When you come to life here on this earth and experience the godliness in all things, in all people, and see your connection to the universe as a form of covenant with God the Parent, and see also that each human being has been given the same equipment with which to know this experience then you are beginning, just beginning to get a glimpse of your own magnificence and where heaven really is after all. Right here on terra firma the way it was given and meant to be enjoyed in all its profound and infinite manifestations.
So are we to evacuate this earth in one great final life of excellence never to have to return to a physical form and suffer the vagaries of a human existence? Not quite. We come back. Spiritually full-bodied and of good memory. And when returning to an enlivened earth with a boundless spiritual bounty affirmed by every other individual of this earth living in concert with the personality of love, then the word 'heaven' will dim in comparison to the reality of the bliss we will all be experiencing for all of time… as there is no time, there never was, just your relationship to the truth and perhaps for you the extreme and intense peace of knowing.
And that, dear fellow human being is our destiny written right there in the sky, as we have no choice ultimately but to acknowledge the Giver, from our perspective here on a spiritualized, revivified earth. But for the moment, the potent earth exists in its state of quiescence, similar to the sleeping princess of our dreams. Its edenic blueprint obscured, we animated corpses currently defiling it at every opportunity.
Only when we relinquish being the director of the movie of our life might we permit a sacred presence. Hearing the unscripted language of that exalted living will be as sensational to our ears as is wild honey to our tongue.
Face to face under this splendrous sun we will find the words to reconcile ourselves to the infinite.
INDIA'S CONCEPT OF GENESIS
This universe existed in the shape of darkness, unperceived, destitute of distinctive marks, unattainable by reasoning, unknowable, wholly immersed, as it were, in deep sleep.
Then the Divine Self-existent, himself indiscernible but making all this, the great elements and the rest, discernible, appeared with irresistible power, dispelling the darkness.
He who can be perceived by the internal organ alone, who is subtle, indiscernible, and eternal, who contains all created beings and is inconceivable, shone forth of his own will.
He, desiring to produce beings of many kinds from his own body, first with a thought created the waters, and placed his seed in them.
That seed became a golden egg, in brilliancy equal to the sun; in that egg he himself was born as Brahma, the progenitor of the whole world...
The Divine One resided in that egg during a whole year, then he himself by his thought divided it into two halves.
And out of those two halves he formed heaven and earth, between them the middle sphere, the eight points of the horizon, and the eternal abode of the waters.
From himself he also drew forth the mind, which is both real and unreal, likewise from the mind ego, which possesses the function of self-consciousness and is lordly.
(The India myth is essentially the same as the stories of Ziusudra, Utnapishtim, and Noah. Like those flood heroes, Manu - the protagonist - receives supernatural help and is saved by remaining in a ship until he is able to tie up on an Indian version of Mount Ararat. This story is told in the Shatapatha-Brahmana)
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