The ocean of love, pent up in aggregate Humanity, ever trying to express itself, yet fails because the wave of Spiritual evolution — though manifesting in wondrous ways all through this materialistic age — is still in its cycle of beginning. Soon however the latent divine faculties will unfold and again permeate the race. The ideas of duty towards our fellow men are already enlarging day by day; indeed a bond of sympathy spreads from land to land unperceived by the multitude; it will finally encircle the whole earth and reveal the law of compassion which is the Law of Laws — Eternal Harmony.
Platonic love, emotional, animal, even self-love are reflections of the real thing temporarily misdirected. The time will come when through pains of trial and tribulation every individual will blossom forth into the grander love, the cosmic ideal, the innate quality of the soul.
The large mass of people including the educated, the pious, the rich, and others are with few exceptions in utter darkness about their origin and destiny; they have not yet gotten forward to the stage where they could see beyond the superficial phenomenal world. Only the experienced souls who, during many lives in human bodies have learned nature's limits and its laws, know the light of everlasting right and the fitness of all things, the law of love eternal. Some of these feel the touch of a brotherly hand reaching across space — exchanging sympathy, while others, are yet sound asleep, satisfied in their complacency and the delusive lulling of repose.
Our earth is built on the same plan as is man. So is the whole universe. It too has its beginning and end. From the invisible it is born into the visible; gradually grows, lives and decays, returning into the invisible, whence it emerges again and again in obedience to a plan which is to be rounded out in each succeeding birth on higher and higher scale without end.
Man having evolved to the point where he is capable of becoming conscious of his continuous existences and accompanying responsibility will, with the approaching cycle of spirituality, obtain the faculty of realizing more clearly the bonds that unite the race. Commensurate with this awakening will come the knowledge of his being an essential part and factor in the whole progress of evolution.
This teaching which is to be found in all religious systems gives an immense hope to the wearily groping pilgrim and if it were possible now to remove the veil to the extent that these truths could be understood it would set aside all fear of death, fear of man or beast or danger.
An ancient religious book says:
"Thou grievest for those that may not be lamented. Those who are wise in spiritual things grieve neither for the dead nor for the living. I myself never was not, nor thou, nor all the princes of the earth; nor shall we hereafter cease to be."
The Spirit is one and indivisible; it manifests periodically in the material Universe; all souls emanate from "It." During the entire period of evolution the manifested Universe exists in apparent separateness, that is, so long as it remains involved in matter, out of which it is destined to evolve, carried on the wave of the cycle.
Each periodical manifestation proceeds on a definite plan into time and space; it has its birth, youth and decay. Nature forever creates, preserves and destroys (regenerates) in a circle around the same volume of substance, evolving form after form, higher and higher; the eternal Monad, the Soul, using the substance as vehicle for its evolution. After each manifestation follows an equal period of rest.
The plan comprises waves of well-defined duration during which the mass of humanity called Monad in the early stages is carried from point to point; in the early periods downward towards matter through the various kingdoms: elemental, mineral, vegetable, animal, helped by the hosts of Hierarchies from previous periods of manifestation. But when the middle, the human stage is reached, the quality of free will is developed and separateness is rampant. Each human being is then to himself the centre of the Universe. Still the plan and the evolutionary wave goes on and each soul having its own innate spiritual qualities has the choice to follow or not the cycle of necessity. If one fails to progress in the order of the Universal plan and his individual consciousness does not keep up with the stream of evolution, such an entity will then remain in abeyance as individualized entity until the period of manifestation comes round again when he has the chance to take up the pilgrimage anew; these periods, measured by our standard of time are of immense duration, All souls are brought into cognizance by Mother Nature, through the wheel of rebirth, with all the experiences necessary to teach the limits of the law. Nature is kind and patient but never still, and the wave moves on and with it humanity must needs go.
The human beings who, during this cycle having risen to a high stage of self-consciousness, come to a point of approximate realization of the homogeneity of all beings and things, are those who feel and live the principles of Universal Brotherhood following this ideal from a knowledge of Nature's laws: Compassion Absolute!