WHY DEATH

Why is there Death?
This is a question which every person whose consciousness is awakened a little has asked himself at least once in his life. There is in the depths of the being such a need to perpetuate, to develop life, to prolong, that the moment one has a first contact with death, which, although it may quiet an accidental contact, is yet inevitable, there is a sort of recoil in the being.
In persons who are sensitive, it produces horror; in others, indignation. There is a tendency to ask oneself: "What is this Monstrous farce in which one takes part without wanting to, without understanding it? Why are we born, if it is only to DIE? Why all this effort for development, progress, the flowering of the faculties, if it is come to a diminution ending in decline and disintegration? ..." Some feel a revolt in them, others less strong feel despairs and always this question arises: " If there is a conscious WILL behind all that, This WILL seems to be monstrous."
But here GOD tells us that this was an indispensable means of awakening in the consciousness of matter the need for perfection, the necessity of progress, that without this catastrophe, all beings would have been satisfy with the condition they were in - perhaps... This is not certain.But then, we have to take things as they are and tell ourselves that we must find the way out of it all.
The fact is everything is in a state of perpetual progressive development, that is the whole creation, the whole universe is advancing towards a perfection which seems to recede as one goes forward towards it, for what seems a perfection at a certain moment is no longer perfect after a time. The most subtle states of being in the consciousness follow this progression even as it is going on, and the higher up the scale one goes, the more closely does th rhythm of the advance resemble the rhythm of the universal development, and approach the rhythm of the divine development; but the material world is rigid by nature, transformation is slow, very slow, there, almost imperceptible for the measurement of time as the human consciousness perceives it...and so there is a constant disequilibrium between the inner and outer movement, and this lack of balance, this incapacity of the outer forms to follow the movement of the inner progress brings about the necessity of the decomposition and the change of forms. But if, into this matter, one could infuse enough consciousness to obtain the same rhythm, if matter could become plastic enough to follow the inner progression, this rupture of balance would not occur, and death would no longer be necessary.

Thursday, February 14, 2008