The Concept of It Always Was:
Part III of IV
... Oh the glory of it all; onward to the heavens! The glory of eternity awaits you. Push for the development of the mines on our beautiful silvery moon, the heavenly object that has comforted us in the dark of the night for the last ten thousand years. Push for the development of the first signs of our presence on a planetary body to he seen from earth. Push for the creation of a new mountain on the moon built from the lunar mine extractions representing our advancement into the heavens. Exploit the tundra, deserts, mountains, rivers, streams of earth. Oh they are already stripped of their cleanliness and substance? They already have had their beauty and form desecrated? No matter, it was for a good cause. Let’s not look back: let’s move on. There is plenty more of the same in other places of the heavens. Let’s move on to the planets and other stars in our near vicinity. Forward, God awaits, glory awaits. And what of the future children to come? They will do as we did. They will provide for themselves for we will teach them well the ways of independence.
It is the way it has always been, and it is the way it will always be, for we have no options, no alternatives. History dictates that it shall be so. History dictates. What of the present? Can we, who live in the present, not change the direction of history?
The universe was predestined to come into existence and predestined to terminate, but other than that, the universe is not in a predestined state. The universe can evolve in a unique manner directed by traveling souls within the confines of the Klein bottle the universe occupies. We exist within the universe as much a free agent of predestination as the inner state of the universe itself. We, in the present, are the ones to set the direction for the future. The past does not set the direction of the future. The past is gone. We, you and I, set the direction of the future. But in order to change this direction, we have to stop acting as others did in the past. We have to stop thinking of ourselves in the same way others in the past thought of themselves.
Presently, we perceive ourselves to exist for the purpose of glorifying the Creator. There is, however, another option: panentheism. We could just as well perceive ourselves as entities existing not as subservients of the Creator but as equals with It. Our purpose is to help God, ourselves, grow through the process of traveling reality. Some are to add to God’s growth directly; others are to support, build, maintain, groom, and elevate a growing society that will allow new growth for God. All of us will become fully aware of how we helped God, ourselves, grow through our actions in reality after our re-infusion back into God, after we once again become a part of our Creator when our journey through reality is completed.
But who is to say that the perceptions presently developed by human sources are correct? If one perception may be correct, why not another? And if the present day perception of theism is inadequate to explain observed and inferred events within our present reality, if the present day perception is inadequate and lacks the scope to guide us as we confront new problems regarding our role within the universe, then why not modify our perceptions of ourselves to fit the expanded knowledge and adventures that continually confront us?
To be continued: Part IV of IV: Why must our philosophy,...