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In the wisdom teachings our planet Earth is viewed as a single, integrated, conscious Life. All kingdoms in nature, including the human kingdom, co-exist within this one multidimensional organism. Not long ago, pioneering biologists made the bold assertion that Earth is an integrated and self-regulating system, a radical departure from previous scientific thinking. What the Ageless Wisdom reveals is that consciousness of many kinds and levels brings order to this system.
Earth itself is the embodiment of a consicous Being known as the Planetary Logos in these teachings. Among the many names given to this Being are: the Lord of our World, the Divine Thinker, the Oversoul, and God. Each name evokes the existence of a conscious Being who oversees and directs the lifestream of our planet.
This idea is unsettling to many spiritual seekers. Old notions of God remain anathema to many, and new ones have not yet taken hold. The result is a paradox: there is a growing awareness that Earth is evolving, yet little understanding that the process is being guided--that conscious Beings are directing the course of planetary evolution, of which we are a part.
The fact that human consciousness is evolving collectively is now evident to countless awakening souls. Many are aware that other kingdoms of life are also developing greater sentiency. Less known is the fact that human consciousness is evolving in a particular direction, for a particular purpose, under the guidance of members of the spiritual kingdom. These Beings are guided, in turn, by the purpose of the Planetary Logos—the creative life force of Earth.
Everything occurring in our world, both creative and destructive, is related to the working out of the evolutionary purposes of our Logos. We are told that this Divine Being is presently undergoing a dramatic expansion of consciousness. It is moving, along with the Sun and other planets in our solar system, into a higher vibratory field in the cosmos. Every living cell on our small planet is being affected by the inflow of subtle, cosmic, evolutionary forces.
The most visible result of this process is destruction on the material plane, but the hidden cause is the expansion of consciousness. Both form and consciousness are subject to the laws of evolution. If a "unit of consciousness" expands and the physical form housing it cannot adapt to the growth of inner light, that form will eventually break to release the consciousness trapped within it. This principle applies to every form on the material plane—a human being, a nation, or a civilization.
The wave of destruction sweeping across the earth is accelerating the liberation of consciousness from outgrown patterns of living and outworn ideas about the reason for being alive that have dominated our species from the time of its origins until the mid-20th century, when new cosmic energies first made themselves felt. For eons, we have perceived life through the concrete mind, our instrument for navigating the form world. We experienced life as separate beings—isolated from one another, from people of different races, religions, genders, nations; and from other species in the web of life on Earth.
The radical change in our times is that many of us are seeing life through a higher level of mind—the mind utilized by the soul as it awakens and senses a higher reality. Through the higher mind we realize that the appearance of separate forms in matter conceals an ocean of interconnecting subtle energies—a vast and seamless flow of life enfolding all living beings. Higher mind gives us entré into the world of abstract ideas, as well as the realm of subtle energies.
The soul makes us of the higher mind as an instrument for becoming a conscious link in the Great Chain of Being. It is the means by which the soul, while in incarnation, penetrates the subtle worlds of spirit. From these subtle inner realms, experienced by the soul and registered by the mind and brain, illumined guides and teachers impress advanced human beings with ideas that fuel the tide of evolution.
We are told that the commingling of thought between human and spiriutal kingdoms will be common as the Aquarian Age unfolds. Human beings will play the role of mediators between the spiriutal kingdoms and the lower kingdoms (animal, plant, and mineral) by developing the higher capacities of the mind and intuition. As evolution proceeds, it is predicted that human minds will register elements of the divine plan and work in cooperation with the Guides of the Race to realize the purposes of the Planetary Logos.
This vision is not as far-fetched as it may at first seem. The teachings explain that the "building blocks" of the divine plan are ideas held in the mind of God. At intervals in human evolution, the course of history has been changed by divine ideas registered by spiritual intuitives and disseminated to others. Peace, freedom, human rights, and the common welfare are ideas that have fostered expansions of human consciousness and influenced the course of events.
The divine idea being registered by many souls in our time is the oneness of life the commingling of thought will become more commonplace. Since the start of the millennium it has spread across the globe in spite of (or because of) growing cleavages in the material world. Receptivity to this idea is evidence that the soul of humanity is quickening and with it, the higher level of mind, until now the missing link in the planetary chain of consciousness.
It is said that humanity has a great spiritual purpose to fulfill in the coming age as participants in the Great Chain of Being. To fulfill this purpose we have to know the true nature of the higher Self and develop its potentials. We have to be able to enlist the higher mind to build a bridge in consciousness to our planet's Spiritual Hierarchy, the source of divine ideas that will inspire the new Aquarian culture and civilization.
In spite of the growing devastation all around us, the collective human soul is making itself manifest in our world. The divine idea that we are part of one Life, the single life of our planet, is finding adherents in previously hostile places. In the coming era, new ideas to fuel the stream of evolution will be impressed on human minds by the Divine Thinker. Thus will we come to know ourselves as conscious links in the Great Chain of Being.
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