Baseball is beautiful…the supreme performing art. It combines in perfect harmony the magnificent features of ballet, drama, art, and ingenuity. The World-Idea contains from the beginning to the end each individual life in its picture. How much freedom that life really contains is a matter for seers to say, not for intellectual to debate. How old is the series of experiences through which we moved unknowingly towards our present evolutionary position! How lofty is the level toward which we have yet to climb! How ironic is the discovery that what we thought was being done by free person choice was merely blind obedience to universal force; that where we believed free will was exercised, there we merely conformed to the World-Idea! The World-Idea is the ordained will of the World-Mind. Within its large outlines, change is impossible. All its parts serve them. However, it would not be correct to assert that we humans are slaves of that Idea. Somewhere within each part some sort of freedom is possible. That in the end nothing that the human will can do can sway human life into divergence from the World-Idea, that All is fixed by it, is not quite correct. #RandolphHarris 1 of 21

The main outlines of World-Idea can certainly not be affected, however, for they are inherent in the nature of things. Every human is offered a chance to live again, not once but as many times as will bring one to one’s diviner being and establish one in that. Human existence is a kind of bewitchment; we experience what we are made to experience. All is simply the expression of the World-Idea—that is, of God’s will—but we share in the making, participate in the divine ideation. In the end the World-Idea triumphs as, in reality and actuality, it is doing at every moment. Even human’s own personal will unwittingly prepares itself for such eventual conformity. The pressure of the World-Idea shapes one’s tendencies and one’s circumstances, denies one any other freedom than the mental position which one finally takes up, than the alliance with or rejection of moral conscience. The World-Idea’s end is foreordained from the beginning. This leaves no ultimate personal choice. However, there is a measure of free will in a single direction—how soon or how late that divine end is accomplished. The time element has not been ordered, the direction has. #RandolphHarris 2 of 21

Both the ordinary human and the enlightened human are playing the role allotted to them in the divine World-Idea. Neither could change that part of the planetary fate. However, whereas the first is doing it unwittingly, blindly, and at times rebelliously, the second is doing it knowingly, perceptively, and submissively. There are no mistakes anywhere in the World-Idea, nor even accidents. However, there is enough flexibility in its human part, enough freedom there, to make it seem as if there were some mistakes and some accidents. The meteor which moves across the Earther’s orbit is as much beyond human’s control as is one’s larger part in the World-Idea. Is the human race nothing else than God acting out a multitude of different parts in a tremendous play? If this were so, all humans would be no different than the mere figment of imagination of authors creating characters in novels. However, living humans are different. If they were just as illusory as those creations there would be something wrong with philosophy, with mind, and, let it be said, with God. It is needful to penetrate reflectively more deeply to bring light upon this point. #RandolphHarris 3 of 21

When one is allowed a glimpse of the World-Idea, one feels that one understands at last why one came here, what one has to do, and where one’s place is. It is like an immense enlargement of the mind, an escape from the littleness of the ego, and a finding-out of a long-hidden secret. When the fact of the World-Idea flashes into one’s mind, one stand like Aaliyah on Mount Everest. At last this bewildering enigma which surrounds and entraps everyone everywhere assumes pattern, the countless events and things and processes leave their isolation, their useless chaos, and fit together. One has come to the inner sight of the World-Idea’s meaning for one: that one is to use the human self to lift one’s nature up from the animal one, and that one is to put oneself at the service of one’s angelic, one’s best, self, to lift one’s nature up from the ordinary human. In this way one co-operates with the World-Idea. This is the use one is to make of one’s life on Earth: one’s personal life, one’s family relations, one’s professional career—all must become subject to the higher purpose. The resolve made, the matter of success of failure is no longer urgent, for every subsequent embodiment will point in this direction. #RandolphHarris 4 of 21

Philosophy has instructed one in the unreality of time and has revealed to one one’s indissoluble connection with God. All this was seen by the self-actualized long ago and symbolized by them in the Sphinx and the Pyramid. One sees that life is encircled by a great Being, that the Mind behind the Universe—although so still and uncommunicative and, apparently, unconcerned—is in reality sending its messages in varied ways all the time. The World is no longer merely itself. Henceforth it is the expression of a divine Idea. It is then that the awareness of the World-Idea comes to one, explaining one’s planetary surroundings and enlightening one’s situation therein. Every relationship and every event is then sent to be significant, falling into place in this amazing pattern. One sees the World forever changing its forms, forever in process, and one oneself as part of it under the same doom. All is appearance, not reality. However, one sees also the Essence. This is the World as my experience showed it to be, the World as it is revealed to me by God. One of the first and most powerful rituals any American citizen can perform is the Pledge of Allegiance. We all memorized the pledge in grade school, and have held in proud in our minds ever since. Remember the ritual–standing proud, slauting the flag with our right hand over our heart, every morning when we got to schhol. #RandolphHarris 5 of 21

Keep in mind that this is still one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all, and this truth is important because or freedom does not come from the government. Our freedom comes from God, and the government was established to protect that God-given freedom. That was their justification for the American Revolution as stated in the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson wrote: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all humans are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among humans, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these end, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government laying its foundations on such principles.” No king or emperor, no president or congress, no court or crowd gives us our right. They come from God Himself and are unalienable. And the Founder built America’s foundation on such principles. #RandolphHarris 6 of 21

Our nation’s unity and freedom depend upon being one nation under God, and we highly resolve that people who put their lives on the line for this country and anyone else shall not die in vain; this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and a government that protects and the people and their land, and this kingdom of God shall not perish from the Earth. When we pledge alliance to the flag of the United States of America, we are acknowledging the Founder’s declaration that our freedom comes from God, not the state. The American people’s freedom—the freedom of your neighbour’s, your colleagues, your children, their teachers, are because we are one nation under God. Take that principle away, remove it from our national consciousness, and we will lose the very basis for the freedoms we so easily take for granted. God gave us liberty. When we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God, can the liberties of a nation be secure? Agency makes our life on Earth a period of testing. When planning the mortal creation of His children, God said, “We will prove [test] them herewith, to see if they will do all thing whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them,” reports Abraham 3.35. #RandolphHarris 7 of 21

Without the gift of agency, we would have been unable to show our Heavenly Father whether we would obey his commandments. Because we are able to choose we are also responsible for our actions. When we choose to live according to God’s plan for us, our agency is strengthened. Right choices increase our power to make more right choices. As we obey each of our Father’s commandments, we grow in wisdom and strength of character. Our faith increases. We find it easier to make right choices. We began to makes choices as spirit children in our Heavenly Father’s presence. Our choices there made us worthy to come to Earth. Our Heavenly Father wants us to grow in faith, power, knowledge, wisdom, and all other good things. If we keep His commandments and makes right choices, we will learn and understand. We will become like God. “One that keepth his commandments receiveth truth and light, until one is glorified in truth and knoweth all things,” Doctrine and Covenants 93.28. In those divinely captured moments when ego is loosened and God is present in awareness, the amazing pattern of the World-Idea shines clearly. One becomes awed, though such Heavenly glimpses, by the tremendous intelligence behind and within the Cosmos. #RandolphHarris 8 of 21

One will begin to see an intelligence moving in and through the Universe which one had not seen before. The Universe will no longer be a strange symbol without any meaning. There is a wisdom within the cosmos beyond our telling or knowing, but if we turn in reverence to it or in remembrance of it, we may feel its presence in tranquil movements. To feel the divine presence is much more common an experience hen to perceive the divine purpose. The World-Idea authentically exists but not in the way that physical things exist. No human mind can receive and hold it in the same definite way it can receive and hold all other idea. Even in those exalted psychological states or mystical experiences when the World’s meaning is perceived, its inner drama understood during a brief glimpse, the seer gets only the fragment which one’s mind can take in, limited and conditioned as one is. The vast coverage of the World-Idea, coupled with the microscopic spaces in which it is equally manifest, transcends human grasp. A few have lifted themselves to receive the Cosmic Vision for historic purposes. #RandolphHarris 9 of 21

Other receive glimpses, at best, of part only of the Cosmic vision, but even those are awe-inspiring. What they may expect to find with intellect is at most the slow uncovering of little fragments of the World-Idea: but with intuition the subtler meanings and larger patterns are possible. These include but also transcend the physical plane. A few fated persons, whose mission is revelation, are granted once in a lifetime Cosmic Vision. No human mind is capable of ultimate knowledge of all the Universe’s secrets, nor of absolute comprehension of what is in the World-Mind, no matter what anyone claims. “Only give heed to yourself and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen,” reports Deuteronomy 4.9. Wise people co-operate voluntarily with the World-Mind before they are forced into going along with it and its expression, the World-Idea. “Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you shall find rest for your souls,” Matthew 11.29. Only to the extend that one unites one’s own little purpose with the Universal purpose can one find harmony and happiness. Its strength will support one firmly in adversity and misfortune, as it will carry one triumphantly through misery and hostility. #RandolphHarris 10 of 21

What is running your life at any given moment is your soul. Not external circumstances, or your thoughts, or your intentions, or even your feelings, but your soul. The soul is that aspect of your whole being that correlates, integrates, and enlivens everything going on in the various dimensions of the self. It is the life-center of the human being. It regulates whatever is occurring in each of those dimensions and how they interact with each other and respond to surrounding events in the overall governance of your life. The soul is “deep” in the sense of being basic or foundational and also in the sense that it lies almost totally beyond conscious awareness. In the person with the “well-kept heart,” the soul will be itself properly ordered under God and in harmony with reality. The outcome will be, as we have said, a person who is prepared for and capable of responding to the situations of life in ways that are good and right. For such a person, the human spirit will be in correct relationship to God. With one’s assisting grace, it will bring the soul into subjection to God and the mind (thoughts, feelings) into subjection to the soul. The social context and the body will then come into subjection to thoughts and feelings that are in agreement with truth and with God’s intent and purpose for us. #RandolphHarris 11 of 21

Any given event in our life would then proceed as it should, because our soul is functioning properly under God. The more one learns about the World-Idea, the more one wonders at it. To go father and co-operate with it is to find peace. To bring oneself consciously and deliberately within the World-Idea is a holy act. One is within it anyway, but without the consciousness. One’s personal share in the World-Idea is limited to reception of it in every corner of one’s conscious being. If Nature keeps her lips inexorably shut to the questions of those who abuse her, she graciously opens them in perfect response to those who ask wit quieted, co-operative and harmonious ego. If you live within only human wisdom, you can find it constantly necessary to do what is wrong. And in that case, you will become an authority on what is right and wrong—because, after all, you will have to manage right and wrong. You will have to have ready explanations of why, though you do wrong things, you are still a good person, and why those who do not do as you do are fools. You will become an expert scorner, able to put everyone in their place with appropriate doses of contempt, which is an essential element of scorn. #RandolphHarris 12 of 21

We are supposed to delight in the law that God has given. We are to delight in it. We are to love it, be thrilled by it, and we cannot keep our minds off of it because it is so exciting. The law of Gd is beautiful, strong, wise, an incredible gift of God’s mercy and grace. Therefore we must dwell upon it day and night, turning it over and over in our mind and speaking it to ourselves. One does not do this to please God, but because the law pleases one. It is where one’s whole being is oriented. The result is a flourishing life. The image used here is that of a tree planted by water canals. No matter what the weather or the surface condition of the ground, its roots go down into the water sources and bring up life. As a result, it bears fruit when it is supposed to, and its foliage is always bright with life. It prospers in what it does. And likewise the human who is rooted in God through his law: “in whatever one does, one prospers” reports Psalm 1.3. We must come back to the absolutely vital relationship between the law and the soul later. We can be co-workers with the World-Mind only to the extent that we withdraw from our ego. Then only are we able to receive correctly the wonderful revelation of the World’s meaning and laws, so that we can participate intelligently and lovingly. #RandolphHarris 13 of 21

When one sees the meaning of life, one cannot help but give it one’s acceptance. Circumstances previously rebelled against now fit into a reasonable place in the patterns of things. Nature gives her message to humans, and gives it all the time all at once. However, humans hear it only in bits and pieces, even when and if one hears it at all. How to live well while in this World does not only mean how to live comfortably, nor even morally, but also how to live in harmony with the World-Idea. To be unaware that there is any such meanings to existence is to be unable to live really well and truly wisely as a human being. Bring in a single light and there follows recognition of several objects in a room; there is knowledge of their existence, their form, and often their function. In the same way, some knowledge of the World-Idea makes possible the clearer comprehension of human existence, its hidden purposes, goals, and enigmas. I have only a very partial knowledge of the World-Idea but it is enough to throw a practical working light upon our business here on Earth. Only when one finds out one’s correct relation to the Universe and to one’s fellow creatures will one find one’s own well-being. #RandolphHarris 14 of 21

We too are elements of the World like the mountains and flowers around us and need to understand it in co-operation with the need to understand ourselves. The two cannot be separated without loss to our own fullness of understanding and practicality. One who knows not the World-Order, know not one’s own place in it. As is apparent, little could be said about will in its aspect as mover or impeller, though the power of choosing to act or not to act is sufficiently different from other features of human life to warrant a name. Much more could be said abut the kinds of things, values, and forces that move the will and influenced human’s conduct. Much was written—and has always been written—under the general heads of ethics, morals, moral philosophy, and politics. The main movers of the will have been traditionally regarded as the good (apparent good and real good), virtue, duty, and felicity. These terms and things are too vauge to permit close analysis and study of conduct. Yet, one may subscribe to the classic generalization that apparent good is the mother of desire and real good the mother of virtue. #RandolphHarris 15 of 21

The classes of good are the self-good, the Good of Communion or duty, and certain practical categories that relate to the mind’s culture. The fresh approach to self-good and good of communion are to be based on the belief that there is formed and imprinted in everything an appetite toward two natures of good: the one as everything is a total or substantive in itself, the other as it is a part or member of a greater body. Self-good—sometimes called individual good—seems to reveal a triple appetite, that of preserving and protecting self, of perfecting self, and of multiplying self. Self-preservation is good because it brings pleasure in its must pure and naturel form—this kind of pleasure is the softest and lowest. A high and more active form of individual good is the appetite to perfect one’s self. Even higher and still more dynamic in the scale of self-goods is the urge to extend and multiply the human species. In all manifestations of the good, the final end is the perfection of form; the mechanism or agent is that of instinct. Human’s desire is to perfect oneself and one’s own kind reflects a profound and eternal sensitivity to form. First, humans seem to have an instinct of an advancement formal and essential. #RandolphHarris 16 of 21

Since one’s form and essence is one’s rationality, one will be most strong when one shows a mind well formed and composed in itself. The idea of virtue refers to just such a state in humans. Duty, on the other hand, refers to a mind well formed and disposed towards others. Second, a human’s striving to perfect oneself reflects the appetite in all things to approach the form next above them…there are some nobler natures to the dignity and excellence whereof inferior natures aspire as to their sources and origins. In the case of humans, the perfection of one’s form is one’s assumption or approach to the Divine or Angelic nature. The affection of humans for one’s higher nature maybe an affection that is inseparable from human nature. This alludes, also, to the vestige of goodness that God vouchsafed Adam when he was banished from the Garden of Eden. The will, then, is moved by considerations of self-good and community good or duty. It is also influenced by those conditions that relate culture or training to the mind. These are the dispositions and characters of humans. They are inclination to virtue and vices and to passions and perturbations. The conditions are grouped under two principal divisions: those that the individual that the individual has no control over, and those that one can command. #RandolphHarris 17 of 21

In the first division are characters that are profound and radical dispositions that seem to fit one human for business, another for art, one for the contemplative life, another for practical affairs, one for love, another for war, and the like. In the second division is placed a number of things that mold manners and affect both will and appetite. I come now to those points where are within our own command, and have operation on the mind to affect and influence the will and appetite, and so have great power in altering manners; wherein philosophers ought carefully and actively to have inquired of the strength and energy of custom, exercise, habit, education, imitation, emulation, company, friendship, praise, reproof, exhortation, fame, laws, books, studies, and the like. For these are things that rule in morals; these the agents by which the mind is affected and disposed; and the ingredients of which are compounded the medicines to preserve or recover the health of the mind, as far as it can be done by human remedies. Some virtues are habits and can be learned, they too are among the moral conditions that influence the will. #RandolphHarris 18 of 21

Yet virtue, in influencing the will, does not function quite like an agent; rather it is a guide, a goal, or an object; and in this respect it is in the family of good, duty, and felicity. These are quite rightly the true objects and scopes of human’s will and desires. In fact, one function of ethical studies is how to make the will of human conformable to the pursuit of those object. Since the human being is one among many other creates existent in the cosmos, if one is to know oneself properly one must know enough cosmology to enable one to do so. Because the World-Mind is there the cosmos is there. Because the cosmos is there you are there. Such knowledge will enable one to make the best use of oneself and one’s environment, for its beneficial influence will pervade one’s general life and work. To what ideal ought young advance? This is where foreknowledge of the World-Idea is helpful to them. The values of a knowledge of cosmology is that it makes a human feel, intellectually at least, that one is part of something immensely great and immensely significant. The highest mystical teachings end, and can only end, in proclamation of the One Reality or, more properly, the Ineffable, the One-without-a-Second. Nothing much can really be affirmed about It other than that It IS. #RandolphHarris 19 of 21

However, revelation cannot end with this affirmation. For humans find themselves subject to the necessities of a physical body living in a physical environment. The higher laws governing such Earthly existence affect one vitally. If one is to live in harmony, not conflict of these laws, one ought not to remain unaware of them. If one ignores the fact, truths, laws, and principles of cosmogony, all spiritual study is incomplete. To attempt to justify this neglect with accusation that they belong to the World of illusion is silly and useless. For the accuser must still continue to live in an illusory body and use an illusory self governed by those laws. After every such attempt and for each violation of those laws—upon which the order and harmony of the Universe depend—which one’s neglect brings about, one must pay the penalty in suffering.  As knowledge of the true facts about the World in which we live become available (and I mean knowledge not only scientific knowledge, but also spiritual knowledge and physical knowledge), more and more the human race will discover that it has obligations to the cosmos, and that they cannot be ignored without retribution. “Therefore rejoice, you Heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to the Earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short,” reports Revelation 12.12. #RandolphHarris 20 of 21

Never will I say, King of the Earth, that your power has ever been diminished. Today, I saw leaves flying in the wind and they told me not to doubt. Though the strong guests strip the trees of their the summertime finery and empty branches reach black against the twilight sky, my heart will not shudder, nor my spirits fail. You are the guide to whom the events of the World look and they do not stray from the path you are continually laying down: this Winter that transforms the World is a return to Winter’s past. Standing among the fallen leave, I praise you, I prey to you, I bring to mind your glory. Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. The face of the Lord is against then that do evil, to cut ff their memory from the Earth. The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous, and His ears are open unto their cry. They cried, and the Lord heard them, and delivered them out of all their troubles. The Lord is nigh unto that that are of a broken heart, and saveth such as are a contrite spirit. Many are the misfortunes of he righteous, but the Lord delivereth one out of them all. #RandolphHarris 21 of 21

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