The Four Ethers this stage in its development, its tendency to ‘colonise’ would cause many difficulties. One day it will be the role of souls initiated on Earth to serve as solar angels to evolving life forms on other planets, but the initiated soul has lost the tendency to impose control. Human civilisation will not fulfil its dream of expanding physically into the cosmos. Ironically one of the places earmarked for colonisation in the minds of some when our sun gets too hot is the moon Io. This dream is a reflection of a higher destiny. The question is whether or not Earth will succeed as a cosmic experiment in the evolution of form and consciousness to a point where the evolutionary universal soul wants to harvest that experiment and extend it to other planets. It may help to think of the universe as a garden wherein many seeds are planted. Will our civilisation mature into a flower that is chosen to be propagated by the galactic or even universal gardener? And who is that gardener but an aspect of ourselves that has grown wiser and more mature? The concerns that our civilisation has about the arrival of alien cultures that may seek to dominate or exploit us are projections of those aspects of our own culture we have not outgrown. An initiate becomes aware of connections in consciousness that already exist. This is the key to understanding the relationship between involution and evolution:
Universal Galactic Solar Systemic involution
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