- •Beyond human personality
- •Geraldine cummins
- •Chapter II the history of consciousness
- •Chapter III the immediate life after death
- •Chapter IV reincarnation
- •Chapter V affinities
- •Chapter VI the two aspects
- •Chapter VII armistice day
- •Chapter VIII november 11th, 1934
- •Part II beyond human personality
- •Chapter IX the chart of existence
- •Chapter X beyond human personality
- •Chapter XI solar man
- •Part III prayer and mystical experience
- •Chapter XII prayer
- •Chapter XIII hell
- •Chapter XIV the right way of loving
- •Appendices
- •Appendix I prevision* and memory
- •Appendix II nature spirits
- •Appendix III
- •Insanity*
- •Appendix IV justice
Appendix IV justice
When men talk of a just God they usually attribute to Him the human qualities of error. They think of a just judge, of one who punishes the criminal for some offence against society, and they are not able, nor, during their earth life will they ever be able to perceive, in a perfectly impartial spirit, whether justice has been done and the offender has received his deserts. Only the Divine Cosmic Mind knows the past of that offender and the past of every individual in the society of which he is a member. Only, therefore, can the Cosmic Mind, unfettered by human prejudices, pronounce judgment, absolve or correct the alleged criminal. So justice, as defined by man, differs in every respect from justice when it is considered cosmically and viewed in the larger light of eternity. But such a view will always be hidden from man. He must live within a limited conception; and so God can be said to have no part nor lot with justice, for almost inevitably the human being uses this word in a prejudiced and ignorant manner. He cannot look into the potential future, or into the past of the alleged criminal, nor does he as a rule, consider whether society as a whole is not the real criminal in having, through indifference or incompetence, placed this individual in such circumstances that he is impelled to offend and break the law.
We are, in one sense, all of us, offenders, all criminals, in that we, with our imperfections, ignorantly, foolishly, again and again, break divine law. And if the Eternal Spirit were a just God&emdash;just in the human sense of the
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word&emdash;we would, indeed, meet with a punishment so heavy that never again would we sit in judgment upon any living creature. But the Spirit of the Cosmos mercifully does not envisage justice as it is conceived by man, and so this Supreme Mind recognises evil merely as disordered, dissociated, imperfect imagining that slowly, through such disorder, evolves into an ordered harmonious condition within the life of the group-soul and within cosmic life.
THE END