ABOUT DIVORCE -- PART THREE

Divorce should be a mutual agreement, with both husband and wife agreeing to the seperation. If that agreement is not present and one of them wishes the marriage to go on then the other person should make the sacrifice and should remain in the marriage to help that person. That is the spiritual ideal: that the sacrifice should be made to help the other partner who still has need of the marriage.

The Family Energy

For parents with children divorce should not take place. Inevitably, it will, because Humanity is not yet of the consciousness to make the sacrifice involved. After a divorce has taken place the parents must at all times ensure that their physical presence, their spiritual energy, is available to their children whenever it is needed. It is essential, therefore, that the family energy and feeling is preserved even though seperation has taken place. The male and female energy must be present equally to hold the child in balance. A child needs the energy of the two that have created it in order to grow and become a balanced adult.

Creating On Many Levels

Even amongst people who have no children the decision to divorce should be considered very carefully, for many creations come from a marriage apart from the physical creativity of a child. A husband and wife create on many levels besides the physical. Every time they perform the sexual act not only do they create an etheric child on the higher levels of life which then becomes their responsibility, but they also create on the emotional and mental levels as well.

So during their married life a husband and wife will create many thought-forms for which they are responsible. It is easier to handle the karma of all that they have created if they stay together in love. They can transmute everything that they have created as they grow old in wisdom. When they are in their sixth cycle of life, their fifties, and have achieved spiritual maturity, they can then look back together on the life that they have led and can see the creations of their marriage. They can agree where they have erred and, together, can transmute those errors and so go forward to become the teachers of the young.

Remaining In Balance

There are some people today who believe that they have to sacrifice their marriages in order to become spiritual teachers, to fulfil a divine mission. I would say that if they cannot hold their marriages in balance then they have not a destiny to be spiritual teachers. If they cannot be in balance on the physical, the external level of life, then they are certainly not in balance on the spiritual, the inner plane of life. Sacrificial service cannot be manifested on the higher planes if it cannot first be manifested on the physical plane of life.

For many people divorce signifies the ending of a marriage which, in truth, was never a spiritual union. Today many marry, many divorce, without thought for the effects of their actions on the World. It means nothing. They were never married in spirit anyway, although of course their union has linked them karmically for many lives to come. What concerns us of the Spiritual Hierarchi is that so many of the people who enter into a spiritual marriage today, who invoke a divine blessing, who ask that their Creator bless them and guide them in the years to come, should then renounce their vows and seek to end their marriage by divorce.

Lack Of Forgiveness

One of the great failings in modern society is that a husband or wife is usually not allowed to make any mistakes, especially where adultery is concerned. There seems to me to be little forgiveness in marriage today. Each partner is held to be perfect and when one slips from that perfection, that is considered to be grounds for ending the marriage. Remember it is by forgiving that you are forgiven. People will make mistakes in marriage. People will slip from their pedestals. That must be understood. If there is love in a person´s heart, if they recognise the true quality of their husband or wife, then they will not punish them for their slip but will support them in their time of need. To make mistakes is human. It is a necessary part of human evolution. It is not grounds for divorce.

Two Divine Sparks

There are also many who divorce today because they feel that marriage is preventing them from becoming what they want to be. They feel that marriage is restricting them, that the personality traits of their partners are stifling their potential, that they cannot serve their God in some noble cause because their husband or wife will not permit it.

This, to my mind, begs the question, for they have not recognised that their partner is the other half of human creativity, the other half of their being. Marriage is an act of union between two divine sparks of creativity. God is present in both halves of the marriage, and by denying one half you are denying your God, and to embark upon some great quest when you have already denied your God is pointless. If you cannot hold a marriage in balance then you cannot be of true service in the Divine Plan. That surely is obvious.

What Is Threatened?

So many people today are seduced by the material possessions of life. Perhaps this aspect more than any other today tests a marriage and leads to divorce. When certain material standards are not achieved, when either the husband or the wife thinks that they need more material possessions, more money or status, then the marriage becomes threatened. What is threatened, of course, is not the marriage but the ideas that the husband or wife have of that marriage. The spirit that was present at the altar when they were married is still there, but how many people seek its wisdom.

If people today listened to that still, quiet voice within there would be very few divorces. If people truly loved each other, loved not the personality but the spirit, there would be no need for separation, no need for denying what they have already created on the higher levels of life.

Weigh The Balance

So I urge you all, especially if you are considering divorce, to think clearly of what you are doing. You can separate the bond of marriage for just a short time on the physical plane of life, but that is all that you will achieve and what will you haved created by that act: the karma you owe to your marriage partner, the karma you must discharge to your Creator, the necessity to come back and repeat that marriage again, the karma you owe to your children if there are any in that marriage, the karma you owe to your country, to the World, indeed to the Cosmos, for the ripples you have created on the pond of eternity. Weigh the balance carefully before you make that step.

This article is from "The Fantastic Teachings of Ramala".

UNIVERSAL MAN -- PART TWO

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First Incarnations

When a soul incarnates on this Earth it will obviously not exhibit as high a state of consciousness and evolution as those who have incarnated for many thousands of lives. Therefore do not try to impose on an unevolved soul a way of life that it does not understand, comprehend or even need. Respect the individuality of all people. Regard them as your brothers and sisters and help them as best you can. Ensure that with the responsibility of a more evolved soul you help them as befits their point of evolution and that in no way do you disrupt their path towards consciousness.

Imposing Western Ideas

One of the greatest errors of recent centuries has been the imposing of western ideas, western religions, western beliefs, on the natives, as they are called, of the colonised countries. Great karma has resulted, which will have to be repaid. Just as individuals incarnate with a destiny, so do countries. That is why, as a whole, some countries suffer and others do not, why some countries are involved in great wars and others are not.

The Law of Karma applies as much to countries as it does to individuals, an therefore the effect of what a country does in one generation will be experienced by those who live in the next. For example, the present generation of Americans is having to pay the karma for the error of those who shipped many thousands of black slaves from the coast of Africa to America, who took them away from their true environment, from the country of their evolution, and placed them in a false and hostile environment.

Patriotism is Nationalism

Mentioned earlier was the fact that the one force which can seemingly unite people in time of war is the emotion known as patriotism. In war people are prepared to make great sacrifices for their country. They are, perhaps, not prepared to die for much else, but they will sacrifice their lives to preserve their country. Patriotism, like a diamond, has many facets, many aspects. I am not going to say that patriotism is an undesirable emotion, although one can point to many examples where it has been abused and used to persuade people into sacrificing their lives in the name of their country.

It is interesting to note, though, that the people who sacrificed their lives usually believed in the cause for which they were fighting. They died, believing in their cause or their country, even though others standing outside the actual conflict could see the error in the actions of those countries who were fighting.

Excuse For Much Evil

Patriotism, sometimes called Nationalism, has often been used as an excuse for much evil. When a country sets out to conquer another country, to enlarge its empire, to gain new possessions, the emotion of patriotism is often generated. You can kill for your country, you are told, because your country demands it. It is not your responsibility. You are only doing what is expected of you. You are fighting for your country.

Likewise, when a country is being attacked, the men and women of that country, who normally would not fight or kill anyone, unite together and are prepared to kill to defend it. They can now justify what, before, they would never have considered or approved of. Moreover, the few people who say they are not prepared to fight, the people whom you call conscientious objectors, people who are not prepared to kill, are despised and held up as objects of ridicule and, indeed, are usually imprisoned.

Level of Soul-evolution

You will judge patriotism according to the level of your soul-evolution. If you are truly an evolved soul and recognize the Earth as a whole and all the peoples on it as one, then you will not be influenced by that emotion. You will not be influenced by lower feelings of patriotism and nationalism, especially when they are used as a means of comparing one race with another, of placing one country above another, of dividing people, of creating hatred and distrust between them.

You will view the emotion of patriotism according to your level of consciousness. If you cannot identify with the Earth as a whole, with your Creator and with the Higher Beings who influence this Earth, then you will of course try to identify with your country. You will say that you are English, French, or American etc., and that will give you a feeling of security, of belonging. Yet, even within a country, you can still have people who regard themselves as not belonging to that country but only to a small part of it. They will say that they come from Wales or Scotland, from the Northern or the Southern States of America, from the East or the West coast. They will think of themselves as belonging only to the smaller unit and will not recognize the whole. You can also have people who regard themselves as belonging only to a city. You can even find people who will not identify beyond their own family.

The Greater Whole

So you see how important it is that, whilst recognizing the significance of the individuality of each and every being, you should also recognize that together you form a greater whole. Every one of you should look at what you consider to be the whole and then take one step further beyond that, for as you evolve you will realize that your concept of the whole is limited. As you advance so you will begin to think not of your town, of your state, of your country, of your race, but of your Earth, and when you think of your Earth then you will begin to think of the Solar System and of your Creator, and of Solar Systems beyond it.

Realize that World Government actually exists within your Solar Body. The other members of the Solar Body practise World Government. Because Humanity on the Earth has not yet evolved to the required state of consciousness it will not, and cannot, participate in such a government. Humanity is still struggling to identify as a one, to realize that it is a one. When that day comes when the Earth as a whole unites in one harmonious vibration and takes its seat in the Chamber of Representatives of the Solar Body, then it will be fulfilling the purpose which its Creator intended and will be displaying the power of its true vibration : Universal Love.