FINDING OUR PURPOSE - PART 5

The age of the Universe is our age too. This is perhaps what is meant by Jesus saying, “Before Abraham was born, I am.” [John 8.58] This shows recognition that we represent a Life beyond our life, a Life inherent in the Cosmos, that expresses Its purpose through us. Jesus was clearly fully aware of his oneness with Universal Being, hence the “I am,” the very declaration that was made to Moses at the burning bush.

Our purpose comes by us and through us, but not from us. It comes from the desire, conscious or otherwise, of Life Itself to express in individual form, to gain a point of view from which to regard Itself, a different way of Being.

The Universal Wholeness of being is unbounded by time or space, and is unconscious, because as Wholeness, there is nothing outside the Self to be conscious of. Conscious Being is formed out of the Universal Wholeness by the act of separation into Self and Other, so that Self may be regarded in relation to the Other. All conscious thought is based on relationship in time and space, while unconscious thought is aware of neither. There are no distinctions in unconscious thought, no judgments, and no choices. There are no desires, only tendencies, which become desire only when realized in the conscious self. It is the desire of an infant to be an adult, the desire of a seed to become a tree, innate in the nature of the Thing Itself.

We feel the inner impulse, the tendencies of the Life within us, and we formulate these into desires. We give rise to our desires and we choose the avenue of their fulfillment. All tendencies are good; but depending upon the way in which we translate them, they may give rise to evil acts, as judged by the outcomes thereof. "It is by their fruits ye shall know them."