54. The Karmic Consequences of Laziness and Mendacity

A special chapter is the nature of lies. Untruthfulness plays a significant role in today's industrial and commercial life. This was not the case a short time ago. The essence of lying is as follows: What does a person want when he lies, consciously or unconsciously? Everyone who lies wants to use the lie to develop a power that spiritualizes him. The Elohim gave man earthly life so that he could accomplish his mission. Lucifer does not want people to go through life on earth. Lying is serving Lucifer: Tearing man away from earthly life into a spiritual realm, but into a Luciferian realm. Liars = swarmers; all this is Luciferian influence. If the human being has been a liar in his past earthly life, in the first half of life between death and a new birth one sees how he becomes a servant of the Luciferic hosts. People who have especially served the Luciferic hosts (who were liars) are those who become crass egoists. All egoism in later lives is prepared by lying in earlier lives. By putting himself out of the truth, man puts himself out of humanity. Karmically, egoism comes from lying. Speaking untruth about the higher worlds comes out of drunkenness from occultism.