The Principle Of Pain
Humanity holds a unique position in the universal scheme of things. It is, in fact, an integral part of two distinct worlds: it is the 4th Kingdom of Nature and also belongs to the Kingdom of Souls. As the 4th Kingdom of Nature, humanity comes under the domain of the Laws of Nature which are therefore imposed upon humanity. But humanity is also endowed with the Mind which enables man as a member of humanity to think. This capacity of conscious thinking, which is a Soul quality, places man and humanity as a whole into the Kingdom of Souls and under the Laws of the Soul. Both sets of laws are nevertheless divine or universal laws and as such immutable.
Humanity as a whole and man as an integral part of humanity have to experience the substances and entities of the three lower worlds of physical manifestation. They are therefore exposed to an array of forces and energies which prevail and pervade these three lower worlds in which man is focused and functions. Without the Laws of nature which are imposed upon man and intended to protect and guide him, man would become completely lost in the maze of forces and energies. With the guiding force of Nature and her immutable Laws man learns how to cope with the various forces and energies that beat upon his vehicles.
It is very hard for the average human being who is still strongly focused in his physical-emotional world to realize that there is a definite purpose behind all this pain and suffering he has to experience while living and functioning on the three lower planes of the physical world. He often doesn’t even consciously realize that he steadily expands his consciousness and comprehension of the three worlds of which he is an integral part. He responds to all the forces and energies which pound upon his vehicles more or less consciously according to the degree of consciousness and comprehension. However, whether he consciously or unconsciously responds, disobeys or evades the Laws of Nature, he has to bear the often painful consequences. Thus, through the mechanism of pain and suffering, man learns his most valuable lessons. He learns how to recognize and distinguish forces and energies by their qualities and learns how to use them wisely and ultimately how to control them. Through eons of time and many incarnations, man is steadily improving his sensitivity and response. Like an apprentice in the three lower worlds of physical manifestation he gains his knowledge through a process of trial and error.
This apprenticeship comes to its close when man has established a firm contact not only with his personality but also with his Soul. At that point, the innate qualities of his personality according to his ray will have become unfolded and fully integrated and man has become a soul-infused personality.
Humanity as a whole will also attain this point of achievement and then enter as a unified Whole the Kingdom of Souls. But this is a long way from now and will only be possible at the so-called “Judgment Day” which will be in the middle of the 5th round of our globe Earth which now approaches the end of its 4th round. One round covers seven world periods and one world period covers seven root races. The present root race is the fifth in our Solar System. Our Solar System is the second and is of the 4th order. It is a dual system and is governed by the Second Cosmic Ray of PURE REASON which is, as everything else in the Second Solar System, DUAL in itself, expressed as LOVE/WISDOM. Our planet Earth forms part of the 4th planetary Chain and is the 4th Globe in this Chain. The 4th Globe Earth and the 4th Creative Hierarchy, representing Humanity as spiritual entity, are governed by the Fourth Cosmic Ray of HARMONY through CONFLICT. At the present time, humanity as a personality is still in the phase of CONFLICT, and conflict, as we all know only too well, causes pain and suffering. The influence of the 4th Cosmic Ray will be even stronger when it will be in cyclic manifestation, which will take place during the fifth round of our planet. Then humanity as a whole will have the opportunity to experience the HARMONY which it achieved through this CONFLICT. Then humanity as a whole will have reached the firm contact with its Soul and consciously begin to function on the higher planes of the Soul. It then will be released from the dominance of the Laws of Nature because by then man in general will have learned how to recognize, distinguish, and control the substances, forces and, energies of the lower three worlds of manifestation. He will be able to function automatically in these three worlds because by then his knowledge has fallen under the threshold of consciousness and his functions have become automatic like those of breathing and walking.
Such a process of perfecting the various mechanisms of the human being and humanity as a whole takes eons of time and innumerable incarnations during which the individual must learn how to handle and to control a great many forces and streams of energies which cyclically govern the three lower worlds and his vehicles. His personality Ray will change almost with each incarnation and his personality is therefore constantly dominated by a particular Ray. The qualities of such a Ray will greatly influence man’s response which may be positive or negative, depending on man’s degree of consciousness and subsequent comprehension because the energy itself is impartial.
A true learning process is always, in some way or another, rather painful for those who are undergoing it because it requires experiences in the future fields of expertise. Those experiences become even more intense and often more painful when they require sensitive instruments, such as the physical, emotional and mental vehicles of a human being.
Each learning process also has its definite cycles which are designed to achieve a certain level of expanded consciousness and the subsequent comprehension of this level which enables man to function consciously and more efficiently on this level.
Man, being endowed with a Mind, is able to think and consciously relate CAUSE and EFFECT, that which causes him so much pain and suffering and is distinctive ONLY of the 4th Kingdom of Nature, Humanity. This ability to think and consciously relate cause and effect cannot be found in any other kingdom of Nature nor in the superhuman Kingdom of Souls. The ability to respond to pain and the capacity to suffer constantly heightens man’s sensitivity and brings it to full unfoldment because of its steadily increasing degree. Thus man as an individual and humanity as a whole will gradually become a highly sensitive instrument for impressions not only from his fellow human beings but also from the subhuman as well as from the superhuman kingdoms.
When humanity as a whole will have achieved this goal and will have become a supersensitive instrument that can easily receive and respond to impressions from the subhuman and superhuman kingdoms, it will be ready and can begin to fulfill its destined purpose as an integral part of the divine scheme. The destiny of humanity is to wisely rule the subhuman kingdoms and become the mediator between the three lower kingdoms of Nature and the Kingdom of Souls.
