You and I live in a prison. To those who don't agree with this, this message is not written. This is written for people who are depressed by the pointlessness of life on earth.

 

What is the point of life? The human personality is designed to be a tool, an instrument of God. God has created the universe, and to develop the universe, and work on it to make it greater and greater, He created a tool. This tool, of which He created an infinite number, is God's hands.

 

The instrument consists of three parts: the Spirit, the Soul and the Personality, all of them eternal and indestructible. The Spirit is God Himself. The Soul is the intermediary between the Spirit and the Personality. The Spirit can link itself to the Soul, and the Soul lives in the Personality with its different vehicles. The Spirit can't link itself directly to the Personality, because the vibrations of the Spirit are much too high for the Personality. It would burn up.

 

When the Universal Spirit touches the Soul, it forms a kind of "flame" or focal point. I always imagine a stream of invisible fire over a person's head. If the person raises himself up somehow, his head extends into the fire, and this causes a huge flame to envelop him. In this fire the person can hear God talking to him, and he can see God and find out what He wants. Such a flame is called Pymander.

 

I've been describing the divine human being as God planned him. The fallen earthly human being is nothing like that. He has no contact with the Spirit, and his soul couldn't possibly be the intermediary with the Spirit, because the mortal soul is too low in vibration. His whole being is temporary and every bit if him dies at the end of life. Only the experiences are absorbed by the higher self of the microcosm. 

 

We are the prisoners of the Higher Self. We have no purpose for our own sake and life on earth has no point - except to serve as a school for learning to build the true human being.

 

If we can begin to think that we don't exist for our self, for our own sake, but to become an instrument for the Divine Soul, we would make a big step towards our divine purpose, and hence for our eternal happiness, I reckon. In this period when everybody is coming back from the holidays, and they're all talking about how wonderful it was, or how bad the weather was, I begin to feel this painful sensation that most people in this world are thinking of themselves as the whole point of creation. They think, without thinking about it, that their life is there for them to enjoy, and that if they enjoy themselves, they are fulfilling the purpose of their existence. Surely this is what 99.99% of people think?

 

If you and I can realise that we don't exist for the sole purpose of exploiting our senses, but that we are here to serve the Immortal Soul who is being inspired to serve God in His Perfect Plan, this must surely change our perception and our consciousness radically? If we can deeply experience the realisation that we have a Living Soul (even if he is not born yet) that is there to actualise a Plan that will benefit the whole of creation, a Plan that is meant to embrace every living creature with a Love that is universal and totally without judgement, a Plan that is geared to impel everyone to the highest imaginable state of happiness, and beyond... then this must surely change our mode of life? Wouldn't this create a longing in us to be connected to the Spirit again?

 

Although we would still feel imprisoned in this universe of time and space, we would at least know that there is a purpose to life, a purpose so infinitely glorious and breathtakingly majestic that it should make us feel deeply grateful, and think lovingly and longingly of the New Soul, the Inner Christ, or Harry Potter, who lives in our heart.

 

Just one man's thoughts. Comments and questions are welcome.

 

Love to all

Hans