THE ETERNAL AND DIVINE PURPOSE

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There is a great and glorious purpose in the march of the universes through space. All of your mortal struggling is not in vain. We are all part of an immense plan, a gigantic enterprise, and it is the vastness of the undertaking that renders it impossible to see very much of it at any one time and during any one life. We are all a part of an eternal project which the Gods are supervising and outworking. The whole marvelous and universal mechanism moves on majestically through space to the music of the meter of the infinite thought and the eternal purpose of the First Great Source and Center.

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The eternal purpose of the eternal God is a high spiritual ideal. The events of time and the struggles of material existence are but the transient scaffolding which bridges over to the other side, to the promised land of spiritual reality and supernal existence. Of course, you mortals find it difficult to grasp the idea of an eternal purpose; you are virtually unable to comprehend the thought of eternity, something never beginning and never ending. Everything familiar to you has an end.

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 As regards an individual life, the duration of a realm, or the chronology of any connected series of events, it would seem that we are dealing with an isolated stretch of time; everything seems to have a beginning and an end. And it would appear that a series of such experiences, lives, ages, or epochs, when successively arranged, constitutes a straightaway drive, an isolated event of time flashing momentarily across the infinite face of eternity. But when we look at all this from behind the scenes, a more comprehensive view and a more complete understanding suggest that such an explanation is inadequate, disconnected, and wholly unsuited properly to account for, and otherwise to correlate, the transactions of time with the underlying purposes and basic reactions of eternity.

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 To me it seems more fitting, for purposes of explanation to the mortal mind, to conceive of eternity as a cycle and the eternal purpose as an endless circle, a cycle of eternity in some way synchronized with the transient material cycles of time. As regards the sectors of time connected with, and forming a part of, the cycle of eternity, we are forced to recognize that such temporary epochs are born, live, and die just as the temporary beings of time are born, live, and die. Most human beings die because, having failed to achieve the spirit level of Adjuster fusion, the metamorphosis of death constitutes the only possible procedure whereby they may escape the fetters of time and the bonds of material creation, thereby being enabled to strike spiritual step with the progressive procession of eternity. Having survived the trial life of time and material existence, it becomes possible for you to continue on in touch with, even as a part of, eternity, swinging on forever with the worlds of space around the circle of the eternal ages.

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 The sectors of time are like the flashes of personality in temporal form; they appear for a season, and then they are lost to human sight, only to reappear as new actors and continuing factors in the higher life of the endless swing around the eternal circle. Eternity can hardly be conceived as a straightaway drive, in view of our belief in a delimited universe moving over a vast, elongated circle around the central dwelling place of the Universal Father.

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 Frankly, eternity is incomprehensible to the finite mind of time. You simply cannot grasp it; you cannot comprehend it. I do not completely visualize it, and even if I did, it would be impossible for me to convey my concept to the human mind. Nevertheless, I have done my best to portray something of our viewpoint, to tell you somewhat of our understanding of things eternal. I am endeavoring to aid you in the crystallization of your thoughts about these values which are of infinite nature

 and eternal import.

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 There is in the mind of God a plan which embraces every creature of all his vast domains, and this plan is an eternal purpose of boundless opportunity, unlimited progress, and endless life. And the infinite treasures of such a matchless career are yours for the striving!

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 The goal of eternity is ahead! The adventure of divinity attainment lies before you! The race for perfection is on! whosoever will may enter, and certain victory will crown the efforts of every human being who will run the race of faith and trust, depending every step of the way on the leading of the indwelling Adjuster and on the guidance of that good spirit of the Universe Son, which so freely has been poured out

 upon all flesh.

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THE POWER OF SERVICE

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Service is fundamentally powerful.
It is true that perhaps only a few people
will receive this insight. And perhaps even
fewer will act on it. But if we
truly seek to fulfill our life mission,
then we must act on the service insight.
Service is important at every level.
A mother in South Central Los Angeles
loses a daughter to street violence.
In her grief, she asks, "What can I do?"
Her Inner Wisdom tells her,
"Start with a youth outreach."
She does. With no building,
no facilities, and no equipment, she begins
to hold meetings regularly under a tree
in her front yard. Elementary and middle school
students respond. Today, after-school programs
exist in six different churches in South
Central Los Angeles because of her efforts.
It all started with a decision to serve.
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Fulfilling your mission through service
is the essence of leadership. It means that
you are willing to go out ahead,
to show the way, to be open to the unusual,
to follow inspiration.
Service transforms your sense of mission
and attracts followers. Other lives are touched.
Others see more clearly what is best because
of our example of service. Our task is
to put the law of service and reciprocity
into effect daily, not just to help ourselves
but to show the way for others.
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Vow to serve.
Make a decision that wherever you go and
whomever you encounter, you will bring them
a gift. Let it be a gift of encouragement
or a compliment; give a gift of your
belief in the other person.
Give the gift of prayer,
the gift of trust, the gift of
accountability, knowing that when we hold
ourselves accountable to give back can we
also hold others accountable.
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Make service the center of your
conscious activities, rather than an
occasional or random act. Service needs
to become the very lifeblood of the process
of fulfilling one's mission.
It's not that spur-of-the-moment
 demonstrations of kindness are wrong.
 It's simply that we cannot fulfill our mission
 by waiting until it "feels right."
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Edited from LIVING LIFE ON PURPOSE
 by Greg Anderson
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DESERTS OF VAST ETERNITY

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“But at my back I always hear,

Time's winged chariot hurrying near;

And yonder all before us lie,

Deserts of vast eternity”

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Andrew Marvel

17th Century English Metaphysical Poet
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