Meditation
The article: Mankind at One with God
Chapter 6
The finished and the unfinished processes of creation in the manifestation of God
With the recognition of a living being as the source of all movements, creations and functions in the universe's immense ocean of releases of energy it is easier to understand that all Nature's processes of creation are ultimately a joy and a blessing for living beings.
We see here a confirmation of the fact that there not only exists a living being or source behind the entire manifestation of the universe but also that this source makes it a fact that the appearance or behaviour of the universe is nothing but absolute "love".
The old idea that "God is love" becomes thus a reality.
Looking at our own organisms and those of all our fellow beings, we see that they are all without exception in their normal state a joy and a blessing for their source.
If we look at all the other great processes of creation in Nature we will see that they likewise ultimately constitute nothing but a joy and a blessing for living beings.
Are not rain and sunshine joys and blessings?
Is not the rotation of the earth on its own axis, so that there is alternately summer and winter, day and night over the entire planet, also a blessing?
Is not the creation of all the various foodstuffs that grow everywhere a joy and a blessing for living beings?
It is true that there is an entire ocean of cosmic processes of creation in God's creation of the human being that are not finished.
That these processes do not seem to be a joy and a blessing for living beings is a matter of course.
How can war, accidents and sufferings be a joy and a blessing for living beings?
How can natural catastrophes, earthquakes, floods and the like be a joy and a blessing for the beings they affect?
How can the many various kinds of fatal illness, unhappy fates involving starvation, death in concentration camps, torture or crucifixion be a joy and a blessing?
Indeed, is it not precisely true that the world for the ordinary terrestrial human being looks like one great ocean of injustice?
Why is one child born into sickness, need and suffering and another to a life of splendour and joy, to world fame, wealth and well-being?
Why are all people not born to the same happy fate?
Where is the divine blessing in these phenomena?
As we shall see in the following, all unhappy states are due exclusively to the fact that the Godhead is here not finished with his transformation of the living beings into "Man in his image after his likeness".
If we look at the living beings in the mesocosmic area, which means plants, animals and people, it is easy to see that these beings have not come equally far in this divine process of creation.
While plants and animals are still in a kind of embryonic state, terrestrial human beings have come further in the same creation, so that one can begin to catch a glimpse of the beginnings of the birth of the perfect human being in their mentality and way of being or behaviour.
And the more advanced the human being is in this birth process the more love will emerge in his behaviour or way of being towards his fellow beings and surroundings, and the closer he will be to fulfilling the goal of the divine process of creation and to constituting the perfect human being in God's image after his likeness.