Axiom # 14

“There exists in the heart and mind of humankind
the irresistible and pressing need to render explainable,
the facts and circumstances that surround it
in both the visible and invisible universe,
and that it is to this end that the human mind constructs models
to account for the data that it uncovers and encounters
in its journey from crib to coffin.”

What then is your model?

And

On what data is it based?

And

To what extent is it your model rather than a copy of someone else’s?

The journey of the human soul, on its odyssey through the material world to its ultimate destiny in the spiritual world, is exposed simultaneously to the inescapable influence of both of these worlds, each of which with unrelenting and often ruthless perseverance, battles for the dominant share of its attention.

The mind can be shaped and its inherited, God-given, resources rallied and trained to serve whichever of these two worlds is successful in occupying the drivers seat. The lessons of history and the present-day expressions of its activities are, sadly, an ignoble testament as to which of these worlds is generally in charge, and which is wastefully expending the priceless pearls of our humanity, by which we are in the ‘Image and Likeness of God’, on worthless and corrupt pursuits that redound only to the dishonor of the noble human temple.

It is self-evident that we live in a material world, that our existence here has a purpose, that we are the rightful recipients of all the bounties and joys that this world has to offer, that we have been provided with tools to uncover the hidden gems of nature and to discover the laws to which it is subject, from which it cannot deviate, and by which it operates, and that humankind is the only creature on this planet that is endowed with these special and unique tools.