Biblioteca Esoterica Esonet.ORG http://www.esonet.ORG 1
Biblioteca Esoterica Esonet.ORG http://www.esonet.ORG 1
Biblioteca Esoterica Esonet.ORG http://www.esonet.ORG 1
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Spirit and Mind - 2<br />
<strong>Biblioteca</strong> <strong>Esoterica</strong> <strong>Esonet</strong>.<strong>ORG</strong><br />
<strong>http</strong>://<strong>www</strong>.<strong>esonet</strong>.<strong>ORG</strong><br />
But while spirit is playing an increasingly important, transformative, and illuminating<br />
role in the evolution of humanity, the forces that oppose spirit are leading a vast number<br />
of people to what can only be qualified as partial failure. Numerous total failures also<br />
occur; in them, being is gradually reduced to the state of a quasi-dimensionless point<br />
without any contents or meaning whatsoever. But from the point of view of the<br />
philosophy of Wholeness, these failures polarize the gradual emergence of spirit-illumined<br />
beings; yet the ratio of failures to successes may be undetermined.<br />
Partial failures have been called the "laggards" of human evolution, in which they<br />
probably constitute a majority of human centers of being. Because they cannot overcome<br />
the inertia of desire for life in a physical body swayed by the exciting dramas and<br />
frustrations of love, of the desire for possessions and their tragic albeit stimulating loss,<br />
and above all of the desire for personal existence as a uniquely valuable (even though<br />
separate and alienated) "I," these human beings do not reach Illumination at the fateful<br />
"Last Day" of planetary evolution. They may lag behind even at the end of a lesser period<br />
when a decision for or against spirit has to be made — the symbolic separation of the<br />
sheep and the goats. One might say that these "laggards" drop out of the planetary<br />
evolutionary movement into a partially subjective state of "sleep." In this state, they are<br />
absorbed in "dreams" which mainly repeat or develop memories of past life-periods.<br />
Karma will compel them to reawaken in a new universe, where they will have a second<br />
chance to reach illumination and the Pleroma state of unanimous being.<br />
The total failures also will be given a second chance, but for them this means more<br />
than merely reawakening from "sleep." It necessitates a powerful reenergization and<br />
mobilization out of a nearly absolute, negative condition of indifference to existence and<br />
to relationships of all kinds. It demands a new universe in which they can once more<br />
experience the pull of love, relationship, and the light of meaning. This demand is met at<br />
the symbolic Midnight by a surge of total, all-remembering compassion — the<br />
fountainhead of spirit in its supreme state. It is met by an incomprehensibly all-inclusive<br />
"vision" (such an inadequate word) emanating from the Godhead state — the vision of a<br />
new cycle of being.<br />
This vision must acquire definite form, indeed an immense multiplicity of forms, each<br />
of which potentially will be a particular instrumentality for the regeneration of a particular<br />
type of failure, total or partial, of the past universal or planetary cycle. The vision must be<br />
defined, differentiated, and formulated in a vast number of spiritual Qualities of being<br />
which in their togetherness constitute the creative Word or Logos. While there is only one<br />
Word, it has many "Letters"; similarly, in religious symbolism, God the Creator, the One,<br />
has many "Names" (for example, Power, Compassion, Love, Beauty, Justice, Intelligence,<br />
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