Lesson 4 – The Purposiveness
“God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.”
IMMANUEL KANT
Through the knowledge base I’m sharing with you, you will be able to see clearly where you’ve come from, where you are at in your development, and where you ideally should head. I’ll eventually help you create a map of the movement of consciousness through time. That will enable you to see evolution as an actual Process and not just a random occurrence.
(This course section is so significant and critical to your understanding that you must slow everything down and read and re-read this page many times!)
The Purposiveness
In reality, we have no idea what the Source is. Because we are human, it was easiest for us to make a connection by brainwashing our human emotions and faulty belief systems to believe what man wanted, to be able to control us. That’s why people very long ago created a concept of God as a human with a long white beard and a flowing robe. A God that was wrathful and one that promised heaven upon death so people would do good and not harm. However, God is not that. Discussing such an essential force in our lives is an inferior image and leads to our inability to understand it.
I have renamed this ancient concept of God The Purposiveness. I will help you see it as a Process much more significant than what religion laid out for us and that it is genuinely unknowable except for a particular method of “seeing” that I’ll share later. We can “see” the step-by-step movement through time of The Purposiveness and, as a result, know it as a Process seeking some ultimate goal. We can also realize (once we understand the Process) that we are the containers within which we are endowed the power to manifest that ultimate goal sometime in our evolutionary future.
Unfortunately, modern life has covered our psychic and clairvoyant abilities needed to know, feel, and manifest this reality. To use these abilities, we must go against what society believes is possible and open our intuitive center. To guide us into the future, we must learn to strengthen and use these previously dismissed connections critical to our survival.
The Purposiveness Behind All of Creation
The universe is a playground for the evolution of consciousness and seeks to accomplish a specific goal. If, instead, the universe was random and evolution just occurred without reason, there would be no purpose for life, and this concept would be highly unattractive to us as sensitive and caring people. Knowing there is a reason for life makes participating in it much more enjoyable and natural.
Quantum physicists have found and are now admitting that life is Purposiveness. Science has rejected that idea for a long time, and finally, we can rest upon knowing through reason and logic (and not just faith) that Purposiveness is real and that it exists. As we align with it, our lives will become propelled beyond what we alone can accomplish through our efforts.
The Purposiveness That Guides All Off Life
At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silent pulse of perfect rhythm, a complex of wave forms and resonances, which is individual and unique, and yet which connects us to everything in the universe. The Process that we can use to get in touch with this pulse, this very Purposiveness that guides all of life, can transform our personal experience and, in some unexplainable way, alter the world around us. It is possible through intentionality to influence this universe in extraordinary ways. To even consider doing that, however, you must fully understand what is happening. So before we define and discuss the Process, we need to begin assessing, identifying, and realizing that an underlying Purposiveness guides all of life.
All Of Evolution Is But The Play Of Consciousness Satisfying The Desire Of A Purposiveness That Is Seeking Something
The movement of evolution in its most physical aspects is determined by a subtle underlying essence that gives it purpose. This purpose upholds the movement and supports the outer play of which evolution is the mechanics. To understand this outer play, we must first realize that the ultimate goal of creation is to be an ever more direct manifestation of the upholding and underlying Purposiveness.
The purposefulness in our manifested world is expressed as a subtle and unique energy that manifests as activity within the movement of time. Energy in a state of movement in its purest form would manifest as matter. Energy in a state of rest would manifest as Purposiveness or what we could also call Spirit. These two opposite poles represent two aspects of what One Unique Energy is.
To unravel the mystery of creation and to acquire a mapping of the movement of consciousness through its evolutionary Process, we must first study and get to know this underlying Purposiveness, for it is Spirit that determines the forms to be taken in the more dense realms of existence and the Process of evolution organizes and weaves the available substances according to what it is that it is seeking.
All of evolution is but the play of the consciousness of this Purposiveness, which utilizes a Process established by determinable physical laws created for evolution to take place so that it can ultimately achieve what it seeks.
To fully understand the Process, numbers, symbols, and diagrams will be needed to help outline a step-by-step journey that will gradually allow you to “see” life much differently than you probably do now. In the end, however, the fundamental understanding and the actual “seeing” will only come when you open your intuitive center, and it is through this realm that you will ultimately be able to perceive the underlying truths that surpass the linear information accessible only by your logical, rational mind. But before we begin that journey, allow me to explore The Purposiveness in more detail and better define it so that when we start, you will more readily be able to create a solid connection and heart-felt relationship with it.
Coming Into Alignment
If there is a Purposiveness that is seeking something through the evolutionary process of life and if this process is definable as steps or stages as the Purposiveness unfolds within time, it would be to our individual and collective benefit to align ourselves with its ultimate goal and to play our creative role in its realization.
To do this, we must first realize that we are not the center of our universe and that we are here on Earth as guests and custodians of a more significant evolutionary requirement than just the simple satisfaction of the lower desires of our own lives.
What is generally missing that allows us to do this is confirmation and knowing that the Purposiveness exists. It is difficult for us to resolve this because the only way to approach this subject in the past was to pose the existence of a God that no one has personally ever seen. It almost requires an exception or a blind spot in our usual logical and rational approach to life to shift, believe, and somehow know that a Person or a Source exists and controls all of creation.
Many of us have become involved in organized religion, which has formed a narrow interpretation of some original concepts. Still, none of our religions have ever proved or validated their assumptions. We have always wanted more than this, and the path to actual knowledge exists not in someone else’s mind or belief system but right here within the depths of our very self. We can develop a valid conception of life and form a proper relationship with The Purposiveness that lies behind and directs it. This is indeed possible. But the only way we will ever receive true fulfillment is to accomplish this task.
When we do, and as more of us accomplish the same, a consciousness of planetary unity can emerge. This is the correct and ideal direction for mankind’s future and the reason for the emergence of a new Gnostic Society.
Establishing The Existence Of The Purposiveness
In the early days of science, it was thought that the universe was made up of only physical particles interacting according to fixed laws. Today, through the discoveries of quantum physics and related disciplines, we now realize that action is the precursor of matter and that matter is a crystallization that holds nothing more than a decaying existence over time. In reality, nothing in our physical world is permanent – it just appears to be since a physical body lives long enough within time to allow our mind to consider it natural instead of the decaying form that it is headed toward dissolution. Time allows us to create the illusion of permanence, but given enough time, nothing lasts, and it all collapses into its original building blocks.
Taking action requires a firm conception of what you would like to accomplish unless the action is involuntary or instinctual, in which case it comes from our subconscious. In reality, the conception we come up with is one single vision of a multitude of possible choices, and there is a realm of almost unlimited potentiality that holds visions of all possibilities that exist simultaneously. Science has found that without an observer, this realm of pure potentiality would not become activated and could not extend into the physically manifested world. The human race is significant to the cause of evolution since, as far as we know, we are the only conscious life forms on Earth that can choose, empower, and take action to co-create and form our conscious reality.
Before the emergence of the realm of pure potentiality is another kingdom or realm of existence that is extremely mysterious to the human mind; within this almost indescribable kingdom, we find a form of existence with no mass. It has no charge, and it has no time. It does, however, have a velocity of 186,000 miles per second in a vacuum, but this velocity is not motion as we find it in our typical space/time reality. It only has one speed and cannot be at rest. Even space is a meaningless concept for this mysterious existence since its passage through space is accomplished without the loss of energy – none. Scientists have tried to classify its presence as a particle, but it cannot be considered as such since it is not an object. This mystery is light, and despite its strange, unfathomable form of existence, it can only be seen once. Once it is seen, it is eradicated, and thus, we find that light is not seen; it is “seeing” itself.
Hence, we find that an observer is required to create a reality without some form of “seeing,” even on the most minimal level, creation cannot fully evolve and come into its desired state of physical existence.
Before the emergence of conscious man, nature had to take the lead in this “seeing” process, and as a result, evolution has been a random experience. But with the emergence of the conscious ability of man to actually “see” and his ability to desire, choose, and then apply mountains of free will, he has become a co-creator in conjunction with the evolutionary process of nature, and today the effects of both are visible within the continued progression of the world.
In the early days of the emergence of consciousness, just after the moment of the Big Bang, the separation process began where unity started falling out of Oneness and into the realm of the many. It’s taken a very long time to go through the settling process to create matter. Then, another lengthy time to make the determinable three-dimensional world on Earth where carbon-based life forms can live and breathe within a relatively stable and narrow corridor of ideal environmental conditions.
Throughout this process, we find that it has been light that has progressed through the addition of three degrees of constraint and has changed its nature to be able to allow The Purposivenss of Spirit to descend out of the pure realm of Spirit and into the very depths of our three-dimensional world. Yet, all is light and consciousness, contained, crystallized, and working toward the point when it can become fully aware of itself and rise back to its original position. Light is the substance that gives rise to our evidence of The Purposiveness of God, the Spirit of our Source. I will continue to take a little more time to share additional qualities of this realm with you as a preliminary to our future work together.
And Then God Said, “Let There Be Light,” And Then There Was Plenty Of It! So, What Is This Substance Called Light?
With light, its energy transport from one point to another leaves no residue. Light is pure action, unattached to any object. However, light does have two definable and observable properties: frequency and wavelength.
If we summarized the essential properties of light, we would find that:
- 1. Light is radiated in whole units that do not dissipate energy on the way to their targets (quanta of action).
- 2. All energy exchange at the atomic and molecular level is in terms of quanta of action (light).
- 3. Action, like matter, comes in discrete whole units and cannot be divided.
- 4. Light always follows the path that takes the shortest time (principle of least action).
Considering light’s qualities, we can conclude that light has a purposive behavior. Planck, in 1900, discovered that light is transmitted in whole units, and Einstein, in 1905, proposed that the amount of energy (E) contained in one unit of light (the photon) is proportional to its frequency (F). Thus, E=hF (where h = Plank’s constant).
As we ponder light, we begin to realize that its purpose occurs in whole units or another way to say this is that purpose is in the whole and not in the parts, and the whole must then be greater than the sum of the parts. The whole cannot function when divided – the parts are derived from the whole and not the whole from the parts. The whole exists before the parts and still exists even when we attempt to place the parts in isolation from each other and consider them as their reality. They are not, and are instead intrinsically tied to the whole, even though seemingly “off on their own.” In showing that the parts arise from the whole, we confirm life as the “first cause” – “Let there be light!”
Light = quanta of action = wholes = first cause
In summary, light is seeing, and when seeing occurs, the unit of light (the photon) is annihilated. This unit constitutes a point in the chain of causation and, therefore, can be considered the first cause. Light is the unitary purposive principle that engenders the universe and holds the nature of the first cause.
The Reason For Life On Earth
Photons, subatomic particles, atoms, molecules, and time are all “building blocks” that allow the creation of our 3DPMU (three-dimensional, physically manifested universe). The Purposiveness that lies behind our physical world must have some goal, a first cause, in mind for our being here.
As we examine life closely, we realize a process is involved in this unfolding. There is a step-by-step order that evolution follows, and this definable process can tell the story of our evolution from the first moment of creation up until today and far into the future.
Without the emergence of this Process and its motivating quality, our lives would be fully and wholly meaningless and without purpose. If this was so, we might as well fold up shop and leave now because there would never be any true satisfaction while being here and trying to accomplish anything meaningful.
I struggled with this concept for several years while I concluded that for my life to become meaningful and fulfilling, I needed to believe and know that there was a Purposiveness that guided all of life and that had an ultimate goal that it was seeking. Even more important was that within my own life, I carried my unique purpose to help facilitate the original goal of The Purposiveness.
Over seven years of full-time exploration, The Purposiveness spoke through me as I fully surrendered to it, allowing me to build a personal relationship with its internal voice of guidance. When you one day view the cosmology of the Mother’s Temple, you will better understand what I’ve just shared and will realize that there is no other geometric form that holds more archetypal knowledge and that better maps our very own personal and collective evolution through time.
More About Light
Light is described in our physical world as an electromagnetic spectrum whose frequency allows our human perception to see color. When examining this spectrum closely, it represents a principal force of nature that energizes our material world. Through our brain functions, we can sense the immanence or indwelling nature of light, and through deep appreciation, we have ended up calling this pure essence the Spirit of God over time. In the many ways it provides the essential means for life, we can witness it and describe the nature of this inner presence.
Since the emergence of human consciousness, humankind has revered the power and beauty of the natural world surrounding it and has worshipped the sun, the moon, and the stars. We have often used fire in sacrificial rites to represent a particular aspect of this natural phenomenon we call light. The electromagnetic radiation of light has held a revered place within all people’s spiritual and religious lives throughout human history. Light has been a central figure that has been shared by those who have gone through either profound spiritual experiences or have had a near-death experience. The silent glow of a single candle has been the central focus of spiritual contemplation and the establishment of spiritual space for ages.
Science has examined light in great detail and its relationship with our physical world and is beginning to conclude that the power and the subtlety of the electromagnetic force have had such an impact upon life and our experience of it that it can be considered an actual physical representation for God’s indwelling Purposiveness and a representation of the very Source of life.
Quantum physics now tells us that there was one unified force at the moment of the universe’s birth. As the universe expanded, the force dissociated itself step by step into the four forces of physics – the nuclear, electromagnetic, weak, and gravitational forces.
The electromagnetic force is the most prominent in our world today, and it plays an obvious role in the evolution of life. We are enveloped by a sea of electromagnetic activity of which we are an integral part of its life-enhancing qualities. Nature around us is quietly yet constantly kept alive by myriads of low-level quantum electrodynamic events.
Without ever hearing of the discovery of photons and the electromagnetic spectrum, human beings from the earliest times have regarded light as the underlying essence of an unseen vibrance that they sensed and knew was evidence of God’s direct descent into the living world around us. Throughout religious history, light has been correlated with spirituality and used as a symbol of holiness and a metaphor for representing a spiritual presence, an indwelling.
The first book of Genesis describes the birth of the universe: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. (Genesis 1:1-3)
What a profound statement and display of reverence for the indwelling Spirit of light. We may never find a clearly defined bridge between the material and spiritual worlds. Still, it does appear that for humankind, there is no physical mechanism closer than the electromagnetic spectrum of light that constitutes the portion of the bridge on the material side that reaches into the mysterious gap between the two realms and into the spiritual. There is no other means that we currently know of that provides such a perfect bridge for the entrance of consciousness into our world and for The Purposiveness behind creation to use this pathway to accomplish its original goal.
The electromagnetic interaction of light and its omnipresence constitutes a substantial and accurate means of sensing the movement of God in our world. The indispensable physical medium underlies our ability to feel that immanence and truly “see.” The electromagnetic force, which can reach right up through our brains, can relate to and touch the very frontier of our consciousness. Without it, we would not only not have the capacity to contemplate the idea of its immanence and much less experience it, but we would also not be able to realize ourselves as the conscious culmination of the biological evolution that has taken place upon Earth.
This entire process of evolution, from the assembly of molecules that form the bacteria cell, then the plant kingdom, the animal, and finally human beings, has occurred through the agency of the electromagnetic interaction of light. As we now head toward becoming a global organism with an attendant awareness of the possibility of a global consciousness, we find the explosion of communication and information technology a crucial part of making all of this possible. Yet, underneath it all, light and the background Purposiveness itself are the essential physical mechanism that drives this potential unification.
Light thus provides a logical point of reference for theologians in their efforts to reconcile and harmonize the idea of God as Creator, Lord of Nature and Humankind, and God as immanent and transcendent. Yet, God is not light.
God is not electromagnetism, and electromagnetism is not God’s immanence. Instead, electromagnetism is the primal physical mechanism provided by God for us to have access to that immanence. It is the very vehicle for The Purposiveness to exert its desire upon the evolutionary Process and to cause us to evolve.