Every living thing, every plant, every animal, every fish and every insect is a spiritual entity. Each cell and organism living within our bodies is a soul unto itself. Have you ever thought about what happens to a germ when it dies? To which dimension does a cancer cell go before it is reborn? Ever wonder how bacteria find peace after death? Even that slimy mosquito carrying the West Nile Virus is an object of God’s infinite love, and every one of these life-forms has its own special place in the spiritual universe. These are just some of the things you just never learn in church.
And yet there are our noble physicians; the mass murderers of billions of cancer cells, just to save the life of one patient. Does God hate doctors? No, of course not! God loves everything. Should we lament the cancer cell holocaust? Maybe if we are insane enough. But that does not change the fact that the taking of life in the physical universe is a continuous criminal enterprise, no matter how you slice it.
In the beginning, not only were we all part of God; we were God. Before we separated from God, our divinity was indistinguishable. There was only one universe, and it wasn’t this sad one.
Before the separation, we were all equal. Although in the physical world it may seem that “some are more equal than others”, before we moved away from God we were all the same. You may balk and complain about being held in the same esteem with termites and head lice, but far greater beings than us know full well that we are identical. Each spiritual being, whether a tick, a flea or a dried up blade of grass blowing in the wind, has its own dimension to return to and come back from. Granted, a tick need only reacquaint himself or herself with the cumulative knowledge of everything he or she ever needs to be a flourishing tick, but for that tick, his or her spiritual universe has the same impact as ours does. He or she simply chose a different pathway, and during his or her tenure in the physical world, he or she will demonstrate all of the frailties and inadequacies that ticks generally have. However, don’t think for a moment that you are in any way above him/her or superior to him/her, because insofar as our origins are concerned, you certainly are no better; and neither am I nor anyone else analyzing these thoughts. So kindly don’t have an attitude over this so we can move on.
So why did we separate from God in the first place? As part of God, we experienced infinity. Why would anybody not want that? What was wrong with it? Nothing, but compare it to doing a simple search on Google for the price of eggs at your local grocer; and instead of getting what you searched for, you receive a printed hard copy of all the web pages from every inquiry that has ever been made on every search engine ever created, including MSN, Yahoo, Altavista, Lycos and Ask Jeeves.
We were tired of being overwhelmed. We wanted something crazy called individuality.
We also wanted an identity and the free will to create on our own. We wanted it and God granted it, because God loves us unconditionally and gave us what we asked for.
Free will, we soon discovered, was a double-edge sword; both a blessing and a curse. Look what some of the things we (or shall I say you humans) have done with it. In the last century, you created the AIDS virus, built concentration camps and destroyed a good portion of the ozone layer. Did God act improperly by not providing us with a “warning label” for the improper use of free will?
You can answer that rhetorical question yourself. If free will came with a caution notice, what would have been free about it? The unconditional gift of a Pandora’s Box containing elements of risk is never a reflection upon the donor; in light of the fact that you insisted upon it. You just never bothered to perform any due diligence as to its consequences. It’s a shame you used free will like raw sewage. Better luck next time.
In all fairness however, free will can also be a blessing. It allows each of us to take credit for all the good things we do in life; for all the acts of kindness and charity that we accomplish, if in fact we decide to do them. Some help; but most do not. It helps to be a telepathic being from a distant planet where like-minded beings think to one another all day long.
Besides abusing free will, what did we do with the gift God gave us? We created endless space, and then built solar systems, constellations, galaxies, stars, suns, moons and planets within the vast infinite emptiness available for experimentation in the physical universe. Some places, such as your planet, were more suitable for the creation of life than others. We created evolutionary blueprints for the development of life. You know all of this already. Darwin told you all about it. But perhaps you have never realized that there has never been any conflict between evolution and religion. Facts are facts. We were an inner manifestation of God. We pulled out of perfection and created a universe of fallibility. God didn’t create the world our bodies live in. We did. There is nothing more mysterious to it than that.
What most of us have never grasped is that there is a miniscule, microscopic trace amount of one very special precious metal that is an absolute requirement for sustaining life itself, and is present in every form of life not only here on Earth, but everywhere in the physical universe. Life cannot be created and cannot exist or be sustained without it. This metal is gold. No plant or animal can live without a tiny, nearly immeasurable amount of it. It is present in the smallest amoeba and was buried in the fossils of the largest dinosaurs. Not to worry though, because there is plenty of it stored here, which of course makes our planet very desirable, not only to us you residents, but to some visitors (not us), who are often consumed with greed because of it. Its intrinsic value has less to do with money than with the continuation of life itself. If it is any consolation, when we built this sector known as the Milky Way, we put lots of it here for safekeeping. You might not have thought that gold was so important, but it is.
Furthermore, the microscopic trace amount of gold which is necessary for life to exist remains secluded deep within the structure of cytoplasm, far within the sedimentary structure of physical remains, and acts as an equivalent of DNA for identifying where life once existed, and this is true for all forms of survival, whether animal, vegetable, fish, insect or human.
It is for this reason that burial becomes the rendering of assistance to your loved ones, whereas cremation causes confusion. In the process of cremation, there is no orientation point of gold mapping for the soul to identify with and locate for future reference. It is an invalidation of free will for others to take it upon themselves to dispose of a body in an improper way, even when the deceased pre-ordained it. The ethereal reason for this is that it just takes one scattered ash to disassociate the body in such a way that the previous mind occupying it no longer considers it useful as a point of orientation.
But so what? Does the spirit really need a “point of orientation”?
Do you feel sorry or sad when you dispose of a battery?
When is the last time you lamented over a dead Duracell, or you left flowers at the gravesite of the Eveready Bunny?
The body is nothing but an atomic battery.
Like all artificial things, it dies. Whenever that happens, you need to get over it as quickly as possible. It is just a cycle which you and I and every inhabitant of the physical universe spanning more galaxies than you can calculate created together, mad as it was.
God has never given us a grade on how well or poorly we constructed the physical universe. None of us have figured out the purpose of a planet such as Mercury, whose temperature is 872°F during the day and -297°F during the night. There is a certain threshold at sunrise and sunset where one could briefly visit the place, but living there would be a bit strenuous on the human body. I would have given the architect of that impractical place a resounding “F” for failure. We created some loopy environments by trial and error, but mostly by fatal error. The only reason why this is noteworthy is that in traditional religious doctrine, God is blamed for many of these mistakes. That of course, is insane since God had nothing to do with it.
Do you really believe that God would have created a universe where every time you have to eat, some plant or animal has to die? God is infinite goodness and perfection. God didn’t create this predatory system of animal carcasses and dead trees. We did it for lack of good sense and for the absence of compassion and empathy for other forms of life who failed to partake in the act of creation; and as long as we continue to lease bodies in the physical universe, we will forever feel the effects of it.
Even after separation, we have always been part of God. We are still an aspect of infinite energy intelligence, but by our own choice, we are now outside of it but connected nonetheless. Whenever we return to the spiritual universe, we automatically renew our connection. Whenever we re-enter the physical universe, we further explore the frightening effects of our own mistakes, using “free will” as a license to screw up; flying by the seat of our pants in the process. It is no more complicated than that.
God loves us infinitely and unconditionally as spiritual energy units, but quite indifferent toward the bodies we created for ourselves. A good illustration of this is the way we love our pets, which most of us do. We treasure our favorite dog or cat and shower him or her with loads of attention and affection. Your pet wears a collar which may repel fleas and might be considered practical or cute, but it is only your animal’s possession. No matter how much your pet is used to wearing it, the harsh reality is such that the moment it gets soiled or torn, we throw it away without giving the matter a second thought and we buy him or her a new one.
Your bodies are like dog collars. You built obsolescence into them when you designed them. It was kind of stupid to design human bodies to last less than a hundred years while we built tortoises to last 175 and deep sea clams to live until 200, wasn’t it? In any event, why should God care about the genetic vessels we use and throw away? We spiritual beings are eternal, and God will loves us beyond the end of the longest forever, long past the shutdown of the physical universe when time itself dies.
When will that happen, by the way?
When we all unanimously agree that time has no value. We have a few things to resolve before that.
Lucy
