June 25, 2006
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In the beginning there was the Divine and nothing but the Divine. The Divine thought. As the Divine thought, the Divine became aware creation was possible. The Divine intended to create the universe of worlds and everything in them; and the Divine believed this was possible based upon previous experience in creating things with the Divine mind.
Thus the Divine created this world and everything in it. At the same time, the Divine created untold billions and trillions of worlds and everything in them. We are, each of us, a unique Child of the Divine living at this time in this world.
The Divine had a purpose when the Divine created the worlds and everything in them. The Divine had a purpose when the Divine created each of us as a living and unique Child of the Divine. Discovering our own unique purpose is one of the goals we can choose while living in this creation.
According to most mystics and great spiritual teachers throughout history, our primary purpose 0is to learn how to love one another more and more. If you think about it, this makes great sense. We're all brothers and sisters living, thinking, breathing, breeding and loving within the Divine. The Divine is the One Commonality that we all share. To love another person is to love the Divine. To love the Divine is to acknowledge that the Divine loves Itself.
To love ourselves is to love the Divine, and loving the Divine is loving everything within the creation including all other people. There's a basic psychological law that says you can love others only by loving yourself first. You must love yourself in order to love other people. Many of us find this difficult, but if we sit in communion with the Divine we will come to love the Divine as the Divine loves us. Since we are a part of the Divine, by loving the Divine we learn to love ourselves and everything else within the Divine.
Learning to love more and more appears to be the first purpose for all of us.
As we learn to love the Divine, ourselves and others, we learn how to help each other love more and more. Helping others and wanting to help others seems to be built into our constitution. It may be a part of our soul. It may be a natural consequence of learning how to love more and more. Whatever the cause, it appears our second purpose for incarnating into this world is to help each other.
Helping each other love more and more appears to be our second purpose.
If we have a specific spiritual purpose we want to accomplish in this lifetime, that purpose probably becomes our third purpose for incarnating at this time. According to ancient Gnostic teachings these are our three spiritual purposes. Learning to love more and more is our primary purpose and it's assigned to the Mother aspect of the Divine. Helping each other love more and more is our secondary purpose and it's assigned to the Father aspect of the Divine. Out own specific spiritual purpose is our third goal and it's assigned to the Creator aspect of the Divine. (Thus the original trinity is exposed as being Father-Mother-Creator the Divine.)
To these three spiritual purposes for incarnating in this lifetime, the ancient teachings indicate we can add one major purpose for each of the elements. A Fire purpose might have something to do with developing our intuition, setting and following our intentions and controlling our passions. An Air purpose might have to do with learning, improving our mind or attitude, teaching or sharing in this lifetime. A Water purpose might have to do with improving our relationships or managing our emotions better. An Earth purpose might have something to do with improving health and prosperity or making this planet a better place to live.
These four elements are assigned an aspect of the Divine in many different ways. One way is to assign the Fire Element to the Warrior aspect of the Divine, Air to the Teacher aspect, Water to the Healer aspect and Earth