Traditional religions, west and east,
had the First Experience of the Inward God, after mystics learned to
block or stop all material desires so that they could see the Inward
God, or the Father Within. The Second Experience of God includes but
transforms the Inward God to Outward Godhood, not by blocking material desires but by
refining and cultivating material drives, by ever seeking such Godly
traits as truth, intelligence, beauty and goodness in upward
evolution. Our duty appears to be to help life and evolution along the
path to Godhood, because it is not always conscious or direct in doing so.
It seems to me that the universe is
both linear in material life evolving to supermaterial Godhood, and
cyclic when life does not make it to Godhood there are recurring
chances to do so in endless universes. That is, all of creation may
not commence with perfection and then move toward decline before it
rises to perfection again, as is thought in the traditional east. It
is Man In Evolution, not man trapped in cycles, even though history
tends to retell similar stories. Life may continuously evolve to
Godhood with starts and stops along the way with no end or beginning.
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