Jozef Rulof

The next great medium would be the "Direct Voice Apparatus" (DVA), a technical device that would enable people to communicate directly with the spirit world. The DVA would be based on another device to make all diseases disappear. He claimed he was under the control of two guides: master Alcar and master Zelanus.

• Name — Jozef Rulof • Birth Name — Josephus Gerhardus Rulof • Born — 20 February 1898 • Birthplace — 's-Heerenberg, Gelderland, The Netherlands • Died — 3 November 1952 • Place of death — The Hague, South Holland, The Netherlands

The most important point in the teachings of Jozef Rulof is that there is no death. A human dies when the silver cord, which connects the physical body with the spiritual body, breaks. The spirit then leaves its body and goes back to the world of the unconscious awaiting a new birth, or it goes to a sphere of darkness or a sphere of light, depending on the spiritual attunement of that person.

Rulof believed that each human has a certain time to live. When someone commits suicide, they only lose day-consciousness. The silver cord does not break and the suicide remains in the material body. They then experience the body's rotting. According to Rulof, this pain cannot be compared with any torture on earth. When the body is rotted completely and the skeleton becomes visible, the person walks in an empty world and only sees and hears themselves. When the actual time of death has come, the spirit goes back to the world of the unconscious, or it goes to one of the spheres. For example, when someone commits suicide at the age of 35, and that person had to become 85 years old, they must dwell in an empty world for 50 years. The book The Cycle of the Soul tells the story of Lantos and what he experiences when he commits suicide.

Jozef Rulof rejects cremation. It would cause a shock and an unbearable suffering for the dead. Persons attuned to a sphere of light will not suffer much, but persons attuned to a sphere of darkness will burn spiritually. Persons going back to the world of the unconscious awaiting a new birth will not feel anything. In the book A View into the Hereafter, there is a story about someone who committed suicide and what he experiences when he is being cremated.

A person creates karma when someone commits murder. In a next life, the murderer is born as a woman and gives birth to the one who was murdered. This way, the murderer gets a chance to make it up. Cause and Effect means what you do to another, you do to yourself.

Jozef Rulof believed in a type of physical dualism between the mind and body, though took the split further. Instead, he considered living human beings to consist of three separate entities: the physical body, a "spirit" that looks like the body but is made of a different substance, invisible to the human eye, and the "soul", which persists across lifetimes and is capable of reincarnation. He believed that all entities possessing a "soul" are small pieces of a pure "All-Source" that existed at the beginnings of the universe, which he considered to be a propelling force which forces human souls to grow. The spirit was something more akin to a physical body, but existing in an alternate, parallel, invisible realm. He considered the spirit to normally be fully overlaid over the human body, taking the same shape, but also to be able to separate from it, such as in a near-death experience or out-of-body experience. The spirit, he claimed, is connected with the physical body by means of a silver cord, which works like a rubber band. Thoughts are sent via this cord through the solar plexus to the brain, where they are intercepted and analyzed further.

A twin soul is what is called the One True Love. Every person has a twin soul, because the All-Source represents fatherhood as well as motherhood. Man and woman form one unity. Our twin soul is the cell with which we had sexual intercourse for the first time on the Moon. Two cells united and secreted another cell. This cell divided to form two other cells. These two new cells will unite just as the parent cells did. The chance a person marries his twin soul is very small: we are already too long on Earth because of our karma and Cause and Effect. But we have certainly met our twin soul in previous lives and it is nonetheless possible that we meet our twin soul during our current life, even without knowing it. They could be our son or daughter, a friend, or awaiting a new birth in the world of the unconscious.

Jozef Rulof believed that astrology would never become a science. He claimed that planets can have an influence on the physical body, but that they cannot influence someone's personality.

A core tenet of Jozef Rulof's belief was that there are seven so-called "Cosmic Grades", which represent a human's spiritual evolution. The Moon was considered to be the first Cosmic Grade, Mars the second and the Earth the third. The fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh Cosmic Grades all lie in their own universe and consist of seven planets and seven suns. Jozef Rulof claimed that there are 15 planets in our universe which contain human life. He claimed that each human soul started their divine cycle on the Moon and, after reincarnating on six intermediate planets, would reincarnate on Mars to reach the second "Cosmic Grade". After reaching this cosmic grade, they would again reincarnate on six new intermediate planets, to finally arrive on Earth to reach the third "Cosmic Grade". Each of the traversed planets would push the development of the human body a bit further, reaching something akin to non-human primates on the second "Cosmic Grade" and humans on the third "Cosmic Grade". This meant to him that there are no other planets in our universe which contain human life which is as developed as on Earth. He further claimed that when a human soul's time of repeated reincarnation on earth has come to an end, they go further as a spirit in the so-called "spheres", which are ethereal places invisible to the human eye while alive, but are roughly located around the earth itself, like alternative atmospheres. In these "spheres", they no longer possess a body of meat and bones, but a similarly-shaped body made out of ghost matter called the "spirit". The spheres were divided into seven grades as well, and the grade that a soul would end up in after their final life on earth would depend on their physical and cognitive behavior on earth. Each soul, he claimed, is required to climb the spiritual ladder towards the seventh sphere, until they are attracted by the "Mental Areas" and proceed to reincarnate on the first intermediate planet of the fourth Cosmic Grade. He claimed that when a human soul has taken full possession of the seventh planet of the seventh Cosmic Grade, it has reached "The All", a state of conscious merger, that unites all human souls back into one divine being, ending the divine cycle.

Jozef Rulof had specific views on Christian lore, often reinterpreting the Bible to fit into his teachings. For example, he claimed that • Jesus was not born by a miracle of the Holy Spirit, but was born just like everybody else. • Jesus was not betrayed by Judas Iscariot. Judas hoped that his master would show his divine powers. He was surprised that Jesus did not do anything when he was arrested. Because he saw that he had made a mistake, he committed suicide. • Jesus was the first person who reached "The All".

Jozef Rulof was an avid painter, having painted several hundred pieces of art. He claimed that all of his paintings have a symbolic, spiritual meaning. His primary subjects were spiritual flowers and spirits, and never painted subjects he considered "earthly", such as cows and houses. He painted on canvas, wood and plates. In the years 1947 and 1948, he gave public painting demonstrations in the Palace theater in Rotterdam and the building Diligentia in The Hague. During a trip to the United States, Rulof gave a painting demonstration. He made a large painting on the wall of the dining room of the rocking steamship Veendam while standing on a chair. The painting was finished in less than an hour and a half. During another public demonstration, he amazed the audience by suddenly turning the half-finished painting upside down and continuing his work. One of his paintings, donated by some Dutch to thank Sweden for its help at the end of the Second World War, was on display for a period of time in the Swedish Parliament.

Jozef Rulof gave hundreds of lectures. He also held contact evenings during which the audience could ask questions about his books and related subjects, such as abortion, Adolf Hitler, astrology, the appendix, blindness, blood transfusion, capital punishment, cause and effect, cremation, euthanasia, free will, homosexuality, karma, marriage, miscarriages, mongolism, overpopulation, psychopathy, space travel, suicide, the tonsils, transsexuality, Tutankhamun, UFOs, vegetarianism, vivisection and the Second World War. During most of his lectures and during several contact evenings, Rulof was purportedly taken over by master Alcar or master Zelanus. It is a fact that there was a notable difference in tone between the lectures and contact evenings given by himself and those given by his masters. The last 57 of these lectures and some contact evenings were recorded on a wire recorder and are available in book form.

In his book The Origin of the Universe, Rulof wrote that there are 7 physical grades of life on Earth and that we start our earthly cycle as a jungle inhabitant and gradually evolve, through many, many lives, to the white race. Some people accuse Rulof of racism because of this theory. They think that Rulof claimed that the white race is superior to the other races. This reasoning is, however, disputed on the following basis: • Throughout his books, he never calls for the discrimination of black people. • "White race" doesn't refer to the color of the skin. Africans, Chinese and Indians also belong to the white race or sixth and seventh degree. • Because of his theory, we all have to go through all degrees/races. This makes it rather difficult to discriminate against another. The Centre for equal opportunities and opposition to racism in Belgium even went to court to try to forbid the publication of Rulof's books. However, in 2007, the court of Dendermonde (Belgium) judged that the books of Rulof do not encourage race discrimination.

Rulof claimed that it is impossible to go to the Moon with a rocket because of unknown forces in the universe. In his book The Origin of the Universe, he stated that the rocket would "melt apart". In Questions and Answers, Part V, he wrote that it is wrong to think that the rocket would be attracted by the Moon: the planet would push the rocket away in the first place. According to him, it would be possible to go far away from the Earth, but when one goes too far, one has to accept his death.

• The Society Spiritual-Science Foundation The Age of Christ administers the complete works of Jozef Rulof. It was set up for this purpose in 1946 by Rulof himself. • In 1952, a few months before his death, Rulof published a series of articles in the magazine Heemsteedse Nieuwsblad, which would later become the Europese Heraut under the pseudonym Marja Radjany.