The God Principle

 

 

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But why were the skies of the dawn and the twilight so gorgeous, and most beautiful to the human eye? These moments were indeed ones of light but with a strange tint of darkness within them. The lower and supposedly baser frequencies of visible light, those of red and orange, suddenly gained prominence and an indelible beauty, as they washed the sky in the horizon, emanating from the very countenance of the solar orb which seemingly took on such colors. These were moments when darkness and light met, and the colors seemed to represent a synthesis, a union of light and darkness in a peculiar manner. The beauteous sight was a reminder to Aliyah that goodness alone in the purest sense was insufficient for the human being, for goodness also begat gullibility in most. The twilight was pointing out an essential lesson for human beings, that of integrating the best from the worlds of light and darkness, resulting in a transcendence of basic human qualities. The heavens and the earth sought to mould human beings who by choice remained pure and innocent, yet well understood the cunning and evil mind; who were pliable, but could exercise tremendous strength of will; who were gentle and peace-loving, but were great warriors who knew when and how to fight; who could weep with compassion, but could not be fooled; who could behold great injustice, and still act with restraint and foresight; who could be relentless in their pursuit of goals, not for their own benefit but for the common good; and who possessed a strong individuality, but were the essence of humility. Such seemed to be the kind of qualities that life sought to induce in the children of God who sojourned on this planet of light and darkness. The twilight, the dawn, the play of light and shade, the seasons and the yellow tint of the sunlight spoke of a great plan for mankind written in the heavens.

 

But how could such a synthesis be achieved? Did it not mandate that human beings of necessity experience all of the light and all of the darkness that creation has to offer? That they of necessity go through the turmoil of evil, death, despair and darkness, while holding on to their gifts of hope, faith, forgiveness and love? That would be an extremely difficult synthesis, but here it was, written in the heavens, speaking of a great plan for humankind. To meet it squarely would be no easy task for the race. It meant draining the cup of sorrows to the very last drop, allowing oneself to be tempted into the hands of the vile, the unprincipled and the diabolical; treading the byways of despair, dejection and utter desolation; finally purifying oneself by effort and the grace of God, raising above and transcending all. The temptation and the fall of man as written in the scriptures were by no means an accident, but part of a larger scheme of things, for was not the Creator also the essence of knowledge, wisdom and foresight? To be part of the plan required great courage and fortitude, as evinced by the ubiquitous plant kingdom that surrounded her. And was it not a great lesson that kingdom offered, a lesson of persistence in the face of all hardship?

 

The grasses were trampled, consumed, mowed down, burnt in fire, but never defeated. The shrubs and the bushes were foraged by beasts or trimmed by man, but grew back even stronger and thicker. Plants and trees spread out roots down into the earth, slowly penetrating even the hardest rock. The desert plants patiently waited their day through insufferably long periods of dryness, waiting for the promised time that they would transform the desert with their flowers. And the whole plant kingdom literally rose up against the strong pull of gravity that represented the temptations and trials of the earth. The call to fortitude, resilience, hope and courage thus resounded all about. The race would need these qualities if it were to succeed.

 

She slowly clambered up the mountain path, her gaze lingering on splashes of wild flowers that grew in the clearings between trees, those exquisite drops of heaven bobbing in the wind and glistening in the sunlight against the green carpet of grass. The path upwards to the summit was not a direct one, for such a path would be almost impossible for most people to climb. The practical, and indeed the most enjoyable way always meandered, going higher and higher in progression, but always within acceptable limits of endeavor. Sometimes it required a sudden and unprecedented effort, and at times the paths were slippery or appeared difficult, but one could always manage to get over them. But they were also dangerous, for one could lose one’s foothold, fall far down and injure oneself. The mountain indeed held a saga of life. The higher one climbed, the cleaner was the air, and the better the panoramic view of the earth below.

 

And why was she so attracted to the mountains? Indeed a good majority of people shared her fascination with the mountains, which were but rock strata pushed up when the tectonic plates of the earth pressed against one another. These rock strata contained layers upon layers of sediments deposited throughout the ages of the earth, from the pre-Cambrian with its primitive life-forms, through the Mesozoic with its dinosaurs, and to the Cenozoic with its mammals and humans, with all such traces squeezed into layers of rock. Those sediments of soil had not only touched and experienced the life of those bygone ages, but they were also replete with dead and fossilized remains of organisms and creatures that lived in those times, thus capturing an extremely long evolutionary history within a few thousand feet of vertical earth. These strata also represented an evolution of being within those creatures, and as Aliyah climbed the mountain from its foothill to the summit, her feet were literally moving at an incredible speed through the past eons, spanning the very history of being on the earth, evoking deep remembrances in the unconscious. It was nostalgia of the soul. The effort also evoked a subconscious drive within to rise higher in the spirit and climb to the lofty levels of the clouds, and even past them. The path was of necessity meandering, but the way was ever forward, ever higher. The mountain served as an archetype within her being, a reminder of the past, and a call to the future.

 

Up in the sky and opposite the twilight sun, an evening rainbow came to life before her eyes. The light from the sun entered into billions of water drops precipitated around particles of dust, refracted within them into its composite colors, and reflected in unison those colors down towards the earth. These colors permeated the sky in regular bands. And as Aliyah moved, her eyes perceived one colorful set of bands at a time, appearing like a wondrous bow pointing man toward the heavens, with the earth as the archer. Here indeed was the most beauteous of all signs ever given to humanity, written in the skies for all to see, pointing out a very important, nay the overarching, purpose of the human experience: to reflect and to teach the universe, in unison, as a race of billions of human beings, the great and wondrous beauty of God’s being when expressed through love and love alone. For the very symbology of refracted and reflected light through water drops directly pointed out love reflecting and expressing facets of the Godhead.⁽¹⁾ The rainbow was thus truly a symbol of God’s love and of man’s purpose. A purpose that mankind struggled with unsuccessfully for eons in its sojourn on a watery planet; one that it had markedly and thoroughly failed in the misty past, bringing down on itself the deluge of the Great Flood. The human purpose mandated a long and torturous odyssey through the oceans of emotion, dragging the race through every conceivable type of feeling and sentiment, till the collective emotional experience could be subjugated, refined and purified into its most beautiful form of expression possible at the level of man, that of love. For all emotions were but varied, even twisted, expressions of this highest form of emotion that took man closest to the Godhead.

 

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1. See chapter 'Desert'