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PART 3
SPIRITUAL PROGRESSION
CHAPTER FIVE
PLACE, PURPOSE, AND GOALS OF NEW MANKIND
AND ITS SYSTEMS IN THE UNIVERSALITY OF IT ALL
It was mentioned previously that everything in the creation of the
Most High serves a certain purpose. For that reason, everything has
its certain place and it strives toward a certain goal. The entire
creation has one general purpose: by the usefulness of its being and
existence it approximates the Absolute Nature of the Most High. The
accomplishment of the approximation is a continuous process which
goes on to eternity. This is called spiritual progression. The common
denominator of all creation is such spiritual progression. As pointed
out before, nothing in creation stands still or is stationary, but it is in
continuous forward and onward movement.
A good example of this state and process is the entire physical
universe which corresponds in its structure and dynamics to all
spiritual principles. As one can perceive, all heavenly bodies are in
constant movement. Every planet revolves around its sun; every solar
system moves continuously with great speed; all galaxies are in
continuous motion. They go on unceasingly. No heavenly body or
system is ever at the same place and it never will be. Even after all
matter falls back on itself (once the current physical universe fulfills
its purpose) its elements will be in an entirely different arrangement
and position than they were before the original thrust was given
which resulted in the creation of the universe. Nothing can be
repeated. Therefore, the next thrust, which will give birth to the new
universe, will be initiated from a different proximity to the Most High,
with a different arrangement of all elements of matter relevant to the
next higher level of spiritual progression in the succeeding cycle of
time. This is a good example of how nothing in creation can be in a
dormant or stagnant condition.
The Absolute Creative Effort of the Most High can never be
exhausted or repeat itself.
Because of this principle, whatever exists exists both for the
general purpose as described above and for its specific purpose. The
specificity of such purpose is exhibited in the fact that everything in
creation is unique. Therefore, there is a unique and specific purpose
and goal with a unique and specific place for everything in being and
existence. The infinite varieties and infinite numbers of such
specificities and uniquenesses reflect, in their cumulative totality, the
Absolute Nature of the Most High. This nature can be expressed only
through specifics and uniquenesses which, in their cumulative
totality, form one unique, purposeful creation in its being and
existence.
For that reason, there are no two sentient entities, groups,
mankinds, planets, solar systems, galaxies, universes or dimensions
having exactly the same function. The Absolute Creative Effort of the
Most High does not contain within itself any notion of redundancy,
repetition or imitation. Everything that occurs, proceeds and becomes
from the Absolute Creative Effort is always new, different and unique,
with a specific place, purpose and goal in the general trend of
spiritual progression. The appearance of new, different and unique
products of the Most High's Absolute Creative Effort is a stimulation,
infusion, enrichment and enhancement to all creation in its general
and specific endeavor to fulfill its specific purpose and goal from its
specific place, and thus to contribute to the totality of creation in a
unique manner. This, in turn, continuously enhances and enriches the
rest of creation. In such interaction there is a meaningful use of being
and existence of every specificity and uniqueness in the entire
creation. For that reason, the lack of any such specificity would
deprive all creation from the unique experience which is essential for
its general purpose of spiritual progression. Such a situation cannot
be tolerated. Therefore, the Absolute Providence of the Most High
continuously provides and ensures that nothing is lacking to anyone
or anything in creation so the general and specific purpose and goal of
anyone's and anything's being and existence can be fulfilled.
The function of all specifics and uniquenesses of creation can be
compared to a chain reaction. An idea is initiated in the innermost
degree and level of creation where the Most High is present. After its
occurrence, that idea proceeds in simultaneous and successive order
throughout all specificities and uniquenesses of all creation without
any exception. It is received simultaneously and successively
everywhere. After it is received, it is evaluated, worked on and
transformed into its corresponding specificity and uniqueness. When
it fully acquires that specificity and uniqueness, it is sent further in
simultaneous and successive order to all other specificities and
uniquenesses until it comes into its ultimate state and process where
its final manifestation with all accumulated experiences throughout
all specificities and uniquenesses of all creation takes place. Now it
becomes reality and has concreteness throughout all creation. This
particular, specific and unique experience, which reflects the
cumulativeness of all experiences taken together, is transmitted back,
both in simultaneous and successive order to all creation in their own
specificities and uniquenesses where it is received, reviewed and
experienced in its totality. This results in further accumulation of all
totally new qualities of experiences that go back, after they are
manifested everywhere uniquely and specifically, to their original
source. There everything is evaluated, reviewed and worked on in its
principles, essences and substances, and used as a foundation for
starting a new chain reaction with the occurrence of a new creative
idea which now incorporates everything that was uniquely and
specifically experienced and shared throughout the states and
processes of its manifestation in the ultimate and final degree of
creation. This idea, in turn, goes through the chain reaction and the
whole process is repeated again, always with a new, higher, enriched,
enhanced and more creative content, connotation and experience. In
this way, spiritual progression occurs and continues to eternity for all
creation without any interruption.
In general, the place, purpose and goal of the new mankind in this
process is the ultimate and final degree of manifestation of all
creative ideas.
For that reason it can be considered a stage on which the Absolute
Nature of the Most High finds its expression in the most relative
manifestation. Such the most relative manifestation is the finality of
all, that provides the possibility for the birth of a new, higher, more
spiritual idea in the innermost level and degree of creation. This is a
very specific and unique purpose, goal and place that is assumed by
the new mankind of Earth.
To elaborate on the assignment of the new mankind, one can point
out some general and specific aspects of its purpose and goal in
creation:
1. The new mankind, by its special position and place in creation,
enables manifestation of the Absolute State and the Absolute Process
of the Most High in the most relative and most concrete state and
process of creation, representing the ultimate and final degree of
creative expression. By specificity and uniqueness of this state and
process, the Absoluteness of the Most High can become relative to
something that of itself has no origination of any ideas. The reason it
is necessary for the Absolute to be manifested in the most relative and
concrete is that it makes the Absolute perceptible, comprehensible,
approachable and attainable in its most final and outward
manifestation and illustration. It gives a concrete and ultimate idea to
all creation as to how the Absolute State and Absolute Process operate
through total relativity and fixedness of the natural degree in this
particular cycle of time. Without it, no experience, comprehension or
knowledge would be available to anyone. This would hinder the
general trend of spiritual progression.
2. The same is true with regard to the manifestation of the
Absolute Essence and Absolute Substance of the Most High in the
most relative and final essence and substance of mankind, and its
place, position and specificity of application in all its systems. It is
important for all creation to grasp the meaning of essence and
substance because on these categories and their ideas the universe
and all creation is built. Comprehension of this is impossible in its
Absolute Condition by someone in a condition of relativity to it. But it
becomes attainable by its concrete, ultimate and final (for this cycle of
time) manifestation and illustration in the most extreme and opposite
position and place. By elimination of all ideas of what the Absolute is
not, one can acquire some sense of what it is. This sense helps one in
one's effort to be more and more the likeness and image of the Most
High, thus helping in the process of oneÊs spiritual progression.
3. The place and the position of the new mankind and the goal and
purpose of all its systems is a stage on which the Absolute Nature of
the Absolute Being and Absolute Existence in the most specific, most
relative, most final and most concrete manifestation and illustration
is continuously demonstrated. This condition is the end of the cause
through the effect. It is impossible to comprehend the Absolute Being
and the Absolute Existence from the relative condition and from the
Absolute Cause and its effect. But, one can find an appropriate idea of
it from the end product of the Absolute Creative Effort. The
importance of this comprehension is determined by the fact of one's
being and existence relative to their Absolute Cause. Since one never
is, in and of oneself, one's own being and existence, in order to
approximate one's Absolute Cause, one needs to have concrete ideas
and examples of one's nature. This is accomplished by the special and
specific application of the end product which the new mankind
represents. No spiritual progression would be possible without any
understanding of what is being approximated. That would be like the
blind leading the blind.
4. The specific place, position, function, goal and purpose of the
new mankind and all its systems allows expression for the operations
and functions of Absolute Love and Absolute Wisdom of the Most
High in the most relative, most concrete and most final state and
process of creation, illustrated by its own good and truth in the
specificity of its application. This expression gives to all creation a
concrete example of the idea of the nature of Absolute Love and
Absolute Wisdom in their most relative and final manifestation.
Nowhere else in creation is such intense, unconditional and immense
love and wisdom required than in the final, ultimate and concrete
degree of creation represented by mankind. The instability,
unreliability, transiency, externality, superficiality and sharp
differences of the natural degree require a special treatment which
permits the infinite patience, kindness and tolerance of love and
wisdom to be expressed and experienced. From such experience all
creation acquires better ideas of the nature of Absolute Love and
Absolute Wisdom, enabling Creation to approximate Absolute Love
and Absolute Wisdom in better ways, having a concrete example for
its own practice and living. Since any approximation is possible only
by such practice and living, it is obvious that without such a concrete
example no spiritual progression would be feasible.
5. In the same manner, illustration of the Absolute Will and
Absolute Reason of the Most High takes place. The most relative,
ultimate and final illustration of how the Absolute Will and Absolute
Reason work enables the understanding of their function. Their end
product in the specificity of their application illustrates their
operation, use and function with reasonable comprehension. This
gives to creation the idea of balancing, equilibrium and stability that
is accomplished by application of the principles of will and reason in
the process of any activities, but especially under the condition of the
most stubborn resistance to any of these activities. One has to
remember that the nature of matter is to be dormant and idle. Anyone
who assumes that degree in the form of the physical body is assuming
the same tendency. It takes a lot of will and reasoning to transcend
such a condition and to show the usefulness of matter's being and
existence.
6. This leads to the concrete, final and ultimate demonstration of
the operation of Absolute Freedom and Absolute Independency of the
Most High in the most relative, most unfree and most dependent
condition. By specificity of its application in something that is so
unfree and dependent, the nature of such freedom and independency
becomes concretely discernible, appreciable and applicable. The
nature of the outermost degree opposes freedom and independency
because in this degree it does not have any meaning. Any meaning that
it has is given to it by the presence of the Most High through people
who volunteered to occupy a position in the outermost degree. Matter
in itself cannot exert any force because it lacks any creative qualities.
It entirely depends on inputs for any movement or action. Such
dependency does not allow freedom of expression.
The manifestation of freedom and independency under such
conditions becomes a true, concrete demonstration of how these
categories can function to the point that one can still maintain one's
freedom of choice where no choice in itself is available. But primarily
it points out the fact that one cannot seek freedom and independency
in anything final, ultimate and concrete. The finality of any condition,
by its nature, is unfree and dependent. Thus, by concrete example,
creation can learn that true freedom and independency is an internal,
spiritual matter and not a matter of externals or environments.
7. The special position and place occupied by mankind in creation,
and its relevant goals and purposes, is to accomplish concretization,
ultimate expression and final manifestation by the specificity of their
application of the Absolute Principles of Masculinity and Femininity
of the Most High in the most relative, most illustrative condition.
These principles find their ultimate expression in relationships which
exist between the human female and the human male that literally
embody them. They become an example for all creation of such
embodiment of all principles in the most concrete form of creation.
This illustrates their views and their tendency toward continuous
conjunction, unification and exchange in order to represent the unity
and oneness of the Creator.
8. This leads to the installation of a special, ultimate and concrete
form of sexuality that manifests itself through physical intercourse
that allows for complete exchange in the ultimate sense of all
principles of masculinity and femininity. Such exchange results in the
birth of the new ideas for creative effort of all creation. In this relative
condition the Absolute Values of the Most High's principles,
categories, attributes and their derivatives can be sensed,
comprehended, felt and fully utilized for the needs of continuous
spiritual progression of all creation. The specificity of sexual
intercourse in the ultimate degree of expression enables a grasp of the
Absolute Values of the Most High's principles. The experience of
orgasm in the process of sexual intercourse makes these values the
closest experiential reality of the Absolute Nature of the Most High
that is available in the most relative condition. This specific
experience enhances all creation that is in different modes of
specificity of their condition. By enhancing it, it contributes to
everyone's spiritual progression.
9. The ultimate, final, concrete and the outermost position and
place of mankind and the function of all its systems has for its
purpose and goal to reveal the infinite diversity of the Absolute
Creative Effort of the Most High in the specificity and uniqueness of
the most relative and concrete form. The end product of such creative
effort, represented by mankind, becomes a base and foundation on
which new ideas can be built and which can stimulate, motivate and
support the birth of new creative ideas which incorporate all results,
consequences, outcomes and experiences of the final product. By such
manifestation, the creative effort can be comprehended in all its
varieties and diversities. Comprehension of this is the greatest
motivating factor for the creative effort of all sentient entities. In their
creative effort they find the meaning of their life and the stimulation
for their continuous spiritual progression.
10. Mankind's position and place determines its purpose and goal.
The function of its systems is the best concrete, ultimate and final
example of the ultimateness of the Absoluteness in the most relative
of its expression. By such assignment, mankind can be called a testing
ground on which all Absolute Ideas are tested by the ultimateness of
their expression and relativity of their formation. If the ideas can
apply, take hold and become effective in such a relative condition,
their applicability can achieve acceptance of a universal nature. The
reason for this is that any idea tends to find its expression in the
ultimate, most concrete and stationary form. In this expression it
becomes functional. If it is functional, it has concrete use; if it has
concrete use, it contributes to spiritual progression; if it contributes to
the spiritual progression, it is universally applicable. If, by any
chance, it cannot take hold in the most relative and ultimate degree,
its universal applicability is questionable and it has to be either
withdrawn or modified until it finds its proper use.
11. Because of their use as testing grounds, the position, place,
purpose and goal of mankind and its systems have a very specific and
unique function. The function is to maintain, enable and actualize
continuous circulation of the spiritual flow through and by matter
which is stationary, unchangeable and resistant to any activities.
Without such maintenance the flow, as it occurs in the innermost
level and proceeds to the ultimate outermost degree, would stop in the
outermost degree of matter. As it was pointed out, the nature of
matter is continuous reception and absorption without any sending or
transmission. That would endanger life and spiritual progression and
all creation would collapse. Mankind, by assuming a special position
of mediator, can move that flow so that it circulates as described
above by a chain reaction, finding its way back to the original source
for the purpose of initiation of a higher, more creative spiritual flow
and spiritual step. The mediative position of mankind is possible by
virtue of the assumption of the nature of the outermost layer of the
outermost degree in which the spirit of the human mind is placed to
vivify all functions in this particular layer. This function can be
compared to the skin and its senses which conduct and transmit all
input information. In this respect, one can call mankind the spiritual
skin of creation which holds everything together by conducting the
spiritual flow through stationary matter.
12. The specificity and ultimateness of mankind's position and
place in the universality of it all and the purpose and goal of this
position and the human systems supply the continuous need for
balancing of all principles of life to the corresponding dimensions in
the same line and link. Mankind is a balancing factor in its own line
that supplies all corresponding partners with the concrete and
ultimate experiential contents of all spiritual principles which find
their expression in the physical forms of humans. The feedback of
such experience balances all ideas, brings them into order and gives
them an ultimate sense and meaning. By acquiring their concrete
sense and meaning, all participants in that particular line can
proceed uninterruptedly with their spiritual progression.
13. In the broader sense, since mankind is positioned and placed in
the outermost layer of the outermost degree, this leads to the function
of becoming an ultimate, final correspondence of all spiritual
principles in the most relative condition, state and process. The
ultimate and final nature of any correspondence is the end product of
the Absolute Creative Effort. It is vitally important that every
correspondence is expressed in its end product because otherwise it
can never be comprehended, harnessed and utilized for any purpose.
If every correspondence was blocked the spiritual progression of
creation would stop. The problem is that unless a correspondence
finds its expression in the end product, no further creative effort can
be realized and actualized because it is stimulated by the results of its
expression and manifestation, not by the origination. If one does not
have any feedback as to the outcome and consequences of one's
creative effort, one loses all interest in it and creativity ceases to
function.
14. Finally, in general terms, mankind, by its special, specific,
unique and ultimate position and place is a school for all creation to
learn about the nature, function, state and process of the ultimate
relativity in which the Absolute State and Process of the Most High
finds its expression in the most unique forms. Such ultimate
expression becomes a base and foundation that gives deep meaning,
understanding and sense to all creation. It contributes the most to
everyone's spiritual progression.
These are then some points which can contribute to one's
understanding of the place, position, purpose and goal of the new
mankind and its systems in the universality of it all. For obvious
reasons, these points do not exhaust all factors that participate in the
definition of mankind's purpose, goal and position. As with everything
else, there is a transcending understanding to all of this that will be
revealed in the process of mankind's development and spiritual
progression at the proper time and under the proper conditions.
The above-described purpose, goal and place of the new mankind
determines, essentially, the style of life, the human relations and the
new spirituality of the new era.
Source: FOUNDATIONS OF HUMAN SPIRITUALITY
