Thursday 26 June 2014

THE DARK UNDERWORLD OF THE HUMAN LIFE

There is a dark world where the unwise live and die.
This dark world is the underworld of primeval jungle of the human mind where inhabits; roaming, devouring and devoured, in rank; brute forces and blind, unreasoning impulses, whose governing principle is contained in passion.
There are chilling swamps  and concealing darkness, in this underworld of the mind, where creatures of this sunless world crawls and reign supreme in the centre of man's being.
These creatures are easily identifiable as lust (sexual immorality), impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; fits of rage, discord, hatred, covetousness, pride, vanity, greed, revenge, envy, spite, retaliation, slander, backbiting, lying, theft, deceit, treachery, cruelty, suspicion and jealousy.
These creatures constitutes of the brute forces that inhabits the mind of man in the lower self of his being. Beyond these brute forces and blind, there is no evil.
These blind forces are wisely identified by St. Paul, in the Book of Romans, where he struggles with them in chapter 7 and realizes them as the slave masters of sin.
They are elsewhere in the Good Book of life identified as the heavy yoke of Satan.
St. Paul further depicts them as the sinful nature that desires what is contrary to the Spirit.
In this underworld, is the lowest level of human life and no one can descend lower.
The governor of this dark world is clearly identified as the EGO.
Ego is not a creation of God and only crept into the centre of the human mind after the fall from the Garden of Eden.
In this dark abode of the unwise, they live and die without knowing the peace and purity, nor the joy of that Divine Light which for ever shines above them, and for them, yet shines in vain in as long as it falls on their unseeing eyes which look not up, but are ever bent earthward- fleshward. 
It is of such people that the greatest teacher who ever lived talked about when He said that though they have eyes, yet they are blind.
But behold the salvation of the wise; who look up and their eyesight is restored.
These are the ones who are not satisfied with their ego and they bend their steps towards the upper world of peace, the light of glory of which they behold, at first afar off, but nearer and with evermore- increasing splendour as they ascend through the principle of the Christ, contained in His yoke that is light.
The constitution of this yoke is based upon the firm foundation contained in love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, meekness,  faithfulness, gentleness, compassion as well as self renunciation.
Beyond this yoke of the Christ there is no salvation.





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