It would be a folly to think, as many people do, that this small pebble
called 'Earth' would be the only pebble on which human life exists,
when there are trillions of planets and systems far greater in their
size than this Earth of ours, and with vaster natural resources than we
have. From the spiritual side of life it would be giving the Creator,
whoever He may be by name, very little credit for His intelligence, by
Him creating far vaster systems and planets than our own and not have
them inhabited by His highest form of expression, called 'man'. There
really would be no rhyme nor reason for such a creation.
So we are endeavoring here to reasonably speculate upon such
inhabitation of other planets. To be right, as one possibly could be,
we must use the laws known to man upon this Earth, which are the laws
of growth or progression, to give us some basis for measuring the
intelligence upon other planets and throughout other systems.
There is a common urge within every man that calls upon him from time
to time to associate himself closer with his fellowman. Yet because his
knowledge is not sufficient to permit a feeling of absolute assurance
or security for himself and his family, man ignores this call that
comes from within himself towards relationship with his fellow beings
and founds himself upon the law of survival of the fittest. As a result
his struggle for existence is thereby increased.
Using this analysis in line with the law of progress, it is natural
to assume that in every field of human relationship progress towards
such a relationship must be made somewhere whether it be spiritual
or natural, for there is no standing still. So if we take our solar
system and consider it as a sort of school system with our planet as
the first grade classroom, we should find progression from this point
on to infinity both in the material and the spiritual. And especially
the spiritual, for the finer quality of intelligence could not do
anything different than bring forth a finer quality of form. Since the
spiritual has represented the finest from time immemorial, it would
then naturally reproduce the finest in form and put its binder of
mankind into the brotherhood society. We on Earth haven't yet realized
this type of life but it is logical to assume that inhabitants of other
planets may have done so.
We can take the Earth in general as a measuring stick for many things.
Let us take for an example the well-known tree. A tree is a tree no
matter where you find it. Yet trees vary in their form manifestation,
differing in their size, height, and shape. These variations man
classifies under different names. Still the form is a tree whether you
find it at one end of the world or at another, and no matter under what
climatic conditions, for the pattern is universal. A tree in one part
of the world may be quite coarse and in another part of the world quite
delicate, but still it is a tree.
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