THE ETERNAL AND DIVINE PURPOSE

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There is a great and glorious purpose in the march of the universes through space. All of your mortal struggling is not in vain. We are all part of an immense plan, a gigantic enterprise, and it is the vastness of the undertaking that renders it impossible to see very much of it at any one time and during any one life. We are all a part of an eternal project which the Gods are supervising and outworking. The whole marvelous and universal mechanism moves on majestically through space to the music of the meter of the infinite thought and the eternal purpose of the First Great Source and Center.

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The eternal purpose of the eternal God is a high spiritual ideal. The events of time and the struggles of material existence are but the transient scaffolding which bridges over to the other side, to the promised land of spiritual reality and supernal existence. Of course, you mortals find it difficult to grasp the idea of an eternal purpose; you are virtually unable to comprehend the thought of eternity, something never beginning and never ending. Everything familiar to you has an end.

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 As regards an individual life, the duration of a realm, or the chronology of any connected series of events, it would seem that we are dealing with an isolated stretch of time; everything seems to have a beginning and an end. And it would appear that a series of such experiences, lives, ages, or epochs, when successively arranged, constitutes a straightaway drive, an isolated event of time flashing momentarily across the infinite face of eternity. But when we look at all this from behind the scenes, a more comprehensive view and a more complete understanding suggest that such an explanation is inadequate, disconnected, and wholly unsuited properly to account for, and otherwise to correlate, the transactions of time with the underlying purposes and basic reactions of eternity.

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 To me it seems more fitting, for purposes of explanation to the mortal mind, to conceive of eternity as a cycle and the eternal purpose as an endless circle, a cycle of eternity in some way synchronized with the transient material cycles of time. As regards the sectors of time connected with, and forming a part of, the cycle of eternity, we are forced to recognize that such temporary epochs are born, live, and die just as the temporary beings of time are born, live, and die. Most human beings die because, having failed to achieve the spirit level of Adjuster fusion, the metamorphosis of death constitutes the only possible procedure whereby they may escape the fetters of time and the bonds of material creation, thereby being enabled to strike spiritual step with the progressive procession of eternity. Having survived the trial life of time and material existence, it becomes possible for you to continue on in touch with, even as a part of, eternity, swinging on forever with the worlds of space around the circle of the eternal ages.

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 The sectors of time are like the flashes of personality in temporal form; they appear for a season, and then they are lost to human sight, only to reappear as new actors and continuing factors in the higher life of the endless swing around the eternal circle. Eternity can hardly be conceived as a straightaway drive, in view of our belief in a delimited universe moving over a vast, elongated circle around the central dwelling place of the Universal Father.

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 Frankly, eternity is incomprehensible to the finite mind of time. You simply cannot grasp it; you cannot comprehend it. I do not completely visualize it, and even if I did, it would be impossible for me to convey my concept to the human mind. Nevertheless, I have done my best to portray something of our viewpoint, to tell you somewhat of our understanding of things eternal. I am endeavoring to aid you in the crystallization of your thoughts about these values which are of infinite nature

 and eternal import.

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 There is in the mind of God a plan which embraces every creature of all his vast domains, and this plan is an eternal purpose of boundless opportunity, unlimited progress, and endless life. And the infinite treasures of such a matchless career are yours for the striving!

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 The goal of eternity is ahead! The adventure of divinity attainment lies before you! The race for perfection is on! whosoever will may enter, and certain victory will crown the efforts of every human being who will run the race of faith and trust, depending every step of the way on the leading of the indwelling Adjuster and on the guidance of that good spirit of the Universe Son, which so freely has been poured out

 upon all flesh.

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WE ARE LIKE THE MOON - WE CAN BECOME NEW AGAIN

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The text below and the music
above are both about a Jewish
 ceremony called Birkat Halevana. 

 Debbie Friedman sings the song about

the matter from a Carnegie Hall concert.

It makes interesting background music

for the read.

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From WE PLAN, GOD LAUGHS

by Sherre Hirsch

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"CELEBRATING YOU"

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Each month, Jews host a party for the moon.

The Jewish year is based on a lunar calendar,
 and every month we take note of the passage of time
 through the ritual of Birkat HaLevanah,
the blessing and celebration of the new moon. 
 What is surprising is when this ritual takes place.

You would think we would celebrate the full moon,

the night of romance.  We don't.  Instead we celebrate when

the moon is just a sliver in the sky and hardly noticeable.

Most times we need a flashlight even to see the blessing

on the page.

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We bless the sliver because it expresses our faith in the future.

We are blessing what the moon can become. 
 It is a prayer of hope and belief and renewal. 
 Though we know that each month the moon
will wax and wane, the real purpose of this ceremony

is to remind us that we are like the moon. 

We can become new again.

We can uncover more potential and find even more

of our beauty.  As it says in the prayer,

"Blessed are you, God, who says to the moon each month,

you will be new again just like my children."

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Your potential is unlimited.  Each day, God revels in you.

From the day you were born until the day you die,

God is celebrating you.

God is not celebrating how much money you have made.

God is not celebrating your job title or your house.

God is celebrating each day that you are in his world.

Each day you have the potential to imitate him:

to create, to better, to discover, to build, to repair, and to laugh.

That is God's party, a joyous celebration of each one of

his creatures discovering her or his divine purpose.

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God does not stop celebrating when you are thirteen,

fifty-three, or even ninety-three.  Just like my mom never

stopped celebrating my birthday.  She still makes it a big deal,

even now.  We are God's children.  Just like we celebrate our

children and see all that they can become.  God thinks that our

best selves are always in front of us.  Whether it is your second

birthday or your seventy-second,
 God is hoping you will discover more
 about your incredible soul with each passing year.

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