Words from the Wise (atreeoflight.org)
Q: What is the reason for the creation of this world of pain and suffering?
R: The story of Earth is destined to be a story of redemption. The planetary Logos brought into manifestation a cacophony of life forms in order to ultimately transform them into a harmonious organism of a sacred nature.
What is the purpose of pain and suffering in the planetary scheme? Let us explore the answer in the terms of an individual’s life. When you look back on your own life, how long did it take you to break destructive personality patterns that had kept you in a stranglehold of repeated negative consequences? What did it take to finally dissolve those patterns? It was assuredly an aspect of the pain and suffering of the human condition that became unbearable, causing you to stop in your tracks and ask yourself two questions: (1) Is life worth living if I must continue to endure this? (2) What have I done to deserve this?
The hope of redemption lies in posing the second question. The act of asking that question brings to light, however dimly at first, the existence of the Law of Cause and Effect. With the first faint awareness that a higher law underlies human existence, light begins to shine on the path out of suffering. By posing this question everything that had once seemed random and unjust, fueling the consciousness of victimhood, is seen in a new light. A sense of responsibility arises and from that, life begins to have meaning and the first question begins to answer itself. There will still be pain to endure as long as there is karma to be met, but the pain now has remedies—not superficial bandages to blot it out but remedies (via the Path) with the power to transform the life into an experience and expression of the Good, the True and the Beautiful.
The planetary Lord did not create a world of pain. Rather, He agreed to enter into a sphere of terrible darkness and chaos in order to redeem that world and raise it into a sphere of Light, to enable it to join the company of planets that are more evolved and are already sacralizing the life of our solar system. He has held this intention through eons of time. Now, through the shifting of cosmic and systemic forces, and through the spiritual progress of the vanguard of Earth’s humanity, it appears that this great planetary experiment may have a positive outcome, something that was never assured. Right understanding of the use of pain and suffering—as an avenue of spiritual growth—is what transforms a human being into a spiritual being while incarnate on the dense physical plane of Earth. Let it be known, however, that in the new world that will unfold on the physical-etheric plane, joy will play this transformative role. When the love of the Soul catches fire, spreading from heart to heart and igniting the joy of the soul, we will see the birth of the New Humanity. For this new race of human beings, spiritual advancement will occur not through pain primarily, but through the fiery love of the soul that breeds the joy that ultimately turns into bliss. (January 2021)
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