Purpose of Many Existences – (2448)

Ego as Cause

Master Samael says that the reason why we have many existences or successive existences (i.e. many physical bodies) is because of the ego.

The egos that we have precipitate a new existence and so on and so on, until the ego is eliminated.

However, each existence serves as a learning experience for our Monad. Each existence offers our Monad the chance to learn from a different set of circumstances unfolding in different areas of life.

Only really the learning of our Monad is complete when we actually have moved through or experienced all of the diverse areas of life.

Diverse Experiences

To have lived in each social class (lower, middle and upper), to have lived in several countries with varying cultures, to have lived a religious life and a non-religious life, to have lived belonging to all the religions, to have experienced the path, to have failed, to have triumphed, to have worked in various occupations, to have been a man and to have been a woman, to have fought in a war, to have died for others, to have etc. etc.

Conclusion

All of these experiences serve the purpose of allowing us to know ourselves or rather the Monad to know Itself in the many areas of life which are the areas in which the Being’s own values are expressed. In short these experiences allow the Monad to know, evaluate, test and expand Its awareness of Its own values.

In many ways, what we have of ego is the result of these many experiences that were not lived with consciousness. Now our work is not to have to go through these experiences but to transform the ego into consciousness and we will give to ourselves and our Monad the wisdom of those experiences. In some way the ego is a storage of bottled wisdom, lying in wait for the time to dissolve the bottle and release the wisdom. So our Monad takes us through these various life experiences allowing us to create the ego and then when it is Its will It orders us to work so to release that wisdom.

End (2448).