To introduce this space we asked ourselves what is a Purpose.
First we give a succinct definition: ‘Purpose is the magnet which colors and influences a field.’ The more powerful the more effectual, and therefore the larger the field it governs.
Then we expand the question, wondering if either the universe has a purpose shared with all the creatures (that inhabit it) or all that exists is simply the result of chance. In essence, “Is God a human invention, or existent? And, if so, what is the Being we call God?”
Where questions are so pivotal the mind can embrace one or the other thesis, and substantiate both with arguments, but these can never be totally convincing for those who take the opposite view.
Only the heart is then able to respond, containing opposites, since it knows that all roads converge in any case, although some are covered with greater effort.
Here, we choose the lighter way and open an “unhurried” dialogue between us with this statement: ‘God exists, but is not separated from creatures, not other than us. It is Life animating universe, which is Its body of manifestation.’ Thus It is immanent, while remaining at the same time transcendent. It is knowable, yet unknown.
And again, we wonder: “How can we understand, assist and realize the divine Purpose?” A first answer might be this: ‘asking who we are and what we came to do in this time and in this place’, that is, seeking increasingly to realize what is the purpose of our earthly existence, and assuming full responsibility for it.
In this perspective arises the initiative we are advocating: the creation of a “Workshop of Thought” to unify the forces of all who care about the progress of human consciousness.
In trying to understand human life in the context of the Whole, we will first attempt to reason from the Universal to the Particular. This is meant as a simple outline and could be developed with a myriad of detail…but in order not to get lost in details, it is being deliberately kept to a broad outline.
PARABRAHMAN is in process of creating a body suitable to eventually perfectly express all that is within divine intent for a particular cosmic cycle of manifestation. Perhaps a Universal Diamond Body. We might surmise that HE is and provides the Ultimate and Greatest Sacrifice on behalf of the Whole.
To that end, the Cosmic Logoi which serve as His Seven Major Cosmic Centres, are being developed and perfected each to express one part of the Whole through the forty-nine solar systems which comprise His minor centres of force.
We have been given the information that our Solar System is intimately connected to one of these Cosmic Centres. Some teachings hint that this Cosmic Centre is the Cosmic Throat Centre. And, as we know, our Solar System is part of the Heart Centre of this Great Being.
So too, our Cosmic, Solar and Planetary Logoi are sacrificing. Sanat Kumara being known as “the Great Sacrifice” on our planet, which allows the Planetary Forms including humanity (some of the unredeemed lives of cosmos) to move forward on the Evolutionary Path.
In order to fulfill the Planetary Purpose, Humanity itself, upon becoming Enlightened and achieving a Diamond Vajra Body, will have created the necessary mechanism on earth to bring Heaven and Earth together by receiving and transmitting the sevenfold downpour from our Solar and Cosmic Parents.
The Plan on Earth implemented by the Hierarchy which will eventually bring Heaven down to Earth is to assist step by step down through the ages in the eventual achievement of Christhood and Enlightenment by Humanity as integral parts of a Planetary, Solar and Cosmic mechanism. For a Christed Humanity is necessary to what is to be not only our little destiny but as parts of and effects upon the Universal Whole. Hierarchy is implementing those parts of the Plan which are suitable to the humanity of any given era, which will release the necessary energies to assist in leading them forward.
Incidentally, it is no accident that the Externalization of the Hierarchy will be occurring in this fifth root race, in which the Transfiguration of Humanity [The World Disciple] will take place. The Monadic centre makes its power felt in the consciousness of the disciple who is ready for the third initiation. As we know, the 3rd initiation is the first from the angle of Hierarchy. Much later, as we continue to advance and evolve, the ‘true Transfiguration of the Seventh Initiation of Resurrection’ will occur.
We can wonder why all this is? What Purpose does it serve?
If Humanity is to eventually become an outpost of God in the solar system; to form a powerhouse that will introduce an interstellar activity; to develop a station of light that will serve not only the planet or solar system, for the 7 solar systems that we are a part of; and much more. [See Esoteric Psychology, II, p. 217 AAB] It is the Jewel in the Lotus of humanity as the ‘flower of the evolutionary process which will make this possible.
“…we have sought to express the wider possibility or occasion as the Hierarchy sees it today. Their plans and purposes are destined and oriented to a larger accomplishment than it is as yet possible for normal man to vision. If it were not so, the unfoldment of the soul in man would be a prime objective in the planet. But this is not the case. It may be so from the point of view of man himself, considering him as an essentially separable and identifiable unity in the great cosmic scheme. But it is not so for that greater whole of which humanity is only a part. Those great Sons of God, Who have passed beyond the point of development of those Masters Who work entirely with the human kingdom, have plans of a still vaster and broader sweep, and Their objectives involve humanity only as an item in the Plan of the great Life “in whom we live and move and have our being.” Esoteric Psychology II, p. 218
We know that what happens to the Part also affects the Whole and the fruition of humanity’s task will have results not only on our planet, solar system, and cosmic centre, but the Whole of which all else is a part.
So how do we share this information with all of humanity? The knowledge of Its stupendous task which lies a long way in the future nevertheless can be visioned now. Perhaps the restoration of the mysteries as to the evolutionary path and humanity’s part in it is essential to seed into the new culture. The ancient prayer “Lead us from the unreal to the real, from darkness (ignorance) to light (knowledge) and from death to immortality’ can be and is being translated into modern terms backed up by the nature of energy and scientific discoveries to allow us to fashion a new way of seeing ourselves and all that we are a part of. so that we may begin to do our whole duty as we journey to the sacred feet of the ONE that sent us forth.
Infinity – Book 1 (1930) – 360:
360. “When humanity will come to understand the Cosmic Oneness, the cosmic construction will be affirmed. The chief task of humanity is to unite the world of matter with the world of spirit. The demarcation line between the spheres is very sharply drawn; hence, the correlation of the predestined with the mechanical world in which men are submerged is rare. When the planetary consciousness is directed toward unification of all factors, the manifestation of cosmic shiftings overtakes all spheres. Hence, the planetary consciousness establishes the cosmic energy. The striving of an Agni Yogi and the work of the centers help to determine the cosmic consciousness. Therefore, the most important affirmation of the energy is the broadening of consciousness. The creativeness of Our Brothers is directed toward the development of cosmic consciousness in humanity. Therefore is the cooperation of the centers so affirmed by Us.”
With gratitude to The Planetary System for its always timely reminders to us to ‘keep looking up’.
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