TIME!

The individual usually wants to find the reason for things. Finding reference from philosophy or theology and largely today through science.

When the average age of peoples was approximately 35 years and they had managed to escape plagues, fires or an invasion, the person wanted to make sense of his environment and wanted to do what God wanted him to do and to do the right thing the best he could.

Under theological pressures, he tries to gain a certain patience and insight. Theology explains the problem was original sin, the discretion of Adam and Eve.  This has lost favor for the most part because we will no longer accept this as a reason for thousands of years of assorted existence.

Then the philosopher comes along and they made a good story out of finding reason in life.  They said it was obvious that in the great plan of things there has to be a reason for what happens, the universe has some kind of controlling mind or consciousness behind it.  So philosophy said we need to find out what the universe wants us to do... that was never popular because it never agreed with what we wanted to do and so philosophy got a tiny following and along came science and that took care of that.
Science has become the reason for existence, and at the moment the most likely cause of the end of it.

Science became a type of intellectual hobby.  It enabled human beings to find a new outlet, things to do and think about and experiments to make that were fascinating.  Gradually over time a scientific philosophy came into existence and according to this  the real advancement of life was the  advancement of knowledge.  The more we advance the more we go backwards.  Politics as an answer to anything is impossible.. we are here with very few supports but we are here for a measure of time.  In time we live succeed or fail and we grow and grow old.. we have a life span of approximately 80 years..  In this span of 80 years it is like a second in universal time.

Today we have lengthened our time considerably and we have done all sorts of things to abuse time, but we have time as a commodity for growth improvement and the collective destinies of mankind..  Out of that 80 years we have we have some free time to so what we came here to do in the first place.  Some want to get through this as comfortably as possible.  Most people think the best use of time is to waste it and this makes it bearable for them.

We have a small span of opportunity.  This opportunity is time to do something, time to be something.  We have this and yet we give very little attention as to what we will do or be.  So many young ones are uncertain and so choose to have fun as long as they can, and fun fills up the active quarter of human life that is not occupied by inevitable pursuits.

In the past people learned to amuse themselves and make their own fun through birthdays and festivals and family gatherings.  Today fun its different. It is not the same now and its simple dissipation.  "Fun" is the individual definitely and desperately trying to forget the reason for himself.  He has this self and he cant explain it but he knows he is there.  He knows this self in him is alive,  He knows he is part of a greater life.   He breathes, he thinks, he feels and therefore there is a part of himself that is in there as a conscious unit, a being.  This being is for the most part an annoyance.  It brings with it a certain amount of moral tradition, watches the news and watches others get into trouble and then goes and does the same thing.  We are with out motivation but we have opportunity.  This is what it is all about... the proper use of TIME!   

I listen to Manly Palmer Hall Lectures every night for approximately six hours and so if you hear his words its because they are his words.   His work on the esoteric is phenomenal and he encourages folks to understand the Hermetica and study the Kybalion and other ancient texts.  I understand so much more and all of what I learned earlier has been beautifully reconciled.    I have an understanding of where the "Bible" fits into this and I understand the Gnostic side of Christianity and how this was frowned upon by the Romans.  It is all connected in a weird sort of way.  There is no denying the re-learning of ancient history looking for the clues from this perspective and then studying ancient cultures to see the common thread in these was the same or so similar it was too close not be be regarded as the same.  

Life has been very different on this planet at different times.  We live in interesting times now, and we were born for such a time as this.

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