
Humanity and its Purposes
In previous sections we discussed the pattern of Man and how Being
moves through various patterns in its evolution. We also took a brief
look at the origins of humanity as covered in the Genesis chapters of
the Bible.
For the reader who has followed us thus far it should not come as
much of a surprise when we say that humanity has had many beginnings,
and will have more to come. The great Being that manifests as
humanity has already experienced a multitude of patterns on the earth
over eons of time, including patterns in the mineral, vegetable and
animal kingdoms. Each of these ‘phases’ has had its own origins and
within those phases may be found further sub-phases. Thus there are a
multitude of ‘origins’ that humanity has passed through in its descent
into Duality. In that process it has fragmented and took on separate
identities as a multitude of billions of individuated beings. After this
progressive fragmentation comes progressive unification, and humanity
has still more patterns awaiting exploration and expression on its
journey back to the Godhead.
Let us however spend some time on the expressions of its current
pattern, namely that of Man. In the ‘phase of Man’, humanity is
primarily exploring the emotional and mental aspects of Being. We have
pointed out the significance of the seas that surround man in our book,
“The God Principle”. One of the primary tasks of the race is to fully
experience the emotional aspect of Being, and ultimately use that
experience as the foundation of a new level of unity, that of Love.
The progressive unification that we talked about is not expected to
come about through a merging of individual identities, but by bonding through Love.
True Love is the purest manifestation of the Unitary Principle within the emotional plane.
For this unity to become possible it is first required that humanity
go through every conceivable aspect of emotion in all its twisted and
deranged forms before those experiences can be refined and subjugated to
its greatest possible manifestation - Love. We have covered this
theme in the chapter ‘Mountain’ of our book, “The God Principle”. The
discussion there touched upon prior failures of the race, the Flood in the
Bible, and the rainbow after the Flood. This manifestation of a unitary
society based on Love is one of the most important purposes of the
race, and it has so far turned out to be the most difficult to achieve.
When we say Love, we do not mean the common implication of that word
as found in romantic love, brotherly love, or even motherly love. True
love is a far cry from any of these experiences and human beings are
yet to discover its true meaning. Very few have experienced its true
heights, the Love that Christ knew. The Master remains a shining
example for the human race to strive for and to finally attain to this
lofty goal of human manifestation.
Therefore every time you observe the depths and depravities of human emotion in the world around, understand that this is a path of humanity’s choosing,
one that will ultimately lead the race to a wonderful unity with the
Love aspect of the Godhead - known in some terminology as the Christ, or
Christ consciousness. This is what is truly meant by the term ‘the
Bride of Christ’ when applied to humanity. There is no other
manifestation of the Godhead comparable in power, glory, and beauty to
this, and humanity will have made its journey back to the Godhead with a
perfect understanding and experience of the emotional. This is the
future, but to get there it must strive and struggle for yet a while -
amongst pain, sorrow and fear.
We do not mean to say that humanity has no other purposes. In fact we
discussed the whole notion of ‘purpose’ in our book, ‘The God
Principle’. There is not any single purpose but almost an infinitude of
purposes, stretching out vastly in a great hierarchy, as Being moves
through various patterns of expression. At the lower rungs of this
hierarchy are found individual purposes, that of every day life. At its
pinnacle may be found, the Prime Directive. We will not discuss this
further here and the reader is referred to the book.
The mental aspect is of course another dimension of Being that
humanity explores. On this part the race has generally been laggards
almost until recently, choosing instead to focus on the emotional
aspect. Though its recent achievements on the scientific side has been
prolific, the ground yet to be covered is indeed vast.
Let us now bring science and technology into better context. The
Principle of Reflection has a very interesting corollary. It states that
virtually anything that is conceivable using the faculty of imagination is achievable in the realm of matter.
This is a very strong statement, and has tremendous implications for
science and technology. It would not be outlandish to state that
technological accomplishment can reach such levels, where it extends
into what is conventionally considered the domain of ‘spirit’. One need
only consider the various functions of the brain, and how the so
called “soul-body connection” might actually function, to see the
glimmerings of such technology. Let us close by stating that much of
science and technology as envisioned in popular science fiction (such as
the Star Trek series), can become actual fact.
With this we will now shift focus and discuss a subject that we promised to cover, viz. the death/birth cycle of humanity.
