ON CRAFTING THE FUTURE
Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago
What is
the promising denouement
of aspirations for betterment
by all the Earth’s dispossessed
if not that
the fidelity
to the visions
they’ve conceived
can unfold
in their nonpassive
creation.
Yes, the future
has shapes and forms
that can be exquisitely
crafted.
[Writ. 27 Sept. 1987, University of the
Philippines,
QC.]
REFLECTION
As a youth I was attracted strongly to humanist,
Enlightenment ideas about progress and the possibilities of recreating worlds.
From the Eastern masters did I learn more recondite thoughts about progress and
the continuous growth of the Spirit in daily life, thus ensuring a better
future for us all individually and collectively as humans.
Along the mystical Path did I grasp the knowledge
that even the Earth itself—endowed as it is with higher intelligence—is capable
of uprooting itself from eons of stasis and propelling itself to a higher
dimension. That sublime intelligence is Gaia, the divine being that had made
Earth as her material vehicle.
What we are today is what we have made of ourselves
based on accretions of experiences from diverse embodiments. We can choose the
Negative Path, or the laggard’s way of stasis, or the Positive Path of
ascension back to the Godhead. The decision about what Path to take is ours to
make, our future then expectedly a product about that decision and the compass
of our sojourns.
The future, in other words, is not a fixed
condition of life that an external intelligence has assigned for us. We are
free will beings, free to chart the contours of our “what-can-be” from the
momentary context of the “what-is”.
Ra
March
2011
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