Axiom # 9 – All structures whether mineral, vegetable, animal or human adapt and accommodate to the circumstances in which they find themselves.

It is inconceivable that an All-Loving, All-Knowing, All-Compassionate, All-Just, and All-Merciful God would create an organism, deprive it of the means by which to distinguish good from evil, withhold from it the means by which to identify right from wrong, fail to endow it with the ability to recognize that it had a Creator, and then condemn and punish it for having failed to exercise any or all of these qualities. It is equally inconceivable that any person raised within any society, who consciously and willfully abides to the best of their ability by whatever social, religious, and moral laws prevail within that community, regardless whether these laws conflict and are in direct opposition to those revealed by the Founders of the Great Religions and the major civilizations that derive therefrom, and despite what would seem to be the primitive, brutal, and irrational nature of these laws, yet would be condemned and punished by God for living exemplary lives in their own society and of being the unknowing victims of ignorance.

A very cursory and superficial examination of nature clearly reveals that each and every organism evolves and adapts itself to the forces and circumstances of nature made available to it and that failure to do so inevitably results in extinction. Survival of a species demands that it accommodate itself to its surroundings even if those conditions are in an irreversible state of change. The basic law of nature is ‘adapt or die’. This fundamental law of the universe applies equally to the spiritual world the only difference here being that the laws are moral and ethical rather than material. God does not condemn one society because it is in a different state or condition of progress than another. God is just, merciful, and compassionate and judges each individual on their own merits and how they behave in the face of what they personally believe and not on the basis of what some other person or some other society believes. It is the integrity of conduct in the face of opposition to beliefs and convictions held precious that is the determining factor in His judgment. You cannot bargain with God nor can he be deceived because His Omniscient Vision penetrates the darkest corners of the most secretive heart and mind.

Humankind occupies, for however temporary a period, the contingent world of nature and cannot escape the laws that govern its behaviour, however, because he occupies the spiritual world as well and must also abide by the laws that govern its behaviour and, because the former is transitory and the latter is infinite, humankind therefore, is compelled to place priorities in their proper order and, when a choice is required between either world must, of necessity, select the spiritual choice since this is the world he will pursue on his infinite journey toward his Creator whereas the transient world of nature embraces his spirit for but a brief moment in time.

Humankind is unique in that he occupies two worlds simultaneously and is placed in the position of having to adapt and accommodate to both. This is the challenge between heaven and hell in which each exerts its influence and submits its demands. Heaven is the realm of the spirit and hell is the abode of the contingent world that seeks to subvert the activities of our spiritual attributes to pander to and to become servants to the cravings of the physical world. If we succumb to these cravings then we become slaves to our animal proclivities and playthings in the hands of our lusts, that is to say, we lust for power, lust for recognition, lust for wealth, and lust for the flesh the inordinate pursuit of which leads to greed and corruption causing us thereby to rally all our spiritual qualities to this end while disregarding the self-evident truth that it is the edification and advance of the soul with which we should be occupied since this is what we carry with us throughout all the worlds of God.