It is my conjecture that the human spirit empowers all life on earth in the form of aspects. Thus allowing an interim step between the froth of cellular life and an emergent humanity while leaving nothing out. This is somewhat hinted at here but not explicitly laid out. We do learn that without some impulse no spiritual progress is possible and thus GOD acted to produce Man.
This makes man's spiritual self and
special nature foremost. That GOD is purely of the second tier of
matter is evident and that man combines both second and third tier
matter is also clear. GOD has added the SOUL or more explicitly the
perfect PATTERN that we strive to achieve.
CHAPTER TWO
THE BIRTH OF MAN
The love of God penetrated the third veil and became the
Seed of Souls within the Soul Sea. The body of man
God made of water and things of the Earth, breathing into him the Spirit of
Life, that he might live. But man,
when young, lived only to eat and drink and to fornicate, for, being conscious
only of the Earth, he knew only
earthly things and earthly ways.
Now the Spirit of God Moved over the face of the Earth, but
was not of the Earth. It held all things and was in
all things, but on Earth could not be apart from anything. Without substance it
was awake, but entering substance
it slept.
Consider that which was told by the servants of Eban, of
Heavenman who once wandered the Earth, He had no earthly substance and could not grasp its
fruits, for he had no hands. He could not drink its waters, for he had no
mouth, nor could he feel the cool winds upon his skin. They tell how the ape
tribe Selok, led by Heavenman,
perished by flames before the Valley of Lod, Only one she-ape reaching the cave
heights above.
When Heavenman was reborn of the she-ape in the cavern of
Woe, could he taste the fruits of the Earth and
drink of her waters, and feel the coolness of her winds? Did he not find life
good? It is not all a tale of the
courtyard!
Man, created from earthly substance alone, could not know
things not of Earth, nor could Spirit alone subdue
him. Had man not been created, who would have known God's wisdom and power? As
the Spirit fills the body of
man, so does God fill His creation.
Therefore, it was that God saw something had to be which
joined Earth and Spirit and was both. In His wisdom
and by the creative impulse which governs the Earth, He prepared a body for
man, for the body of man is wholly
of Earth.
Behold, the great day came when the Spirit, which is God,
was joined with the beast, which is Earth. Then Earth
writhed in the labour of travail. Her mountains rocked back and forth and her
seas heaved up and down. Earth
groaned in her lands and shrieked in her winds. She cried in the rivers and
wept in her storms. So man
was bom, bom of upheaval and strife. He came wretchedly and tumultuously, the
offspring of a distraught
Earth. All was in discord, snow fell in the hot wastelands, ice covered the
fertile plains, the forests
became seas. Where once it was hot, now it was cold and where no rain had ever
fallen, now there were floods.
So man came forth, man the child of calamity, man the
inheritor of creative struggle, man the battleground of
extremes.
Earth nurtured man with cautious affection, weaning him in
the recesses of her body. Then, when he was grown
sufficiently to be lifted so he walked in the uprightness of God, she took him
and raised him above all other
creatures. She led him even into the presence of God and she laid him on His
Great Altar.
A man imperfect, of earthly limitations, a thing
unfinished, ungainly and unlearned, but proudly was He
presented to Earth's Creator. Not her first-bom was man, the son of Earth, the
grandchild of God, man the heir of
tribulation and the pupil of affiiction.
God saw man, the offering of Earth to her Lord, unconscious
on the High Altar, a sacrifice to Him and a
dedication to the Spirit of Fate. Then from out of the unfathomable heights and
from behind the impenetrable
veil, God came down above the Altar and He breathed into man the breath of
Eternal Life. Into his sleeping
body God implanted a fragment of Himself, the Seed of a Soul and the Spark of
Divinity, a man the mortal
became man the heir of God and the inheritor of immortality.
Henceforth he would have dominion over God's
earthly estate, but he also had to unravel the Circles of Eternity, and his destiny
was to be an everlasting seeking
and striving.
Man slept, but God opened the Great Eye within him and man
saw a vision of unsurpassed glory. He heard the
voice of God saying, "O man, in your hand is now placed the tablet of your
inheritance, and My seal is upon it.
Know that all you desire within your heart may be yours,
but first it is necessary that you be taught its value.
Behold, the Earth is filled with things of usefulness, they are prepared to
your hand for a purpose, but the task is
upon you to seek them out and learn their use. This is the tuition for the
management of your inheritance."
"What you know to be good, seek for and it shall be
found. You may plumb the seas and pluck the stars. You
may live in everlasting glory and savour eternal delights. Above and below and
all about there is nothing beyond
your reach; all, with one exception, is yours to attain". Then God laid
His hand upon man, saying, "Now you are even as I, except you sleep
there enclosed in matter in the Kingdom of Illusion, while I dwell here in the freedom
of Reality and Truth. It is not for me to come down to you, but for you to
reach out to Me."
Man then saw a vision of glory encompassing even the
Spheres of Splendour. Unbounded wisdom filled his heart and he beheld
beauty in perfection. The ultimates of Truth and Justice were unveiled before
him. He became one with the profound peace of eternity and knew the joys
of unceasing gladness.
The eternal ages of time unrolled as a scroll before his
eyes, and he saw written thereon all that was to become
and occur. The great vaults of Heaven were opened up unto him and he saw the
everlasting fires and unconsumable
powers that strove therein. He felt within himself the stirring of
inexpressible love, and unlimited
designs of grandeur filled his thoughts. His spirit ranged unhampered through
all the spheres of existence. He
was then even as God Himself, and he knew the secret of the Seven Spheres
within Three Spheres.
Then God lifted His hand from man and man was alone. The
great vision departed and he awoke, only a dim
and elusive recollection, no more than the shadow of a dream remained. But deep
within the sleeping Soul there
was a spark of remembrance and it generated within man a restless longing for
he knew not what. Henceforth,
man was destined to wander discontented, seeking something he felt he knew but
could not see, something which
continually eluded him, perpetually goaded him, and forever tantalized him.
Deep within himself man knew
something greater than himself was always with him and part of him, spurring
him on to greater deeds, greater
thoughts, greater aspirations. It was something out beyond himself, scarcely
realized and never found; something
which told him that the radiance seen on the horizon but dimly reflected the
hidden glory beyond it.
Man awoke, the revelation and vision gone, only the grim
reality of Earth's untamed vastness surrounded him.
But when he arose and stepped down onto the bosom of his
Mother Earth he was undaunted by the great powers
that beset him or by the magnitude of the task ahead. Within his heart he knew
destiny lay beyond the squalor of
his environment, he stepped out nobly, gladly accepting the challenge.
He was now a new man, he was different. He looked above and
saw glory in the Heavens. He saw beauty about
him and he knew goodness and things not of the Earth. The vision of eternal
values arose before his inner eye.
His Spirit was responding to its environment, man was now man, truly man.
The nature of man on Earth was formed after the nature of
things in Heaven, and man had all things contained as
potential within himself, except divine life. But he was as yet an untrained,
undisciplined child, still nurtured
simply upon the comforting bosom of Earth.
Man grew in stature, but Earth was not indulgent, for she
disciplined him firmly. She was ever strict and
unyielding, chastening him often with blasts of displeasure. It was indeed the
upbringing of one destined for
greatness; he was made to suffer cold, that he might learn to clothe himself;
sent into the barren places, that his
limbs should be strengthened, and into forests, that his eye should become keen
and his heart strong. He was
perplexed with difficult problems and set the task of unraveling the illusions
of Nature. He was beset with
hardships of every description. He was tested with frustrations and tempted
with allurements; never did Earth relax the vigilance of her supervision.
The child was raised sternly, for he needed the fortitude,
courage and cunning of a man, to fit him for the task
ahead. He grew wily and wiry in the hunt; he became adaptable, able to cope
with any untoward happening.
Overcoming the bewilderments of early days he found
explanations for the perplexities of his surroundings. Yet the struggle
for knowledge, the need for adaptation and the effort to survive were never
relaxed. The Earthchild was well trained and disciplined, he was never unduly
mollycoddled. He cried for bread and went hungry, he
shivered and was cast out, he was sick and driven into the forest. Weary he was
lashed with storms, thirsty he
found the wasters dried up. When weak his burden was increased and in the midst
of rejoicing he was struck
down with sorrow. In moments of weakness he cried, "Enough!" and
doubted his destiny; but always something fortified and encouraged him,
the Earthling never forfeited his godlikeness.
For man was man, he was not cowed, nor his Spirit broken; a
wise God knew his limitations. As it is written in the wisdom of men,
'over chastisement is as bad as no chastisement at all'. But man was rarely
chastised, he was tried, tested and challenged; he was led, prodded and
urged, yet nothing was done unnecessarily. The seeming imperfections of
Earth, the hazards and inequalities of life, the cruelty, harshness and
apparent indifference to suffering and affliction are not what they seem;
as it is. Earth is perfect for its purpose. It is ignorance of that purpose
which makes it appear imperfect.
Where is there a wiser father than the Spirit of God, or a
better mother than Earth? What man is now he owes to these, may he learn
to be duly gratefol. Above all let him never forget the lessons learned in his
upbringing.
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