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Ehrfurcht (Ehrung, Ehrerbietung, Ehrwürdigung) und Ehrwürdigkeit sind die Urkräfte 

aller Erkenntnis 

Deference (Honour, Respect, Veneration) and Venerability are the Primal Powers of all 

Cognition 

By Vibka Wallder, 8 th December 2012 

This is the first rule of order (Ordnungsregel) listed in the book Genesis [1] which is then followed by 143 

interpreting explanations. The rules were transmitted to Billy in 1975 from the pure spirit level Petale. 

Here are the first three explanations, which I would like to investigate further: 

1. Ehrfurcht (Ehrung, Ehrerbietung, Ehrwürdigung) und Ehrwürdigkeit (Heiligung) sind die grundlegenden 

Voraussetzungen, die urtümlichen Kräfte aller Erkenntnisse. (Genesis p. 79) 

1. Deference (honour, respect, veneration) and venerability 

(honouring) are the fundamental pre-conditions, the primeval powers 

of all cognition. 

2. Das bedeutet, dass im Menschen ehrwürdige Ehrfurcht (Ehrung, 

Ehrerbietung, Ehrwürdigung, Ehrwürdigkeit) vor und in allen Dingen 

herrschen muss, wenn er Erkenntnisse erlangen will. (Genesis p. 79) 

2. That means that in the human being, venerable deference 

(honour, respect, veneration, and venerability) for and in all things 

must prevail if he/she wants to obtain cognition. 

3. Ehrwürdig (heilig) sind alle Dinge, sowohl die positiven wie auch 

die negativen, die in gleichem Masse geachtet werden sollen in 

Ehrfurcht (Ehrung, Ehrerbietung), insofern sie keiner Ausartun 

Ehrfurcht (Deference) [2] aheifalle. (Genesis p. 79)g 

3. Venerable (honourable) are all things, the positive ones as well as the negative ones, which must be 

respected in deference (honour, respect) in equal measure, as long as they do not fall prey to any Ausartung 1 . 

Id like to gie two examples of how I witnessed the rules being violated. Both examples come from my work in 

an Australian country hospital, and the fact that they are still so fresh in my mind, shows what impact it can 

have on other human beings if we do not follow these principles. 

First example: An older dotor alls e oer to the frot of the urses statio, fro here e a look ito the 

roo opposite. He poits to a ed o the right ith the ords, Do ou see that a oer there? I at you to 

treat him with respect, because he is an OBE (Order of the British Empire). 

 

Now what was the doctor really saying? He certainly wanted me to treat this patient with respect, but 

to me it also sounded like, Whe he sas jup I at ou to ask ho high?. He learl ated e 

to treat this gentleman preferentially, which is not in accordance with the first rule of order, which 

states that we treat everyone and everything with deference in equal measure. 

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Ausartung = a very bad get-out of the control of the good human nature 

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The irony with this doctor is that he would always refer to e as the Hu or Wog, util - after ignoring 

it for a while - I stood up to him and told him that I did not like to be treated like that. From then on he 

treated me like every other nurse. 

I respoded to the dotor puttig hads o hips ad saig, I treat all patiets ith respet, 

thak ou er uh, tured o heels ad et ak to ork. 

The second example: One day during handover the nurses were talking about a young female indigenous 

person. She was about 16 years old and had her tonsils removed two days earlier. The nurse handing over 

finished her report with a snide tone of voice, …ad she hast had a shoer et! As it happened, I was 

assigned to the room, so I went into the room, greeted my patients, checked all their charts in order to prioritise 

my workload, and then I asked the young girl, who was still on intravenous fluids, Would ou like e to assist 

you with a shower? With big round eyes and a surprised look on her face she asked, Ca I have a shower? So 

it appeared to me that this poor girl did not know that she could have a shower whilst on a drip, and it seemed 

that my colleagues had not bothered offering her the appropriate assistance. Could it be that they had some 

prejudice towards indigenous people and that they had neglected her and failed in their duty of care? 

So lets go back to the first two explanations: 

Deference (honour, respect, veneration) and venerability (honouring) are the fundamental pre-conditions, the 

primeval powers of all cognition, and that means that it must prevail in us if we want to obtain cognition. 

So how do we develop …deference for ad i all thigs and make it prevail? 

 

 

 

 

 

By treating all human beings with the same respect, regardless of their social status, achievements in 

life, skin colour, age, and so forth. In other words, we do not grovel, but we do not neglect them either, 

rather we give each one of them the same attention, respect, assistance and so forth that we would 

expect for ourselves. 

By caring for and respecting every living creature on this planet and not harming them unnecessarily. So 

when we kill animals for our consumption, we do it in the most humane manner; but ultimately we 

strive for growing the meat in factories. And when we need to kill vermin to protect our health or food, 

we should also do it with minimal suffering for the creature. 

By protecting the environment: If we treat our environment carelessly by wasting precious resources, 

then we do not show the appropriate venerable deference to a planet, which was created over a period 

of millions of years for the benefit of evolution. And we do not show respect to the next generations, 

who may struggle to live with dignity, because of the wastefulness of preceding generations. We need 

to learn to appreciate nature as much as man-made things, and we must do everything in our power to 

protect it all ad tr ot to otriute to this thro-aa soiet. 

By being punctual for meetings and appointments. If we are not punctual, we are not showing 

deference/respect towards the other person/s, who has/have been made to wait. 

By expressing our deference/respect for human beings in our speech. 

In contact report 169 [3] Billy and Quetzal discuss that talking is supposed to be a means for 

communication and should really only be used for that purpose, and that all communication should be 

of a harmonious nature. In this context Billy and Quetzal refer to slander and back biting in particular, 

which many human beings engage in, and which hinders them in their own evolution, because of the 

negative effects on their consciousness. But using strong language like swear words or calling other 

persons names could not be considered harmonious either, because they always hurt someone, and I 

think that using them shows a lack of deference, honour, respect and veneration. Just think about how 

easily and readily people use the f-word these days. It has become very common, and many of my 

fellow human beings seem to think that it is cool to use it, and that I am old-fashioed eause I dot. 

But to me using the f-word or other strong language is a sign of the decline of our society, how our 

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communication and respect for each other is diminishing, and how little control we have over our 

emotions when we use swear words like that. 

Freedom and peace on this planet can only be obtained with deference, honour, respect and veneration. Many 

of us may think that we are already doing our bit towards freedom and peace on this planet and that we are not 

the ones causing all the trouble, because we are not fighting with our neighbours and we are peace loving in 

general. Its usually the others that are upsetting the apple cart. However, if every night we honestly reflect back 

on our day and think about our thoughts, words and actions, we will probably find that we have strayed off the 

path somewhere along the line and that there is room for improvement, because every thought of envy, 

jealousy, dislike, hatred and so forth can subconsciously lead to a negative word or action, which in turn then 

breaches this first rule of order. 

Contributing to freedom and peace means that we consider and respect others right to decide, their wishes, 

their needs and personalities and that we do not try to curtail their way of life; that we do not try to push our 

opinion on them in the slightest manner. It means that we accept others as they are, with their peculiarities, 

ideas, wishes, needs and so forth, and that we do not try to change them, or judge them in any way. 

The only person one can change for the better is oneself, and if we develop more deference, honour, respect 

and veneration within us we will gain cognition and contribute to peace in this world. 

Nur durh das Ershaffe o Erketisse erag sih der Mesh 

Wisse ud Weisheit soie ahre Liee aufzuaue. [4] 

Only through the creation of cognition is the human being able to 

uild up koledge ad isdo as ell as true loe, hih are 

fundamental to our evolution. 

The abilities and powers for it rest idle in our consciousness and we 

can experience everything and obtain cognition, knowledge, wisdom 

and love if we develop certain powers within us through studying the 

spiritual teaching, thinking about it, working through it, applying it to 

our daily life and thus developing the powers of understanding and 

ability. 

Erkenntnis (cognition) 

Petale further states in the iterpretig eplaatios that the door to cognition opens according to a distinct 

rule of order (Ordnungs-Regel); and below I have summarised a few points from the explanations: 

 

 

 

 

It begins with developing a favourable fundamental mood of our consciousness and psyche, and the 

basic factor for it is deference and control. Deference here is not meant in the sense of putting someone 

or something on a pedestal and which leads to submissiveness, but rather seeing others as equals with 

equal values. 

By the same token, criticism must only be applied in equalisedness so that it does not turn into judging 

others and thus to a damaging factor. 

Therefore we need to continuously work hard and energetically on ourselves, study the spiritual 

teaching and experience it through our own thinking and action. 

We may seek a teacher, who can explain the teaching to us, but the real work happens within ourselves. 

Through self-education we must tune ourselves into deference and so forth and must search for it in our 

environment, in other human beings, in animals and plants and approach each and everyone in 

equalisedness. 

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We must not see only the good or only the bad, but rather see both equally for what they are, namely 

factors of life that are necessary for evolution. 

Therefore, we must never be judgemental, rather be discerning and respecting and make this our 

internal and external rule of life. 

This rule of order must be a part of our consciousness, as well as our thoughts and feeling and our 

psyche and we should endeavour to keep it in our fine-spiritual perception, feelings and thoughts, 

whether we are awake or asleep, whether we are alone or in company. 

This is our starting point if we want to enter the mysteries of the spiritual teaching and gain higher 

knowledge and useful cognitive skills and powers. 

We must constantly endeavour to find and create deference (honour, respect, veneration) and 

venerability (honouring), so that they become a constant feature in our consciousness and replace 

thoughts and feelings of non-deference, disrespect, and so on, as well as snide criticism and erroneous 

appraising of others. 

Completely silent and unnoticeable to the outside world, a change will occur within us when we walk 

the path of cognition and develop deference. Ol the koig oes, ho speak the laguage of the 

spiritual teaching, will notice the change in us. 

We will continue with our work and obligations as usual, because the change happens internally, 

invisible and unrecognisable to the uninitiated ones. 

But in us the sprouting deference (honour, respect, veneration) and venerability (honouring) illuminates 

the life of the consciousness and the psyche. 

And in the sprouting general mood, our entire consciousness-life and psyche-life suddenly finds a 

beaming and warming epicentre, which rises like the sun, which by means of its rays, frees everything 

that lies dormant in the darkness and awakens it to life by means of its warmth. 

It ot e easy in the beginning to realise that deference (honour, respect, veneration) and venerability 

(honouring) are the basic factors of all cognition, because we are still caught up in some belief, and 

through our belief assume that cognition is merely a skill in itself and a pure thought process. 

But its not; ogitio is ahieed through deferee, hoour, respet… 

However, all cognition has its origin in our consciousness and thoughts as well as our feelings. 

Therefore we need to learn to control our feelings, thoughts and fine-spiritual perception and steer 

them with the appropriate strength according to need. 

We must also learn to create them consciously and to work with them. 

References: 

1. Meier, BEA 1975/2011, GENESIS (Schöpfungs-Genesis), 2. Auflage, Wassermannzeit-Verlag, CH-8495 Schmidrüti, 

Schweiz [available in German only] (page 79). 

2. Meier, BEA 2004, Symbole der Geisteslehre, Wassermannzeit-Verlag, CH-8495 Schmidrüti, Schweiz [available in 

German only]. 

3. Meier, BEA 2004, Plejadisch-plejarische Kontaktberichte Block 4, Wassermannzeit-Verlag, CH-8495 Schmidrüti, 

Schweiz [available in German only] (page 415) 

4. Meier, BEA 2012, Lehrschrift für die Lehre der Wahrheit, Lehre des Geistes, Lehre des Lebens, Wassermannzeit- 

Verlag, CH-8495 Schmidrüti, Schweiz [available in German only] (page 11) 

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