From the beginning (see Part I here), let us say:
Both of these liquid entities–the tiny rivulet, the massive ocean–are good creatures. That is, they do not seek to do any harm; they seek only self-recognition.
Wherever that body of ocean waters wander as they flee in evaporation up into the clouds, then circulate back down into unsteady embrace of the frog’s tongue, the insect’s antennae, the leaf’s pores—all await fulfillment of their thirsts.
Isn’t this good?
Isn’t this the fate of all waters, wandering alone or in great oceanic tandem–that of fulfilling a thirst?
With no waters, no common basis for life on Earth. With no life—what thirst exists? What can these waters possibly thirst for, with no creatures to drink of them?
What can the rivulets dribbling into the oceans, and the clouds hoisting essence upwards from the oceans, possibly gain by this incessant movement—unless something is also being contained beyond them?
Otherwise, endless wandering, with no purpose but movement itself—what good is this?
What practical level of Creation’s goodness is established in the joint wanderings without purpose—of the oceans of waters, or of the oceans of members of mankind?
What good is possibly done by the exploration without purpose, of anything?
And so, we extrapolate our next question from that:
What good does mankind’s exploration of all his wandering deeds, mingled of an endless evil and good pursuit?
Where, in essence, lies the purpose of this act?
What does the future hold for his intrepid—extraordinary acts, really, of exploration of darkness and good; of regrettable misdeeds as well as of laudable efforts to establish right conduct? Healthy instincts? Fulfilling acts? Self-fulfilling wishes?
What of this painful, grand exploration of all the issues permeating the pulse of any smallest of mankind’s events?
Why these movements? Why these shallow cruelties; why these tender mercies? These wanderings in doubt and these wallowings in kindness?
In sum total, what good does these acts? Where lead these rivers of explorations—into expectations of higher reward? Into any satisfaction of any soul need, any unfulfilled soul purpose?
Last words—what have we to gain, and what have we got to lose—by fulfilling ourselves—by whatever conduct whether later proven by experience or any insight to be of shameful or enlightened nature?
Since we humans are not unthinking, unfeeling, or callous and blighted souls merely grasping at any objects like a blind rivulet grasps roughly at any stick or leaf in its path—what is this higher, as the innermost reason—
What is our most native, natural justification for all our grasping, our releasing, our pouring out and our washing back into ourselves?
What is our goodness in these acts?”
We leave you tonight with these pressing issues.
We suggest this hearty solution, of course:
Repeat your Prayer of Pure Goal Words found in DCR1’s 2011-2012 Update; then sit in silence. Listen as your oceans of answers arise to lap at your consciousness like mankind’s tides of urges now rise to surround the beach of your forgetfulness.
You may bear glad witness to these events:
Mankind’s passage from the dimly lit explorations of purpose filled with pain of envy and doubt, into the greatest waters of soul abundance you (and we) have ever known.
Exploration of consciousness yields sure answers in the form of great rewards.
You are leaping back past your self-punishment game phases in your cycles of existence into a more sure-footed glad growth!
–The Crystalline Ones
Copyright “Signet” 2011