Ultimate destiny of man

 

With every dawning season nature gives her message to all, setting forth in natural symbols the lessons of life, death and rebirth, the awakenings of life and the journey of the inner abiding soul. At this time the forces of the intuitive, dark, inner contemplation will slowly ascend and rule the seasonal wheel through winter.

It is when we realize that sunlight and darkness are shared by all, irrespective of the barriers that have arisen between man and man, that a deeper sense of meaning can be seen and a fuller grasp of the truth, for the whole of humanity, can come to us and deepen our understanding of life.

 Duality is the first idea we must grasp in the application of these understandings -- the duality of spirit and matter; the aim of world-manifestation to inform the world-matter of spirit and to lift it to the knowledge of its divine essence. Everything in the great cycle of experience shares this same duality.

Each of us is a divine spirit which has chosen to assume body after body of matter in order to gradually awaken the entity of our soul to a higher consciousness and vibration. Physical life is an entombment of the spirit in matter until the divinity of the spirit conquers its dark surroundings and finds its way to the light again, by bearing the fruit of earthly experience. 

The crucifixion, is the struggle for conquest between spirit and matter in all mankind: the age-long striving by which the desires and appetites of the lower nature are gradually purified and directed toward the higher life, a life of spiritual mastery. In the lives of the prophets may be found the same sacred mystery events: death, descent, entombment, and ascension. Each one has pointed to our divine origin, the duality of human nature, the struggle with the qualities of matter in which divinity has clothed itself.

Earth and man are closely linked, and even in those cycles when the secrets of being have been of necessity veiled, nature gives her yearly reminder of the great truths concerning man`s ultimate destiny. 

Ascension is the culmination of the cycles of our efforts with the higher forces of the universe. It applies to the world-period when all human beings will live in full consciousness of their innate divinity and with full mastery over all that has warred against the free expression of their noblest ideals.