There Are Many Roads To Truth In The 21st Century

by Robert Wilkinson

I last posted this piece 7 years ago around this time. It’s from "Agni Yoga," an amazing work written over 80 years ago by Helena Roerich, wife of the legendary Nicholas Roerich, the first artist ever nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, among other notable achievements. In our transitional era, it offers hope for the future, and clues to the eternal. It offers perspective on inclusivity as paramount to finding Truth.

"Each era chooses its corresponding Teaching. At such hour, all former Teachings assume a quite distorted image. Humanity itself seeks to adopt the most twisted perversions of the reverence of its forefathers. But each phase of the Teaching does not exclude the preceding one. Little attention is paid to this fact, as the priests of every Teaching build their welfare by a denial of the previous Teachings.

But it is easy to prove the continuity of that which people call religion. In this incessancy is sensed the one stream of the very same energy. Calling it psychic energy, we speak of the same Sophia of the Hellenic world or Sarasvati of the Hindus. The Holy Ghost of the Christians manifests signs of psychic energy, just as the creative Adonai of Israel, and Mitra, full of solar power. Certainly, no one doubts that the fire of Zoroaster is the fire of space which you study." (#416)

Belief systems pervade every part of our lives, from politics to religion to economics to health to media to the human condition itself. And there is a religion of politics, economics, health, and the rest. While many seek dominance through asserting points of view that exclude more than they include, any real manifestation of Truth will demonstrate the opposite quality, i.e., inclusivity.

Though twisted or perverted understandings may create momentary errors on the personality level, the higher Truth of the evolutionary process will manifest despite the distortions. The trick is to stay focused, and not mistake individual or collective madness for any reality we should buy into.

I once read that each sub-race of each Root Race brings forth its concept of “God,” and from the angle of the eternal, contributes that facet of Truth to an ever-evolving concept of “God.” As evolution is eternal (since even an absolute sense of Oneness still evolves as a function of direct experience on whatever level), then how we view God, or “All-That-Is,” evolves through absorbing and assimilating every new “Truth of God,” becoming a greater view of God than existed before.

This infinite set of realizations about God across space and time contributes to a greater human awareness of what God is. We never have to fear seeing a greater God than we did before. As lesser forms of understanding God fall away, replaced by more inclusive view of the infinite power, love, wisdom, and intelligence that God manifests in infinite ways, we will directly experience that “Way to God.”

The journey from truth to Truth is eternal. Look for evidence of continuity in developing awareness, and you will find that the principle of inclusivity is paramount. In this is the way beyond fear.

"Look fear in the face, and it will cease to trouble you." - Sri Yukteswar

For more by Helena Roerich, here’s a piece from the work “Brotherhood”

Agni Yoga - Helena and Nicholas Roerich, Brotherhood, Thought-forms, Bees and other things

Here’s another piece from “Brotherhood,”

Brotherhood, Agni Yoga, and Courage As the Light of Truth

© Copyright 2006, 2013 Robert Wilkinson

Comments

[Debbie]

To me not one mind not one belief not one religion etc can encompass that which is referred to as the mind of god. Yet within each heart there is the encompassing of what all truth feels like, within each mind,belief,religion etc pieces of the truth that only the heart can recognise and it is in the coming together of all hearts that brings the pieces of truth together as the whole, but first one needs to rise above each layer of the mundane and that which was believed before in order to allow it to unfold and reveal itself.

What you have written, as is often the case, resonates well with me. Thank you Robert

[Nancy Robinson]

Well understood, had to read several times, to get the wholeness of what written here. Thanks for the insights and food for thought.

[voyance]

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[Robert]

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[Nic]

Excelent post, clear and beautifuly explained/writen. Love the idea of inclusivity as a characteristic of truth. It can be said that the more inclusive a theory or world view is the more truth it holds.
Best,
Nic