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132 The Secret History of the World
new factor can come in only from the side of consciousness and the will resulting
from it. 53
In other words, the snail can choose to change his direction if he increases his
knowledge and becomes more aware. The snail may be following the scent of food
or a need for warmth, and he may crawl into the path of a car, or into a field full of
birds that wish to eat him. In practical terms, this means that snails and human
beings, who are crawling through the universe very often, without knowledge, find
themselves in the path of destruction. Quite often this destruction can only be
overcome by mastering our instinctive urge for pleasure and avoidance of pain.
This can only come about by becoming aware of the probable course he is on. If
his natural tendencies were leading him to an abyss, which will plunge him into a
blazing inferno below, then it would behoove him to learn exactly what it is he
must do to avoid it. And therein lies the rub. In order to do that, a being must
achieve a more aware higher state of consciousness, not a more intense state of
feeling!
In the past, what is behind us lies not only in what was, but also in what could have
been. In the same way, in the future lie not only what will be but also what may
be. 54
In other words, motion in space is merely an illusion of the brief illuminating
light of our consciousness upon a given construct of consciousness. If it is so that
All exists simultaneously, then it is only we who, singly and collectively, can
change the focus or development of our consciousness.
In time events exist before our consciousness comes into contact with them, and
they still exist after our consciousness has withdrawn from them. 55
Now we come back to the questions: Why can we not perceive reality as it is?
Why can we not enlarge our perception — why are we chained in this painful
existence we call “life”? We come back to the idea of the Cave of Plato — or what
is popularly known nowadays as The Matrix. What we are facing is the fact that
the limited way we perceive our world is actually a sort of defect — the effect of
the “fall” – the “ritual fault” that brought the Golden Age to an end.
At the present time, many physicists have suggested “hyperspace” has
explanatory value in terms of bridging the gap between the physical and ethereal
worlds. The New Age market took such ideas up with fiendish glee, producing
endless ignorant variations on “Sacred Science” of millions of words, few of
which are comprehensible to the layperson, much less the scientist. Those who
53 Ibid., pp. 30-31.
54 Ibid., p. 31.
55 Ibid., p. 33.