The Next Step

1999-8-22 07:25:00

The Molecular Relationship, Chapter 20 (Part 2)

THE NEXT STEP

To understand this relationship, the first principle that must be realized is that there is life and consciousness in all forms, whether they be atomic, molecular, human, planetary or solar. Relatively perfect relationships which we call the Molecular Relationship

exist in all forms from the cellular level on down. Even though life pervades all forms above the cellular, such lives have not reached Molecular Relationship. The cells within the organic lives such as plants, animals and humans have such relationship, but the greater lives are yet striving to obtain it. The plants yield to animals and the animals yield to human as the final point of attainment for this system. Now humanity goes forward with bodies of mineral, plant and animal components to bring completion to the present Purpose of God.

It is thus our responsibility as a species to take relationship to its next great beginning.

The purpose of the Molecular Relationship is to create, through the synthesis of two or more lives, a higher life and consciousness with properties hitherto unknown in the separate condition. The individual lives keep their identity, yet share the benefits of the higher consciousness and qualities.

One may ask, don't we do this already? Do not animals gravitate into flocks, herds and various groups? Do not humans join into families, cities, states companies and so on and create something akin to greater life forms?

Yes, this is a true, but these higher lives are a preparatory creation gathered through the power of magnetic (or female) energy. The cycle of creation must be consummated through the addition of active (male) energy. Thus through the blending of male and female energy to create molecular human forms we have a creation that proceeds in full consciousness. In the past, human and animal group life forms have not been a goal, but the unconscious result of some project or plan. Instead, this higher octave of the human relationship is the plan,

purpose and goal, and when created in full consciousness, new conscious life forms will materialize.

The water Molecule is a good example of this higher synthesis. It is composed of one atom of oxygen and two of hydrogen. Oxygen and hydrogen in their separate state are gasses at normal temperatures and are very volatile. At very cold temperatures they liquefy and create rocket fuel that can send men to the moon. But then something miraculous happens when they create a bonded relationship with a ratio of two hydrogen atoms to one of oxygen. They create water, which is totally different in properties from either hydrogen or oxygen. In this synthetic union they are no longer volatile, but produce one of the most stable Molecules in nature. The creation of the water Molecule is so important that life cannot exist without it.

The individual hydrogen and oxygen atoms do not lose their identity. They are still there and can be turned back into rocket fuel, but, together in this specific relationship, they have much greater stability. They are good for each other, so the relationship continues for an indefinite duration, perhaps millions of years.

The closest man has come to creating a Molecular relationship with other humans is through marriage. The marriage covenant corresponds to the covalent bonds between atoms. The purpose of marriage is for the two to become one in purpose. A healthy marriage produces, therefore, a more stable and powerful unit than does an individual unit.

A marriage, however, does not produce a Molecule. The atomic correspondence to marriage would be more like a completed unit or atom. The male is like a positive charge and the female a negative one. Together they are like protons and electrons uniting to create a hydrogen atom, the basic building block of the Universe.

Therefore, marriage (or attempted union of male female energies) is not the actual creation of a human Molecule, but it lays the foundation for such a creation. For thousands of years, then, the union of two attempting to become one has been laying the foundation for the next great evolutionary step.

All people feel in their hearts a need to find that one certain person with whom they can be as one. Some may be temporarily frustrated after a run of bad relationships, others may be having fling after fling trying to obtain fulfillment through quantity

alone. Still others are unsatisfied with their spouse and seek completeness in affairs; nevertheless, in their hearts they wish they could find that special person to make them feel whole.

It may be argued that we must learn to be whole within ourselves before we can ever be happy. As far as personal happiness and peace is concerned this is at least partially true. When the seeker creates

a correct relationship with the marriage of his higher and lower self, a general stability is acquired and such stability is a very necessary step.

As far as individual progression is concerned one can progress far up the ladder of spiritual evolution without a bonded relationship. One can become a great teacher and adept yet remain in the single state.

On the other hand, the purpose of Molecular Relationship is not for individual progress so much as it is for group progress. There comes a time when the individual progress becomes linked to the progression of a group life.

So are we dependent on others for overall wholeness? From a higher perspective the answer is yes. Why? Because there is only one life permeating the Universe. If this is true, then it is impossible to experience wholeness (or holiness) in a separative condition. Complete wholeness will only be reached when we are one with all other lives. This oneness cannot be reached by a mere belief in being one with the Universe, as many think. It can only be achieved through actually living in cooperation with other lives mentally, emotionally and physically in such a way that perfect harmony exists.

Some true teachers in the past have correctly emphasized individual responsibility for wholeness and happiness and from the viewpoint that we are Decision this is true. Person A must achieve soul contact through his own effects as well as person B. Person A cannot make this accomplishment for person B, but only for himself. Then when person A and person B both achieve this contact, harmony

and oneness on a spiritual level becomes possible. Harmonious relationship is the final test of true soul/personality relationship. When this is achieved to a degree then the Molecular Relationship also becomes possible.

How can a person say that he is one with the Universe, yet not have the ability to live in harmony with even one other person of the opposite sex that he has by nature gravitated towards? Other people are part of this universe we are in and oneness with the universe includes other people.

If we are going to be one with the One Great Life which is God, then we must initiate this process by finding one person, among the billions of human lives out there, with whom we may achieve oneness. And, yes, when we find this person we will feel more complete, but will still not be in perfect balance. Each human Soul must eventually harmonize with all other Souls in the Universe before he can find his true home. Harmonizing with one other person is merely the first step.

This harmonizing is much more important on a spiritual level than a romantic level. Currently the distance in the polarities of the male/female is great, causing a generally strong attraction. This will not always be the case in the far future as each of us balances the energies within us. But in the current time the male/female attraction takes us into an intimacy of relationship that would be extremely rare without it.

Many seem to believe that marriage is no longer working because of the rising divorce rate. They do not realize that marriage is working today better than ever, even though the success rate is far from perfection. The reason the divorce rate is much higher now than in prior generations is not because marriages are not as happy, but because couples have much more freedom. There is more freedom to divorce because of relaxed laws and religious attitudes. Women have more freedom because they are much more financially independent. Years ago, women who were unhappy in marriage had to stay in the relationship in order to survive economically.

Even our present high divorce rate does not accurately reflect the number of unhappy marriages. There are still many couples holding the marriage together for economic, social, or religious reasons. In California, where people have more relaxed attitudes toward divorce, the 50% divorce factor is closer to the number of truly nonworking marriages in the West. Of the remaining 50% at least half of them are somewhat unfulfilled. Therefore, we could roughly estimate that around 25% of marriages result in some degree of stability and enduring happiness.

This does not mean that 75% of us are doomed to unhappy relationships, but it does mean that many of us may have to try several times before we find the relationship that will work. As long as the end product is happiness and stability, then we have not failed, even if we have experienced numerous marriages.