POP24 - When
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We are examining a new paradigm
of who, when and where we are.
We have already looked at where,
we are now going to examine when.
2. An examination of
the History and Purpose of Mankind.
Again, in the Bible we see a History set down.
The first five books of the Bible,
are attributed to Moses.
Just as He wrote an understanding,
suitable to the people of the time
of how the world was created.
So, did he also write an understanding,
suitable to the people of the time,
of when the world was created.
Some people reject The Bible,
because they feel they have a longer view of history.
(Others still insist on taking The Bible literally,
- creation a few thousand years ago).
Both positions are in error.
The Bible is SPIRITUALLY correct.
Any seemingly literal statements are RELATIVE.
They MUST of necessity be,
because they are attempting to describe the INFINITE.
To suppose that we are CAPABLE
(or indeed may have today ABSOLUTE answers from say science)
is at just as infantile a mental stage,
as believing that the Bible should be believed literally.
Understanding of the ABSOLUTE,
always has been,
and always will be,
RELATIVE.
So, what I am about to present,
is a new RELATIVE paradigm,
suitable to mankind's present stage of growth.
It is simply a HIGHER
more INCLUSIVE understanding.
Don't belabor the literalness of it.
If you prefer a different paradigm
about which I have not heard
that is fine.
Share it with me.
I am always on the lookout for enhanced paradigms.
Anyway, in this paradigm,
we first posit the existence of cycles.
We see them about us everywhere.
Day and night,
the seasons,
life and death,
generation upon generation.
Astronomers even pose them for sunspots,
and the wheeling of the galaxies.
(The latter being too slow - taking billions of years,
for us to have actually observed one).
Over billions of years,
stars too are born and die.
But since man has only observed them
with telescopes for a few hundred years
and in recorded history for a few thousand years,
we have never seen the event,
from beginning to end.
Oh, we have seen supernovas,
and with the Hubble
some think we have seen star nurseries,
but we have been around too short a time
to observe a billions-of-years-long process
from beginning to end.
We can only Hypothesize
or have Revealed to us the overall process.
We do hypothesize that stars go through cycles.
From white dwarf to red giant.
For that matter, for all that we have seen,
because the cycle would be beyond the duration
of the human race,
they might repeat their cycles, repeatedly.
The earth is in relationship to the sun,
in its cycle.
Were the earth 10% further from the sun,
it would be so cold
that all its water would freeze,
at its poles,
like Mars.
And if the earth were 10% closer to the sun,
it would be so hot
that all its water would evaporate
and cover it in thick clouds,
like Venus.
If the sun were to shrivel further
towards becoming a white dwarf,
Venus would cool,
and its clouds would fall to the surface,
creating seas.
Earth would then become like Mars.
Indeed, this is the destiny of the earth,
(why I believe these things
is the subject of another essay).
But even during the time of its fruition
there come and go upon the planet
numerous races of men.
Much like a tree,
passing through its seasons,
blossoming in the spring,
bearing fruit,
and becoming dormant in the winter,
to eventually after many seasons
wither and die.
There have been past races upon this planet.
There shall be future races.
Although it is possible
for a race to destroy the planet.
(Observe the missing planet in our solar system,
in what we call the asteroid belt,
as possible evidence of this).
It is the destiny and purpose of every star,
to have planets,
and of every planet,
to have its races of men.
Just as it is the destiny (fulfilled or not)
for every tree to be fruitful.
There are multitudes of questions
that one can ask about the appearance of the race.
The old arguments
between the Creationists and the Evolutionists.
Both error in fundamental premises.
One as to their materialist
and mechanistic concepts of cause and effect,
and the other as to their dogmatic
literal interpretation
of the Spiritual Analogy
related in the Bible plus their misconceptions
regarding the realities of Time, Space and Matter.
It is a curiosity that man has the same saline ratio
in his blood, sweat and tears,
as does the sea.
And one does well to contemplate
the philosophical concept that
Ontogeny Recapitulates Phlyogeny.
That the individual starts off as a single cell,
becoming at conception multiple cell in a saline sea, (the womb)
and proceeds through various stages,
having a tail and other appendages,
that atrophy before being born.
Nevertheless, this is not a proof of devolution,
(descent from other creatures),
because man has always been man,
whatever his form,
individually or collectively.
But as far as evolution is concerned,
the evolving of the species,
as I have stated before,
there is evidence for any observer to see,
by simply looking at the armor of the knights of old,
or the statistics for military induction,
between WWI and WWII.
Whatever.
If the paradigm presented here,
is more meaningful to you
than one of creation a few thousand years ago,
and you can bear the idea,
that when you are is -
within this diminishing cycle
of the star that we call the Sun,
in this particular revolution of the galaxy,
that we call the Milky Way,
in this particular expansion
of what we see as our island universe,
etc.
then you have a very different idea of when you are
than someone who feels that all the purpose of ALL life,
revolves around a SINGULAR event,
that happened upon this one rock,
circling this one star,
approximately 2,000 years ago.
Next time -
as to who you are.
Peace and love,
Bruce
DawnSayer@webpal.org