A Great Mystery #2

2000-2-8 10:27:00

My best wishes go to Zina and Sharon. The thoughts and prayers of many are with you.

Susi, I hope this is just some kind of test you are putting us through to see if your friends really want you here. I think you know the answer from the response you have been getting. But just in case it is not a test, good luck to you and come back soon. Or better still, stay a member, and just peek in now and then.

Blayne - thank you for your positive comments. We look forward to your participation. I have also committed myself to being more positive because of your presence here.

The Question: "How can you apply these two principles in discovering the great mystery? If you were not once an animal or a plant, what have you always been and will forever be? When you reach relative perfection how will you continue to Become?"

Travis asks: "Relative to what? If you reach relative perfection, based on your perspective today, you will probably see much ahead to learn and do."

JJ: I have written quite a lot already on this subject, but I will add one more thing. Where there is not an agreed upon measure for ultimate perfection, what is called perfection is in the eye of the beholder.

There is much absolute perfection that can be agreed upon. For instance an absolutely perfect circle has all points on its circumference exactly the same distance from the center. But in physical reality there is no such thing as a perfect circle. There is not a planet in the universe with an exactly circular orbit. No one has ever created a perfect circle. What is the best we can hope for? The closest we can come to absolute perfection is relative perfection. In other words, we can create relatively perfect circles.

Once relative perfection is reached in the world of form, the intelligence behind its creation recognizes it and begins to duplicate this perfection. For instance, a proton is relatively perfect. These particles are not absolutely perfect because each proton has a very slight differentiation from all others. Because the intelligence behind the proton recognizes the relative perfection of this unit, it has created these relatively perfect particles by the same principles everywhere in the universe.

Humanity does the same thing as God does. When we reach relative perfection in creation others copy this perfection to the best of their ability. Our better bicycles, for instance, are made about as close to maximum efficiency as possible. As manufacturers approach relative perfection others follow. We will never create the perfect bicycle, but we will eventually get so close to perfection that it would be a waste of time to attempt any more improvement.

This is what supreme intelligence has done with the proton. Perfection is so close that any more attention on improvement is not worth the effort. God's efforts are now much better spent working on humans. We are far from relative perfection on the physical plane.

Concerning how we evolved and where we came from several gave interesting comments.

JJ: You really didn't think you could win that easily did you? Both you and Anni gave some great hints and Blayne senses the right direction, but no one has nailed it.

Hint: When multiple lives join together to create a greater life - where does the greater life come from? Do the lesser lives evolve into the greater or does something else happen?"

Part II of the Wheat and Tares coming soon...