- "Human potential is a simple enough phrase to utter,
yet it is one of the most difficult of all truths to transmit. Spiritually
transformed human beings throughout history have had to struggle with the
limitations of earthly 3-D language in trying to communicate where they
have been and what they have seen. Supra-normal experiences are
not reducible
to earthly speech, or transferable to others with earthbound minds. What
is conveyed can only be an unsatisfactory description of higher worlds,
and never the actual experience of being there. When it comes to
the ultimately
convincing proof of the secrets of human potential, each one of us must
sooner or later personally undertake the journey.
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- All that comes down to us in the forms of the symbolic
language of sacred scriptures, parables, and spiritual poetry is the result
of sheer necessity. Those who have been fundamentally altered by radical
spiritual experience are always driven by a powerful impulse to share the
momentous fact: we are not what we seem to be. All who have undergone this
voyage into the upper reaches of spiritual realization, and have tried
to speak of it, have delivered the same message: Humanity, you must awaken
from your sleep- you do not even know who you are.
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- The true potential of human beings is directly related
to our spiritual origin and to who we already essentially are. The great
mystics throughout the ages have all understood this and tried to tell
us. Worldly authorities throughout human history, on the other hand, have
carefully engineered life on this planet to prevent the majority from ever
taking any such ideas seriously. As it is now, the truth of who we really
are, is so far above and beyond our present awareness "down here,
that we do not as yet, in this heavy material dimension, even much resemble
ourselves.
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- For the most part the human race is still living here
in a dark dank basement, huddling around the guttering candle of
suffocating
egotism. Above the ceiling of deliberately lowered and misled
human consciousness,
a brilliantly illuminated and gracious spiritual architecture awaits our
arrival. The potential destiny of the human race is far more glorious than
we think. It is far more wonderful than most of us can even begin
to imagine,
because we have been carefully taught not to imagine it.
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- The eventual future of humanity is hinted at in the idea
that mankind was created in the image of God. We have been
created as faithful
replicas of the originating spiritual power and wisdom that created the
universe, the One behind all appearances of multiplicity. Another way to
conceive of us is as fully equipped autonomous versions of this One. Each
of us has been created as a discrete individual who is also mysteriously
and intimately capable of actively participating in the material
and spiritual
reality of the entire Creation.
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- As such, we each contain the seed of infinite progression
and expansion of consciousness. As such, we already are equipped with the
higher bodies, faculties, and powers that correspond to the
higher dimensions
of the universe. We already contain all we will ever need to unfold into
infinite realms of spiritual beauty, goodness, and truth. It is merely
a matter of time and effort. Because it is the nature of human
consciousness
incarnated here in physical form, in the physical dimension, to awaken
slowly through time and experience to what it already is in a
higher state.
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- The entire physical plane universe itself, these billions
and billions of galaxies, is merely the first rung of Jacob,s Ladder. Above
us in frequency, and less dense in material, is the astral plane, which
is a much larger and more populated dimension than the physical.
The majority
of people we erroneously suppose to be "dead are living here, and
vastly preferring it to life in the unpleasantly slow and heavy physical
world. Above that, separated by a still higher frequency, a finer vibratory
wavelength, and composed of even lighter materials, is the mental plane,
which is the largest of all in extent. And beyond this are still other
worlds, each more truly spiritual and more ineffably beautiful than the
one before it. The universe is extravagantly and marvelously constructed,
and we are looking up, when we look up at all, from very near the bottom,
or densest levels of vibration. This is a two-edged sword of a fact. We
can choose either to be made miserable by our present situation in relative
spiritual obscurity, or we can rejoice in understanding that what is yet
to come is infinitely better than what has been manifested here
so far.
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- A spiritually conscious human being does not look out
upon this particular world and see reality adequately reflected in the
surroundings, but quite the opposite. This poor planet at present
is basically
run by a fairly small number of secretive sociopaths, inflicting stupefying
cruelties on very large numbers of indifferent, indignant, harried, or
unaware human souls. Nevertheless, despite this, a significant portion
of mankind is sufficiently awake now to see the various types of imposed
insanity masquerading as "normal life. This creates a situation more
hopeful than it is depressing. It is hopeful because that seed of divinity
in us, once awakened, will not rest content until the spiritual truths
we realize inwardly become externalized as the foundation of earthly life.
Many of us have by now caught glimpses of our own past history,
have ventured
forth into higher dimensions, and have also seen forward into
what is destined
to come into being. We know something of how long we have been coming here,
and why, and we know we will continue to return until humanity is
spiritually
and materially free. We understand that a single human lifetime is only
a day in the long life of the human soul, and we make our plans
accordingly.
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- Much that is taken for granted now, as "natural
human behavior, will be looked back on with sad astonishment and
even outright
disbelief at some point in the future. The seemingly eccentric idealists
here and now who point out the sheer lunacy of current human civilization
are merely registering the facts, commensurate with what we are capable
of becoming. In the unimaginably long slow cycles of creation, we
are nearing
the end of a period of deep darkness on this planet. In terms of heaviness
of vibration, there are worse densities, worse places, than Earth. Nevertheless,
we on Earth are in a relatively very slow and dimly lit vibratory zone.
In incarnation here, we are a spiritual species deeply immersed in matter.
Most of us are still dreaming the nebulous dreams of an embryo, unaware
of the coming birth, or of our inevitable future experiences on the path
to maturity. Such is the depth of the hypnotic trance exerted over the
souls of mankind by those whose only aim is to prevent human awakening
at all costs. And such also is the very nature of the hypnotic spell of
being in these bodies at all: the compellingly intricate and pleasurable
miseries of flesh, bones, and nerves.
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- For what purpose then, these age-long entrancements of
essentially pure spirits inside the carbon-based biodegradable suits of
flesh? The answer is simple, however complex the ramifications in time
and space. When dedicated spiritual beings willingly enter denser matter,
the eventual result is the refinement and spiritualizing of the heavier
material world they inhabit. We came down into this world originally, not
as a punishment, but as a great sacrifice. We are, in essence, willing
servants of the spiritualization process of the universe itself. The basic
fact of human life is: "Ye are gods. We deliberately and consciously
entered the darkness of this dimension, knowing that we would forget who
we are and why we are here, and knowing that long ages would pass before
we even dimly began to remember.
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- Consider then the fundamental nature of spiritual beings
possessed of such courage and endurance as to undergo long eons
of suffering
and utter forgetfulness for the sake of laboriously refining the various
substances of this as yet non-sacred realm. Every action of every physical,
emotional and mental body of every human being since the creation of this
species has been a part of this process. All that any human being has ever
done or felt or thought has been subject to the Refiner,s Fire, that sieve
for life experience on Earth referred to as the Law of Cause and Effect.
We can only live and learn here, and we gain the spiritual experience we
need in order to remember who we are just as much, if not more, through
the bitter experiences of so-called failures as by enjoying the fruits
of so-called successes. Behind both these worldly and incomplete concepts,
the spirit is living in a different perspective altogether, interested
only in awakening and in serving the process of awakening in others.
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- All those whose message to us is that we are in reality
powerful spiritual beings, regardless of all appearances to the contrary,
are relaying the simple truth. Many beings have come and gone throughout
human history bearing various forms of this message. Consider for example,
as if for the first time, the momentous demonstration of innate
human capacity
we refer to as the Life, Death, and Resurrection of Christ. These spiritual
events were not enacted for the sake of creating the idea of an impassable
distance between His life and ours. The meaning to be conveyed directly
to humanity was the exact opposite of unattainable difference. The point
was and is and will be: THIS is our individual and collective destiny.
This is what we already contain, what we can become, and who we really
are, each in a unique way. We are an entire species of potential
Christs.
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- But can we even face such a reality? Those who do not
want humanity to understand itself have deeply hypnotized us into thinking
of ourselves as powerless worms and a race of ineffectual slaves. We have
been carefully programmed to shrink in dismay from understanding ourselves
as potentially exalted beings here. We have been taught instead to focus
on what we are not, and to think of these wayward bodies we inhabit as
being who we really are.
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- This case of mistaken identity is summed up succinctly
by St. Paul when he said: "I do that which I do not wish to
do. Meaning-
these unruly bodies we are in have a life of their own. The point here
is that the bodies we dwell in actually do have lives of their
own: literally.
The have sentiency and desire and they want what they want when they want
it. And it is certainly true that as long as they run us around, we will
never achieve much in the way of our own possibilities. The
powerful spiritual
nature of a human being can only come to the fore in this dimension when
we inwardly become aware of the difference between our deeper Self and
the lives of our bodies. There is no easy path here: it is a long drawn-out
struggle of spirit, life after life, against the pull of the lives of the
lower bodies.
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- Self-realization is not an object to be acquired, but
a condition to be realized by means of methodically detaching from lesser
states of identification. Very easy to say this, of course, but the moment
we try to detach ourselves from the various clamors, we find out just how
much power our bodies and egos are actually exerting. The path to freedom
has been amply demonstrated and described: "Love one another as I
have loved you. "Deny yourselves, pick up your cross, and follow Me.
But so far, on the whole, the human race has shown that it would really
rather not do any such thing. Because the deeper meaning here is that human
potential will only be realized through heroic acts of impersonal spiritual
love and will, and through no other means whatsoever. Therefore even if
we are willing to consider our spiritual potential abstractly, to
be willing
to manifest this is, for most of us, quite another story.
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- It is an interesting fact that Christ did not worship
Himself, or His own level of consciousness. His own religion was not what
we think of as Christianity. Instead, He invariably pointed beyond Himself,
and asked us to follow Him back to the Father,s House. He also
enigmatically
declared: "Greater things than I did, ye shall do. Yet has humanity
ever actually believed this? Or do we think He must have been mistaken
in such a prophecy? This was no mistake, no error in judgment,
but a promise
of the future attainments of mankind. The life of Christ then was
an actualization
of the sublime potential spiritual powers inherent in all human beings.
To know the Creator directly, to control the entire world of nature as
an agent of divine will, to know and act on the contents of human minds
and hearts as an agent of divine love, and to be resurrected into a higher
body of manifestation as an agent of divine power: this is the literal
potential of multidimensional mankind.
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- But these innate wonders, our high future possibilities,
will never be forced on us against our will. The Law of Cause and Effect
supports the unfolding of our divine powers of beauty, goodness and truth,
but we were not designed to be puppets, not even of the God within us.
We will always be free here to choose relative darkness of heart and mind,
and to deny our best selves. Potential does not mean absolute certainty
of achievement. To become a species embodying a high spiritual destiny,
the vast majority of human beings will first have to see this goal and
then ardently desire to fulfill the requirements. So far, most of the human
race has not awakened sufficiently to understand this even superficially,
let alone develop the spiritual will to act on it.
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- Spiritual reality rests on the unalterable foundation
of self-sacrifice and wise impersonal love. Yet relatively few of us have
ever wished to become acquainted with any such version of ourselves. Most
of us are afraid of sacrifice, and of renouncing our self-centeredness.
Most of us wish to retain our crude attachments to material things, and
to our negative emotions and our negative thinking. We are perhaps most
of all attached to our own false self-image of smallness, powerlessness,
and worthlessness. Yet sacrificing what we are now, including our delusions
of powerlessness, for the sake of what we may become, is the exact price
of our potential. Our potential is not a problem: our lack of desire to
leave our stupefying existence in the basement of life is our problem.
The conclusion then is that, as a species, astonishing as it seems, we
have not yet suffered enough to turn inward to spiritual reality.
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- Therefore, up and down the scales of desire, fulfillment
and satiation we run, chasing sensation, material well being, and
the fulfillment
of appetites. The inevitable result of fulfillment of an appetite is a
feeling of emptiness and meaninglessness, and all such chases are doomed
to end in disappointment. Attachment to ego-gratification amounts
to ensuring
repeated cycles of suffering, punctuated by just enough pleasure to keep
the donkey chasing after the next carrot. This is the dramatic spectacle
of human history: millions and millions of souls lost in dense matter,
struggling against one another and competing for the temporary supremacy
of their own lower natures.
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- We are entranced by the unwieldy stickiness of the very
burdens we came here to willingly bear. These bodies, emotions,
and thoughts:
none of these are who we are. These powerfully hypnotizing and intoxicating
substances, these bodies and their expressions, are only the raw materials
we are here to work with. A time comes when the real person behind the
scenes of materialization stands forth, and nothing is ever the same again.
This realization of inexorable ongoing metamorphosis, when it comes,
releases a joy so profound that nothing can ever entirely extinguish it
again. From the beginning we have harbored within ourselves the seeds of
a destiny so wondrous that our greatest difficulty is in believing even
the least of it.
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- Yet nothing whatsoever of this glorious potential is
hidden from any human being, and never has been. It simply takes time and
evolution, "down here in dense material levels, for the eyes of the
soul to open, and for the spirit to recall its origin. There are
no deliberate
spiritual secrets kept from any of us. Nevertheless, long experience is
required before we even begin to remember who we really are, why we came
here, what we are doing, and where we are going. At every moment each of
us knows as much as we have earned the right to know, as much as we can
bear to know, and as much as we wish to know. So when it comes to
the potential
of multidimensional mankind, created in the image of God, each one of us
must ask ourselves:
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- Who do we think we are, and what are we going to do about
it?
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- To Be Continued In Part III: The Passage
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