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GOD IS ALL ARE WE ARE ONE ARE WE ARE ALL IS GOD
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EMBRACING OR RESISTING THAT
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Spiritual Evolution: The Divine Plan for Life
July 22, 2011
https://goldenageofgaia.com/2020/07/21/spiritual-evolution-the-divine-plan-forlife-4/
The Self, soul orAtman exists as a light shining in the deepest reaches of the heart,
the “seat of the soul.” It can be reached in meditation.
1. Every man, woman, and child on this planet is God. Every man, woman, and
child lives forever, through countless physical lives.
Everything known and unknown, everything that is and is not is God. There is
nothing that we can see or not see that is not God. (5) That being the case you are
God and I am God and everyone else is as well. Being God, we’re not capable of
being destroyed or ceasing to exist. We’re therefore eternal, though our physical
bodies are not.
The “immortality” that such teachers as Jesus spoke of is not immortality of the
soul, which is already immortal, but the cessation of the need to be born into a
physical body again. As it happens we reincarnate endless times until we reach the
point of needing no more to be reborn physically. But that is not the end of spiritual
evolution, which continues until we return to God, whence we came, through a
virtually endless process of successive enlightenments.
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Spiritual evolution means that, not simply the physical body evolves as Darwin
said it does, but the spiritual bodies that we also inhabit do as well. We journey
through lifetime after lifetime, learning , discriminating, improving our ability to
discern the Real from the unreal, until finally we realize the One fully. We have
then progressed from unconscious awareness to conscious awareness of our nature
as God.
2. The purpose of life is enlightenment. The purpose of life is that God should meet
God and, in that meeting, taste Its own bliss. For that purpose was all of life made.
God is One without a second. In Its highest expression, God is formless and thus
encounters no forms and can draw on no tools or technologies. There being no
other, there is no one to know God and no means for God to know God. In light of
this, to satisfy a desire to know Itself and taste Its own bliss, God created life forms
and assigned them the task of knowing their true nature, their original identity.
God implanted in them a longing that can only be satisfied by the realization of
their identity as God. It created universal laws that aid the individual being in the
journey from God into the world and from the world back to God again. Each time
a life form realizes its true identity as God, God meets God, and for this meeting
was all of life created.
3. All of us have journeyed out from God, by God’s command, and will be liberated
from the cycle of physical birth and death the moment we know that everything in
this world, including us, is God. Hindu sages call this level of enlightenment
vijnana (perfect wisdom) and sahaja (or our natural state) nirvikalpa samadhi
(formless trance state).
When all movement in the mind stops, when the spiritual heart (or hridayam)
opens and never shuts again, the individual being realizes God in sahaja nirvikalpa
samadhi, the stage of liberation from the need to be physically reborn (or mukti,
moksha).
This level has been called vijnana (or perfect wisdom) by some, nirvana (or
cessation of movement) and Ascension by others. But spiritual evolution does not
cease here. Only the need to be reborn in this Third Dimension stops. Orders of
existence stretch on in an endless vista, through dimension after dimension,
universe after universe.
4. Father God created the domain of Mother God (mater, matter) as the setting for
our spiritual journey and education. We wander in this material realm lifetime
after lifetime, constantly learning.
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The first creations in life were what Christians call the Holy Spirit and the Christ or
Son and what Hindus call the Divine Mother or Shakti and the Atman. The first is
in part a primal universal creative vibration known as Aum/Amen, the Logos or
Word.
Known to Solomon as “Wisdom” or Sophia, to Lao-Tzu as the Mother, this level of
reality is the Phenomenal world whereas the Father or Brahman is the Formless
Transcendental, beyond the Phenomenal world.
The Christ, Atman, or Self is “the Father in me” or “Brahman-within-theindividual,” a “fragment” or “spark,” metaphorically speaking, lodged within the
body (or bodies), which are created by the Mother.
One cannot know the Father without first knowing the Self in a moment of
enlightenment. This first sight of the Light grows, with meditation, till one day it
becomes the sight of the Father’s Light. The Son is the Father but the Father is
greater than the Son. The Father is in me (in the heart of the individual) and I am in
the Father (as are all things).
Neither is the Father male nor the Mother female. These designations were
conventional teaching devices used by sages of old. There is no cosmic male,
strictly speaking, and no cosmic female. The difference being pointed at is the
same as the difference between movement and sound (the Mother) and rest and
silence (the Father). Only the Father is not physical or material; everything else, no
matter at how sublime or refined a level it exists, can be said to be physical or
material when compared to the Father.
5. The Father made the material domain lawful. The most important law for us to
know is the Law of Karma, which requires that what we do unto others shall be
done unto us.
The material domain is the only domain in which law applies. Law does not apply
to the Maker of the law, although It may submit to be governed by the law as in the
case of an Avatar. The Mother is the “Voice crying in the Wilderness,” the sound of
Aum/Amen echoing throughout the Phenomenal domain as the music of the
spheres, which creates, preserves, and transforms all things. The Father is the
Wilderness in that no law can bind God.
The most important law for us as Third-Dimensional beings is the Law of Karma.
The Law of Karma is like guardrail which prevents a vehicle from leaving the
road. It keeps the individual soul from going too far to the left or right and ensures
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that the individual keeps moving forward towards the destined return of the
Prodigal Child to God, once it tires of all experiences in the material world.
6. The form of our total journey is a sacred arc, like Jacob’s Ladder, away from
and back to God. But, day by day, we also follow a spiritual spiral, returning to the
same karmic lessons repeatedly until we learn them.
As Jesus said, we come out from the Father into the world, remain for a while, and
then return to the Father in what can be conceived of as an arc. When I had my
vision of the purpose of life, in 1987, the form of the individual’s journey out from
God and back to God again formed a wide arc or circle.
Nonetheless, the Law of Karma ensures that we return to the same lessons again
and again until at last we learn them and this return through successive lifetimes
can be seen as a spiral. Thus the shape of life, if you will, can be visualized as a
spiraling arc or circular coil. This virtually endless journey is depicted in many
religions as a ladder of consciousness or a stairway of existence which we travel
down and then up.
7. From one day to the next, we may expand or contract, but all the while we are
cosmically drawn back to God by a sub-sensible, eternal longing, planted there by
It, for It: a longing for liberation (for more on this, see “The Longing for
Liberation”).
The longing for liberation is just one of the design elements built or hardwired into
life forms. Most people, experiencing this subsensible tidal yearning, try to fill it
with possessions, experiences, relationships, and so on. But God so designed life
that nothing will satisfy it except the return to God.
We go through life endlessly acquiring, enjoying and casting aside, ever
unsatisfied, in an endless cycle of desire. This develops discrimination in us.
Gradually we are made aware that nothing but God will satisfy our ineffable thirst
and hunger. Then we develop detachment. At that point we cease to be prodigal
children and begin our return to the Father, who welcomes us with open arms.
This longing then acts as a homing beacon or magnet on all life forms, no matter
how exalted, drawing them ever onwards until they merge again with God. Hence
the love in the eyes of saints towards God and the deep devotion of exalted beings,
in whom the longing for liberation acts more strongly than in most of us.
8. In the cosmic Drama, there are three Actors we must realize: God the Father,
God the Mother, and God the Child. These are the Transcendental, the
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Phenomenal, and the Transcendental in the Phenomenal. Christians call them
(note the change in order) the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Hindus call them
Brahman, Atman, and Shakti. The Formless became two Forms. The One made
trillions of forms through the agency of the Two and then mysteriously entered into
them. We are required to know that Trinity.
The “Holy Persons” are not persons, but levels of reality. They can be described as
the Transcendental, the Phenomenal, and the Transcendental in the Phenomenal.
We are the Transcendental in the Phenomenal, sparks of divinity who reside in the
worldly womb of the Mother until our divine birth. The Mother educates her
children in the school of life until they are ready to be brought to meet the Father.
All religions have a conception of this Holy Trinity, though it may take some
digging to correlate terms. We “know” the three levels in successively-higher
experiences of enlightenment. We know the Son, Christ, or Atman in the
experience of “stream entering” or “spiritual awakening” when the kundalini
reaches the fourth or heart chakra.
We know the Mother in an experience of savikalpa samadhi or cosmic
consciousness when the kundalini reaches the sixth or brow chakra (and the Third
eye opens).
We know the Father first in an experience of kevalya nirvikalpa samadhi when the
kundalini reaches the seventh or crown chakra and permanently in an experience of
sahaja nirvikalpa samadhi when the energy reaches the spiritual heart or hridayam.
Because the Christ or Atman is often called the “Self,” we can say that we cannot
know God until we become knowers of the Self. Translated that means we cannot
have the experience of seventh-chakra enlightenment until we have the experience
of fourth-chakra enlightenment.
Therefore know Thyself. Meditate on the Self that is known and it will become the
knowledge of God. All of Jesus’s parables about the treasure buried in a field, the
pearl of great price, the mustard seed, and the measure of meal describe this
journey of enlightenment.
Knowledge of these three levels of Reality is required of all beings before they
graduate from the twelve dimensions. Their knowledge represents a progressive
accomplishment. There is not simply one enlightenment or one level of
enlightenment, but many. And beyond the twelve dimensions, there are also further
gradations to life, unknown to us.
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9. Everyone will reach God – some in the morning; some in the afternoon; and
some in the evening. Experiences will vary, but all will eventually know God.
No one will fail to return to God. I’m led to believe that God does not worry about
the time it takes us to return. There is no dishonor at taking more time than our
neighbor. Moreover, different beings are created at different times.
Those who are reaching enlightenment when we do not may have been created
earlier than we. Those people who reach enlightenment without rigorous discipline
probably practiced rigorous discipline in other lives. Others are already enlightened
and return in an unenlightened condition to serve by demonstrating what spiritual
practice looks like.
10. Every genuine path will work. God plays all roles and observes all actions. The
Divine has become many; next to God, there is none.
There is no religion or spiritual practice that is invalid, if genuine and sincerely
followed. Some cults and orders may have dark purposes but the spiritual
experiences of all genuine masters, translated into religious teachings (if rendered
and maintained purely) are all acceptable in God’s eyes.
There is only one God. The God of the Christians is the God of the Muslims and
the God of the Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, Taoists, Sufis, etc. God is One but Its
names are many. Hear, O Israel, the Lord thy God. The Lord is One, without a
second. There is none else besides God.
Some will see Light; others will see a “form” of God; still others may have an
intuitive sense of knowing. All genuine paths sincerely followed lead to God. God,
through the Mother, designed the many paths to suit the various tastes of seekers,
but all are efficacious.
There is no ground to say that one religion or path is superior to another. There is
nothing that supports the belief that the earnest followers of one religion will reach
God and the earnest followers of another will not. God is on no side and on all
sides.
11. In Its love, God is universal, impartial, and supreme. What God wills must
happen. It decreed this Drama for Its own Pleasure. Each time someone knows its
Self — “Oh Thou I!” — God meets God!
God loves all life forms – human, non-human, subhuman, superhuman. It makes no
distinction among life forms. Its Will must prevail. All is happening within God’s
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Being. It created the drama or lila for Its own pleasure, a game of blind man’s bluff
(or buff), in which God plays all roles and is the object of the search as well as the
searcher and the search. Only God can realize God. Whenever anyone realizes
God, that one simply realizes itself. The Self that it realizes is God.
Footnotes
(1) On the foundations many of us have been building on, consciously or not, see
“Basic Third-Dimensional Illusion: Separate Selves Struggling for Survival amid
Seeming Scarcity,” May 17, 2020, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2020/05/17/
basic-third-dimensional-illusion-separate-selves-struggling-for-survival-amidseeming-scarcity-2/
(2) “The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment – Ch. 13 – Epilogue,” August 13, 2011,
at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2011/08/13/the-purpose-of-life-is-enlightenmentch-13-epilogue/
(3) From Darkness Unto Light database: http://goldengaiadb.com/index.php?
title=From_Darkness_to_Light
(4) The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wpcontent/uploads/2011/08/Purpose-of-Life-is-Enlightenment.pdf
(5) God – Him, Her, It – has no gender. The anthropomorphic and androcentric
gender analogy arises from the human reproductive cycle but has probably outlived
its usefulness. After the Reval I intend to convene a conference of scholars to
arrive at an alternative to gender terminology
REMEMBER
IT’S NOT ABOUT ME, YOU, US OR THEM
IT’S ALL ABOUT GOD
WE’RE JUST BEING WHO AND WHAT WE ARE IN THAT
AND IN THAT
YES
IT IS ABOUT
YOU AND ME AND US AND THEM
WE ARE OUR PARTS OF THE WHOLE
OUR ASPECTS OF THE ONE PLAN
THE ONE THOUGHT
OF THE ONE THING
THAT REALLY AND TRULY EXISTS
THE ONE THING
THAT IS ALL THINGS
AND EVERY THING
AND EVERYTHING
ALL AT ONCE
FEAR NOT
OYAHE
GOD GOES WITH YOU
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Kibodabi 