Snowflakes and God

Of the billions of snowflakes that fall in a storm no two are exactly alike, but every one is patterned on the six-sided hexagram. Each is unique yet conforms to the same basic shape.

This sort of miracle makes us realize that in spite of the great diversity and seeming chaos in the world there is underlying order and controlling intelligence. Sir James Jeans recognized this when he said that the world 'looked more like a great thought than a great machine'. This great thought is seen by some as a divine plan within which each living entity is an essential part of one wholeness.

This wholeness, which is everything in the world, both seen, and unseen, can be looked upon as a great pulsating energy-field in which we live and move and have our being. If we widen our view still further, we can see this wholeness and the intelligence within it as Nature or, if you like, as God. But not a God outside ourselves. We are that God - He is in us and we are in Him.

Divine Will, Wisdom, Love

Theosophy, which means 'Divine Wisdom', recognizes that the ener­gy of this One Source holds all life together by Divine Will, sustains it by the beneficent power of Divine Love and guides it on the evolutionary path by Divine Intelligence. We humans serve the purpose of life as we realize this divine energy is the power source of our innermost being and live in harmony with it by expressing more and more brotherliness and compassion in our daily lives.

The gifted actress, Shirley MacLaine, in her book Out on a Limb expresses this clearly.

"Rudolf Steiner, Leadbeater, Cayce, and so many countless others -
all claiming the fundamental existence of a Divine Will - an energy
force from which everything else sprang. The same Divine Will was in
all living things. We were part of it and it was part of us! The task was
to find that Divinity in ourselves and live by it".

The International President of the Theosophical Society, Radha Burnier, stressing the same ethical task says;

"Millions of people lost in the urban mechanisms
of the world's cities...have adopted a way of life
which is out of tune with the rhythms of real life.
Crystallizations of the mind must be broken up
in order to create a new human society.."

All our study must help us understand ourselves, and our relationship with others, so that we work towards a better way of life for all humanity.