IN SEARCH OF AUTHORITY

Science versus Mythology

Mythologically speaking, the concept of a fallen, sinning, self-destroying human race originated in a primordial rebellion that is supposed to have taken place in heaven against the authority of God—that is, against the status quo of the deific Establishment. In response to bombardment by an outside force called evil, man is supposed to have said "I will" independently of, and in opposition to, the governing Principle of the universe. The "nucleus" of infinity was supposedly split in two. Mythologically, man fell from grace and his mortality began. In present day jargon he "dropped out." Thereafter, through a process of continuous self-discovery and self-education called civilization, fallen man's necessity was to try to struggle his way back towards that original authority in the effort to reinstate himself under its government, and so reestablish the unity of being.

When Jesus says, in effect, "I come from the Father (the universal Principle which is Love) and go back to the Father, and in so doing I solve from beginning to end the problem of rebellious, fallen man," he is pointing to the timeless Science of man's true being, in which coming from Principle is the opposite of the mythological fall and going back to Principle the truth behind the arduous struggle which is taking place today to attain world harmony and peace.

Without understanding why, thought today is turning more and more to what psychology calls the "collective unconscious" as the source of spontaneous experience and life. In psychoanalysis this 'bottomless pit of the unconscious" is closely associated with the archetypal gods of mythology. As time goes on, this counterfeit concept of the collective unconscious will begin to be replaced by an opposite divine reality, namely, the fathomless depths of the Mind which is God. When, through spiritual understanding, men begin to identify themselves with this Mind, it will be found to yield to them life and happiness and spontaneity infinitely more desirable and infinitely more satisfying than that offered by its poor mythological counterfeit, approached through hypnotism and drugs.

Real education is like the process of birth. For man's true identity to come from within himself is for his identity to come forth from God. Jesus knew this when he said that he came from the Father; that he was the light of the world; that man has within him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. The world's present agony is really the throes of a new birth. According to the prophecies of Buckminster Fuller, the American scientist and engineer, human conditions before and after this rebirth will be as different as those experienced by the babe when he emerges from the dark confines of the womb into the light and freedom of the world outside (Lecture given at the Chicago Institute of Technology 1965).

Time will show that it is not against the authority of Principle and its method of education that the present revolution is directed. The logic of events in the civilization development reveals that, deep down in the heart of humanity today, the authority and government of the Principle which is Love is being desperately, agonizingly sought after.

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