To Climb the Steps of Truth Correctly (Part 2)

(Continued from last time)

★Three Stages of Learning

★Elementary-School-Level Learning

The first truth to know is the fact that “every human being is a divine being, not an imperfect or disharmonious being.”

In terms of the arithmetic example, this is the stage of learning numbers so that you can calculate.

On top of that, it’s good to learn and come to know things like “What kind of nature is divinity?”, “Why did the humans of Earth completely forget that they were divine beings?”, and “What is the difference between divinity and non-divinity?”

For that, lightly throw away the natural recognitions of the past, fixed ideas, assumptions, fixations, established concepts, attachments, and so on, make the natural recognition of spirituality and divinity your own, and acquire a way of living of super-common sense that goes beyond common sense without departing from the common sense of your world.

People who have come this far have, in terms of the arithmetic example, gotten as far as learning numbers, so those who clear this stage enter the next stage, learning addition and subtraction.

★Junior-High-School-Level Learning

That is the stage of practicing, in daily life, the right way of living as divine humanity.

Seen from a different angle, you could also say it’s the stage of thinking, speaking, doing, and expressing divine consciousness while being aware of yourself as a physical human.

This is the stage of throwing away dualistic ideas (good and evil, right and wrong) and finding divinity at the root of every manifestation. Looking at how your seniors have practiced it for decades, it seems to be a stage that requires great patience. So you could say it’s a stage where you must keep solving practice problems (daily tasks and difficulties) steadily, little by little, while keeping up the strong good thoughts and conviction cultivated in the previous stage.

But people who can firmly lay the foundation at this stage have solidly achieved oneness with their Higher Self, so you could say they have mastered in heart and body an unwavering divine consciousness that doesn’t slide back.

And seen spiritually, the state at this stage is one in which they can take into their physical hearts and bodies the light of the sun of spiritual light that reaches as far as the spiritual world, and they no longer get caught up in the waves of emotional thoughts, which are karma, and lose sight of divine consciousness.

Though they do borrow the help of their Guardian Deities and Spirits and of the gods and angels.

★University- and Graduate-School-Level Learning

The stage those who graduate from that stage practice next is, in the arithmetic example, the stage of multiplication and division: the stage of thinking, speaking, doing, and expressing the self as divine humanity that has completely graduated from physical human consciousness.

To compare the course up to this stage to school: if the first stage, “learning and knowing the essence of human beings and the cause of disharmony in this world,” is the elementary school level, then the next stage, thinking, speaking, doing, and expressing “the right way of living as divine humanity,” is like junior high and high school, and this next stage, “thinking, speaking, doing, and expressing the self as divine humanity that has completely graduated from physical human consciousness,” is like learning at university and graduate school.

You could say this stage is the one where you at last master, more concretely and practically, a way of living that lets you work as a ready asset once you go out into society (the society of the Cosmic Humanity).

That means that the humanity of Earth up to today, which believed the world perceived by the five senses was everything and lived by physical-world-centered values, was, in terms of this comparison, still at the stage of just beginning to learn.

To our eyes (a consciousness that sees through the way of the whole Cosmic Humanity), that’s how the people of Earth until now look, as a matter of actual fact.

And at this stage of mastering the way of living as gods, you clearly become aware that the world reflected in your eyes and ears, which you call “this world,” is actually a world equivalent to flat images projected onto a movie theater screen, and that the place where those images were really filmed is the world of the heart (consciousness). And you come to master completely, in heart and body, the ability to freely accomplish the creation of reality (the editing of the film) through the use of consciousness. (Continued next time)