- Principles – The Foundation of Consciousness.
- Cause & Effect
- Male-Female Energies
- The Principle of Freedom
- The Principle of Analogy or The Law of Correspondences.
- The Oneness Principle
- The Teacher-Student Relationship
- The Name of Christ
- The Ring Pass Not
- Good and Evil
- Principles 11 & 12
- Initiation
- Crystallization
- Relative Perfection
- The Principle of Correction
- Principle 18: Decision
- The Principle of the Journey
- Principles of Joy and Peace
- Judgment and/or Discernment
- The Two Paths
- Energy Follows Thought
- The Satellite Principle
- Principles 26 & 27
- Principle 28: The Observer
- Principle 29: Sin
- Principle 30: The Atonement
- Principle 31: Forgiveness
- Principle 32: Justice
- Principle 33: Doing Unto Others.
- Principle 34: You Find What You Are Looking For
- Principle 35
- Principle 36
- Principle 37
- Principle 38
- Principle 39
- Principle 40
- Principle 41
- Principle 42
- Principle 43
- Principle 44
- Principle 45
- Principle 46
- Principle 47
- Principle 48
- Principle 49, Part 1
- Principle 49, Part 2
- Principle 49, Part 3
- Principle 50
- Principle 51
- Principle 52
- Principle 53
- Principle 54
- Principle 55
- Principle 56
- Principle 57
- Principle 59
- Principle 60
- Principle 58
- Principle 61
- Principle 63
- Principle 64
- Principle 65
- Principle 66
- Principle 67
- Principle 68
- Principle 69
- Principle 70
- Principle 71
- Principle 72
- Principle 73
- Principle 74
- Principle 75
- Principle 76
- Principle 77
- Principle 78
- Principle 79
- Principle 80
- Principle 81
- Principle 82
- The Principle of Glory
- Principle 84
- 85 The Principle of Trust & Honesty
- Like Attracts Like
- The Pharaoh Principle
- The Zero Point
- Faith
- Corruption
- Goodwill
- Intensity
- Synthesis
- The Molecular Principle
- Principle 95 – The Sabbath
- Principle 96 – Trinity
- The Slingshot Principle
- Principle 98, Inclusion
- Principle 99 – Sacrifice
- Principle 100 – Service
- Principle 101 – Humor
Becoming – or – Eternal Progression
(1) What is the difference between the state of being and becoming? What state are you in now?
Being and Becoming are merely two aspects of the great duality. Other manifestations of duality include such things as positive and negative, male and female, hot and cold, up and down, light and dark etc.
Many teach that the state of Being is the most desirable or even the ultimate state of existence, but that is like saying one sex is better than the other or hot is better than cold. The truth is both parts of duality are essential and pretty much equal in importance in the overall scheme of things.
The state of Being is a state of rest or inactivity where an entity recharges and absorbs the qualities of his last stage of Becoming. But after the rest is finished the pilgrim will again venture forth into the state of Becoming so he can continue to grow in intelligence and enjoyment of existence.
Both states are eternal just as duality itself is eternal.
(2) Most of the religions teach of an ultimate goal or salvation that, when reached, the entity will rest in bliss for eternity. Why would this be a disaster?
The answer to this should be obvious, but unfortunately it is not for billions of religious people throughout the world. They really think they can be in some static and blissful state with God for eternity and be satisfied. But think about it. No matter how good a food is you will get bored with it if that is all you eat. No matter how fun a ride is you would be driven crazy if you did it 24 hours a day. No matter how much you enjoy sleep, sooner or later you have had enough and want to rise and do something.
All life desires and flourishes with change and variety.
(3) Why is eternal progression desirable?
If we were to cease to progress then we would have no purpose. Without purpose there are no decisions and without the exercise of decision life itself diminishes until it becomes as if it never was. Because life needs the food of progress and change we move forward and continue our existence toward the Great Unknown.
(4) What is the one thing that never changes?
The only thing we know for sure that never changes is change itself. It is always occurring and will continue to occur in future universes.
We, as humans, often approach change kicking and screaming with resistance but, if accepted with the right attitude, change works toward our own good.
Even though all creations of form appear, disintegrate and reappear, time and cycles themselves eternally manifest. This means we can eternally progress and are eternally Becoming. In between cycles of Becoming we enter cycles of Being and blissful rest.
It is the natural desire of our lower nature to want an ultimate reality or achievement so when this is reached one can cease in the great struggle and enjoy bliss and satisfaction forever. What needs to be realized is that after a period of achievement and resting on the laurels of the past the pilgrim becomes bored and again desires to enter the game and struggle of life.
We ourselves are subject to a great cycle and that is the cyclic impulse to manifest, to live and to move forward no matter what the risk. Because of this we are in a state of eternally Becoming and eternally progressing. It is fortunate indeed that we never reach a state that makes us eternally content. If we did then all that gives life meaning and purpose would cease to be. Instead we decide TO BE and Becoming cyclically manifests.
To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to: ’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come…
Shakespeare
Copyright 2014 by J J Dewey
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