Physical perfection alone cannot be the ultimate goal in human striving although it is a good mark to aim for.
The physical, however, involves the mental realm being the outcome of mental conditioning and, in turn, the mental involves the spiritual.
These phases of life are so interrelated that every experience contains some reaction to all three. The emphasis, unfortunately, has been placed upon your immediate physical necessities.
Most mental effort has been expended in this direction, and the spiritual has confined itself to imagining a heaven of perfect physical conditions (if you are good enough), according to the 250 or more religious denominations.
Science is proving daily that the world about us is governed by definite laws; and psychology is following rapidly with the ‘working’ of the mind. There certainly are spiritual laws but they’re not instantly discerned: they must be discovered through experience.
You have a spiritual origin. If you cannot concede to this then you must think deeper into the beginning of things, the mystery of existence. Spirit must manifest in form. Its inherent creative intelligence compels this.
You became individualized spirit when, in the remote past, differentiation ensued, and special trends were imparted to your soul. From that moment of being you passed through innumerable experiences in uncountable life-forms, until you eventually reached your present stage of human development.
At this point you have the excellent ability to not only be aware of your environment, but to think about it, to analyze your reactions to events, situations, and experiences; to compare knowing the good from the bad, understanding power, comprehending weakness, delighting in beauty, revolting at ugliness, seeking pleasure and avoiding pain, etc. You set up individual ideals and norms and are able to measure your experiences as they conform to, or depart from, these standards of life.
As this development proceeds you recognize more and more the importance of contacts with others, of team work, of group benefits, and gradually but surely of organized effort that shall include the uplift of the people of the whole world.
The alchemist regards the universe as a cosmic man. One backward, ill-fed, ignorant nation is viewed as a cancer in the body cosmic.
If an individual is fanatical, prejudiced, subject to violent fits of temper, they’re declared subnormal or abnormal. And if the world shows these characteristics, is it not mentally and emotionally off balance.
If a person is confused or limited in their spiritual concepts, to whatever degree this is so, they are vibrating to a lower consciousness.
Now the world’s consciousness as a whole is the result of the sum total of the consciousness of all its inhabitants. Consciousness, whether of an individual, or a group, influences the quality of the activities and the environment.
According to your rate of vibration, be it high or low in the sense of nobility, comprehension and efficiency, you are a determining factor in world life.
To the extent you are off balance in any of these three phases of existence, your contribution to universal welfare suffers. To be physically fit, mentally alert, and spiritually progressing is exceedingly important.
It is my belief that astrology, alchemy and the 21 Brotherhood of Light courses of lessons are unexcelled as guides to the attainment of this ideal state of being.
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