The solar system is massive – If the earth was
the size of a peppercorn, the solar system would have a diameter
of several miles. The galaxy is enormous – If the solar system
was the size of a pin head, our Milky Way galaxy would measure
over 10,000 miles across. The universe is practically infinite –
There may be up to 500,000,000,000 galaxies in the entire
universe, each of which contains an equally large number of
stars. Basically we inhabit a minuscule rock in a practically
endless universe, we share this tiny speck with six or seven
billion other humans, we are completely dwarfed by the infinity
of time and space – so how can anything we do be of any
significance whatsoever?
Albert Einstein said: "A
human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part
limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts
and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of
optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind
of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to
affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to
free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of
compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of
nature in its beauty."
The goal of life is to attain omnipotence and
omniscience on the highest cosmic plane (49), and the meaning of
life is actively working towards that goal. All life is
potential perfection, and life’s experiences enable that
potential to become a reality. The universe only exists so that
we can realise our potential. We are all of the same origin and
we are all working towards the same goal. We all gradually
evolve from ignorance to omniscience, from bondage to freedom,
from impotence to omnipotence, and from individuality to unity.
People generally have no interest in the meaning
of life until they reach the transition point between the
civilised and developed stages, but there is a big difference
between knowing the meaning of life and actively trying to
achieve that meaning. People generally don’t actively start
working at realising the meaning of life (developing their
consciousness) until they reach the transition point between the
developed and humanistic stages. The meaning of life is the
evolution of consciousness, but it is not just a phrase or a
concept – it is a way of life. It means making the most of every
opportunity that life provides us with to facilitate the
development our consciousness, and this involves the
self-activation of ever-higher kinds of consciousness. Becoming
your soul (3:7) is the goal in the human kingdom, becoming your
spirit (5:7) is the goal in the fifth kingdom and becoming a god
(7:7) is the goal in the sixth kingdom.
Higher levels of consciousness cannot be attained
while we remain attached to the lower levels. Clinging to the
dense material reality as if it were the only true reality does
nothing to further our evolution. The more we evolve, the less
we want the things that everyone else wants: fame, money, power,
possessions, respect, acceptance, alcohol, tobacco, drugs, etc.
People at the lower stages can’t imagine why anyone would want
to give up these things and they certainly wouldn’t willingly do
so. But we don’t need to sacrifice these things or give them up
reluctantly; we simply grow out of them when the time is right,
just as a child grows out of playing with toys. The more we
develop, the less we want to go through life in a physically
numbed state or an emotionally induced fantasy, and the more we
want to be fully lucid and in control of our own destiny.
We are born into this world with nothing and we
can take nothing with us when we die, so what is the use in
acquiring a whole load of material possessions in the middle?
The only possession we can, and do, take with us at the end of
an incarnation is our consciousness. So it follows that the only
thing worth acquiring in life is a higher level of consciousness
– nothing else matters. Getting an education, holding down a
good job, being rich and famous, getting married and having
children are not our primary goals; they are just secondary
factors that facilitate life on Earth. None of these factors
directly contribute to our primary goal – the development of
consciousness.
The average person believes their persona is
their "self".
They therefore live to satisfy the persona’s desires and
consequently make little progress with the evolution of their
soul. They say "you only live once"
and feel they must accomplish and acquire all they can before
they die – to them there is no meaning of life. That kind of
thinking dominates the vast majority of our human incarnations,
which is why our progress is so slow. But eventually we grow
tired of life on the merry-go-round and start looking for
something more. That is the time when we need to know the
meaning of life, because without knowing what we have to
achieve; how can we achieve it? Once we focus on our goal we can
begin to make some real progress.
Every individual is a unique character with a
unique set of life experiences, and most people’s mission in
life is simply to gain more experience – gaining experience to
take back to the soul so that it can be used to create a better
"persona"
next time around. Life is just a sequence of scenarios and
situations which our consciousness can use for its development:
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Qualitative development – the refining of
consciousness towards emotional, intellectual, moral and
spiritual perfection.
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Quantitative development – increasing the
quantity and power of refined conscious energy. It is
essential to increase the quality before increasing the
quantity or else the power is likely to corrupt the persona.
To give our lives meaning we need to make the
most of the opportunities that confront us. We need to remember
that everything in life is an opportunity for our consciousness
to develop. We must not squander those opportunities or waste
our lives on meaningless activities or get overly caught up in
emotionality of life. Life is a long series of present moments
that can only be experienced in the "now".
So don’t waste your present moments agonising over past moments
or worrying over what you might experience in future moments.
Life is cyclic in nature and involves a lot of
repetition, but human beings are generally slow learners. We may
incarnate into human form a hundred thousand times yet no two
lives will be the same, each will (hopefully) be a slight
improvement on the last, drawing on the lessons previously
learned. The same applies to all existence; each manifestation
is slightly more ordered and less chaotic than the one that
preceded it. The ultimate goal of existence is the omniscience,
omnipotence and liberation of all monads (beings). As always,
there are those who surge ahead, those who go with the flow and
those who lag behind. None of these paths is any better or worse
than the others, because all paths lead to the same goal and all
will eventually achieve that goal.
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