Ludendorff, Mathilde: Selfcreation

The third volume of the trilogy Der Seele Ursprung und Wesen (The Origin and Nature of the Soul) deals in a vivid, generally understandable way with the wonderful yet deeply serious laws of the soul's self-formation from the shackles of the pleasure- and purpose-enslaved will to self-preservation to those heights where the good, the true, and the beautiful are desired for their own sake, far removed from any purpose. beauty are desired for their own sake, far from any purpose. In other words, it is self-creation. Mathilde Ludendorff affirms human free will. Human beings have the freedom to decide for or against the divine, and it is precisely this freedom of decision that gives divine pride its sanctity. The magnificent and broadly painted picture of the mountain and the shaft depicts the prerequisites and types of self-creation. With masterful clarity, it shows how the diversity of racial and personal hereditary factors influences the spiritual standpoint for self-creation, how this creation is facilitated and complicated by these factors, but remains possible for every human being. Among those who accomplish self-creation, the author distinguishes three types: the babbling dead, those united with God, and the perfect devils. We all know the babbling dead. They are those people who fill their lives exclusively with what promises utility and pleasure and have banished all higher experience from themselves.