“We journey towards a light we cannot reach and fall into a pit of darkness to find it at the bottom. We gaze on the beauty of the stars and think them high above, when, behold, they are within our hearts.
“Man is not born to play, but to labor. Life is a basket, which must be filled with sustenance for the future. The fool fills it with empty, unwholesome things; the wise man fills it with things of substance.
“Earth is a place of unreality. That, which seems substantial here may have no true substance. That, which seems desirable here may not be wholly desirable. That, which serves here may not serve everywhere.
“Man is born to live, but he is also born to die. It is no more natural for him to live than it is for him to die. Death is no harder than birth. It is no more difficult than life.
“The best of today is gone; we console ourselves, better will arise tomorrow. The Earth gets better or it passes away. Men improve or perish; that is the Law.
“May you find eternal springs of strength and courage welling up in your soul at the time of your testing.”
-The Kolbrin Bible (Man:25:7-12)
Journey Towards God’s Light
We in Cosolargy know he importance of moving toward God’s Light. It is not a physical movement, but a spiritual one. As we practice our sun-gazing techniques, we gradually raise our lever of consciousness closer and closer to the level where God is found. It is not, as the quote says, found at the bottom of a pit of darkness. The lower dimensions are the location of darkness, the higher ones are where God and Angels are found.
Beauty of Stars
Physically, stars are far away. Even our sun, which looks fairly close, is millions of miles away. When the quote says they are within our hearts, that is allegorical, not literal. They are in us because the light of stars—and especially the sun—fills our energy centers (chakras). With sufficient practice of spiritual techniques, those energy centers grow to the point where they touch each other, and energy can then flow completely through our body. And as our physical energy centers grow stronger, so do the spiritual centers. So the light of stars is in us on both the physical and spiritual levels.
Man Must Labor
It is true that men and women must labor. Indeed, a line in the prayer we read at second services on Sunday says that we must labor in this world and the next. That doesn’t mean we will work in factories or offices after leaving the physical world. It means we will continue to work on the development of our Soul until we reach the Divine state of Oneness with God.
The Unreality of Earth
Some people misunderstand when spiritual teachers say that the physical world is unreal. They don’t mean that it doesn’t exist, but that we see it in a distorted way. The reality of it is very different from what we see. Recent scientific discoveries tell us that objects such as a rock, that seem quite solid, are made up of atoms that are mostly “empty space”. But they seem solid because the “empty” space is full of energy, so not really empty at all. An atomic bomb works by releasing that trapped energy.
Born to Live and Die
This is true of the physical body. Just as the physical self is born, so must it die. But if you are spiritually awake, you need not fear death, since it is only the temporary physical body that dies.
Better Tomorrow
We are living in very dark times now, and it will probably get worse. But we can take solace in knowing that better times are to come. We are on the cusp of a Golden Age of Enlightenment. Naturally, the forces and beings of darkness are doing their worst to stop it, but they will fail, and darkness will be pushed out of the world, and indeed the universe, forever.
