”Where did mankind go wrong?” I’ll tell you where he went wrong. He went wrong when he started wanting what he didn’t have and as a result never used his attention to learn what he did have! Man wants but has no conception of what he already has. The Work: ’You have everything you need!’ It doesn’t say ’almost everything’, it says, ’everything’! And in serious circles, people use words with precision. That’s where ’second education’ comes in. ’Work’ is referred to as ’second education’. First education is within the society you found yourself. It’s necessary, you have to survive within it. Eventually the personality formed within it can become food for the essence. Not only is it necessary to form but the more elaborated the better.
Attention is the issue. Man lost his attention. His attention got stolen by a little apple on the tree of knowledge, so called. Tempted by the devil. What’s the devil? Tempted by a piece of the Whole.
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Who is there that is ready to struggle to regain his mind? Each person, with his or her unique qualities and background, has far greater differences in their world picture than they are aware of. We move in a world of interacting illusions. People judge each other as stupid, insensitive, naive, manipulative, immoral, unreliable, and a whole lot of other objectionables - not at all realizing that the object of their criticism is running a completely different movie through their system. This is the basis, the bottom line, the ultimate reality of what is, in fact, 'sleeping/mechanical mankind'.
It's also a fact that the modern, educated, successful Western man is a million miles from an active sense of his responsibilities to God/The Creator. A million miles! Does the difference make a difference? What makes a difference, anything? Are there real enemies in the world? Is one right and the other evil by comparison, or did that distinction end with World War Two? Are there good guys and bad guys and if so are we sure which side we are on? Does it make a difference? Who goes to take a look?
God wishes to save this world and clearly sees the line of destruction that it is on. What is equally clear is that mankind is the cause of the impending disaster and that only mankind is able to save the situation. What is required is a total reversal/revolution.
Mankind is made up of individual men. Individual men are needed, indeed obliged, if the capacity is there, to affect a complete reversal, a total personal revolution - an ultimate shift of perspective and motivation. Not all men, but for those capable it is a must, both for the sake of their eternal soul and for the sake of the creation itself.