magically.
On the earth, long-long millions of years were spun into the sea of eternity. These millions of years saw the subordinate here-sent spirits and people’s evil thoughts, feelings and acts. So, these millions of years lit fire to these in themselves just as the clouds do with the lifted-up water-steam.
Although God’s grace radiates constant and equalized powers from heaven down to the earth, these damnationous powers, which were produced by refusal, even can transform this radiating divine power.
Thus, this world’s spiritual atmosphere has been slowly filled up with powers which are approaching the final phase of the stress. Once the storm has to be broken out although the earth has already experienced smaller storms indeed it has experienced some bigger too, these are still warning notices only premonitory signs of the big one which is gathering. It is not close yet because everything is shining here but the storm with its irresistible power will sweep away which is a human shanty.
And, when this storm is about to break, the people who will have been selling – purchasing, getting married and enjoying their lives till that day, they will rush as if they were frightened sheep to some sheltered places, into their homes, in other words: they wrap themselves in their own selfishness. But their selfishness is going to be knocked down together with their poor and insignificant personalities as well.
The devastating storm is going to make even with the ground. This storm will destroy the frames.
The age-long church- has seen many believers’ spirits even such spirits who are out of the belt of the storm because they filled the church’s air with true prayers- as a frame or as a form will not be able to protect anyone.
This mass of people escaped there vainly since they believe that externals and formalities can save them but they will not be saved by that frame as the frame will collapse too and it will bury those who trusted in it.
In the eyes of a clever grown man human science is a miserable toy – which is really like a senseless toy for a child who hardly can walk- that does not want to know anything apart from its own tiny narrow frame and does not even believe in anything.
So, does it really want to stand against the storm of the evolution?
Surely, this is like a flake in a whirlwind. It leaves such powers, knowledge and possibilities out of account which it cannot be aware of.
Whereas these powers, knowledge and possibilities lie far away from its narrow line. All of the frames of the science will collapse too and the self deception that lives from these alleged-values will lie in ruins there, burying those poor people down who wanted to save their spirits with such nutriments.
You saw one more thing, my friend, a seem-to-living tree. This is the small group of those people who believe that they believe. This group is where people make efforts to acquit accordingly the commands and externals which are stated by some forms of faith however their faith is shallow, rotten inside, not living and not Christ’s motion in the soul, but only a shy attempt of putting forward the hung-up-truth by other people.
Everything which is human has to be ended because those powers were produced by men with their wickedness and badness and these are attacking the same essence that created those powers.
Now, turn your glance away from the dark side of the picture and try to look at the sunny part.
From those lower spheres where all of these take place, ascend with me into my world and see what you can see from all of those.
Nothing, can’t you? And, what can you feel?
The air of hope which is slowly-slowly is produced by patience from men.
Now, if you look more carefully, you can see altars and different fires on them. These fires are in straight flames, raising, clean and bright.
You are looking at me questioningly: What are these?
The same altars are down there too in the sphere of the earth but they are dimly in flames and very small because the opposite which does not like these fires make efforts, by all means, to destroy these altars and extinguish the fires.
In the turbulence of the evolution and development and even from every idea, religion and denomination individuals separate from one by one, a few, those who feel in their soul to have a desire for something else rather than empty formalities. They feel as if they were called by someone to build a new altar for themselves and make fire on it because the old altar’s fire has been primarily burnt to ashes. Smaller communities are founded turn and turn about which name themselves differently according to their spiritual colours but the name does not matter. They are searching clearer brightness so they do get clearer brightness. There is real fire on their small altar because if it was not real, you could not see its duplicate in my sphere where you are now, but it would stay in that earthy sphere.
All of them are inspired with one purpose: to be true in front of God.
This is the inner harassing desire of the truth which fills them up with bravery in a view of not being satisfied with the bare frame but search for essence.
Although they knew the people comfortably-settled-down in-the-frame regard to them as their enemies and they also knew and felt those people chasing despise them and those people regard their truth as erroneous belief and wrong thing.
However they were made brave by the inner calling word and they did not bother with detestation, mockery or slander indeed they built up their own small altars and lit their own truth’s fire.
This picture has a particular nature.
All of these you could see is nothing else – though when it will happen as a frightful, humanly unimaginable, dreadful things’ process, since God does not work with tiny details but works with huge lines for eternity – than that judgement which was told by Jesus Christ to the apostles. He said: “And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:”(Matthew 25,32) .
Can you see how sheep excel from the crowd to stand on the right hand side of the Lord?
Can you see how the Lord calls them by their names that He wants to save?
And those are able to understand His calling word.
Since He would save everyone but the people who are insensitive to accept His word cannot be lifted up to higher spheres where they would sink back from again by their own weight.
I can characterize the difference with one word between the two groups on the Lord’s two sides which is bravery.
Moral bravery is needed to break up with everything which separates the spirit from Jesus Christ.
How did He tell to those people who were stood on His right hand side? ” Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.”(Matthew 25,34-46).
Let’s see, my dear friends, why were these people more brave than the others?
The One was hungry and they gave Him food, He was thirsty and they gave Him drink, He was undressed and they clothed Him. What does an average man, who lives pinch and save, say to the man who goes to his house thirsty, hungry and cold? He says: “Why have you come here? I have a family to feed and clothe.” This man is not brave enough to break those bounds which separate him from the spirits who are his natural spirits from those who are not his natural spirits.
You can see an even sharper difference between these people and who are out of this circle. What does our Lord say?: ” I was a stranger, and ye took me in”. What does an average man say to the stranger if he wants accommodation? He says: “ I have nothing to do with this vagabond who does not belong to my nation, to my sort, he is a stranger for me.“
It sets a sharp limit between the spirits who belong to him racially, denominationally or somehow and the spirits who are out of these since he does not recognize universal fraternity.” I was sick, and in prison”.
I wonder whether a selfish man goes visiting a serous epidemic ill man to take away one hour from his pastime without being scared to be ill. No, not at all, because his selfishness puts heavier fetters on his arms and legs rather than be able to free himself from his fetters not even for the sake of Jesus Christ.” I was in prison, and ye came unto me”.
Who is that person that goes and offers his services with endangering his title or his social position for someone who has been condemned and casted into prison?
Only that man can do it that is able to break the most shameful limit, which separates man from man, the limit of caste because that person has got the moral bravery. Only that man is able to break these bounds, which were built by people their flesh put on them or the Moloch of their society claims among people, who is brave and recognized the brothers and sisters in everybody whoever is a vagabond, a prisoner or a starving homeless because Christ and His idea live in his soul, the universal fraternity.
These people have the bravery because Christ’s calling word is more valuable for them than their family, nation, denomination, race, caste, money or anything else which earth can provide for men.
Those who are on the left-hand side of the Lord have excuses for not offering their services to the man who is hungry, undressed and came into their home as a stranger. These people always have excuses, they always have a frame where they withdraw and say: “I herewith undertake this frame and the things out of it are not my business." When they will be asked by the Lord why they did not do it with one from the poor, then they will be ready to save themselves by saying: “If we had known it was the Lord, we would have done it.” Because it is ordered by their frame. However, they do not even consider it as a sin to not doing it with anyone who is not the Lord himself, they do not regard it a shame.
My dear FELLOW, evolution works with huge lines and enormous powers. In its frame this tiny man as a small worm, as an atom in the universe must work to build up his own frame of mind patiently by ignoring himself and by placing trust only in God’s grace.
Because if he works like this, he works together with the good and clean powers. While he lives his life with predominating self-esteem, selfishness and lovelessness, he helps to the damnational powers which, in your apparition, you could see destroy. The man who helps these damnational powers, who attaches his spirit to them he will be torn away and taken, as Jesus said, to: “And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.”
In contrast with this, the people who forget themselves and the clock warns them to forget more and more devotedly themselves and live their lives for somebody else, for Jesus Christ, even if they are fallible and stumbling people.
Because those mighty powers, which they could serve this way, will support them and take them to the home of brightness where all of these storms and dreadful things cannot reach there and they can win peace in the world of spirits.
The form does not save anyone; the frame does not give any protection.
It is no good for us having things hung up on our soul by somebody else.
Only that counts which we ourselves produce from the most inner part of our soul by the power of grace that we must hold on to with ten nails if we want to stand up in the future. (Extract: The Workers of the Last Hour II)
