06-27-2012, 10:24 AM
Wouldn't that sort of eradicate free will? You can chain someone with sweets as easily as steel. It's the base concept behind most organized religions- get people to follow a certain code of behavior with the incentive of heaven dampening any objections they may have to the rules offered them (and the threat of hell for those who still aren't content). It is the same thing as saying everyone who behaved in a mean or self-serving manner would be denied or punished. And who gets to write the rules- who gets to decide which behaviors constitute "good" behaviors worthy of such privileges? Who gets to be the king sitting on top of the mountain? It sounds like a pathway to the immensely flawed judicial system we have now.
It's one thing for humans to, through free will, establish their on systems of rules and hierarchy (though many insist it is God that delivered the rules), but for a Logos-level consciousness to interfere so dramatically in the development of its creations seems to me a lot like what we had before the veil, where everyone naturally behaved in one way without question because they didn't know anything else, and everyone was happy and everything was completely stagnant.
I, personally, think it is much more conducive to a learning atmosphere to let the "rewards" remain the ability to see the product of one's actions- the manifestations of the desires. If you open the gateway wide enough, you CAN choose to fly, or teleport, or remain the same "age" indefinitely. Anything you can think of is within the realm of capability...but you have to work for it to get it. You have to discover what is "right" and "wrong" for yourself, and follow your heart with conviction. And, surprise surprise, those of either polarity can access this opening. Both can achieve the purity of desire to progress.
Not to mention we already have karma- a more subtle way of "keeping the self on track". What you do, good or ill, will always come back to you in one form or another, until you acknowledge the lesson that is being offered. Is learning to break the karmic chain and achieve true freedom not the greatest incentive of all?
Just my thoughts on the matter, of course. I just woke up...this is my official discourse of the day. :p
It's one thing for humans to, through free will, establish their on systems of rules and hierarchy (though many insist it is God that delivered the rules), but for a Logos-level consciousness to interfere so dramatically in the development of its creations seems to me a lot like what we had before the veil, where everyone naturally behaved in one way without question because they didn't know anything else, and everyone was happy and everything was completely stagnant.
I, personally, think it is much more conducive to a learning atmosphere to let the "rewards" remain the ability to see the product of one's actions- the manifestations of the desires. If you open the gateway wide enough, you CAN choose to fly, or teleport, or remain the same "age" indefinitely. Anything you can think of is within the realm of capability...but you have to work for it to get it. You have to discover what is "right" and "wrong" for yourself, and follow your heart with conviction. And, surprise surprise, those of either polarity can access this opening. Both can achieve the purity of desire to progress.
Not to mention we already have karma- a more subtle way of "keeping the self on track". What you do, good or ill, will always come back to you in one form or another, until you acknowledge the lesson that is being offered. Is learning to break the karmic chain and achieve true freedom not the greatest incentive of all?
Just my thoughts on the matter, of course. I just woke up...this is my official discourse of the day. :p
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