making of the universe: actions as sacrifice

“From this plane only can a man act as one of the Saviors of the world, because on it he is one with the selves of all. Identified with humanity where it is one, his strength, his love, his life, can flow downwards into any or into every separated self.

He has become a spiritual force, and the available spiritual energy of the world-system is increased by the pouring into it of his life.

The forces he use to expend on the physical, astral, and mental planes, seeking things for his separated self, are now all gathered up in one act of sacrifice, and, transmuted thereby into spiritual energy, they pour down upon the world as spiritual life.

This transmutation is wrought by the motive which determines the plane on which the energy is set free.

If a man’s motive be the gain of physical objects, the energy liberated works only on the physical plane; if he desire astral objects, he liberates energy on the astral plane; if he seeks mental joys, his energy functions on the mental plane;

but if he sacrifices himself to be a channel of the LOGOS, he liberates on the spiritual plane, and it works everywhere with the potency and keenness of a spiritual force.

For such a man action and inaction are the same; for he does everything while doing nothing, he does nothing while doing everything.

For him, high and low, great and small are the same; he fills any place that needs filling, and the LOGOS is alike in every place and in every action.

He can flow into any form, he can work along any line, he knows not any longer choice or difference;

his life by sacrifice has been made one with the life of the LOGOS – he sees God in everything and everything in God.

How then can place or form make to him any difference? He no longer identifies himself with form, but is self-conscious Life.

“Having nothing, he possesseth all things”; asking for nothing, everything flows into him.

His life is bliss, for he is one with his Lord, who is Beatitude; and, using form for service without attachment to it, “he has put an end to pain.””

 

Annie Besant

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