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| Superstition and the worship of world redeemers. Difference in development between world redeemers and macrocosmic redeemers. Idolatry and heathenism as actual worship of God in embryo. Superstition |
59. There can hardly be any other factor in existence to which people have attached more superstitious belief than to their world redeemers.
In many cases they have actually confused them with "globe redeemers" or "solar redeemers" in that their superstition has acknowledged them to be the spirits of the world or even of the sun, an identity which is just as unreasonable and impossible as if one of the brain cells in a human being's body should be thought able to contain or express the entire manifestation of that same human being.
And on account of superstition, mankind's perception regarding its world redeemers has been still further carried away from real facts even to the point where such a being is acknowledged to be the Godhead Himself and is worshipped as such.
That the above-mentioned misconceptions by human beings regarding their world redeemers are of no small measure, one is witness to when, through the power of cosmic consciousness, one experiences that world redeemers have still nearly a whole spiral section, or more than five vast kingdoms or planes of existence to cover in development before reaching that sphere of consciousness where a globe being finds itself.
It would be more than double the number before reaching a solar being's plane of existence, not to speak of a milky way being whose form of life experience would still have about eighteen kingdoms or three spiral sections through which to develop.
This evolutionary difference becomes still more fantastic in dimension when one accepts the fact that already in connection with the second spiral section all human phenomena appear in miniature, in the same way as relevant details in that same section (like a globe's life span of millions of years) have to be classed in the third section as being of a microscopic nature.
Within the boundaries of this perspective the world redeemer becomes only a tiny godhead and from the same perspective the acclaim and worship of mankind has a serious resemblance to heathenism and idolatry. But when it is evident that within the boundaries of the same perspective, heathenism and idolatry are in reality the same as "true worship of God in embryo", this acts as a very extenuating circumstance, for the above-mentioned acclaim by living beings of a world redeemer is born of love and admiration for that being on account of his manifestation of the greatest demonstration of divinity yet shown to all mankind. And as people's faculty of intelligence until then could not nearly measure up to their faculty of feeling, then the disharmony we call "superstition" would necessarily arise in their consciousness. Superstition is actually a factor which arises when an individual's feeling becomes so prominent that through it he can experience realities which he still has not enough intelligence to express in reasonable images or to analyse accurately. Therefore, he has to provide the experiences of his superior emotions with images which would appear as the most probable to his very much inferior intelligence. Such images thus arise, in reality, neither from common sense nor from intelligence, but are feeling images. And so wherever these disharmonious images make their strongest appearance they will be recognized as "superstition". |
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