Man and his environment
OUR environment is undoubted fouled up. The physical is there for whoever cares to see. Of course, there are a great many that do not see and, therefore, do not care while there are those who see but do not care; they cannot be bothered. The inconveniences they may have caused to their fellowmen, what diseases may have issued from filth to threaten their compatriots resulting from their attitudes do not move them.
Chambers 21st Century Dictionary defines environment as “the surroundings or conditions within which something or someone exists.” Thus we talk of business environment; we talk about economic as well as political environment. So is it that we also speak of cultural environment, school environment or social environment. An environment can be hostile. On the other hand it can be peaceful, harmonious and uplifting.
The dictionary even goes further, saying the environment could be external: “The combination of external conditions that surround and influence a living organism.” It is not infrequent that some people speak of professional environment. The environment comes under the all- encompassing tangibility and the intangibility, either with waves of influence, the former assailing our eyes and the latter our feelings and sense of well being if it is disagreeable.
Governments at different tiers make laws and bylaws to regulate the environment to make it beautiful, enchanting and welcoming for the overall wellbeing of the citizenry. Consider heaps of refuse or gutters not cleared. These make for ugliness, an eyesore, and incubating shelter for diseases. The gutters soon begin to send out disgusting stench. Think of the great harm and destruction to life and property unconscionable blockage of water ways and flood- control channels can inflict on the generality of the populace. Water which pathway is blocked will always find its way. To avert widespread disaster, affecting even the unsuspecting members of the community, the decisive action of a government especially in flood- prone terrain becomes a blessing in disguise to the society as a whole.
A conducive environment by way of law and order triggers business or investment instincts and confidence. These make for economic development and social wellbeing of a people. But there is more to the environment. It encompasses the wider unseen world with far greater influence on our earthly existence and in our lives later in the Beyond, in the ethereal world. What our state here on earth, hardly realised, is moulded in the world unseen. It is, therefore, often heard that it is the environment that moulds the man and that man is a product of his environment, his fortune or misfortune, his experiences et al.
The influence the environment impacts, it is argued, is such that the fate of a man is sanctioned by the conditions of his environment. In the enlightenment of these times, we now know that this settled notion is erroneous. In other words the station or situation in which a man may find himself is arbitrary and it is not so. It is similar to the “mystery” surrounding why good people suffer and why manifestly evil men prosper! Why should a good man be born in abject poverty and a wicked man into opulence? This is a thought we human beings have grappled with for thousands of years. They are questions for which strenuous efforts have been made in the search for answers.
The questioning has arisen from lack of understanding of man himself and more importantly mankind’s perception of God and His Nature. The result is that there is a wrong image of God the Almighty Father. He is often reduced to the level of an earthly King, or at most the King up there, a few miles above the clouds, overlooking every human being and every creature. He is so placed to be able to read everybody’s mind.
What we must recognise that The Almighty in His Omnipotence is infinitely and inconceivably greater than that. We must get it clear that arbitrariness is impossible in the ways of the Creator, the Almighty. It is His Wisdom that rules the world. It is the Wisdom manifesting in the Creation- Laws which He uses as mechanisms to govern His Creation. Consider it if it were not so: The incomprehensive and inconceivable vastness of Creation alone, the seven universes in the material world, that is the World of Gross Matter which abuts the Creation proper, separated by a ring of the Animistic where animals have their origin.
The Creation proper is where the Paradise of we human beings is.
Consider the billion of galaxies in our universe called Ephesus. The earth is only a planet in our solar system anchored around the sun. The sun itself is only one of billions of stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way. Each of the seven universes has its own solar systems and galaxies and each solar system and galaxy with its own planet— all Creation in living activities, working and weaving, and weaving and surging , and sparkling, energy fields far away from and to regions incomprehensible to human reasoning, and immeasurable.
It is little known that the Ethereal World which is the Beyond is by far bigger than our earth. It is vastly populated in its own different planes by human spirits still developing or trapped by errors and misconceptions as well as wrong teachings spread while on earth. These are different from multitudes in the Dark Region.
On earth today, the population is said to be about 7.8 billion human beings. How is God Almighty to deal with every individual on earth and those struggling to shrug off the burden of their guilt if he were to relate to us in the manner as is generally believed? Scant attention is paid to neither His Omnipotence nor His Omnipresence, both attributes of the Creator which are least understood. It is knowledge and understanding of His Wisdom expressed in the Laws, the principles that reveal how sublime His Ways are and how unrelenting, ceaseless, immutable and just the mechanisms that govern life are.
With the understanding of the mechanisms, that is the Creation/ Divine Laws it will be seen that it is man who forms his environment. He is the architect of his own fortune. He forms his environment with radiation threads he supplies for weaving at the loom of life manned by the Nature Beings— where they are at work. The radiations flow from his thought volition, speeches or actions in the exercise of his free will, asserting his freedom of thought, freedom of speech and of action.
Man in the exercise of his free will is free to think and choose. Didn’t the Lord Christ say that it is not what goeth into a man’s mouth but what cometh out of it that defileth a man? However, he bears spiritual responsibility for what he thinks or does. Thought may be unseen, speeches could be heard and action seen or felt. Laws govern the whole of Creation. In the knowledge mediated to man today, we are permitted to recognise the fact that these laws are perfect, uniform, immutable and self acting not just in the whole of Creation but in the activities therein as well. The laws which govern by extension a man’s placement, whether the choice of family, or social relationship are the Laws of Attraction of Homogeneous Species, the Law of Reciprocal Action, the Law of Spiritual Gravitation and the Law of the Cycle. These constitute the manual of Creation as they are the expression of the Will of God Almighty.
The manual of any product is produced by the manufacturer. For a pilot and the flight captain of an aircraft to fly their aircraft successfully and safely, they must be conversant with the manual of the model of their aircraft and abide by it, its content and the direction it gives. It is the same with automobiles. The manual for car tells us about tyre gauge, oil gauge, water gauge, speedometer, and when to change accessories. The car guarantees safety and gives pleasure and joy to him who is familiar with the manual. The Almighty Creator is the Author of Creation’s manual. Those who sojourn under the folds of His Creation have the bounden duty to be familiar with this manual so they do not constitute a hindrance and nuisance to the harmonious working of Creation. Legislators give expression to the will of their constituents through laws. With all the mechanisms in place, living and selfacting, indeed self policing, the Almighty does not need to directly intervene in the cares of men and world conditions. These are left to the living and incorruptible mechanisms of life, the outworking of the
Only goodness as a way of life and purity of thoughts can reverse the darkening of the environment and the impending doom.
Holy Spirit, the Creative Will and Justice of God personified the eternal Mediator.
A set of Nature Beings weave the ethereal radiation threads from thoughts into forms in accordance with the contents of the thoughts so issued. Another set do the same with the radiations that stream out of speeches. Ethereal waves go out of actions and woven into forms. These forms bear energies within them and through the Law of Similarity and Like attracting Like; they attract similar thought forms from any part of the world. The thoughts are thereby reinforced and they form power centres. All the forms are firmly linked with the author of the deeds, thoughts, speeches or actions. They are seeds in the soil of life. When they have gone through maturation processes like the seed of any plant, the fruits ripen for harvest by the sower. The harvest can be in the form of darkened environment around the sower.
The forms and power centres are not necessarily those of evil alone. There are power centres from where blessings flow as well. Good seeds will produce good fruits. As such returns from the power centre that consists of goodness form light environment around the sower and he feels light and glows. He knows joy and happiness, peace and harmony. He senses some wholesomeness in Creation. Thus, in the words of Herbert Vollmann in his The Gate Opens, “The environment does not form and mould man, but man forms the environment, in that his nature attracts other homogeneous kinds or is attracted by these, as with incarnation. Thus he creates for himself that environment in which he lives, with which he associates or ‘ keeps company’. Hence the saying: ‘ A man is known by the company he keeps.’ We could also say: Our environment is our mirror- image!”
However, the ethereal environment has been darkened and is now full of filth because evil is more prevalent in countries and the world in general as of these times. What with the devastation, mindless killings and destruction of properties in Russia- Ukraine War and the Hamas- Israeli War! The bloody conflict in Sudan counts as part of the evil sweeping through the world for which there will be dire consequences for the perpetrators in another earthlife. What with the air of forebodement resulting from the unabating insecurity challenges in Nigeria: banditry, kidnappings and killings!
Because of the pressure of the Light through the power of the Holy Spirit, power sweeping through all lands, in the proverbial End - Time that has already descended on the earth, there is intensification and acceleration of events and closing of cycles— the end going back to the beginning and therewith the ripening of fruits, and harvesting. The darkened environment is laden with tribulations and misery as consequences of wrong actions, the breach of the incorruptible Laws.
Today, the animated darkened environment is pushing for manifestation in all parts of the world. Intuitive perception which is the infallible guide for man is masked resulting in the collapse of values and high- mindedness. We are told that mankind are at the moment living in a time of the Cosmic Turning Point, the last Turning point when our universe, Ephesus, is moving to the last phase! It is a phase of compulsion to knowledge invoked by unbelievably harrowing experiences; a phase negligence and carelessness will avenge themselves bitterly. Only goodness as a way of life and purity of thoughts can reverse the darkening of the environment and the impending doom.