The human spirit has its origin in the part of the Spiritual Sphere known
as Paradise. It starts out as a spiritual seed, which has the prospect of
developing into a fully matured human spirit. And it is for this purpose that
the human spirit seed had to be expelled from Paradise onto the earth which
serves as a school. It arrives on earth as unconscious human spirit germ in the
hope that eventually during its sojourn at the lower parts of Creation it will
learn about the Will of God, follow God’s Commandments thereby attaining the
maturity that will lead it upwards to Paradise. And that is the purpose of life
on earth which on thinking about it is indeed a Grace and Gift from the
Almighty!
In the early days of mankind on earth, man was close to Nature. They were
able to sense the helpers from the beyond who taught them and guided them. In
time the earth became like a fertile and flowering garden like an image of the
Eternal Gardens above.
But alas, something happened! The human spirits still undergoing their
tutelage on earth needed to have enlightenment about the use of their
intellect.
The intellect is required for the following:
- As a counterpoise pulling downwards to
balance the upward striving spirituality. It is given to prevent man from
floating in spiritual heights only and thereby forgetting his earthly
task.
- To facilitate life on earth.
- To transmit spiritual decisions or urges
for the noble, pure and perfect to the small earthly so it can be visible
on earth.
- To serve as the spirit’s handy man.
- To be the steering component, while the
spirit remains the driving power.
To help in this regard, Lucifer was sent. However instead of lovingly
supporting the developing ones, he introduced the merciless principle of
temptation which is lacking in the Love of God. He induced man to over depend
on his intellect instead of teaching them that the intellect was meant to be used
as a tool under the supervision of the spirit. Man fell for this temptation. It
need not be so because man possessed free will to resist the tempter with the
Power of God. Despite all the help at his side, man fell and the effect was
that man became estranged from his Creator. Lucifer too was cut off from his
origin as a consequence of his loveless action.
{The illustration of the giving
and taking of the fruit in the Bible is apt. Giving: woman exploits her
charms on man. She can influence her environment to attain ennoblement but
instead she directs man’s gaze to herself instead of directing it to Heaven. Taking:
response by man to draw woman’s attention to himself by accumulating earthly
treasures (using the intellect solely) and this comes with greed, falsehood,
oppression etc. until man found himself in bondage under the domination of the
intellect which should have been his
servant. Serpent: intellectual cleverness.}
In Part VI we will talk about the
effect of placing the intellect above the spirit.
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