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Spiritual Development
The Blavatsky
Trust (Theosophy)
If examined in the light of Esoteric Science this term appears to be a misnomer. Mankind is a stage in an immense journey, the pilgrimage of "the Many to the Everlasting One" [9]. The object of the journey is the realization of the essential unity of life, the experience of the One consciousness which pervades the whole. The development is in effect the increase in the responsiveness of living instruments, so that the consciousness of the individual becomes identified eventually with, or merged into, that of the other units of humanity who have transcended the limitations of purely personal existence.
Human life, with its vicissitudes and suffering, has appropriately been called a training ground, the school of life, in which the main lesson to be learned is the elimination of selfishness in all its forms. Selfishness, the "great dire heresy", is a denial of the fact of unity and will be seen as the source of many of the problems of mankind. Similarly, all that contributes to breaking down the walls of separateness - altruism, compassion, love - must promote the spiritual evolution of the individual and of the human race.
[9] The Meaning of Man, by Clifford Bax
Source: blavatskytrust.org.uk
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