TRANSFORMATION OF THE WORLD
THROUGH AWARENESS
Revelations

Beyond this life lies infinite learning. Man all too often is complacent in his belief that a single life is all that is his destiny. He permits himself to believe that what he knows in earthly existence is all he needs to know, all there is to know. He looks into his mind and fails to look into his soul.

It is difficult, though not impossible, to imagine a world in which each and every man, woman, and child, brings to existence awareness of the true nature of the earthly experience, a world in which all souls live each day in full awareness that their journey through life is but an episode in total existence. In this world man's awareness of the search for perfection would be paramount, the supreme motivation in each human life.

What would be the result of this awareness, you ask. Indeed, the question demands response. This world would be without conflict. Man, aware of the ephemeral nature of life, would cease striving for temporal power knowing that this power itself is ephemeral and not worth the cost. Man, freed from the need to achieve superiority over his brother, would be free to love those who depend upon his strength and to freely surrender superiority for brotherhood. In this world love would so dominate existence that conflict would be unthinkable, totally undesirable in all ways to all people.

The day is coming when this world will be realized. The first steps have been taken. The rest is soon to come.

Friday, 1/28/00 11:46PM - Lessons

In his striving, man knows both success and failure in the course of his earthly journey. It must be kept in mind always that a single life is but a part of a greater and more complex whole, that he is judged accordingly. There is no such thing as absolute failure for the soul come to earth. He willingly returns to another earthly journey when he recognizes its necessity and he strives to compensate for past error and weakness though he has no memory of the nature of lives past.

It follows then that the soul come to earth must of necessity live his life as if it were his single opportunity to meet the demands of his God and to reach a level of spiritual perfection that will bring him inner peace and total security. There are those who do accept the concept of repeated lives despite lack of memory of prior existences, and this does add a measure of confidence, a realization that if this current life is less than perfect then perfection lies in the future. Conversely he may choose to believe that if his life is complete with earthly satisfactions and spiritual richness and fulfillment, he has earned this rewarding existence in prior lives.

Whatever the concept, however firm the beliefs that man may hold, he is well served if at each passing moment of his passage through life he acts in such a way as to insure ultimate perfection. Regardless of religious persuasion, man in his striving must recognize that progress to spiritual perfection is inextricably related to his capacity for perfect love and his willingness to strive for perfect love each moment of his life no matter how difficult it may be to do so.

It is, therefore, singularly important for all souls in progress to recognize this single absolute requirement -- to live in love unassailable, complete, generous and constant, and to act accordingly under all circumstances. This, he will learn with each word and act of love, is the only path to earthly satisfaction and eternal life.

Wednesday, 2/16/00 12:35AM - Lessons

In all of life man encounters all those he has come to this life to love in perfect harmony. Earthly relationships have divine origin, and although the soul come to earth may have no memory of past lives and past loves, these memories are stored in his consciousness, not readily retrievable in most cases, but eternally part of his being.

There are times when man encountering a stranger has a strong sense of prior relationship. He searches his mind for previous acquaintance, even a chance encounter, and when memory fails him, he dismisses this familiarity as simple nonsense, a mistaken notion. At other times man may find himself in an environment new to his experience and yet hauntingly familiar -- a room whose contours he knows, whose furnishings are familiar. He may walk streets new to him which he knows he has walked before and turn a corner and know what will greet his eyes.

Some men accept such experiences and feelings and do not understand but do not dismiss. Man has coined a phrase to describe these feelings -- "Deja vu" he calls them -- "already seen." Man needs to recognize the blessing inherent in these glimpses into prior existence and seek to know more of what he can learn from this awareness. Some men find such inexplicable insights frightening and ascribe them to the dark forces of evil and destruction, the work of the devil intent upon destroying man's soul.

Man needs to know that this heightened awareness of previous lives is a blessing and in no way a curse. He should in no way fear such remembering. Rather he should embrace this awareness as a divine gift and a reminder that man's experience encompasses much more than the life he is living.

Each separate life granted to man comes with its own singular demands, and to meet these demands man must take with him into new life the accumulated wisdom of previous lives, although this awareness lies so deep in his memory that it is not easily recalled. When man is granted this gift, he should welcome and cherish it and pray for further enlightenment. To some this is granted more freely than to others, but all men share this potential.

Thursday, 6/1/00 11:59PM - Lessons

It is at all times evident to man in his earthly journey that he knows only partial answers to all he questions of the nature of life, in particular of the nature of his individual life with all of its challenges.

All lives know challenge, though the nature of challenge differs widely from man to man, from life to life. The very rich and well endowed are challenged not to be consumed by false pride in themselves. They are challenged to recognize that the poorest and most deprived of men is their equal in all important ways. They are challenged to share their wealth and to do so in a caring and compassionate way, in a way which touches the hearts of both giver and receiver. They are challenged to put love above all other values they hold dear and to act in love each day in all ways.

The most deprived are equally challenged to live in love constantly no matter how desperate their condition. They are challenged to accept all that life demands of them in deprivation and rejection and to know in their hearts that all earthly hardship is as nothing. They strive always in the divinity of their beings to accept all that they are asked to endure in full faith that there will be an end to misery and that all the pain they know is instructive. They learn to love under all conditions and to know the serenity that is born in loving acceptance of all that life offers and demands.

Between these two extremes the vast majority of souls come to earth travel the same road with varying degrees of material comfort and security, with trial and adversity within their capacity to cope, and with full intention of achieving human happiness. Those who are fortunate to find the surest route to joy in earthly life learn that all happiness comes from the endless and unconditional expression of love in thought, word, and deed.

All men are capable of this perfection in life. Not all reach it fully in a single existence, but all in time know the glory of divine oneness, the ultimate joy.

Monday, 6/26/00 11:59PM - Lessons

In the fullness of time, all mankind will rejoice in the wonder of human experience. They will know gratification in triumph and will know satisfaction in effort, and will accept the lessons taught by defeat.

It is perhaps difficult for the soul in progress, ignorant of all that has preceded human experience and deprived of awareness for all that is to follow, to accept the transitory nature of the human life he knows. He assumes, reasonably, that all that he experiences in this single existence is all he will know of human experience. Consequently he sometimes excuses himself for all he does regardless of its worth by attributing his actions to the finite quality of his singular existence.

Whether man thrives or suffers in human life, it is his gift to be aware of two things. He must recognize that the life he leads is one he chose freely before birth, knowing that it afforded him the greatest opportunity of progression to perfection and knowing that there was no lack in his capability to achieve this perfection. He needs as well to remember that a single life is not all of earthly experience, and that if he does not fully succeed in one life in needed learning, he will have further opportunity. Above all it is man's joy to know fully the glory of love given and received in perfect awareness of its necessity in earthly existence, of its absolute necessity in the achievement both of spiritual perfection and joyous earthly adventure.

Thus man has all advantage in human life. He comes with purpose fully accepted, and he comes with absolute capability to fulfill all purpose. He may fail. He may listen to distracting voices. He may falter and recover. He may despair of his own worthiness. No matter the degree of self doubt, he will in the end recognize the value of his striving and he will know infinite promise. He will know that there is no failure in the eyes of God and that all success is relative as is all failure, and that no matter how long it takes, he will reach absoluteness in love divine and know the glory of oneness.

Wednesday. 9/30/98 2:15PM - Divine Nature

Above all else, man needs to learn the infinite nature of spiritual existence. He is ill served by those who teach that a single life is all of existence, that death is a finality, an end to being. There is a blindness inherent in this belief. Why, one might ask, is there reason in such an acceptance of the ephemeral nature of the soul that abides in all men? Is there reason, one might ask, in a universe so disordered that one life lasts minutes and another a century and more? Is there such a thing as reason in a world where the blessings of material existence are so capriciously bestowed and where the sufferings of human life seem equally so distributed?

There are those who find comfort in firm conviction that this life so capricious in its distribution of blessings and trials is all man needs to concern himself with. To these people the unknowable becomes the unthinkable, and they reject all efforts to dissuade them from their convictions. Indeed if these beliefs were tenable, then God would indeed be a cruel and an unjust God, not the creature of love and caring that He is.

In each life come to earth there is a plan and a pattern. Each soul come to earth as man comes in full agreement that this step in his spiritual development will teach him the lessons he needs to learn. The trials and tribulations he faces are those of his choosing, and he knows before human life begins that he has the strength to meet the most demanding trials in loving acceptance. He knows that each of his actions and responses in this life are meant to learn and to teach. He knows that there is no such thing as absolute failure, that no matter how grievous the error or omission it lends itself to expiation and correction. Thus begins each human life.

Thursday, 10/29/98 10:47 EST - Divine Nature

In the fullness of time, all answers are given to the soul seeking the perfection of love and oneness with the divine presence. To some souls the answers come soon, to others only after a protracted series of lives. There is no difference between these two extremes in the perfection achieved and the glory that is its accompaniment. Each soul finds gratification in its own individual earthly experience and the learning involved therein. There is no such thing as envy on the heavenly plane. Those souls who achieve perfection swiftly find joy in aiding those who find progress more difficult. There is no end to the loving helpfulness ready and waiting for those souls who arrive in need of succor.

What, you ask, is the need for repeated lives, of challenge and defeat, of frustration and despair? Why is it not possible for the soul to achieve perfection swiftly and painlessly? The answer, My children, evades human understanding. The soul in its various human manifestations exhibits only a small part of the whole. The soul in its human existence knows only a small portion of its power. It is as if in the drama of spiritual progress the soul plays many parts and knows many varieties of experience. Each part and each experience contributes to the whole.

But why, you ask, is all this necessary? Why is the soul not perfect in all ways at all times and never in need of progress? The answer to that question is not simple, and perhaps impossible of complete explanation in human terms. It is enough to say that from the very beginning all souls were granted free will. They were not granted immunity from error. Consequently in the free exercise of will it was possible for the soul to err in the practice of perfect love, and err many did. Errors proliferated, and it became apparent that the soul in error was in need of guidance to return to the path of perfect love. Thus was born the need satisfied by the human experience. This is not to say that the human experience offers the only path to perfection, but it is a road well traveled and learning that suffices.

It is enough to say that much of what man knows in his journey through life defies easy understanding, but in the full use of faith, understanding is not essential to acceptance.

Sunday,11/8/98 12:09AM - Divine Nature

Blessed are those souls who achieve full awareness in their earthly lives of the close connection that exists always between two worlds.

It is discouraging for man facing the trials of human life to feel that this life is all, that his birth marks a beginning and his death an ending. He cannot achieve an understanding of purpose until he realizes that this single life is only part of a greater whole. This awareness of repeated lives serves man well. No matter the degree of misery man may know, he finds great promise in the sure knowledge that this life is ephemeral, that he will find greater reward and greater peace in his next human visitation. This awareness and this promise does not, however, lessen the responsibilities of his current life, but it does serve as a source of light in the darkest day.

There is a certain glory in the concept of repeated lives, each one devoted to spiritual progress. It is glory indeed to know with absolute faith that no matter how difficult, no matter how unsatisfactory, his life may be, it is but one of many, and it becomes his responsibility to live this single life as fully as he knows how and to be aware that his need is to keep promises made. In all cases, sweet awareness of his divine goal leads him in the paths of joy and fulfillment. He knows in his heart at each step in his journey that he must first of all respond in the fullness of love to each of life's experiences. He knows that he must embrace fully the demands of life, no matter how difficult, and never forget the absolute necessity to live in love always.

Those who learn this lesson and live by its dictates are to be envied, for they have discovered not only the source of all earthly joy and fulfillment but they succeed in their most important task, that of progressing further on the road to spiritual perfection and the glory that this implies. All men are destined to know this glory, but for some the journey is swift, for others slow. For all men there is challenge and response.

Tuesday, 12/1/98 11:34PM - Divine Nature

In man's innermost heart he knows the infiniteness of his being. Even when he is being most rational about the brevity of human life there springs forth a feeling of infinite being. His tongue speaks of an absolute end to existence, but his heart speaks otherwise.

Man has been taught many things about the nature of life and death. Some hold that this life is all, that after human death only memory remains. Others believe in a hereafter that is the end of human existence after a single life experience, and there are various versions of this hereafter held dear by believers. Some hold that this life is but one of a series of lives, each one designed to teach. Once again, the nature of this belief knows variety.

In all these varying concepts of the purpose of human existence there is only one absolute unifying disparate doctrines, and that concept is that man is meant to live in love and that all of his actions and all of his words should and must reflect this love, a love universal in its essence, denying no man, accepting all. This central doctrine is without fault and in and of itself totally commendable.

It is lamentable, however, that the varying dogmas celebrating the divinity have in so many cases lost sight of this central and quite perfect demand of man that he put love above all else in his life. All too often religious leaders lose sight of this supreme demand of God in their involvement with issues they feel significant in their teaching, but which tend to separate their followers from all those who hold opposing beliefs. Religion all too often becomes political. Positions are taken on controversial issues, and each religion holds itself infallible and holds all those who disagree both fallible and misled.

This is not pleasing to the Creator. No human, be he leader or follower, has the ultimate authority to determine the will of God beyond teaching the lessons of love. Through history blood has been spilled and innocents slaughtered in the name of religious righteousness. This continues to this day.

Know all men that the time has come to put to an end the divisiveness which finds its justification in the assumption of knowledge absolute of God's will. God asks but one thing of man. He asks that he love without discrimination. He asks that he act in love each day of his life. He asks that no man deny his brother in the guise of religious righteousness. He asks an end to religious tyranny. He asks that all men embrace their brothers in total acceptance and love without end.

Saturday, 12/26/98 11:09PM - Divine Nature

In the sum total of each human life there is a mixture. Each life knows both joy and sorrow, surfeit and want, wisdom and ignorance, acceptance and rejection. Man is called upon to choose good above evil at all times, to reject greed in favor of giving, to love under all circumstances, and to find in himself total acceptance of all his worthiness.

Not all lives are equally balanced. Some know more deprivation and trial. Others know more comfort and more ease. All are equipped to meet these differing demands. All share totally the possibility, perhaps the inevitability, of spiritual progress. Man is not at all times aware that his reason for existence is to progress, however rapidly or however slowly, along the path to the perfection that permits total oneness with the supreme being, God, Father, Creator.

Even when man is least aware, this progress is measured and noted, and when death brings man to full awareness of his purpose in earthly existence, he becomes fully aware of the progress or lack of progress he has made in his life just ended. He sees clearly when and how he has succeeded in satisfying his compact and equally how he has failed. In this awareness he sees clearly what steps he must take in his next existence to correct past errors and omissions and to seek new heights of achievement. He knows exactly what he must do and he gladly vows to do all that is necessary.

There is great joy for all souls in this reckoning. It is truly gratifying for the soul newly released from earthly existence to discover the overwhelming power of the love that is his and to know with absolute certainty that this love is eternally his. Some souls, full of the joy of heavenly existence, return reluctantly to another earthly existence, but knowing its inevitability accept with good grace all that is deemed necessary.

So goes the cycle of man. Each life brings learning and each life brings awareness of progress to the soul's divine goal.

Tuesday 12/29/98 11:35PM - Divine Nature

In the fullness of time man achieves all that he need achieve. Not all men are privileged to know swift progress to the perfection of love that admits to oneness. Not all souls find the path to oneness smooth and straight, but the ease of the journey is of little consequence. The end is all.

It is difficult for humans to begin to imagine the absolute glory that awaits when they have done all that was required in their earthly journeys. There is no way that man can envision heavenly existence. There is no way that man can appreciate fully the strength and beauty of heavenly love. There is, therefore, an element of wonder and surprise, of total exultation when the soul is admitted to oneness with the divine power. Words cannot describe the ineffable joy of this admission. It is enough to say that the soul admitted to glory knows perfect love fully expressed and in this perfect love finds, finally, the reason for life on earth.

One might be tempted to ask more of this human journey, to seek to understand more completely the apparent inequities in earthly existence. Full understanding is beyond human perception, but man needs to understand that life charted for him before he begins his voyage is exactly what he has agreed to. The soul preparing for human existence knows what he needs to learn, what he has failed to learn earlier, and with loving assistance he plans the life to come, a life designed to teach with exactness what he needs to know. The choice is his, though he is aided in many ways by wise and caring spirits who have chosen to devote themselves entirely to effecting the will of God by guiding their human charges in all the paths that lie ahead.

All those involved in guiding the soul returning to human existence on his way are totally devoted to easing all he faces in his transition, in the struggles to come, in his inevitable triumph over all temptations. They are secure in the divine awareness that no soul is permitted failure to achieve perfection, that no matter how long and difficult the journey may be, no matter how often man must begin his journey anew, at the end of the road lies glory, total joy, absolute oneness, the ultimate goal of all souls, unsurpassed in all ways.

Friday, 1/1/99 11:42PM - Divine Nature

There is a divine consistency in the cycle of life. There is at all times a balance between what is given to man and what is demanded of him. There is at all times consistency in all that transpires in a single life and in the lives that follow or precede. Man comes to human life of his own accord and he pursues a path of his own choosing in each incarnation. This plan, wisely selected, guarantees spiritual progress provided that man achieves all the goals he had chosen to achieve during his earthly sojourn.

Not all souls experience total success in the achievements they seek, but all souls know a measure of success or failure according to their response to challenge and distraction. At each point in the road of life man has the opportunity to succeed fully. He has at all times the capacity to choose wisely and to act accordingly. He has only to remember the perfection he knew as he began his earthly adventure. The soul freshly come from God is capable of all he has promised to achieve, all he has promised to learn. It is only later that he knows weakness and hesitation, only later that he loses awareness of his innate goodness, his perfection in God's eyes.

Even those souls who know repeated failure to keep their promises are never totally lost. Until their last breath they have the capability of recognizing and confessing error and aspiring to perfect love. They know that all they have not done must be corrected at a later time. They know that the lessons of love unlearned in one life remain to be learned in another, and despite all awareness of failure they know the wonder of hope and they aspire to be more successful in their next attempt to progress.

Saturday, 1/23/99 11:25PM - Divine Nature

There is a time in each mortal life when full awareness comes of its finite nature. This awareness may be lingering or it may be instantaneous, a sudden revelation before life's termination. In all cases, man knows in his consideration of life's termination that what he has known of existence is but a part of the whole. He knows that he brought into this life a capacity for love which has found full expression, and he knows that he takes with him full awareness of the vitality and enduring nature of all the love he has engendered and enjoyed during the course of his earthly voyage.

There are those who would choose to dismiss such a concept as romantic nonsense, pure speculation based on the need to believe that love endures. Know, dear ones, that this is far from speculation, that love does indeed endure, that it is a quality and a capacity born in the soul of all men and that it is not only the most significant gift in earthly life but that it endures eternally.

Love exists in many manifestations, all of them worthy and nourishing, and man in planning his life is free to choose among the many incarnations possible, but the single absolute in each life contemplated is that love be central in meaning and practice and that the soul come to human existence knows always that love is the center of all existence and that no matter the nature of this love it is to be welcomed and shared.

It is difficult at times for the world to live steadfastly in the way man is meant to go. It is not easy always to respond to life's rebuffs and rejections. Indeed man at times finds it difficult to believe that life offers infinite opportunity to live in love. Under such circumstances the challenge becomes that of recognizing love in its many aspects, of seeking to appreciate each opportunity to offer love to those in need and to respond always to the words and deeds of love even when they are difficult to appreciate.

The true blessing offered to all those who seek to live in compliance with all that is demanded of them is the awareness that never are they denied further opportunity to live life as they promised to do. They are permitted error and omission, and they are fully assured that if one life does not provide opportunity for correction, then another will be afforded.

Man need never feel limited in his opportunity to achieve perfection. His need only is to be assured that he cannot fall short of his divine goal.

Sunday, 2/7/99 9:00PM - Divine Nature

Before life begins, the soul seeks the path most suited to lead it to perfection. Having experienced failure, in whole or in part, the seeking soul wants above all else to proceed to the end of earthly existence and the total glory of heavenly peace. This process does not lend itself to human understanding, but it is enough for the human mind, aware as it is of its own limitations, to accept these very limitations and to be aware that there is much to accept without full understanding.

Man seeks always in his earthly life to know reason in his being, to perceive whence he has come and where he is going. No man exists unaware of his mortality, but there are differences in man's perception of this limited earthly sojourn. Many are satisfied to accept the ephemeral nature of human life as all that there is. Some take comfort in total belief that memory is all, that the soul departed survives in the loving thoughts of all he left behind. This is comforting indeed, but what of the solitary soul who dies alone and unmourned? What of the souls gone astray and ending this life unloved and forgotten? Is this a reasonable explanation of life? To those who think so, God must be uncaring, perhaps relentless, certainly not the creature of love that all must come to know.

It is difficult for man to know faith absolute. He comes to this world full of confidence in his inquiring mind and in his full ability to determine his life's course in every way. This is indeed the plan of God, and it is God's wish that this divine creation overcome all obstacles, learn all lessons, and return to his origins enriched and perfected. To His dismay and disappointment, God does not find this perfection in all souls come to life. In many He does. In others He finds hope. In some He wonders if He has failed. Yet He knows that the failure is not His, and He knows that there is no end to opportunity to redeem the soul lost in error and to rectify past failure and to find true happiness in this redemption.

No soul is allowed to know that it is lost. Each life becomes a fresh opportunity to achieve glory. There is no end to the road to perfection.

Thursday, 3/11/99 11:46PM - Divine Nature

It is impossible for man to know fully the wonder of his life. Even the most introspective of men find it difficult to envision the complexity of the soul in progress. Although a belief in repeated lives has been for centuries accepted by many belief systems, no philosopher has attempted to describe in detail the intricacies involved in birth, death, and rebirth consistently repeated. No one has speculated with any degree of insight as to the manner of this cycle. No man has claimed to know positively all that occurs in the process.

It is not necessary or even desirable that man know in absolute detail each step the soul in progress takes on the road to perfection and oneness, but it is important that all men recognize the truth that the journey of each soul come to earthly life is but a part of the whole journey. It is a source of infinite satisfaction to those with awareness of the nature of repeated lives to know with absolute certainty that they have chosen each life in full acceptance of its challenges and opportunities for learning the lessons of love and thus to progress to perfection.

Man's faith in his own capacities is a source of hope and confidence. In the darkest of moments he is aware that he is bound to succeed, that if he seems to fail it is only for the moment and that he need feel no concern. Thus buoyed, man is content.

Thursday, 4/1/99 10:40PM - Divine Nature

It has been said and generally believed that all man does and does not do in a single lifetime is the sum total of his success or failure. Not all men have accepted the premise that a single life is all of earthly experience, but all too many embrace this concept and turn a blind eye to all alternatives.

While it is not inimical to human behavior to embrace belief in a single definitive life, it encompasses man in a narrow definition, one which poses unanswerable questions. Is God a tyrant insensitive to human needs? Does He create man so unequal that his life is shaped beyond his control? Who decides on the benefits and deprivations that mark human existence? How is life defined in its length or brevity, in its richness or poorness, in its totality? Is there a supreme being toying with man?

These are provocative questions, questions which should be asked by all souls on their earthly endeavor. There are answers which might persuade man that there is no God, that blind fate is the only answer, that man's experiences in life represent pure chance, that man is but a toy in the game of life.

There are other answers more pleasing, and all of them suggest that life is a drama having many acts, that each single life is but a part of the whole, that successive lives balance the scales of all that man experiences for good or for bad. These positive answers are a part of the awareness that benefits all souls and creates a joyful acceptance of all that this life offers for good or for bad.

This awareness leaves man with enormous faith and a sense of absolute security in the sure knowledge that justice is served in all ways. Blessings and trials are equitably distributed. Man is offered infinite opportunity to know the perfection of love shared and to be ultimately blessed in divine oneness, the greatest and inevitable gift

Friday, 4/2/99 11:55PM - Divine Nature

It is at all times within man's capacity to know true fulfillment in his earthly journey to perfection. There are so many roads to this ultimate goal that man's understanding and faith are sorely tried by seeming inequities.

For full understanding and acceptance of the varied nature of human experience man must be willing to accept the truth that each man lives a life of his own design, fully committed to living that life in love without fault. It is difficult for man in his human experience to envision himself choosing the most difficult of lives, being not only willing but eager to experience trial and tribulation at all times. Such acceptance relies on his acceptance of the revealed truth that a single life is but part of the whole and that the soul seeking perfection proves its power and strength by undertaking a life of trial and knowing triumph over all adversity while retaining its capacity for acceptance and loving response under all circumstances in the face of all challenge.

It is important for man to reach this level of awareness where he accepts fully the ephemeral nature of a single life. It is comforting to him to know that however desperate he becomes in his human experience he has only to consider that he lives only a single chapter in a long history and that whatever misery he knows, beauty awaits. This faith sustains man under the direst of circumstances and brings joy to his soul.

This is truth.

Monday, 4/12/99 11:40PM - Divine Nature

The noblest of men is as the lowliest in God's eyes.

This is the lesson that man must learn in his earthly journey. It is not an easy lesson for man. In his earthly life he is prone to accepting the wealth and trappings of this world as a measure of worth, an ideal to be aspired to, a goal, however distant it may be to him. It is, unhappily, often man's inclination to look down upon his brother who has succeeded less than he in worldly ways, his brother who knows need and deprivation. In his personal comfort he is tempted to consider himself superior in his creature security.

Thus man is often trapped. He forgets that all he is given is not of his own making. He forgets that though he might give himself credit for his striving for material success, he has not been solely instrumental in his achievement. At the very least, fate has been kind to him. At the very most, his efforts have been blessed beyond all expectation. In his success he may lose his very reason for being.

Material success is often a snare. Man is in his weakness persuaded all too often that happiness lies in a surfeit of riches, and often this implies a measure of power over his brothers. There are some men who can and do achieve wealth and power with full awareness of the degree to which they have been blessed beyond reason and who seek to share all they have been given with all those whose need is apparent to them. These are blessed souls, and in their hearts they know their own blessedness. They need no more.

Others blessed with worldly success and wealth beyond personal need fail in their appreciation and in their perception. They permit themselves to be consumed by greed, to fail to recognize the limits of their need, and to be consumed with infinite desire to enrich themselves at all costs and without awareness of all that surrounds them in need unfulfilled. These are lost souls, and they take with them at the end of this mortal existence hearts hollowed by selfishness and needs unfulfilled.

Even these children of God, so neglectful of responsibility, so despairing of their empty lives, know hope in the realization that though they have failed utterly in one life they face new challenge in another. There is no end to spiritual progress even for the most completely lost in human life.

Friday, 5/21/99 10:35PM - Divine Nature

In the interest of full understanding of the nature of the human experience it is wisdom for man to consider a single life as part of a more significant whole. This concept of repeated lives is one that has for some been accepted without question for centuries.

For others on this journey through life this concept is anathema, a total contradiction of what they have been both taught and conditioned to believe. There is much room for speculation as to why those who choose to believe in a single life and thereby deny the eternal nature of the soul are so persistent in their clinging to a concept that offers no promise, no comfort. In general it can be said that such a limited perception is the result of early indoctrination, fostered and perpetuated by fear. The unknown is fearful to all men who deny continual existence, immortal life.

In some cases, those who believe in a single life are taught that this life is indeed a trial with eternal results -- unending bliss in paradise, unending torture in hell. Without disparaging the sincerity of those who fervently believe in the judgment of souls resulting in either unending bliss or unending agony, it is fruitful to suggest that the God who would permit His beloved children to be so condemned must indeed be less than a God of total love, a God who celebrates and values love shared above all other qualities and whose forgiveness knows no exceptions.

Indeed for those who consider God the source of all love and goodness, no more blessed concept exists than that of a soul released into human existence, at all times capable of success, at all times tempted to failure, whose sole goal is the attainment of love perfect in all respects. This soul at all times is capable of decisions that will result in success or failure or modification of either. When his life reaches its end, he crosses the threshold of death with new awareness of the extent to which he has either succeeded or failed, and he chooses of his own free will how to seek the perfection he has yet to achieve. His will is more often to choose another human experience and to meet each trial he has chosen with acceptance and love and to know the spiritual progress that is the attainment supremely prized.

Thus man cannot fail. Life offers infinite capacity for joy and sorrow, for success and failure, for acceptance and rejection, and when each single life is ended, the soul knows infinite possibility in life renewed in rebirth.

This is the comfort offered to all those who seek to find promise and reason in the journey all men take from birth to death. It is perfect in its concept, perfect in its execution, glorious in its achievement.

Monday, 6/7/99 11:43PM - Divine Nature

Each man born of women is born into life eternal. Each life begun with birth into human life is a life that knows no beginning and no end. Each life is eternal in its nature and each life experiences mortal existence as part of its journey to perfect oneness.

It is difficult for man with his limited awareness to consider himself a loving creation destined for divine belonging. It is difficult for man with his limited human awareness to know with certainty the enormity of his experience on the road to spiritual perfection. It is quite within his capacity to recall previous lives, but few men exercise this capacity and therefore remain ignorant of all their previous experiences on the earthly plane.

Some seekers after truth have discovered this key, this ability to recall past lives and to profit by the lessons learned in these earlier existences. Increasingly man is seeking and discovering this capacity and in turn seeking to persuade others of its beneficent learning. It is important that man heed these voices that speak to him of powers within that are beyond the ordinary. Increasingly these powers will become commonly available and all who exercise this power will attain wisdom and insight.

The world has presently much to learn about the wondrous capacity of man progressing to perfection. There are voices that seek to be heeded and who offer new avenues to the awareness that is desirable, the awareness that persuades man on his earthly journey that life is but a single step on this journey and that at all times that single step brings him closer to his destiny, divine in its origin, divine in its conclusion.

Wednesday, 7/28/99 11:55PM - Divine Nature

Each man come to earthly life comes with blessings and burdens of his own choosing with full capacity to live a life perfect in love given and received. It is important that man understand and accept this aspect of human existence.

It is all too easy to ascribe blame to unknown forces or perhaps blind fate when man knows tragedy in the course of his life. This is always a reasonable failing, a need expressed in despair. Yet man errs in this easy assignment of responsibility. Although it may seem that some men and some societies are unfairly visited by calamity, it is a higher truth that all that occurs in human life is part of a larger design, indeed a design of man's own choosing.

It is difficult to observe human tragedy on any scale and accept the truth that there is reason and learning in such desolation. It is difficult for man to envision choosing such experience. Yet it is indeed the case, and it is essential that it be remembered that each individual human life with all its blessings and all its trials is but part of a larger whole. It must be accepted that the tragedies of human life must be considered in a larger context. It must be accepted that human tragedy may offer the soul in progress enormous opportunity to progress to the spiritual perfection that is the be-all and end-all of the human experience.

The time will come for all men when these truths will be not only accepted but welcomed. Man lives for this day.

Saturday, 4/10/99 11:40PM - Divine Nature

In the final analysis of the significance of a single human life, it behooves man to consider this single life in a larger context. It has for some time been the basis of many religious doctrines that man lives a single life as a prelude to eternal life and that this single life will determine the nature of that eternal life.

The intricacies of these doctrines, varying only in detail, need no further discussion, but they imply, in a sense, a God harsh in judgment, unforgiving in nature, demanding in the extreme. They imply a God who not only tolerates but dictates unfairness and discrimination in the nature of human existence. At times they promote intolerance and suspicion of all those who disagree or depart from established norms. This intolerance has over many centuries resulted in a total disintegration of the fabric of brotherhood, the sole true requirement of the God who is indeed the ruler of the universe, the single power over all men.

Let it be known now that there is no inequity in human life imposed upon man. Let it be known that all souls come to human life come of their own choice, that this choice encompasses all the experiences they will know and through which they will learn all that is required of them. No soul is asked to do the impossible. No soul is condemned for failure. No soul is expected to achieve the perfection he must know ultimately in a single lifetime. Rather man is given endless opportunity to reach the state of grace that marks the end of the human adventure. No man stops short of his inevitable success, his accession to the oneness that has been his destiny from the start of existence.

Let this be a comfort to all men, and let it shed light on the nature of human existence. Man is master of his destiny from its design through its inception to its conclusion. In all of this passage he knows the power of his free will. He is permitted free exercise of this will. He is permitted to fail. He is permitted to succeed. He is permitted to wander from the path of goodness. He is permitted to return to this path of his own will. Never is he permitted ultimate failure.

Thus man in the final analysis is a creature of endless striving, most often not in a single existence, but in repeated incarnations, each one designed as a step forward in his progress to perfection and absolute belonging, to glory beyond human perception.

© 2010 Cornelia Silke dba New Light Publishing