The Children of Lucifer

It is a great transformation that our Phosphorus is undergoing. In a distant mountain gorge, he searches for a clue and comes across one of the temples that were considered initiation temples. There he also meets an old priest, one of the wise men of the unknown God. Which god? Perhaps the one who is not professed, not worshipped in this or that form? The one who, when asked, gives no answer, because everyone must answer for themselves, which cannot be put into words, but which lives as a spark in every human being? As true as it is that man can become aware of the divine spark, so too can he become aware that his whole life is a journey toward the great God who underlies what lives in the stars, what is in the human breast, and what will still underlie all that man himself will achieve on his higher level, because he is not a God of the past, but a God of the future, not a God of thoughts of the past or the present, but a God of thoughts that man will one day be able to think as the highest on the current level of development. That is why he is called the unknown God, because man cannot serve a God who holds his existence as a finished thing in his hand, but because he wants to serve a God who can only stand in perfect form in the future. That is why the free man holds on to the divine spark in his breast, that is why he holds on to that which is scattered throughout the world as the fragmented Dionysus. Then they cannot find the strength for upward development from anything other than this separated spark of God, but then they also know that this upward development is connected with passing through knowledge and suffering, with passing through evil, because human beings are detached, in their inner spirituality, from the divine. That is why free forces must spring up within them to lead this spark back to divinity. If we had remained in the bosom of the gods, without being fragmented in the sense of the Dionysus legend, then the deity itself would lead us to godliness. But as it is, we appear like fallen sons of God. And this power within us, which as sons of Dionysus is supposed to lead us to this godliness, this power within us is the power of Lucifer, the Luciferic principle, that light which man kindles within himself in freedom in order to find the whole God as part of the divine essence.