Thanks to all who have contributed. For me, one of the most profoundly satisfying and inspiring teachings is that our curiosity and child like wonder of the glory of life and the promise of eternity is that….the adventure continues!! Some of our most inherent “human” traits only begin us here on this eternal quest for experience, wisdom, and expression….of our delight and our progress. It is a never ending trail and story of discovery. And this is true of our unseen friends – angels, midwayers, Material Sons and Daughters, and all other sons and daughters of the time and space creations…all are infected by a primal urge to know and to understand and to be and to become!
Glorious!
Glad to be among you each and all. = )
I am reminded how surprised and delighted Jesus was on occasion. Not even the Creator Son is immune from the curiosity and delight and wonder that drives learning and doing. The Master said we are to be “child like” in our perspective of this friendly universe and we are to delight in the love and abundance along the Glory Trail in this family of creation. And we will never “outgrow” this drive.
I think another reason the authors share their own mysteries and quandaries is critical: We are taught that we are to embrace uncertainty. There can be no adventure or quest or problems to solve or situations to creatively and personally “respond” to without uncertainty….but such uncertainty of response or outcome is the very definition of adventure and the quest of discovery. We will each always have a unique and personalized response and expression of our discoveries and our joy. The celestial authors only share this reality with us to help us embrace this fact and truth….the adventure is endless….for all. We are not to be troubled or anxious by uncertainty but to find confidence in all eventuations of potential regardless of the outcomes of choices made in love and service to others and faith in God. An important lesson to impart….only One knows All.
I remember as a believing child, wondering about….what is heaven like? No one really knew of course…but I heard lots of tribal/family stories that it would be like here only better….more fun and more food….and lots of worldly evil left behind….where all are smiling and sharing and caring for one another. So glad for the confirmations in the UB of what heaven is like. While our place is here and now, it is wondrous to have a glimpse of glory land so soon to come upon this walk into eternity.
Kudos to Brother Rick for giving us a more personalized view and experience to come in his fictional illustration of the tadpole’s life to come.
Blessings to all.
Bradly
56:10.5 (646.6) The attainment of cosmologic levels of thought includes:
56:10.6 (646.7) 1. Curiosity. Hunger for harmony and thirst for beauty. Persistent attempts to discover new levels of harmonious cosmic relationships.
56:10.7 (646.8) 2. Aesthetic appreciation. Love of the beautiful and ever-advancing appreciation of the artistic touch of all creative manifestations on all levels of reality.
56:10.8 (646.9) 3. Ethic sensitivity. Through the realization of truth the appreciation of beauty leads to the sense of the eternal fitness of those things which impinge upon the recognition of divine goodness in Deity relations with all beings; and thus even cosmology leads to the pursuit of divine reality values — to God-consciousness.
14:5.7 (159.3) Not until you traverse the last of the Havona circuits and visit the last of the Havona worlds, will the tonic of adventure and the stimulus of curiosity disappear from your career. And then will the urge, the forward impulse of eternity, replace its forerunner, the adventure lure of time.
14:5.8 (159.4) Monotony is indicative of immaturity of the creative imagination and inactivity of intellectual co-ordination with the spiritual endowment. By the time an ascendant mortal begins the exploration of these heavenly worlds, he has already attained emotional, intellectual, and social, if not spiritual, maturity.
14:5.9 (159.5) Not only will you find undreamed-of changes confronting you as you advance from circuit to circuit in Havona, but your astonishment will be inexpressible as you progress from planet to planet within each circuit. Each of these billion study worlds is a veritable university of surprises. Continuing astonishment, unending wonder, is the experience of those who traverse these circuits and tour these gigantic spheres. Monotony is not a part of the Havona career.
14:5.10 (159.6) Love of adventure, curiosity, and dread of monotony — these traits inherent in evolving human nature — were not put there just to aggravate and annoy you during your short sojourn on earth, but rather to suggest to you that death is only the beginning of an endless career of adventure, an everlasting life of anticipation, an eternal voyage of discovery.
14:5.11 (160.1) Curiosity — the spirit of investigation, the urge of discovery, the drive of exploration — is a part of the inborn and divine endowment of evolutionary space creatures. These natural impulses were not given you merely to be frustrated and repressed. True, these ambitious urges must frequently be restrained during your short life on earth, disappointment must be often experienced, but they are to be fully realized and gloriously gratified during the long ages to come.
"Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."
