Knowledge

Gaining knowledge happens from two perspectives, esoteric and exoteric.  Esoteric knowledge deals with the subjective (spiritual) side of life.  Exoteric knowledge treats the objective (material) side.

Esoteric knowledge is concerned with energy and force. Exoteric knowledge is concerned with energized things.  Until individuals achieve the faculty of ascertaining subjective information (soul contact), whole ranges of fact will remain beyond the scope of consciousness for most people.

The goal of evolution is the attainment of consciousness on all planes.  Owing to the small evolutionary attainment of earth’s races, only the physical plane has been brought somewhat under conscious control. 

Wisdom and Education

Wisdom is understanding.  Wisdom is essential to understanding cosmic conditions.  The Father has mobilized the resources of divine wisdom in a never-ending effort to reveal himself to the children of his universal domains.

Education is the business of life at all levels.  It must continue throughout life so that mankind may gradually experience and achieve the seven ascending levels of mortal wisdom:

            1. The knowledge of things

            2. The realization of meanings

            3. The appreciation of values

            4. The nobility of work, duty

            5. The motivation of goals, morality

            6. The love of service, character

            7. Cosmic insight, spiritual discernment

Through these achievements, humans ascend to the ultimate of mind attainment, God-consciousness.

A high and still unattained level of wisdom for fused personalities occurs after their induction into the seventh stage of spirit existence. Such perfected beings of evolutionary ascent will become the most effective universe administrators ever known in all creation. This is the high destiny of perfected mortals.

Cause and Effect

While cause and effect are separate events in the illusion of time and space, they are inseparable in reality.  The impact of cause and effect (or repercussive synthesis) rules every entity becoming soul through the medium of matter. 

The rules of justice and mercy scrutinize thoughts (cause) and deeds (effects).  Negative thoughts and deeds attach to the actor until disintegrated through his effort.

Our planet is one of the most mysterious of all the planets. The negative debt of our planetary ruler (Caligastia) is heavy due to his rebellious nature.  The effects of his sins rest upon all entities transitioning through the planet.

The Nature of Symbols

Symbols both cloak and reveal information.  Symbols assist the little evolved.  They teach and preserve great truths in a simple form.

 

There are four kinds of symbols:

1. Physical objects.
2. Symbols of an emotional nature, for example, pictures.
3. Symbols of the lower mental plane, for example, numbers.
4. The abstract symbolism of the higher mental plane such as geometry.

Actually, everything is symbol.  It is necessary to master symbols.  Humans should view all forms as symbol.  The reality of the idea behind the symbolic form is far more potent and complete than the form symbol through which it is seeking expression.  Forms of every kind in all the kingdoms of nature are symbols of life.  Each life remains a mystery.

Man builds forms and creates symbols every day.  Man is a creator because he utilizes the faculty and quality of mind.

The Urge for Salvation

The urge to work for salvation underlies all the evolutionary processes, particularly in the human family.  The instinct to betterment, the compulsion to progress, the steady effort

to improve conditions, are all expressions of the instinct for salvation. 

The work of salvaging (salvation) is the impulse that impelled the Supreme to enter into form life.  This instinct impels life on to the involutionary arc to descend into matter producing the immanence of God. 

While the urge for salvation also drives humanity forward into its wild struggle for material well-being, instinct eventually urges man to turn his back upon the world.  The new urge to serve, to relinquish selfishness for service, is the underlying story of evolution. 

The Study of Revelation

All life is opportunity.  Individual reaction to opportunity is one of the factors that show soul growth.  Spiritual work can only go forward because of the free choice and self-initiated effort of individuals, but the effort to understand spiritual teaching carries its own reward.  The attempt to grasp and comprehend the soul leads inevitably to an unfolding of the mental apparatus with a subsequent development of the brain cells.  This unfolding produces a coordination of the thinking faculty and resultant illumination.

The study of revelation increases one’s responsibility to work for the implementation

of the divine plan for mankind.  Deity gives revelation to man to achieve group cooperation and understanding not for individual benefit.

Through sincere study, group interplay is established both on the physical and super material levels.  Ideally, individuals in a study group link more closely together.  As a group, they blend more closely to unfold the plan.  The formation and development of a band of pledged aspirants, trained to work together and to respond in unison to the teaching, is vital.

Men see only a tiny portion of the divine plan.  The revelators see the plan as it unfolds for a series of lives ahead.   This is the reason they seek men who will work in groups.  A group constitutes an active unit participating in the vast happenings that lie ahead.  The same organizational groupings often continue after death.

The Evolution of Ideas

The main problem in the world today is the selection and wise use of the best ideas.  In a world of ever faster and wider communication, good and bad ideas pour forth upon world.  Citizens have little time for consideration or clear thinking. 

Racial and religious hatreds purposely deceive the unthinking.  Good orators with good speechwriters and the backing of special interests voice grievances, juggle statistics, and capture a following. 

Today, no training provides diplomats with a process for the true interpretation of ideas.  In time, when the world recognizes this problem, it will act with wisdom and train its statesmen with more care. These diplomats will be men and women of good character and high mental caliber.  They will be free from personal ambition and selfishness.  They will be motivated by a love of humanity and by a desire to help the world.  Such men are spiritual men.

Education should portray the soul of man as the dynamic that produces the good, the true and the beautiful. Theology cannot accomplish this. Education should inspire human achievement.

Cultural Decay

A general decay has begun in all fields of human expression. Worn-out religious dogmas no longer satisfy thoughtful people.

Man’s aging political schools of thought are also unsatisfactory.  

While solutions should reside in education, educational programs are worsening. Everywhere, the better human minds seek change to higher standards in education. 

The family is the building block of society.  Family serves not just the interests of mature males and females, but also the interests of their children and their community. The primary roles of the family are reproductive, economic, social, and educational. It is through family that children first absorb culture.

Humanity's Hope

In every nation, there are men and women working towards unification. They realize that force is ineffective. The results of forced solutions are temporary and the losses in life and assets are too great.

Sound education is the hope for a more enlightened humanity. In true reality, there is no Jew, Muslim, Christian, American, or Iraqi. There is just humanity.

Refocusing

Education today stresses militancy, ego exaltation, and seeking success in material gain.

It is vital to remove the control of education from profit-motivated leaders and give it to altruistic philosophers and scientists. Students must learn character development.

Teachers must seek wisdom by expanding their vision to global, idealistic, self-realizing, and cosmic endeavors.

Sex Education

All parents should provide sex education for their children. In addition, sex education in the schools, while separated, must be the same for both sexes. This will remove many of the destructive attitudes towards sex and sexual practices.

Cultural Goals

Education must raise the culture of the community.

Raising the plane of culture means cutting out many of today’s material oriented social pleasures. The products of science should be for education and advancing civilization, not war and vulgarity. The use of lewdness and profanity in television, movies, video games, and magazines is shameful and irresponsible.

Teaching children should begin in the cradle by directing their attention to the useful and the attractive. Tutorage that increases the attractiveness of goodness is best.

Teachers who understand underlying principles must teach scientific subjects. In science, the young should sense infinity.

Students must study all phases of art. There is no education without beauty.

Education of the young must include teamwork and cooperation.

Proper education will lead to emotional unfolding along sound lines.  The consequent mental development will enable each child to better serve his race, time and group to the best advantage.

Techniques

Education should inspire human achievement.

Educating children should concentrate on increasing their powers of reasoning, not training memory.

Tests in school should not be announced in advance. This temporary gaining of knowledge delays development.

Pupils should serve as assistant teachers for students in lower classes. To provide balanced gender perspectives, male and female teachers should collaborate in classroom instruction. Slow learners should be set apart and trained for employment in non-challenging jobs in agriculture and animal care.

Travel extends intellectual and cultural horizons.  Travel belongs in lifetime educational programs.

Cosmic Education

The entire universe is one vast school.

Training mind and educating spirit continue from the worlds of human origin up through the mansion worlds and beyond.

Building the Gene Pool

It requires many ages to recoup the damage caused by the loss of a single superior strain of human heredity. Man must guard the superior strains of living protoplasm. Squandering the best genes in wars over territory or resources is senseless.

The selective elimination of inferior human strains will remove many mortal inequalities.  Society will achieve the evolutionary destruction of inferior humans in stages through the intelligent manipulation of the biologic, intellectual, and spiritual means of a progressing civilization.

 Greater government funding will provide for the educational training of the resulting increased brainpower of the masses. Another advantage that will develop from biologic improvement will be a religious quickening of the feelings of mortal kinship.

 Public opinion must not be expressed with violence. Education of public opinion is the safe method of speeding up civilization.