In the third and fourth stages of evolution organisms with elaborate
decision systems evolve, and become seekers. Every organism that
can sense self and other, past, present and future, and life and death,
wonders and seeks after answers. Why are we here? What will happen
to me? Where will I go? How shall I live today? Who is
with me? Who cares about me? Is there any right way to live?
Is life worth living? Is death worth dying? What happens after death?
What is life about? Why? Seekers have an emptiness that yearns
to be filled, a spiritual hunger that needs to be fed.
There are answers. They are all around one in the evolved world, if one looks and understands. They are within, if one learns to listen and follow. Where they come from is part of the mystery. Those who have successfully followed the answers have believed passionately in their view of the truth. Some have believed in God, in prayer and in an open, committed, trusting, loving friendship with God, who provides them loving guidance. Some have believed in the reliable truth of the Universe. Some have believed in reason and accumulated human wisdom. Some have believed in meditation. All have found answers.
The Divine Harmony lovingly awaits every seeker, and rewards every seeker with love and life fulfilling answers that are understandable to the seeker in the seeker’s culture.
The Divine harmony so loves every seeker, that the Divine Harmony rewards every seeker with understanding that answers his or her wonder and leads to successful decisions and full life. The Divine Harmony gives every seeker artists and stories that the seeker can understand. The Divine Harmony blesses every seeker with inner guidance and intercession through the Divine Harmony’s grace.
To every culture, the Divine Harmony sends a shaman or prophet to reveal in ways the people can understand how those people can live successfully in their part of the world, which the Divine Harmony created through the process of evolution. One people may be unaware of the messengers the Divine Harmony has sent to another people. “[Some] we have mentioned to you, and [some] we have not mentioned to you” Qu’ran [4:164]. “To every people we have sent a messenger...”Qu’ran [10:47].
Some see time as going in one direction like a straight arrow. Some see time as circular like an arrow that circles around so that the head meets the tail, and the sequence starts all over again, like the rotation of the seasons. Some see time as reversible, now going forward, now going backward. Some see time as part of a larger whole, as a dimension of space-time. Whether time is any one of these or all of them is a mystery.
Humans believe some of these alternatives as a foundation for the stories that give them understanding of their existence. Some believe the arrow of time is straight, one has one life to live in this world and the hope of a better life in the next world. Others see progression toward maturity in life, and see people dying while still immature, and believe that one returns to this world in the next life to continue the process of maturity. One is reincarnated and returns as many times as necessary until one is mature and becomes one with all of existence. Then one gets off of the wheel of life, and has no more lives in this world.
These two views of time cannot be reconciled. Followers of each have thriving civilizations and find full life. These two views of time are honored as part of human diversity and the mystery of existence. All that can be said is that the Divine Harmony blesses each seeker with loving guidance in terms the seeker can understand.
The Divine Harmony so loved another species than humans, the a way was given to them to understand death and life after death. Homo Neanderthalis (first bones discovered in the Neander Valley in Northern Europe), who became extinct about 30, 000 years ago, are a different species from humans, Homo Sapiens (thinking man). Some of the Neanderthals were seekers, wondering about life after death. The Divine Harmony lovingly heard their yearning and blessed them with guidance they could understand in their culture.
The Divine Harmony so loved the Neanderthals that the Divine Harmony sent shamans to tell them a story about how to bury their dead with ceremony, including grave goods for the deceased to have after death, and how to lay flowers around the grave. After 60, 000 years, such a Neanderthal grave was found by humans in Iraq in the Middle East. The Neanderthal bodies were buried in certain positions, with weapons, utensils and other personal items in the grave, and flower pollen was still in a circle all around the grave.
The Divine Harmony so loved the courageous human hunters that risked their lives hunting the main food animal, and the tribe’s people who often felt guilty for killing and eating such a noble beast, that the Divine Harmony sent them shamen with stories, which the tribe could understand, of the noble sacrifice by the animal to provide for the tribe so that life could go on, which the tribe should honor by receiving the bountiful feast.
The Divine Harmony so loved the farmers who began to plant corn, rice and maize and live at the mercy of the seasons, that the Divine Harmony sent shamen with stories, which the farmers could understand, of sacrifice by humans to result in plentiful crops and many healthy children. The cycle of planting and harvest was reflected in the sacrifice by humans of their best to the Divine, and in return the gift of the Divine of good weather, harvest, children and security. In Mesopotamia the Divine Harmony sent the story of Tiamat, the Great Earth Mother Goddess, the source of all nature. In other parts of the world, the Divine Harmony answered seekers with understanding about their ancestors awaiting them after death.
The new city dwellers, thousands of whom were packed tightly together in a city, desperately needed a model of strong authoritative leadership from the top, if they were to be disciplined enough to survive with each other. The Divine Harmony so loved the city dwellers that the Divine Harmony sent shaman and priests with the story of Marduk, the strong, dominant male god who slew Tiamat, on the condition that thereafter he would be absolute ruler of all of existence, particularly of humans packed tightly in cities. Marduk was the example that justified the Divine right of Kings to rule with the power of life and death over the people, which the people accepted. The Divine Harmony so loved other seeking peoples he gave the people along the Nile River Ra, Osiris and other gods to guide their lives through the seasons of the Nile.
The Divine Harmony so loved the people of Central America the Divine
Harmony gave them shamans with stories of gods of power and authority.
Many successive Indian cultures flourished under the guidance of the priests
and kings following these gods. In some cultures, commerce and mathematics
advanced, so that some seekers wondered about the order of the stars.
The Divine Harmony so loved these people the Divine Harmony sent shamans
with stories that helped the people understand how they are related to
the reliability of the stars, whose positions the priests could predict.