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While I am still not sure of nod's purpose in this topic, I am satisfied that the subject incorporates many different concepts presented in the Papers related to planetary inevitabilities over very long time frames and the perspective of the mortal which is here such a brief time and all of that within the larger context of forevermore. We mortals have such a short time to learn how to manage the place and the times in which we live. In the past change was often glacial in its slowness, things probably appeared to never change from birth to death. And while this may persist still today for some people in some places, for many, change seems persistent, even relentless, and feels accompanied by acceleration. Coping with such change is daunting to all I think and I believe faith is so important in both cases....nothing seems to change and everything is always changing. For those who lack faith in a loving God who is truly in control of the Universe of universes, I cannot imagine how one might cope except by escapes, pleasures, distractions, and all the forms of material attachments to fend off feeling helpless and hopeless.
For me, this is the greatest value faith brings to my daily life in the vicissitudes and along the edges of conflict. I know why I'm here and what must be learned and my destiny to come and the Most Highs will care for our world while the Spirit cares for me. I am led and uplifted as is our world as well. One fascinating thing is how the world's upliftment depends upon the Spirit's work within and how patiently the Most Highs await the outworking of the Spirit within for their planetary ministry and its inevitable results. Some folk are resigned and defeated, others are angry and impatient, some are filled with anxieties and fear, but some of us know that our destiny is assured and we are emboldened to walk daily in hope, confidence, contentment, and assurance that there really is nothing to fear and no value in impatience and that we might help others, our world, and our own being by becoming an agent of and conduit for love.
It is incredible to me how slowly a world grows and transforms and yet how quickly the individual can do the same. The pace of planetary progress is completely dependent upon how many of seven and a half billion souls transform themselves within and by the Spirit. This means there is a rising tide of spirit transformation over time and that the Adjutants, the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, and the God Fragments have a growing success rate in a growing population that is increasing/improving proportionately throughout the Mortal Epochs. The interconnectedness forms a feedback loop of sorts which uplifts in both directions at once - personal and planetary - planetary and personal. Just thinking out loud here....the mystery of evolutionary progress which includes restraints and accelerants - both - it would appear that love and universal brotherhood are what we should be most focused on...the planet's progress depends upon those the most for potential to be realized:
Some more from Paper 118 on planetary progress:
118:8.5 (1302.2) The whole principle of biologic evolution makes it impossible for primitive man to appear on the inhabited worlds with any large endowment of self-restraint. Therefore does the same creative design which purposed evolution likewise provide those external restraints of time and space, hunger and fear, which effectively circumscribe the subspiritual choice range of such uncultured creatures. As man’s mind successfully overstrides increasingly difficult barriers, this same creative design has also provided for the slow accumulation of the racial heritage of painfully garnered experiential wisdom — in other words, for the maintenance of a balance between the diminishing external restraints and the augmenting internal restraints.
118:8.6 (1302.3) The slowness of evolution, of human cultural progress, testifies to the effectiveness of that brake — material inertia — which so efficiently operates to retard dangerous velocities of progress. Thus does time itself cushion and distribute the otherwise lethal results of premature escape from the next-encompassing barriers to human action. For when culture advances overfast, when material achievement outruns the evolution of worship-wisdom, then does civilization contain within itself the seeds of retrogression; and unless buttressed by the swift augmentation of experiential wisdom, such human societies will recede from high but premature levels of attainment, and the “dark ages” of the interregnum of wisdom will bear witness to the inexorable restoration of the imbalance between self-liberty and self-control.
118:8.7 (1302.4) The iniquity of Caligastia was the by-passing of the time governor of progressive human liberation — the gratuitous destruction of restraining barriers, barriers which the mortal minds of those times had not experientially overridden.
118:8.8 (1302.5) That mind which can effect a partial abridgment of time and space, by this very act proves itself possessed of the seeds of wisdom which can effectively serve in lieu of the transcended barrier of restraint.
118:8.9 (1302.6) Lucifer similarly sought to disrupt the time governor operating in restraint of the premature attainment of certain liberties in the local system. A local system settled in light and life has experientially achieved those viewpoints and insights which make feasible the operation of many techniques that would be disruptive and destructive in the presettled eras of that very realm.
118:8.10 (1302.7) As man shakes off the shackles of fear, as he bridges continents and oceans with his machines, generations and centuries with his records, he must substitute for each transcended restraint a new and voluntarily assumed restraint in accordance with the moral dictates of expanding human wisdom. These self-imposed restraints are at once the most powerful and the most tenuous of all the factors of human civilization — concepts of justice and ideals of brotherhood. Man even qualifies himself for the restraining garments of mercy when he dares to love his fellow men, while he achieves the beginnings of spiritual brotherhood when he elects to mete out to them that treatment which he himself would be accorded, even that treatment which he conceives that God would accord them.
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