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06 March 2016
'Happiness' Is Not The Point
Most believe that 'happiness' is the ultimate goal to be obtained during earth-life. It is the prize. A constant and unceasing state of harmonious, self-pleasing 'happiness' is supposed to be the sign of a well-spent life. This mindset, coupled with the fact that man, if lucky, can expect to live to an average of 72 years, drives human-beings to expend an enormous amount of energy in a fruitless pursuit of 'happiness'.
Thus, racing to beat the clock-of-death, every setback drives man to panic. Why aren't things working out for me? Why can't I get the things that I want? I just want to be 'happy'. Why can't I be 'happy'??
Here's your answer, Poor Unknowing Soul: You will never be 'happy' in this life because earth-life is not designed to bestow permanent 'happiness' upon anyone. We live in a dialectical reality, a duality, where everything has its opposite and everything eventually turns into its opposite. If one manages to obtain a semblance of 'happiness', he or she can be certain that it will not last. Eventually, that 'happiness' will turn into its opposite. Things cannot be otherwise.
This dialectical nature-order is temporal. Everything about it screams temporary. The only constant to be found is change. In keeping with that fundamental law, the events in our lives swing back and forth between two poles, like a pendulum in perpetual motion.
So then, what is the point? Why was this nature-order designed to prevent an eternal state of 'happiness'? Well, let's think about it. If man could find a way to obtain permanent 'happiness' here on earth, he would cease to progress. He would not seek for anything better because he would be completely content with what he has. Man would crystallize into a state that would truly doom his microcosm to the Outer Darkness.
This is why death comes to humanity. It comes to break up that which is in danger of crystallizing. It comes to afford the microcosm a fresh opportunity to create yet another new personality that will not foolishly seek for 'happiness' on the horizontal plane of dialectics, but will seek the Gnosis, the Keys to Freedom and a return to the eternal bliss that can only be found in the Divine Kingdom.
~ g
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g
If our purpose is to return to the eternal bliss that can only be found in the Divine Kingdom, why did we fall in the first place if everything was bliss there? Another question is if the estimated population by the year 2100 is 11 billion, where are all these microcosms coming from? Is the fall from the bliss realm still going on?
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
I agree with Macbeth that life is pointless if after 70 or 80 years we simply disappear, so maybe what's required is to truly yearn for salvation and see what happens.
A poor idiot.
Andrew,
There are a reported 60 billion microcosms in this life-wave. Not all are incarnate. Those who are not in the flesh can be found in the reflection-sphere, with a small number inhabiting Shamballa.
We cycle in and out of the physical in waves. The time period between incarnations is reported to be between 700 to 1,000 years. 700 years for advanced microcosms, 1,000 years or so for the average microcosm. Not sure how long it would take for 60 million souls to complete one cycle on earth but one can be certain that the Wheel keeps turning. Every entity will get their opportunity...again, and again, and again.
The Original Fall dropped us as a life-wave from the 6th Cosmic Domain to the 7th. While here, we repeat the fall in other ways. Civilizations start out with pure intent and then fall into debauchery and disgrace. A child starts life pure and innocent and then falls into violence, anger, grief and sorrow. The further we move away from God, the deeper the hole we dig in the muck we have fallen into.
The speech from Hamlet describes the plight of the human personality perfectly. The unenlightened human personality, that is. Those who live without knowledge of their True Purpose or of the One Goal of Humanity may as well be living-dead.
But those who have made contact with the Gnosis, those who have begun to yearn for a way out, even if only slightly, are blessed beyond measure. Their Rosebud has begun to bloom.
~ g
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