Let us begin with what is necessary, what is most important for all concerned. For that which is of common concern to all is therefore, the most important. A simple observation one would think and yet so easily overlooked in so many 'groupings' within this current era. The very survival of life forms is dependent upon fire, water, earth and air. These elements create the life force, the wellbeing, the comfort and the complete wholeness of the living life forms.
Let us commence then with these elements. One would think therefore that the supply of those elements, (fire, water, earth, air) would be of utmost importance or the first in any list of values and yet this is not what we find. The provision of food, for example, for any living form, is its first priority, the elements that it needs to survive must be there or it simply does not survive. It is not different then for the human species, proud as it has become, assuming that it is beyond such basic elements. It has ceased and continues to cease, providing these basic elements for its own survival.
If food then is of first importance in survival, would it not be seen to be that which is the most easily obtainable in any species? One of the guiding books of the planet, refers to a parable of seeds that fall on rocky ground and do not survive. Much seed then of the human species seems to be falling on rocky ground. There is less and less fertile ground being provided for the perpetuation of the species. One wonders then, why the species is gradually becoming infertile, not only physically but also emotionally and psychologically.
Reluctant to perpetuate its own, hesitant about nurturing its own offspring, more inclined shall we say, to disperse the perpetuation of itself. Indeed, the human species is looking at its own demise. In its arrogance it does not realise that it can be so easily dispensed with in terms of the universal scheme of things. Yet the species as it exists serves a most important purpose. As the intermediary between many energies and understandings, beyond where it is now and the physical environment in which it finds itself; as the meeting point between heaven and the earth; the human species fills a vital, (in the true meaning of the word) role. Its perpetuation then is of interest to more than itself, for the Earth itself must depend on the human species for its own evolution as the "heavenly energies" seeks to find its anchor within the whole.
In becoming conscious of itself then, the human species must face its own detriment. Its first value, albeit however primitive, must be its own care, its own perpetuation.1
Look then to the scale of priorities in all societies and we see that the four elements, - water, air, earth and fire - are costly.
The health of the species is important to all.
One finds instead that entertainment is much more easily attainable and less expensive in all senses of the word, than the very elements necessary to the survival of the species. A strange detour indeed . . . However, it leads us to the second of values.
The human species, in its seeking of entertainment, in its seeking of extending itself beyond itself, albeit to the earth or heavens, weaves for itself a consciousness, a need and a value which once again is vital to its role within the universe; that of the ability to take itself beyond where it is.2
This can be seen in any given aspects of any society, in ritual, festivity, entertainment, creativity, education, intellect, technology, . . . any aspect of human beings extending itself beyond where it is, is in fact a confirmation of its role. If this is its second value in order of priority, the very creativity, the seeking, the exploring, the wondering and the delight - the 'original innocence' of the species, is of vital importance in its role. For were it not to reach beyond itself, it would not know there is a heaven let alone strive to reach it. And in its reaching for the heavens it stretches itself beyond where it is and becomes the 'rod which attracts the light.'
This visual image of attracting such condensed energy as lightning leads us to the third value, energy.3
Energy at present is being seen as a means to provide for the first two values or needs: the survival of the species in heat, production of food, the collection and redistribution of water and the tilling of the earth. The purification of the air is one area into which the species will venture very rapidly. Energy is to be used for the survival first and then for the diversification of the human being beyond where it is. The use of energy can be seen in entertainment, in industry, in education, in movement (mobility), in wonderment, in science, in discovery . . . yet energy has a value of its own. Having been seen as a means to an end, we now move into a phase of discovering that energy has an existence of its own. In the past it has been seen as something to be generated, to be used, exploited, manipulated, developed and discovered.
It is on the final threshold of being discovered that we find ourselves moving into a different understanding.
The mental leap of that understanding takes us into the solar family.
Energy exists. Energy is!
Energy has a mind of its own. It is spirited. Energy takes on its own individual character as it diversifies through the universe. Just as you will find sheet lightning and forked lightning seeking its earth, so you will find as many forms of energy in existence throughout your solar family.
It is the ability to understand that these energies exist, that they have their own characters, that they have their own destination, their own manners of moving, their own personalities (that energies manifest, that they are there! ). This understanding then, is the means to open travel. For it is not the ability to produce its own energy that will enable the human species to travel through space, rather it is the ability to understand the inter and intra energies that exist in all forms throughout the planet, albeit around individual planets, be it in the spaces between those planets, be it in the meeting of gridlines - the forces, the intertwinings of zillions of different energy forms, across this universe of which we are a part.
Aah....
The ability to "tune-in" to any one of those energies is the means by which free travel can be discovered, acquired, achieved, explored, and most of all enjoyed. It is the freedom of knowing that one is not exploiting or using or abusing but rather riding what is. The difference then between a motorboat and a surfboard is a wonder upon which to ponder.
The fourth value...
The fourth value combines a number of different areas of the human race.
That which is beyond the planet Earth at this stage, interwines a number of different aspects into one concept. As such there is no word then, terminology, expression within the vocabulary. Let us think about the rite of ponderance, life and death, change, metamorphosis, healing, goodwill, the negative and positive energies. We have here an area of the humam being, often referred to as growth 4 i.e. movement from on phase to another. The difficulty is that if one cannot visualise what one is moving to, one cannot see that it is movement. Hence, death is seen as a doorway or gateway . . . as to what is beyond is left to the imagination. One cannot move backwards in growth. A man of fifty cannot return to being twenty in order to understand what he was at twenty. He can only search through the cellular memory he has retained, adding to it his imagination and his understanding of the present, "a mode of being." He cannot return to that state and tell the twenty year old what he will be at fifty, unless he steps outside the three dimensional time/space matrix.
How then can somebody move from death back to life and recall or record, what is ahead? The only way that this can deliberately be achieved is for one to have intimate working understanding of the very construction of the cellular energy.
Let us consider our formula: nf + 1
If a Genetic Engineer takes the natural forces that are involved in cellular activity, in the very instruction of the cell and adds one limit, one equivalent pattern, it will bring about change. To participate in this process without destroying the original, but allowing it to in fact enhance itself through its own consciousness, grow and change in the freedom of its own intimate design, is to move towards understanding.
Change then is to be valued, for it is in many ways an intricate summary, an interweaving, an intermeshing and a sum total of all three of the above. Here we have the four values, the four cornerstones, the cube upon which rests humanity. Without these four dimensions, humanity is unfulfilled, incomplete.
1. The care and perpetuation of the species
2. The ability to create beyond what is
3. Energy
4. Growth
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