Divine Consciousness
A Sentient BEing once declared:
"We've heard much about Cosmic Consciousness. "Cosmic Consciousness is as
far superior to ordinary Consciousness as the latter is superior to the Blind
Instinct of the lower animals."
He who proffers such postulate as his major premise, reveals thereby his
ignorance of Cosmic Consciousness and Blind Instinct. We'll notice both terms
and try and show they refer to the same element of principle.
Man is said to be what his Consciousness is. Whence its source? What's its
nature? For these burning question even great physical science has no answers.
The more knowledge we gain in every respect the more we learn how little we
know. There's a 'ring-pass-not' that halts us regardless of the direction we
take.
It's impossible for us to know the finality of even the simplest apparently
ultimate nature of Consciousness lies beyond our reach.
But he cannot progress who rejects data because they lie over the limit of his
belief, opinion and understanding. Yet that's the common custom that holds man
in darkness.
Even scientists, when faced with unusual claims, like the blood of the body
being composed of condensed air like the water of the sea, back again, attack
him who makes such claims, and deny the evidence of their own findings to hide
their ignorance. They are as unwilling today to investigate new claims as they
were in the Middle Ages.
The status of the realm of mankind grows more comprehensible as we realize that
common human Consciousness is but one state thereof, and that higher and lower
states exist.
In itself, a state of Consciousness is neither high nor low. It becomes subject
to classification only in comparison with other states. What is high in one
respect may be low in another?
Some examples will serve to indicate various states of Consciousness. Rudolph
Stainer presented a case in his book Cosmic Memory, citing bees and ants and
their work. But he was unable to describe definitely in words what he had in
mind.
Stainer showed that the collaboration of various classes of insects--males,
females, and workers--proceeds in a systematic fashion, ruled by a State of
Consciousness that knows the end from the beginning, yet regarded so lightly by
physical science that it's considered as Blind Instinct.
The definite distribution of various tasks among the several categories of
insects, and their ability and intelligence to perform them according to the
laws of Creation, can be considered only as an expression of that supreme state
termed Cosmic Consciousness, called Blind Instinct by physical science.
What occurs in the word of bees and ants is as much the result of a particular
state of Consciousness as is the work of man in the physical world.
Man's systems of commercialism, industrialism, art and science are the results
of his consciousness, and indicate the state thereof. If his Consciousness
functioned on a higher plane, his artificial world, created by his
money-madness and burdened with sick, suffering, degenerate people, would
change to a more natural and far better condition.
The state of Consciousness at the base of the beehive and anthill. A mystery to
physical science and stupidly called Blind Instinct, is not the same as that
which guides man's work in the physical world.
The former is the superior, unconditioned state which flows unmodified from the
ultimate source--from God the theologian would say, who had rather walk in
darkness than risk the result of an investigation of his God, and who declares
with definite firmness that only his God could grow a tree.
Sir Isaac Newton, profoundly religious, tried to locate that
God, and was surprised to find an automatic Universe, in which sunshine, soil,
water and air produce entire vegetal kingdom.
There are four sacred elements of the ancient Magi and they have a marvelous
history. Cited in the Bible by mysterious letters J. H. V. H, mentioned in the
New Testament as "The Word made flesh" (Exodus 6:3; John 1:14) and
are that highly mysterious Lost Word.
Newton discovered that the principles of Polarity, Electromagnetism, Heat and
Cold, Expansion and Contraction, acting on atoms, caused them to perform and
produce infinite formulations, according to archetypal patterns that have had
no beginning.
And the same orderly work of bees and ants will prevail ten thousand years
hence, just as at present. No bewhiskered Prophet is required to predict that
condition.
The future hides no mysteries when the laws of Creation are observed. In fact,
the future, under those laws, is NOW. Time is another illusion.
The circle, not a straight line is the symbol of Eternity. everything is
eternal. Everything is now what has been or will be. The Bible teaches that:
"The thing that hath been, is that which shall be (again), and that which
is done (now) is that which shall (always) be done: and there's no new thing
under the sun" (Eccl. 1:9)
Man represents a higher development than bees and ants, and naturally exercises
a prerogative not possessed by insects. This superior endowment is for his
benefit, but he employs it for his detriment. If properly used, it would enable
man to express powers of a so-called superhuman nature. He would be a God, his
world would be a paradise, and physicians, hospitals, and insane would vanish.
To determine the power that rules the animal kingdom, one cannot confuse oneself
to the physical world, where insects inhabit physical bodies. The power and its
source must be sought in a higher realm.
This means we must reject the opinion of physical science, that "the world
is composed of blind and unknown forces."
This means that we must ascend to the state called Blind Instinct by physical
science, which rules the fish and the sea, the fowl of the air, the beast of
the field, and everything that creepeth upon the earth.
We must not be misled by the Consciousness exhibited by mans work. For that
state is conditioned and distorted by his prerogative. But the state called
Blind Instinct by physical science which rules bees and ants, is not
conditioned nor modified and must be determined and sought in the Supersensible
World.
If man ascended to that world he'd greet the "bee and ant spirit" in
full Consciousness as his own, unconditioned by his prerogative. The Seer and
Clairvoyant can actually do that. This was one of the secrets taught in the
ancient Mysteries five thousand years ago, and carefully concealed from the
esoteric and profane.
In the orderly work of bees and ants, we witness the conduct of entities that
are conscious in a higher world, directed by a state of Consciousness that
extends into the physical world thru their bodies. That's the primigenious,
unconditioned state of Cosmic Consciousness, called Blind Instinct by physical
science.
An ancient tradition indicates that in the early days of man's development, a
state of Consciousness, similar to that of bees and ants, existed generally in
the case of humanity and man lived in a paradise. But that was lost because
man's evil work that produced a state of physical and mental degeneration which
has never been suffered by bees and ants, bugs and birds.
The Bible mentions that distant day when man was sinking in the quagmire of
degeneration. "And God saw that he wickedness of man was great in the
earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil
continually." Gen. 6:5
That sounds serious, but it could not have been worse than it is today. Let us
hope man had hit the bottom, and that in the future he will rise far above his
present low level, recover and resurrect his lost powers, be free of sickness
in a glorious age not burdened by doctors, hospitals, and insane asylums, and
again be blessed with the superior state of Consciousness that rules the animal
kingdom, and is now occasionally displayed by Seers and Clairvoyants."
So ended the voice of the Sentient Being
Namaste
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