The newborn, wet as it leaves the womb, blindly thrust into this world and knowing nothing but the boundless primordial state, gradually experiences the formal limits of earthly life. It feels the dull blows that uncontrolled hands inflict on its body. It accidentally bites its foot and feels pain. It begins to understand that it has a body, that its body has limits. With the giving of a name, education and confrontation with society, further boundaries develop on a mental level. These boundaries lead to the suffering that we can observe today in the eyes of so many people. Only at the end of life, on the deathbed, when the body dies, does the inner self leave the formal and return to the primordial state. This is how it is portrayed in the series ‘SUFFERING THROUGH FORM’. From the primordial state into the tremendous turmoil of life, back up to the primordial state. This primordial state, in which the harmony of nature resonates and pure ecstasy dwells, which we blind creatures seem to overlook, is not a fact that can only be found beyond our lives. On the contrary, it is only through life, through the gift of the senses, that we can consciously experience the original state, rejoice in it and live it out in love. That original state rests stationary, while life rushes in and rapidly disappears again. During their lifetime, lost human beings identify with forms and completely overlook their original state. In other words, they stand in a castle garden filled with roses, but hold a finger stuck up their bum in front of their nose. A person who eagerly asks questions, who honestly strives for the truth, who places the truth above all worldly affairs, who searches for it within themselves with complete devotion, will come to the realisation that the forms with which they have identified, from which they have created their ‘personal self’, are decimal in comparison to the underlying consciousness. He will therefore seek out all the forms that together make up his ‘personal self’, tie them together, grab them firmly and hurl them away with the most powerful blow. At the moment of redemption, the dissolution of his ‘personal self’, he experiences his true ‘SELF’. The return to the original state, the awareness of one's own consciousness. After such an experience, he lives on this earth, but floats through life like an angel. No worldly circumstance can disturb him. He is the consciousness of what is happening. - Elias Franziskus Grüner, 2021