The Philosophy of Gradations

THE SHAPE OF HISTORY

A statue which is speechless and deaf. A sphinx. A soldier,

fallen on the battlefield. His face turned upwards.

The upper part of his body supported by a stone,

so that it is slightly uplifted.

Much babble about.

This is the shape of history.

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FIRST IMAGE

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THERE WAS A TIME  when the life of men was separated into many periods, some short and others long, and each period had to be lived on a separate star. These stars were surrounded by a fire, which opened and closed as the stars breathed. The life of man on each star was short and it served as a preparation for the life on the next star. Men talked little. After their death, they never came back to the same star and, while living a period of their life, they remembered nothing of the previous periods lived on other stars. They were happy.

     One day superior men, who were much learned and advanced, came from a far away land. Each of them took on the study of a separate star and the life of men on it. And, after a long time, one by one they came back to their land and wrote the results of their studies in books.

     The one, who had studied a star where men lived the moments of one of their meals, presented man as a being, which eats during all his life. Another author, who had done his research on a star where men were praying, declared in his book that the act of prayer characterizes man. The investigator, who happened to be on a star, where men lived a period of sleep, has sleep as the main theme in his book. So each book presented a different view of man.

     These books were much admired, although they were big and difficult. Many years often separated the dates of their appearance. It was hard to find and read all of them.

     Then a man came, who had a strong desire for knowledge. He gathered all the books, he studied them, he put them in order and saw that they presented the life of man in all its stages and expressions. He was able to see man as a whole. And he thought:

     Why should those men of the stars live such a short life? Why should they not know more about the life of man? Why should they not pass from one stage of their life to the other, alive? Why should they not know more joys? Why should they not keep the life that is given to them and become free from death?

     And thinking was not the only thing this man did. His great love for men

urged him to call the inhabitants of his land and propose that they go to

the stars and lengthen the lives of the men living there. They could

show them how to go from a star to another without passing from

death.

     They all agreed on the plan. They took their books and went to the stars.

     Great difficulties awaited them there.

     How to persuade the sleeping ones, that they should wake up, move and work? How to make the eating ones stop and those who were in vivid action fall asleep? Promising them, that they would sleep again, eat again, work again, was no help.

     The newcomers talked to them for hours, describing what men from other stars did that they, too, were able to do.

     They said that human beings in certain stages of their lives can produce human beings: a human being can come out of them. This was impossible to be understood.

     They also said that out of every man an invisible spiritual man will be born. This also was not understood.

     They also said that everything has a limit and everything changes and evolves. The life of man cannot remain separated in pieces forever; it will become a whole, like their lives. The stars will be united to make one planet and things will be mingled. Man must learn to find his way through this confusion.

     They spoke about the inner voice of Conscience, which guides each human being to the right path: how difficult it will be to hear this weak voice in the big noise of the confusion, and how the strength of the little voice increases, whenever it finds its echo or a response in words or books.

     All these were inconceivable to the majority of the men of the stars. Only a limited number of persons among them, who had already begun to feel the need for a change, believed these teachings and followed the newcomers.

     Difficulties, however, arose even with those who were willing to follow the newcomers.

     Whenever a live man had to go from a star to another, he had to use a space-ship. This was easy, when several persons could travel together, but there were cases when each one had to use his own space-ship and be pilot himself. Moreover, going to the last star - the last stage in one's life - required a jump. These were very difficult things for the men of the stars and they resisted their guides, who insisted that this was the duty of man and an inevitable step in one's life.

     The newcomers talked much about the last step a man had to take. One had to put off his body, jump to the last star for a moment, only to leave his soul there and come back; to leave there the strength, that was lent to him in order to enable him to finish the great journey of his life; to leave in its place the fire he had grasped and whose only purpose was to gather and elaborate the material out of which his own candle could be formed, the candle which can hold the eternal light, which was lent to him and became his lighthouse for unknown future journeys.

     This is man's debt; he cannot avoid paying it.

     There, before his last step, he will stay waiting for the strength required for the jump, to come to him. He will stay waiting for the call. And, while waiting, his only care should be that his body does not stick to his soul at any point. He will light a big fire around his soul, so that the body cannot approach it.

     And when he steps onto the last star, he will see no fire around it. It has shut it inside itself and turned into light. There he can hold the fire in his hands and it does not burn. There is nothing that can be burned by the fire there.

     He can play with fire.

     But how could the men of the stars understand such things?

     It was impossible for them to understand that, in order to go on, man changes his life and environment, but neither he nor the environment dies. His duty is always to enjoy his life, to love his environment with all his heart, but leave it untouched. And, one day, some signs will show him that his ship weighs anchor for new journeys. And indeed, how can the ship continue its life without being detached from the harbor? Traveling is the purpose of the ship and of the life of man and of everything. He must know his destiny each time he arrives at a harbor. His time is always limited. He must finish his jobs quickly and get ready for new journeys.

     All these were inconceivable to the men of the stars.

     So, finally, the men of the stars, not being able to understand the newcomers, killed them and found their peace again.

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AND THE DAY CAME,  when all the stars except the last one did unite to form a planet called earth. And on this planet there was a mixture of different persons, ages, moments of life and expressions of life.

     Let us examine this situation more closely.

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EACH ONE HAD TO FIND  his life's way by himself. Man was no more

born in the environment suited to his stage of evolution: where he could

just do what the others around him were doing and thus be filled with joy and happiness, because this would be exactly what he wanted and his environment would understand him and therefore welcome and accept him.

     In the new situation, the different stages of evolution had not ceased to exist, but each person should find and choose his own place himself, by using his own mind in thinking. Man had to know himself and place himself in his proper position without disturbing anything in the environment. He should accept the existence of everything around him and respect it.

     Man should close his eyes and ears to what happened around him and open them widely towards his own self, so that he could know himself and hear its demands and thus be able to search for the environment suited to his age and to each moment of his life, and make his evolution possible.

     These were very difficult things. The noise all around made it almost impossible for the voice of the individual, the voice of self, to be heard. Man was used to take his neighbors, who lived close to him, to be his fellows and companions in the journey of life, as it happened in the past. He followed them, although they caused much bitterness and delay in his life, thinking that this was the way things had to be.
     He thought that persons, with whom he spent long periods of his life, were of the same environment and within the same limits as he himself, and therefore they should never part. The bitterness that arose from his living together with them did not serve as a sign that he had passed close to them only accidentally and he should live together with them for a short period of time only. He thought it was the rule, friends and neighbors to be the cause of bitterness, and he did not think about the reasons of it or about ways of improving the situation, thus hindering his own evolution.

     He might even do things contrary to his conscience, only because people around him did such things and he had been entangled by those around him.

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IN THIS NEW MIXED  situation, everybody had the opportunity to see persons in ages and occupations different from his own. Many people used to gather together and talked about what they perceived in others, who were different from them. This gave them such a great pleasure, that they almost made it a purpose of their lives; they hastened to finish any work they had, in order to come together and talk. And their words were so many, that they hindered their evolution.

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IN THE COURSE OF  their life, men had to pass through regions of storm, cold, loneliness and silence, but many of them did not dare even to approach there, although it was necessary to pass through them in order to go on in life. These men were not yet prepared to meet such regions. In their attempt to escape from reality in such moments, they turned to narcotic drugs: a companion, nice words, a spectacle, a warm corner in company of other people; it was so easy to find this warm corner near them in the mixed world they were now living in.

     When they were alone with themselves, however, they felt an emptiness, which nothing of what they had experienced could fill. So they waited impatiently for the moment when they would enter the pleasant atmosphere for a short while again. They lived waiting for the pleasant moments. They worked in order to earn the means of obtaining those narcotic drugs, that had become necessary for them.

     There were so many people living in this way, that it seemed that this was the right way to live. The multitudes influenced others, and thus the evolution of a great number of people stopped at that stage.

     The worst thing with those who, in their weakness, turned to human companions, was that they thought that they were bound never to part.

     A man, who happened to see a light in the distance, or felt his wings starting to move, or succeeded in reaching a window where the breeze filled his emptiness and the view presented new wide horizons to him, could not easily decide to walk towards the better world in front of him, because this required much strength and because his companions would accuse him of treachery. They had not reached the point to see and feel what he had seen and felt, and so, being unable to understand him, they would accuse him, although no harm was done to them nor would they get any benefit in accusing him.

     The region of loneliness, away from the warmth of human companion, arose fear. Man had to pass through it alone and carrying the heavy accusations of others against him for sins he was not guilty of, his only act being that he had taken the road suited to his age.

     Thus man yielded and the rare flower that had started to open was crushed under the barbarous blind foot of ignorance.

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THE FACT THAT PEOPLE  were so numerous gave rise to additional

problems. These people had definite needs,  which should  be satisfied 

before anything  else  could  be done. Problems of sheltering, production, hygiene and food arose, and men spent all the energy of their minds in working for their solution. In this way, no time was left to them for thinking about the development of themselves.

     The need of exchanging goods soon led to the invention of money. Money enabled one to obtain all goods which make life comfortable. Moreover, persons who had much money were considered as being noble and people respected and honored them. This stimulated the selfishness of men, and they tried to get as much money as possible. They worked in order to get money. They cultivated their spirit in order to put it in the service of money. This hindered their evolution, but they could not do otherwise.

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THERE ALWAYS EXISTED  persons, who talked to people about life and evolution and strove for it. People listened to them with pleasure, but only a limited number of persons followed them. The majority of men, being entangled and bound as we have seen above, did not possess the freedom necessary to follow the masters. Their entanglement caused an unbearable heaviness and fatigue to them, but to free themselves from it was so painful that they did not dare do it.

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IT OFTEN HAPPENED  that people, being used to the way things were in the past, when each one lived each period of his life in its own environment, thought that everybody should do what they did, one and the same thing throughout all their lives. Those, who woke up and were strong, did not recognize the right of others to sleep or pray, but, whenever they found them in  such moments,  they  showed  their strength over them and enslaved them. Those, who reached a moment when they should rest, pray, sleep, stay inactive or allow others to govern, would do so only by force. And after sleep or prayer had filled them with strength, they would arise and gain their freedom by themselves.

     Those groups of men, who succeeded in conquering by force other groups in their land, acquired a great glory and their leaders became famous all over the world. This was one of the reasons that made some people desire to be conquerors.

     There were, however, a few men who wanted to spread their wings over many lands in a universal embracing, but their life was short and the proper successor could not

be found immediately.

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THINKING ABOUT MAN'S  desire to conquer led some people to conclusions,

which they applied to themselves and, urged by the love for man and the desire

to help, they communicated their results to mankind. They were not understood, however. This was what they said:

       "We do not deny the tendency of man to conquer. Moreover, man usually approves and admires the action of conquering. This very action of conquering, however, causes much pain to other men. This shows that some-thing is wrong, which must be found and corrected.

     "Man wants to collect and own everything: people, lands, objects, knowledge. It is true that he needs all these; but he usually tries to conquer something that does not belong to him and which is disproportionate to his dimensions. How is he going to keep it? What is he going to do with it when he dies?

     "Man must turn his tendency to conquer towards something else, that belongs to him and he can take it with him after death; something which his hands can hold and which would contain everything; something that does not have the wideness of the senses but has the comprehensiveness of the emotions; something that has the dimensions of energy and not of matter.

     "Just as the human organism takes from the foods only the substances needed for its development and life, so the inner part of man, by collecting energy, will get the strength required for conquering what he wants: everything in one and the same moment, something that belongs to him, something very human: himself, his lost Paradise; he will be united with his God. But, in order to reach this goal, man must walk towards it and also use all transportation means that bring him near to it: the means that have the intensity of energy and not the extent of matter.

     "In the mixed world he is living in, man has to think in order to find his way, and he must experience the emotions in order to be able to go on towards his goal.  He cannot start moving before he feels a vibration inside him. This vibration is caused by the sorrow and joy of another human being, and it is only the soul that can feel it. So man has to take his soul with him, and his soul must be well developed, exercised and strong."

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THERE WERE PEOPLE,  who did not want to change the stage of their lives. If, for example, they were holding a bloody knife at the moment of the union of the stars, they did not want to dry it now, but they plunged it wherever they could, in order to keep this moment of their life alive forever. For, at the moment of the union of the stars, each person was marked indelibly by the fire surrounding the star on which he was then found. This mark of the fire governed the life of people now, in spite of their tendency to deny this fact. Deep inside every man lay the memory of his stage of life and his occupation at that moment.

 

THERE WERE ALSO  people, who saw the mark of fire and did not say: "This is the world; this shall be the last step in my progress and evolution, it is my destiny to live with this mark forever. It is enough for me, that my body finds here whatever it desires".

   These people felt the mark of the fire like a cause of suffocation; like a wall that closed the wide view, which they glimpsed each time their soul took them to fly towards her regions; like a spot on a beautiful picture. They felt it like a deep chasm that separated them from the wide world around them. This chasm was deep in some men and shallow in others.

     These people thought:

     "I must start from here, if I want to live free from oppression. I must close that chasm and shut my soul's mouth.

     "My body can live here, but my soul here dies. She asks me to take her to her land on the other side of the chasm, in order to stop annoying me and to leave life to me. 

    "She says to me:

    'Don't be afraid. Go on. I have been pulling you all the time; I have been leading you; I have been giving you strength. But my place is not here; I cannot live with you forever; I shall leave some day, and I do not want to leave a dead, motionless, dark body to you. I shall leave to you whatever I have. My purpose here is to show you the way and give you strength, until your eyes are wide open and can see all: inside, outside and around you, and until your feet are able to make you move to all directions: upwards and downwards and around you.

     'You must exercise your eyes well; they must be able to open and close; to see with closed eyelids; not to see while they are open.

     'You must exercise your feet well; they must make you stand and hold

your weight; they must be able to take the first step, the step that

closes chasms, erases limits and frees you; they must be able to take

you wherever your eye reaches.

     'Then you will feel the birth of a new life, which is not marked by anything;

a life, which nobody pulls or pushes or presses in any way; a life, which does not need anybody to give it motion and show it the way.

       'I shall not be needed then. I shall then be free. The dead body will move and be lighted; it will be alive and, with it, everything that will have been thrown into the chasm will be filled with life.

     'Moreover, many years after the day my mouth is shut, your mouth will open and you will be heard. You will speak.'"   

     People were pleased to hear these words. They were, however, frightened, when they first considered the greatness of the task they had to do.

     They started by throwing into the chasm everything that was useless to them and everything that was forgotten in some corner because nobody liked it, although it might be useful. But these things could not get into the chasm; the wind took them away regardless of their weight. The chasm also did not demand things, whose being taken away from a person would kill him. It kept and attracted like a magnet those things, which men had surrounded with their love and care for some time. Every such thing, regardless of its size and weight, became bigger and heavier when thrown into the chasm.    

     Then men thought: "There is nothing with which we can

live together forever. It is enough that something stirs our pulses once and we transmit our own pulsation to it; then let it go into the chasm while it is still alive. Thus it will never be lost" .

     In this way, everything that was perishable took its place in the chasm, until nothing remained out of it, except for the perishable bodies of men.'

     Then men thought: "This body, too, will die some day, but, if I throw it into the chasm today, it will remain alive. It will form a bridge that will enable me to cross the chasm and reach my goal: to embrace life".

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IN THE MIXED  situation that followed the union of the stars, a certain order had to be established and roads be opened, so that the conflicts between great groups of men could be avoided; lonely people should be able to live and evolve; everybody should be able to find his way even in the midst of storm.  

     So the laws were set down.

     Roads were opened, so that everybody could pass and reach his goal and so that all hearts could feel joy. But men found them narrow, steep and oppressive. Some people followed them blindly, without any personal effort and, when they fell into some pit, they said: "This is the way it should happen; I am following the law".  Others, in the name of free will and the independence of the individual, tried to get out of the boundaries of these roads in order to feel free. But all these only stopped their progress and lost their freedom. A man is free only by obeying the laws. Nobody has the right to accuse another of obeying the laws. And everybody has the right to develop his activities within the legitimate limits that are imposed to him.

     There exist, however, some happy moments, when men, whose heart beats with the rhythm of the law, are born. These men may reach their goal even in the limited time of their lives. They can let their will act freely and break oppressive bonds. They walk calmly and obediently within the imposed limits, with their eyes wide open, careful not to stumble, fall and delay. They concentrate all their efforts on overcoming all obstacles quickly, because life is short. The goal attracts them more and more, as they approach it. This goal is the much desired freedom, where al barriers and limits are thrown down. Man arrives to freedom, if he always carries it with him; if he honors it and makes it his leader in life; if he wishes to be a member of its family and obeys the orders of its father; if he obeys the law freely and consciously.

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THIS WAS THE LIFE  on earth and it remained like this for

thousands of years, up to our days.

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THE ABOVE DESCRIPTIONS  show that the meaning of life is lost. Life itself, however, exists, since we are alive. And since we are holding it in our hands, we shall try to draw its meaning out of the tomb and make it lead our lives. The life of man is a struggle against death. The first purpose of his daily food, the medicines he takes and the rules for maintaining health, is to keep him alive. And the purpose of the obstacles he faces is to strengthen him and prepare him for the final struggle, and to prove that he knows his goal and is marching towards it, determined not to stop before obstacles. And the last obstacle for us on earth is death; our last struggle is the struggle against death; we must win.  

     In order to  win in  this  difficult struggle,  man must be accompanied by the eternal and imperishable and not the perishable and the ephemeral. Everything has a perishable part, a skin, which will dissolve, will be scattered, will be given away, will serve other purposes, and which is useful for a limited period of time that once constitutes the present. Everything also has an eternal part, a kernel, which it always keeps for itself and which will live forever. These kernels are the steps leading to life and freeing from death. They form the axis of life, which will lead us through the dark tunnel and bring us safe to light. This axis is called Work and Prayer.

     Man begins to see the light shining in the distance.

     Man has been much exercised by his struggles with the obstacles he has been facing for thousands of years. His reasoning and his will have been developed and he is able to find his way in life himself, without confusing it with that of others, and free from influences. So he does not bother others in any way nor is he bothered by anybody.

     Man has understood that he does not remain unchanged. He evolves. Like his body, which is born a baby and little by little changes into a child, a youth and then a mature man, so also the soul, the spirit and society undergo a development. Man concentrates his powers and, accompanied by work and prayer, marches firmly towards the completion of his History.

     The accomplishments of man in the various expressions of civilization are wonderful. He has also shown his soul's bravery and the strength of his body in wars, where he has often been admired. The galloping rhythm of progress, however, has led to a great development of man's weapons, so that today they threaten to destroy both the victorious and the defeated

     The great wars, which have shown the enormous powers of man and have led to the creation of a very powerful weapon, have had a further purpose.

     They have occurred because there was a reason for them. They have been indispensable. The different materials, which were all brought together at the moment of the union of the stars, must be well mixed into a dough, which, cast into a mold, will serve life. When, on some day in the future, our union with the last star will occur, the fire surrounding the earth, which consists of the fires that have been surrounding the separate stars in the past, will disappear and leave the forms it contains to the prepared dough, so that they can find their souls on the last star, unite with them and live.

     Then the different ages and moments of life of man will

not be separated by death nor be surrounded by fire. All will live freely the same moment of their lives.   There is another purpose, which the powerful weapons of man serve: to stop the great conflicts between nations. By stopping these conflicts for some time, the course of history does not stop; it only changes direction. The course of History is formed by struggles and the great change it has undergone today is, that the struggles now have to take place inside man. In our times, History has met life in man's form and has asked it to follow her, otherwise she cannot go on. Life has asked History to stop, so that man may reach her.

     History has stopped and replies to man: "In order to take you with me and make you my fellow traveler, you must struggle inside yourself as much as I have struggled until I constructed the powerful weapon, which you cannot hold in your hands today.  You must construct your own nuclear weapon in order to walk with me and be able to hold my weapon in your hands. I am leaving it now and I am waiting for you. You must hurry. I shall not touch my weapon, but I cannot assure you that it will not be touched by anything; I cannot protect it".

     So the struggle is now being carried on in the inside of man, and History consciously becomes, today, history of man. 

     Man could not study History with such a zeal, if it were something strange to him. There would be no need for the existence of History and its being written with so much pain, if no lesson or benefit for man were its results. Today the struggle and purpose of History becomes struggle and purpose of each individual.

     Today man is invited to replace the easy role of the conqueror by the difficult role of fellow traveler.   

     Those who are weak are invited to become strong and those who are strong are invited to suspend the use of their strength and wait for the others. Man is invited to ascend to the height of the present historical moment.

     In order to follow the rapid development of History and keep pace with it, man must develop all his psychic, spiritual and bodily powers equally. Man has much developed his spirit and its creations have led him to his present stage.

     Now it is time to put a bridle and discipline over the creative power of the spirit and develop the powers of his soul and especially strengthen his soul's wings with the help of Art. Then he will be able to move, not only by the mechanical means he creates, but also by his own power.

     Thus the development man will be completed.

     This is the purpose of History with respect to man. Man will gather all

his scattered bodily, spiritual and psychic powers and use them to serve man

and the society. He will struggle for man's elevation and not for man's death.

     History is not a theory, but action and application. He will progress more, who applies its teachings earlier.

     The purpose of History with respect to the State is to create a living organism, in which all systems will function properly and each cell will be in its place; the State may then be considered as a human being, as Plato has said: "ὡς ἄνθρωπον ἐν μεγἀλῳ".

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TODAY MANKIND IS  trying to establish an order, its first order, in a new form. The stars have been united now; we do not have a monophonic music as before. On one and the same star there are people of not only one age and occupation. The voices are many and our music must be polyphonic.

     Every group of voices must understand that it has to hear other voices around. It must be careful, however, to stay strictly within its limits and not be influenced by the others, neither try to predominate. And every voice, that is permitted to be heard alone for a while, must be in harmony with the whole. All must act in accordance to a given plan.

     Mankind seeks to harmonize these voices, so that each one finds its own way.

     Each man should follow his course in life without bothering others nor being bothered by them.

     Each man should find his own environment, in which to live each stage and moment of his life, within the limits imposed by the laws.

     So men will feel satisfied in their lives and their actions will be justified.

     This is accomplished through WORK and PRAYER.

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SECOND IMAGE

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ONCE UPON A TIME  man was flying in a ship, which could also be considered as his cover and skin and himself.

     He could go everywhere and do everything there, except for opening a door, which was forbidden. But he did open that door some day, and he fell down and was broken into pieces. His ship uttered a cry of pain followed by these words:

     "Collect all your pieces and unite them into a whole, and then I shall come and take you".

     And since man could not collect the pieces of himself, another being did it and put all the pieces into a sack. The pieces in the sack were blind, but filled with life, and cried from pain: "I want to be healed. I need balm for my wounds. I want to get out of here". So man opened holes on the sack and stretched out his arms, legs and tongue in order to lessen his pains.

     He remembered the first of the words he heard when he fell: "Collect". He did not see the pieces of himself. The fact that they were all in the sack made him feel he was unbroken. Collecting things offered him a satisfaction and a temporary relief from pain. Little by little the word "collect" was forgotten and only the tendency to collect things remained in man. Until now, people like to collect things without  knowing  why.  They  think  that  what  they  collect has some value. Everybody collects something instinctively: bus tickets, empty boxes, money, books, objects of art, dolls, bottles, hats, knowledge, people who form audiences in speeches, antiques, stamps, memories, and any other thing one can imagine. There is a point of view, from which all these have one and the same value: they serve man's tendency to collect.  

     Man also remembered the word "Unite" among the words of the ship. As in the previous case, this word, too, was forgotten later, and man was left with the tendency to unite. People unite to form groups, associations and societies, without the one considering seriously who the other person is and what his deeds are. It is sufficient that the tendency to unite be satisfied. Psychic [of the soul], spiritual and

physical contacts between men take place; they satisfy this tendency in

an easy way. But they do not bring any positive result; they do not bring

the healing union; they are in agreement with the concept of union, but do

not satisfy the subject that needs it; they take place outside of the aching region;

outside of the region of man; they take place outside of that, which man takes with him when he leaves this world; outside of the individual, where the union must occur. And if the union of the individual does not occur first, no union of society is possible. So the above contacts bring neither the union of the individual nor that of society. They are an outer cover, that brings us together and gives us the false feeling that we are united; when the cover disappears, there is no union left. We have here only a first, rude form of union. But everything starts from rudeness. The child, who takes the brush and paints everything around him: walls, papers and furniture, is not an artist. He does all that he can do.  But this is  the beginning on  the road that leads to art, the goal. In our case, the goal is the union and formation of the individual. The journey towards it lasts for centuries; men and eras form its decisive moments.

     This tendency of man to unite is very strong.

     And man always dreams of that ship which is going to take him to new journeys.

     Some people try to construct it and others believe that it exists, this same old ship, waiting for the moment to come and take man in it again, according to its promise.

      Those people who have succeeded in remembering the words of the ship at the time of the fall of man, are deeply moved by the memory of that cry of pain. Every day renews it and they hear it more clearly. For thousands of years, this cry is becoming stronger day by day. Those people are among the men, who cannot stand pain and they believe that pain is not a situation which cannot be changed or corrected. They have searched the inner part of man in order to find the cause of pain and heal it. They have reached the root of it and opened it and there they found that first picture, of man broken into pieces, and the words of the ship. They recognize, there, the first and only true instinct, images of which are all the others. They saw that man's wounds are still open and bleeding, and they felt the unbearable pain of each one of man's pieces.

     The remedy lay there, next to them, untouched.

     Man had to put his arms, legs and tongue back into the sack and tell them: "You shall work here. You will shut in yourselves here and not allow those pieces, that struggle and cry and seem like an active volcano, get out of the sack; they must move within the sack until they find the piece, from which they have been separated, and unite again. And every product of such a volcano must stay  in the sack,  too, in order to help bring about the union".

     When each piece will have thus found its place, the pain will put on the sack like a garment and they will both fly away, spreading the news that man is united again and does not need them. Pain will be succeeded by joy, and word will take the place of cry.

     And the ship will be true to its promise and will come to take man back, and it will send a new message to him:

"Work and Give".

     Those people, who are waiting for the ship to come and take them, are collecting atomic energy of the soul.

     Thus men succeed in making their dream come true.

     One by one, men are able to get into their ship again and continue their journeys.

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ONCE UPON A TIME  the one became many, and now man tries to learn how the one can be made.

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