Once we unite the diversity
of human consciousness and harmonize its opposite traits and trends under the
regency of love’s ways and attributes, we will see this harmonic functional
unity also in our surroundings. Not only as a reflection of our individual and
collective peace, but also interacting with each other.
“For you will be in league [lit. In partnership, in covenant] with the
stones of the field, and the beasts of the field will be at peace with you.”
(Job 5:23)
“In that day I will also make a covenant for them with the beasts of the
field, the birds of the sky and the creeping things of the ground. And I will
abolish the bow, the sword and war from the land, and will make them lie down
in safety.” (Hosea 2:18)
Therefore all forms of life
exist to serve and sustain life in order to make goodness prevail in every way,
means and end, for goodness is the highest level of life. Thus we understand
what our sages mean when they refer to our actions.
“And let your deeds be for
the sake of heaven” (Pirkei Avot 2:17)
God’s love reminds us
constantly about this, for we deliberately overlook the goodness of love’s ways
and attributes as what we must honor always and in all ways.
“(…) and God in whose hand is your breath and all your
ways, Him you have not honored.” (Daniel 5:23)
Goodness is the intended
purpose of God’s creation, and as the harmonizing catalyst is destined to transform
anything different into goodness. King David reminds us often that God is good,
for His loving kindness is eternal; and thus we realize goodness as the ruling
principle in the promised transformed human consciousness in the Messianic era.
“And He will judge between the nations and will render decisions for
many peoples, and they will hammer their swords into plowshares and their
spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, and
never again will they learn war.” (Isaiah 2:4)
We live to experience
change, from ignorance to wisdom, delusion to awareness, dormant to awakened,
immature to mature, darkness to light, coldness to warmth, abyss to summit.
This change is the transformational process led by the soul in order to find
itself in goodness as its own essence and purpose.
In this awareness some of
us ask the fundamental question in regards to the soul, is it me or just the
link to our Creator, or am I a consciousness in a biological body? The answer
is simpler than we think. It depends on where we place our essence and
identity.
Some place it in the body,
and some of us place it in the soul. Some identify with the temporary nature of
the body with its needs, lacks and desires, and some of us with the transcendental
quality of the soul with its endless goodness beyond need, lack, lust or limitations.
After what we already know about the soul, can we settle for less?
“I am of my Beloved, and
upon me is His desire.” (Song of Songs 7:11)
Israel responds that the
beauty of the goodness in her essence and identity entirely belongs to God, for
they come from His love. Thus Israel remarks that she belongs to God’s
love. Israel is thus, because thus is God’s desire.
God yearns for Israel’s
expressions of His love in the material world, for He wants humankind to be
fully aware of His presence in all that He has created.
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