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According to Helper :
Enshrined in the stuff of earthscheme is an impetus towards registration of the Divine – heartnosis. The changes issuing from this impetus are the evolution seen by Teilhard de Chardin. This impetus could not be excluded by Painmaker. After physical death every being is sucked back into earthscheme … and continues to evolve. The being that tastes heartnosis, becoming seized of the limited nature of earthly pleasures and satisfactions, escapes the scheme – salvation. Painmaker must make do with the suffering endured by beings whilst in the scheme.
A being’s return to earthscheme is always into a situation that does not hamper its progress.
I have been in over two thousand species, starting with a unicellular organism, over two hundred times a human. Beings evolve at different rates because of variation in the experiences afforded them; as you might expect of a jungle. All beings evolve to freedom from earthscheme.
Rumi, Hafez, Kabir, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Stephan Hoeller and others
They too speak of salvation as something received by the living, not the departed. Kabir says it like this, ” … what you call salvation belongs to the time before death; if you don’t break the ropes while you’re alive, you think that ghosts will do it after ? ” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9by9LB-tqY&t=833s (at 5’ 11”)
Soul evolution philosophies like Hinduism and Jainism
what distinguishes these from Helper’s account are their premises that (a) earthscheme is the handiwork of God. What should we understand by Divinity if a scheme dripping with selfishness, coarseness, cruelty, calamity, disease can be attributed to it ?? The attempts in these theses to show reason for the horrors of earthscheme are quite ludicrous, each ‘explanation’ spawning a suite of further questions … the account of a hideous alchemy disintegrates even as it is rendered (b) we can accelerate our evolution through right choices. This is putting the cart before the horse. Right action is a consequence. It flows from evolution, which is the registration (in increasing measure) of the preferability of selflessness, kindness. Evolution cannot be engendered, it has been occurring unchecked, immutably since the birth of the planet; the – only – good thing in earthscheme is not available for procurement … actions driven by karma-cleaning intent are sterile (c) beings may regress in evolutionary terms.