Upward and Inward Evolution
Man's physical environment is a battlefield for existence. His social setting demands constant ethical adjustments. His moral situation necessitates continuous decisions using reason. His spiritual experience (seeking and finding God) requires that he strive to be like God.
A creature, mortal man resembles the Supreme Being, who is deity. Man consciously grows from animal to spirit through
the strength, power, and perseverance of his decisions.
Man and his world are the perfection of Paradise fractured by the incompleteness, evil, and sin of the unfinished universes.
Continuing volitional evolution will transform what is by enlarging the content of perfection and by diminishing the content
of the evil, error, and disharmony of relative reality.
The central life of the Supreme
Being blends and synthesizes all the lines of evolution. The Supreme holds all the evolving units together whether they are
units of matter or units of consciousness.
The evolutionary process drives
all life upward and inward toward the goal of perfection. This force gradually
brings order out of chaos, and good out of seeming evil.
Facilitating Progress
From a cosmic perspective, human beings are born, live, and die in an instant of time.
Through a person’s own choosing within his or her short life span, a mortal may elect to transfer his or her
identity from the temporary physical-intellect system to the more enduring soul system. To make an informed choice, it is
important that the individual accumulate all the knowledge and wisdom that he or she is capable of acquiring in a lifetime. It is equally important that the civilization that humans live in progress from the
material plane to the spiritual plane as quickly as possible to facilitate the learning of individuals.
This essay sets forth some ideas
for accelerating the rate of progress for society.
Governmental agencies monitor
financial, environmental, safety, and monopolistic practices of present day corporations.
Reciprocally, corporate groups with stakes in the profitable or
social results of government functions should assist government agencies. As
a simplistic example, corporations that provide fire insurance coverage
should counsel the administrators of fire departments. The same groups would
provide municipal fireproofing requirements for inclusion in zoning, and construction ordinances.
Rather than the two parties plan of representation, which pits capital against labor, capital and labor parties should
work together to strive for mutual advantages. (Workers should increasingly become
shareholders in industry thereby making every intelligent laborer a small capitalist.)
Corporations would no longer need to hire lobbyists to buy favors from legislators.
Corporations and the government should cooperate transparently to reorganize voting practices. Rather than grouping citizens by place of residence, voters would register as members of industrial, social,
or professional groups. Organizing the electorate in this manner would do away
with the obsolete vote counting practices of the Electoral College.
Taxation could be studied by both corporate and government functions. The goal of good government should be to assign
fair taxes to prevent either industry or the state from becoming oppressively dominant.
Scientists and leading cultural figures should oversee the educational system of the nation. The restructuring of education by scientific minds could lead to new approaches. For example, 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.
Segregate and train slow learners for employment in less mentally challenging jobs in agriculture and animal husbandry.
To extend intellectual and cultural horizons, travel should be encouraged as part of lifetime educational programs. The government could reduce military equipment costs by leasing military aircraft
and ships for commercial travel and recreational usages during peacetime.
An advisory house of retired elder statesmen could serve as a counseling influence upon all branches of the government.
Charge a fair return for nationally owned natural resources to use for old age pensions and social welfare
programs.
Formulating Change
The level of human selfishness
is climaxing. This greed must be curbed before it destroys humanity.
While change is required, extreme
caution is essential. Certain assumptions should underlie any effort to effect
major world changes.
Changes should be small, incremental,
and gradual.
Humanity must recognize its humble
starting point. The world has passed through innumerable traumatizing humanity.
Significant lasting changes must
allow for a time of recovery, reconstruction, and rebuilding between major adjustments.
Any planning for world change must
recognize that all men are equal in origin and goal, but are at different stages of evolutionary development. World leaders must possess integrity, intelligence, vision, experience, and sincerity. Avoid past endeavors
that ended in failure such as the attempted domination of the aristocracy by the masses in Russia. Abandon any efforts by labor to control capital or by capital to control labor.
The governing body of any nation
should be composed of those who work for the greatest good of the greatest number of people.
While offering opportunity to all, leave the individual free.
Initially, there must be a steady
and regulated disarmament of all nations or armed groups. Disarmament cannot be optional. Do not permit any nation or group
to pose a threat to any other nation or group.
Unity founded on responsibility
must be encouraged. The social philosophy should be that expressed by Alexandre Dumas, "all for one and one for all."
Do not impose any single type of
government or religion upon the citizens of the world. Only in the field of education, should there be any attempt to produce
consistency.
Man controls the mineral
wealth, the oil, farm production, the contribution of the animal kingdom, and the resources of the sea. This harvest belongs to everyone and is not the property of one group, nation or race. Develop a plan based
upon the needs of each nation in relation to the whole for the distribution of the wealth of the world.
Sharing
The mind-set of sharing must be
the inspirational concept of a civilization attempting to change. The world may still have many selfish and self-absorbed
people, but public opinion can force important ideals upon government and corporations.
The principle of barter should
be a fundamental premise in material exchanges.
Replace national currencies, not
only by a system of barter, but by a universal monetary exchange based upon a scale of related values using national resources
and commodities.
Regulate private enterprise. A governing international group should own public utilities and the major material
resources (ores, oil, and grains, for example). National groups chosen by the people under international direction should
determine the consumption levels of each nation.
The Universe's Caste System
In God’s eyes, there are only two classes of mortals; those sons of the Father who desire to do His will and
those who do not. Those who do not wish to do the Father’s will rank as animals.
Few mortals feel they warrant the
arrangements made for their endless life. From man's perspective, his value to the universe appears negligible. Still, there
is a reason behind the life experience. The phenomenal world veils something
of infinite value, of which mortals are a part.
In the kingdom Christ founded
on earth, all men have an equal opportunity to express themselves as sons of the Father. The kingdom is a kingdom of servers. Man must serve his fellowmen to become a Son of God.
The experience of love is the beginning
of man’s spiritual life. Man’s animal existence ends in the renunciation of personal desire. Upon being reborn
in the spirit, man’s eternal spiritual life begins with his dedication to a life of service.
Good through Evil
One cannot achieve good through evil means.
The angel custodian of the Garden of Eden warned Adam and Eve frequently not to listen to the advice of Caligastia
(the rebel Planetary Prince of Earth). Caligastia suggested the result could
justify the means of accomplishing the desired result. Eve rationalized away
the evil content of her plan to accelerate human evolution.
Truth, beauty, and goodness are replete and symmetrical. The human search for truth, beauty, and goodness is a virtue. When man searches for truth, beauty, and goodness, he is pursuing reality. Virtue is conformity with the cosmos. The values of good and
evil require constant moral choices on every plane. Just as Adam and Eve were
cast out of their garden home for choosing evil over good, the evil material goals of the sciences today will make mortal
man an outcast in the universe.
Mind is the cosmic instrument upon which the human will can play either the music of God or the strident chords of
self-destruction. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle taught that virtue is knowledge, goodness, and health of the soul. It is better, they said, to suffer injustice than to be guilty of it and it is wrong to return evil for
evil. Jesus even warned his followers against the evil of holding a grudge.
Of course, in time and space man's choice of good and evil is proportional. The
level of the individual’s moral nature, his lack of knowledge, or immaturity, influences his choices. Proportion may
be a mitigating factor when unknowingly choosing the lesser in the place of the greater because of distortion or deception.
