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The Divine Harmony


    One way of thinking about that is to say that we live a fulfilled life as a whole person.  In other words, fulfill all your potentials in a balanced, harmonious way that fits in with others and your circumstances.

    Be all you can be.

    Yes.  That is a simple way to put it.  A more detailed way is to live your fulfillment as a whole person in your relationships with self, other people, the Divine Harmony and all of existence.

    What is the Divine Harmony?  Is it nature?  Is it God?  Is It many gods?  Is it everything?  What is it?

      It may be any of those.  It is a mystery.  Remember I talked about mystery beyond human understanding?  This is beyond the possibility of human understanding.  Yet you ask, "What is the Divine Harmony"?  That can be answered with a poem.

At the vague, distant edge
of the unknown,
all is mystery.

Beyond the mystery
there is a source of order.

Mystery reveals the Divine.
Order reveals the Harmony.

Beyond mystery
there is the
Divine Harmony.

All comes from the
Divine Harmony,
which is unknowable
and unknown.

Yet the All gives hints
Of its divine origin
In ways humans
Can understand.

    What about all the competing religions in the world?

    Divine Harmony covers all possibility.  If there is only nature (no God), or many gods, or one God, or everything is God, any of those can be called Divine Harmony.

    What would the religions think which believe that their way is the only right way?

    They would think that their religion is the true expression of the Divine Harmony, and they may be right.  Humans have discovered again that they are limited, and their understanding is limited.  Plato declared it with his allegory of the cave.  Humans are like the people in the cave who could only see the shadows in the fire light on the cave wall of what was going on in the world.  They could not see the world directly.  Paul of Tarsus in the Christian Bible said, "Now we see through a glass darkly" (I Corinthians 13: 12).

    That humans need many different religions is not a divine problem, it is a human problem.  Humans are seekers.  For those interested in why there are different religions and how the religions can live together in peace in one global community, the story of Seekers and the Kaleidoscope may be of interest.

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