God Needs Us; God Meets Us;
God Knows His Creations Through Us

The high disciplines of Buddhism, Siddha Yoga and others which have come to us from the East, all declare that this material plane upon which we live, is a lesser plane. It is a land of illusion, better forgotten and transcended than lived in and appreciated. Even Sri Aurobindo, that great and recent sage, declared that it is wise to realize the presence of the Being and the Supramental Supermind, here on earth in His/Her creations. But even Aurobindo declares that this is a way of bringing the Supramental, the Divine, down to earth, and realizing it here. To me, this is only part of the story. It stills values more greatly the subtle realms than this material plane.

I would rather say that there is not only divinity here within this entire realm of material manifestation, but rather that we in turn serve Divinity and even teach Divinity here on earth. Why so? It seems to me that God, in order to realize Himself/Herself, has in fact created limitation. It seems to me also that in our own experience as delegates of the Divine, we can only experience that from which we have separated ourselves. After all, a fish in water doesn't really know what water is until he leaps out of it or is deprived of it. Limitation gives him greater knowledge through experience. Similarly with us, we cannot know the Supramental planes until we give up the idea that that which we know with our five-sense sensory apparatus is everything. Once we leap out of and above that framework, we can then know, from a distance, that this is only a part of something larger. But then in that limitation (once we have leaped out of it) we can appreciate our experience, incorporate it better, detail it better, value it more, integrate it in fact with something higher.

In this way, the angels above us, who guide us, also are taught as we integrate what we know with their knowledge. And so it goes on up the ladder of angel, archangel, archai and above. The higher in the hierarchy of experience, the more it is taught from below as well as the more does it exchange with that to which transmits. Thus the round-robin, the continuous feedback loop of exchange after limitation, then after experience, on this material plane. God created His/Her limitations in order to know His/Her products. He/She had to know also the limitations, experience them, and, since God is infinite, He/She must allow Himself to be limited, as He does through us in order to learn and expand and appreciate His/Her ever-creating creations.

This has led me more and more into the knowledge that we are here for God's purpose, and our purpose. This planet is not just an incubator in which we arm ourselves, harden our skins and await transportation to another world and another life. It is instead a most meaningful part of God's plan for the universe as well as for us. We complete Him/Her; we instruct Him/Her; we communicate with His/Her angels and form a coalition in which creation is created and the manifestation is ever more meaningfully established.

In several meditations I realized the importance of this message:

I meditated, and realized that the plant is the juncture between Heaven and Earth. It is a bridge between the SuperRealms and the Material plane upon which we live. How is it so? It is so because the plant stretches toward the Light, the light of Heaven, the light which emanates from the Sun, the light of God. It incorporates that light. It admixes it with the elements of Earth: water, minerals, nutrition. It creates, therefore, a bridge called food for all the other constituents of the earth. This is true of flowering plants, it is true of bacterial and algae plants. They form the staff of life. And why should it not be so? Is not all life contained in the seed. Does not the seed itself give rise to the plant. Does not the plant give rise to the blossom after it has incorporated all of the elements of Heaven with those of earth. Does not the blossom in turn give rise to the seed . And so the cycle is complete and ready to repeat itself ever and ever and ever again.

We can visit this plane of creation and visualize what is formed there and what is happening there. I call this the Archplane. When we visit, and bring our information and message to light, when we transmit it and teach it, we are forming yet another creation, and consolidating what has already become manifest. We are the messengers, and as such transmit God's teaching and create a way for the higher entities to enjoy their works at the same time.

In another way of looking at it: Of Sri Aurobindo it is stated (in Aurobindo on Himself, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1972, page 96): "Sri Aurobindo teaches that a descent of the higher principle is possible which will not merely release the spiritual self out of the world, but release it in the world, replace the mind's ignorance or its very limited knowledge by a Supramental Truth-Consciousness which will be a sufficient instrument of the inner Self to make it possible for the human being to find himself dynamically as well as inwardly and grow out of his still animal humanity into a diviner race."

True as this statement might be, it still causes one to envision a descent from above into a vessel which then incorporates it and is open to expand, perhaps even burst its bonds and disseminate its seeds throughout the local environment. This is only a partial picture, I believe, the rest of it being that the vessel below, the human being, us, also transmits our ray upward into that divine Supramental, into those divine beings -- and so we have a bargain, a contract between us, an exchange in which each completes the other in a round-robin feedback loop of ever expanding, ever eternal creation.

Just to show how universal this energy is, how much within all of us it exists, how it leads to the unity that we are, I will repeat what a respected (albeit admiring) colleague has written in response to this idea:

Last night, I read and printed a number of your meditations...I join with you in the higher realms of thought from which they come. I feel the Love, the Joy in "knowing beyond" our physical earthly knowing.

I re-read the meditation about the plant being the "juncture between Heaven and Earth"...and realized that in order for you to have that perception, you have to become that bridge. You have to assume all the Knowing Creative Energy that the plant assumes, knowing the absorption of light and the elements on earth in creating stem and fruit and flower to form our "staff of life." You have to be God's Creation in the action that the plant expresses for you to fully comprehend the plant. You have to be the creative energy that the plant experiences. All of which I think is a pretty neat concept, and for me to even make these observations, I have united with you in the essence of the plant as well . . . not unlike Marlo Morgan becoming water in order to "find" water when she led the aborigines across Australia.

Let us join with the wisdom of the flower and the seed, let us visit the archplane all together, and let us realize the creation/creators we are, all in unity, and all in our mandated and joyful service upon this earthly plane.

Maurie D. Pressman, M.D. is the co-author (with Patricia Joudry) of Twin Souls: A Guide to Finding Your True Spiritual Partner, published by Carol Southern Books, an imprint of Crown Publishers, New York.

Dr. Pressman is Emeritus Chairman of Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Temple University Health Sciences Center. He is Medical Director at the Center for Psychiatric Wellness, clinics that operate in Philadelphia and Haddonfield, N.J. These clinics bridge traditional and spiritual psychotherapy. Dr. Pressman can be reached at 200 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106; telephone 215-922-0204.

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