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Charles Webster Leadbeater
The Divine Scheme
Perhaps none
of our postulates will present greater difficulty to the average mind than the
first corollary to the first great truth. Looking round us in daily life we see
so much of the storm and stress, the sorrow and suffering, so much that looks
like the triumph of evil over good, that it seems almost
impossible to
suppose that all this apparent confusion is in reality part of an ordered
process.
Yet this is
the truth, and can be seen to be the
truth so soon as we escape from the dust-cloud raised by the struggle in the
outer world, and
look upon it
all from the vantage ground of the fuller knowledge and the inner peace.
Then the real
motion of the complex machinery becomes apparent. Then it is seen that what
have seemed to be countercurrents of evil prevailing against the stream of
progress are merely trifling eddies into which for the moment a little water
may turn aside, or tiny whirlpools on the surface, in which part of the water
appears for the moment to be running backwards.
But all the
time the mighty river is sweeping steadily on its appointed course, bearing the
superficial whirlpools along with it. Just so the great stream of evolution is
moving evenly on its way, and what seems to us so terrible a tempest is the
merest ruffling of its surface. Another analogy, very beautifully worked out is
given in Mr. C. H. Hinton’s Scientific Romances, vol. 1, pp 18-24.
Truly, as our
third great truth tells us, absolute justice is meted out to all, and so, in
whatever circumstances a man finds himself, he knows that he himself and none
other has provided them; but he may also know much more than this.
He may rest
assured that under the action of evolutionary law matters are so arranged as to
give him the best possible opportunity for developing within himself those
qualities which he most needs.
His
circumstances are by no means necessarily those that he would have chosen for
himself, but they are exactly what he deserved; and subject only to that
consideration of his deserts ( which frequently impose serious limitations),
they are those best adapted for his progress. They may provide him with all
sorts of difficulties, but these are offered only in order that he may learn to
surmount
them, and thereby develop within himself courage, determination, patience,
perseverance, or whatever other quality he may lack. Men often speak as though
the forces of nature were conspiring against them, whereas as a matter of fact,
if they would but understand it, everything about them is carefully calculated
to assist them on their upward way.
That, since
there is a Divine scheme, it is man’s part to try and understand it, is a
proposition which surely needs no argument. Even were it only from motives of
self-interest, those who have to live under a certain set of conditions would
do well to familiarise themselves with them; and when
a man’s objects in life become altruistic it is still more necessary for him to
comprehend, in order
that he may
help the more effectually.
It is
undoubtedly part of this plan for man’s evolution that he himself should
intelligently co-operate in it as soon as he has developed sufficient
intelligence
to grasp it and sufficient good feeling to wish to aid. But indeed this Divine
scheme is so wonderful and so beautiful that, when once a man sees it, nothing
else is possible for him than to throw all his energies into the effort to
become a worker in it, no matter how humble may be the part which he has to
sustain.
For fuller
information on the subjects of this chapter the reader is referred to Mrs.
Besant’s Esoteric Christianity and Ancient Wisdom, and to my own little book on
The Christian Creed. Much light is also
thrown on these conceptions from the Greek standpoint in Mr. G. R. S. Mead’s
Orpheus, and from the Gnostic-Christian in his fragments Fragments
Of A Faith Forgotten.
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