October 2023
Were Maitreya, Benjamin Creme and his Master simply using a homely metaphor when they asserted that ‘humanity is One’? On what is this statement based? It is, after all, an extraordinary and sweeping claim. Many would dismiss it as a sentimental cliché. Is there some way in which we can test its validity? Can we somehow convert this concept into an empirical reality? Do we have any ‘tools’ or means at our disposal that will give us entry into the realms and the reality hinted at in this apparently simple assertion?
I would argue that there are many ways of approaching or experiencing the truth of this profound fact. One of the most important means is tantalizingly close to being understood, proved and revealed to the world at large. What the effect will be on the world, in every walk of life, can hardly be imagined but it is certainly worth trying. Here is what Benjamin Creme’s Master writes, indicating the impact this new knowledge and experience will have in just one crucial area of life which concerns every one of us — health.
Conquering of disease
“Science, today, stands poised to contribute its share to the conquering of disease. The etheric planes of matter await man’s exploration and study. Therein will be found the origin of that dis-equilibrium of forces which manifests itself as the body’s ills. The treatment of disease will take on a new dimension when the function of the force centres (chakras) as receivers and dispensers of energy is understood and when their connection with the major glands of the endocrine system is known. Already, of course, there are those few practitioners who know this and who do valuable work, but not until this knowledge is general shall we see much advance in the understanding of the mechanism of disease.
“It will not be long until this research into the etheric fields begins in earnest. When it does, it will transform the therapeutic situation. The new psychology, the coming science of the soul, will throw much light on the nature and cause of disease and point the way to its prevention. In time, man will learn to approach and work with the deva (or angelic) evolution, many aspects of which are deeply engaged in the healing process.” (Benjamin Creme’s Master, ‘Health and healing, part two’, Share International, November 1982)
There is so much contained in just these two paragraphs but do they help us to truly grasp the full implication of the simple iteration: ‘We are all One’? Is there some means that would enable us to move from the individual to incorporate the collective or our interconnectedness? After all, our world is moving into a new era characterized by the growing tendency towards synthesis, elevating the group experience. …
The etheric body
Citing the Master Djwhal Kuhl (DK): “There is nothing in the manifested universe – solar, planetary or the various kingdoms in nature – which does not possess an energy form, subtle and intangible yet substantial, which controls, governs and conditions the outer physical body. This is the etheric body.” (Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle, Alice A Bailey) More and more people are becoming aware of energies and to many it is almost axiomatic nowadays to say that we live in an energetic universe, and in fact that there is nothing but energy which is consciousness itself and a medium for the transference of thought. This medium is the etheric sea of which we are an intrinsic part. Science is trying to find a way to prove a field of existence which it knows exists. “The next aspects to be studied are the etheric planes, of which there are four. When the etheric planes become a reality for the scientists they will become a reality for everyone. Initially, scientists will probably study the fourth and third, and then the two higher etheric planes. Then they will be able to study thought itself emanating from the astral plane, or the lower and higher levels of the mental plane.” (Benjamin Creme, Share International January/February 1996) …
If the prevailing idea is that humanity really is one interconnected whole, nothing can stay the same. If most or a large segment of the world’s population experiences, or even accepts, that the etheric is real and that we all share that common field of being, then the way we organize our lives politically, socially, and economically, for example, will be radically transformed. Our priorities, our goals, the meaning we give to our lives will rapidly become unrecognizable. If our gradually dawning realization is of a shared divinity or inter-beingness then concepts like karma or the law of cause and effect, which at present may be largely theoretical, become real and instant.
