The Soul of Humanity and the New Civilization

The things we now esteem fixed shall, i by one, disassemble themselves like ripe fruit from our experience and autumn… The soul looketh steadily forwards, creating a world before her, leaving worlds backside her. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the Ageless Wisdom teachings,* one of the names given to the soul is the Observer. It is the attribute of ourselves that allows united states of america to stride dorsum from the turmoil of life on the textile plane and see from a higher, broader perspective. What can be seen from the soul's perspective at this time is a dual reality unfolding simultaneously on our planet: a procedure of death and a procedure of birth.

Kuan Yin | painting | Nicholas Roerich

What is dying is an old civilization based upon the consciousness of separation—a consciousness circumscribed past our five concrete senses. In the modern and post-mod ages, our consensual reality has been largely express to what can be perceived through these senses. Through my physical sight, yous are separate from me because y'all are a separate class. Not only are you lot a split grade, your form is different from mine past race, gender, pilus and eye color, weight, height, and many other concrete features.

The soul, past contrast, sees what lies backside the outer course. Over time, what it sees and knows will inevitably requite rise to a new civilization. As consciousness takes a leap into a new era, we are developing subtler senses born in the deep recesses of the heart, where the soul first comes alive to itself. The heart recognizes beauty, the heart recognizes love, the heart recognizes truth. In the absenteeism of the heart, we take a world of ugliness, hatred, and ignorance—a world on the edge of an abyss. It is the tendrils of the heart reaching upward to the light of the soul that are helping us to cantankerous the abyss into a new globe.

Soul Consciousness

The soul is both light and love in the modernistic wisdom teachings. Information technology is a unit of consciousness whose qualities have been honed over the form of eons of human living, though it has lain largely fallow for most of that time, masked by the outer course. Now, at this momentous turning indicate in development, the soul is beginning to outgrow the limitations of its class. The true Self is peering out from behind the mask, discovering kindred spirits on the path to greater light. Nosotros are learning together to see through the eyes of the heart, which are also the eyes of the soul.

Every bit light, the soul is a knower of truth. It is the Observer that tin penetrate the outer veneer of another'south persona and recognize the true Self, invisible to the concrete eye. Likewise, the soul can penetrate the veil of outer events and recognize invisible forces working inside the life of our planet. To our concrete eyes, death and destruction are pervasive across the face of our Earth. To the eyes of the soul, these forces are serving to rend the veil of separation between man beings, and between us and all other living beings.

Every time tragedy strikes, we come across an outpouring from the heart of humanity—of dear, of compassion, of help. The more than often tragedy strikes, the longer the middle remains open up, the more tender it becomes. Massive suffering is hard to escape these days in one form or another. Through the eyes of the soul, the accumulating feel of human suffering is breaking down barriers and spawning a sense of man solidarity equally nothing else has been able to practise until this juncture in the evolution of our species. Through the terrible toll of human suffering, we are gaining awareness of our essential oneness.

In the light of the soul, the causes of suffering are also being revealed. All the misery nosotros're currently witnessing—whether from fires, floods, droughts, disease, state of war, dislocation from war, migration, slavery, political repression, endemic poverty, economical injustice, or other forms of exploitation—has karmic origins. In the wisdom teachings, there is 1 root cause of all suffering: selfishness – self-centeredness born of identification with the outer class. If I am simply as meaning as my concrete being, enhanced past its cloth possessions, then I volition practice virtually anything to amass a fortune or proceeds renown, to maximize my ain self-importance so that I become known, seen, admired, envied, recognized.

The soul, on the other hand, is enlightened of the greater life of which it is a role. Soul consciousness exists on a airplane where at that place is no separation, a subtle plane where life's inherent unity is perceived—unity of essence, origin, and destiny. In the soul's perception, all of life is inseparably interrelated, interdependent, and intertwined. The global climate crisis is pedagogy us this outwardly, mirroring in a sense the inner reality. This crisis is the issue of our collective karma and afflicts all of united states in some manner, while forcing usa to recognize our interrelatedness. That recognition, in turn, is causing some to begin to alive from a dissimilar set of premises.

If I am inextricably spring to you, and then I am constantly enlightened that whatever happens to you affects me. As concrete beings, we are like individual cells in a living body called humanity. As souls, we are units of consciousness within a greater consciousness that ensouls the Earth and flows beyond Earth's borders into a larger universe within which Earth is embedded. Equally consciousness itself, the soul's awareness is potentially boundless. Simply the nature of this awareness is always relatedness, connection, inseparability from all that one's awareness embraces.

The Significance of this Moment

According to the wisdom teachings, the soul is function spirit and function matter. It is born of the union of the two and, one time awakened, information technology is the conscious awareness that unites the two. Having remained latent inside the race through millions of years of evolution, from the fourth dimension when the first human beings emerged from the animal kingdom, the spiritual aspect of the soul is at present emerging into the awareness of our species. The fact that this is occurring inside more a handful of individuals is unprecedented in human history.

It is said that our collective awakening is equally meaning in the evolution of our species as was the birth of the homo kingdom millions of years agone. For the very first time, equally growing numbers of us enter more than fully into soul awareness, we are developing the inner resources to subdue the powerful forces of our animal nature—instinct, passion, and all the insatiable desires of the lower self that have governed homo history until now. It is foreseen in the Ageless Wisdom teachings that in fourth dimension, as mastery of the bottom nature is accomplished and homo identity shifts from matter to spirit, we volition larn to live consciously in the globe as souls, reflecting the love and light of the higher Self in every attribute of our lives.

Observing the peachy awakening rippling beyond the earth, this vision no longer seems so far-fetched. With growing recognition of the true Cocky and the many initiatives designed to nurture information technology into expression, such a vision becomes fathomable. Already we see the start stirrings of soul awareness on a wide calibration through the acts of kindness, compassion, and love that are regularly circulate by the mass media and by social media. After eons of separation from one some other, nosotros are offset to knit ourselves together, learning what it ways to honey one some other, and developing the will to love.

The Will to Love

'The will to dearest' may at first sound similar an incongruous phrase. An initial reaction to it might be: doesn't love flow naturally—without the imposition of will? Isn't love the most natural feeling in the earth? Don't nosotros all have beloved in our hearts and long for the opportunity to limited it? The answer to these questions can be seen in the worlds of our creation, both individual and collective.

Love that flows from the consciousness of separation is often based on a type of castling: I will love you as long as you (in some way) meet my needs. Love that flows from the Soul, nonetheless, seeks nothing in render; it needs nothing from another. The dearest of the soul is replenished from inner spiritual sources that never run dry out. It is the nature of the soul to dear, as it is the nature of the sun to smoothen. The challenge is to reveal the soul'southward true nature—to free information technology from entanglement in ancient personality patterns to the degree that information technology becomes who we are in the world.

To practise this requires considerable will in the form of cocky-discipline: the will to change securely engrained patterns foundational to 1's established identity, unconscious behaviors that accept held sway over the course of lifetimes. For most individuals, information technology takes the rigors of a spiritual path to transform the isolated personality living in a heartless, competitive globe into an awakened soul witting of belonging to a greater life. This new life invariably begins in the heart, with a glimpse of being office of a universe pulsing with gild, harmony, and love. To go on the heart open, however, requires learning to dissolve aboriginal habits of separateness through disciplines learned on the Path. It is developing the volition to love—learning how to remain in the soul'southward innate state of oneness—that volition become the bedrock of our coming civilization.

Love from a Higher Source

Sacred Himalaya | painting | Nicholas Roerich

One of the groovy secrets of spiritual evolution is that progress on the Path is fueled by beloved from higher, subtler planes. Every bit we tread this path, consciously transforming ourselves from cocky-centered personalities into beings whose hearts are condign as stiff as our minds, we are met with honey from the inner planes of spiritual Reality. By pursuing the rigors of this path of cocky-transformation, we enter an invisible realm of life discovered through finer senses. Deepening soul contact, which unfolds naturally on the path, results in a higher vibrational frequency that gives rise to subtler ways of knowing, such every bit spiritual telepathy and a grade of intuition called 'straight knowing.' Through such ways, the seeker gains access to the wisdom and beloved of inner guides who help to navigate the inner worlds.

These guides dwell in a subtle realm considered in the wisdom teachings to be a spiritual kingdom. It is the fifth kingdom in nature—beyond the human, animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms. Disinformation about this college realm has ever existed, just as the soul of humanity awakens and reaches upward, there is a growing capacity to apprehend the reality of a Kingdom of Souls, some other proper noun for the fifth kingdom. This kingdom or realm of consciousness is also known every bit the middle center of our planet—a reservoir of inclusive, across-the-board, universal, spiritual love from which inspiration flows for all man progress.

Amidst those who dwell in the next kingdom are illumined beings called Masters of Wisdom, co-ordinate to the wisdom teachings. It is they who have revealed the higher truths that are preparing humanity to enter a new historic period and a new cycle of evolution, in which the soul will come to blossom. They accept foreseen that in the coming era, awakened souls will piece of work in cooperation with members of their Kingdom of Souls to create an enlightened civilization and culture. In the future, we are told, some of these higher beings volition emerge from their inner domicile place to atomic number 82 humanity toward the fulfillment of its divine potential.

It was 21 meg years agone when a divine spark of mind was implanted in the near evolved animals of the time, giving birth to the human kingdom. At present, having reached the limits of our lesser selves, we are collectively calling forth our college selves and, in and then doing, evoking a growing responsiveness from the planetary center of spiritual love. The beauty of this time is that many thousands of us across the globe are simultaneously breaking gratuitous of the confines of our strictly human nature, feeling the stirrings of the soul and intuiting the future it portends.

As souls, we are already 1. We know the truth of essential oneness and cannot be divided in consciousness. Our claiming is to dissolve remaining walls of separation by developing the volition to love. All that differentiates u.s.a., in truth, is our karmic heritage: those qualities, characteristics, talents, proclivities, and life experiences (for ameliorate and for worse) that the soul carries from 1 lifetime to another on its journey of render. The saying "Be kind, for everyone yous meet is fighting a great battle" is apt for all who are awakening and facing karmic obligations. Yet knowing that many of usa are fighting these battles on the way to creating a new world brings added strength and heart as we journey together.

A New Era

Everything we are learning from those who take had near-expiry experiences in our time, and from mystics and seers across the ages, points toward a higher realm of being. We are told that in that location is scintillating beauty in this realm, there is radiant lite, there is truth, and love, and there is joy. Information technology is said that joy volition exist the prod to spiritual growth in the new era, every bit the soul gains prominence, as pain has been the prod until now. There is joy in experiencing marriage and communion with all of life; in feeling aligned with a college purpose and order; in the recognition of kindred souls – the ineffable joy of working together to bring a measure of low-cal and dearest into the globe.

This is our future, according to the nifty sages within the Spiritual Hierarchy of our planet—those who have preceded united states of america into a higher realm of beingness, having completed the man development. Beings who no longer need to re-incarnate in human course, they have paid all karmic debts and have revealed the fullness of their human-divine potential. They have get liberated to serve the development of our planet from a college vantage indicate, from which they know 'the listen of God.' With that noesis, they piece of work to implement divine purpose by impressing sensitive human minds with ideas that volition advance the evolutionary program—such every bit the oneness of humanity, the interrelatedness of all life, the fact that all is energy (and consciousness). And they transmit teachings that will further planetary development.

We are told that within the ranks of this bureaucracy of dear and wisdom there are many great beings whose names are known to us: the founders of world religions, the great philosophers and statesmen, inventors, scientists, artists, and musicians who devoted their lives to uplifting and expanding homo sensation. The universal teachings brought forth on their behalf in the past century and a half, collectively known as the Ageless Wisdom, reveal that they have not disappeared from the Earth, nor do they exist in an amorphous heavenly realm. They dwell on a subtler aeroplane of life, working out a plan to fulfill the purpose of the planetary Logos, the divine intelligence who gives life to our Earth and is the impulse behind great shifts of the ages, similar the one we are presently living through.

In this disquisitional time of transition between the ages, many things predicted in the modern wisdom teachings are coming to laissez passer.

Song of Shambhala | painting | Nicholas Roerich

We are witnessing the crumbling of structures born of the dying consciousness of separation, and we are witnessing the rise of the homo spirit—the birth of soul sensation. It was to ready the states for the Soul to enter the earth that many volumes were transmitted by teachers within the spiritual kingdom who sought to unveil the true nature of the college self of humanity—the consciousness that will infuse the new world—and the requirements for realizing this higher potential.

In the world created past the soul of humanity, it will be evident that behind the visible universe lies an unbroken web of energy created and sustained by divine love. By mastering the volition to love, nosotros will become resonant to this higher-frequency energy and, under the guidance of beings within the spiritual kingdom, we can learn to co-create the atmospheric condition for a new culture on Earth. One day, if divine prophecy comes to laissez passer and we fulfill our spiritual potential, we may become part of the Kingdom of Souls. And we may, at some time in the distant future, discover how to turn this long-suffering globe into the long-awaited Kingdom of God.

*The Ageless Wisdom is a body of teachings traceable back to the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and the Upanishads. Information technology includes essential teachings of the Buddha and the Christ and was updated, starting in the tardily 19th century, by Masters of Wisdom in preparation for this turning indicate in evolution. The Tibetan Master Djwhal Khul, writing through Alice Bailey, stressed the centrality of the awakened soul to the nascence of a new era. The Agni Yoga teachings, which came through Helena Roerich, wife of the creative person and peacemaker Nicholas Roerich, emphasized the need to shift consciousness to subtler planes of reality.