Esoterica on Meher Baba’s Divine Theme

 With Emphasis on the Three Gross Worlds

By Christopher J. Ott

© January 2012

Meher Baba makes numerous divisions and subdivisions of illusion in order to communicate his Divine Theme (the Divine journey) to us. Almost all of these divisions are described in his book God Speaks, but other parts that are necessary to see the entire picture have to be gleaned and spliced together from other sources of his written works. Some of these date back to the early 30’s, and include statements given by Baba as early as 1924, before he even began his life-long silence. 

A simplified list of divisions and subdivisions relevant to this work are as follows:

From the highest vantage point, there is the demarcation of The Everything (Reality as It Truly Is), and the Nothing (illusion, universe, Creation, evolution, reincarnation, and involution). The first we may call the Dreamer (and One Who Wakes) and the second is the dream. 

The Everything (Reality as It Truly Is) cannot be divided.

The Nothing (illusion) is divisible and can be divided and subdivided for understanding the dreamt journey of the soul back to Itself in realization (Waking).  

Divisions of Illusion into spheres:

There are three spheres of illusion (dream), the gross sphere, the subtle sphere, and the mental sphere. However, each of these can be further divided.

1. The subtle sphere has four planes.
2. The mental sphere has two planes.
3. The gross sphere has seven worlds, the last of which has two branches B and C.

Division of gross sphere into “gross worlds”

Of the seven worlds of the gross sphere; each embodies numerous planets at different stages of their evolution. Each number world Baba gives (Worlds 1 through 7) denotes a different stage of evolution. For instance with stone, with stone and plant, etc. All the planets at that stage of evolution constitute that “world.”

The seventh world of the gross sphere (World 7) is composed of 18,000 planets with human life.

Sub-division of 7^th gross world into its 3 “Gross worlds”

Of this seventh world, composed of 18,000 planets with human life, there is yet another division. The A world (consisting only of our Earth) has two branches (or sub-worlds), called World B and World C. While the Earth (A) constitutes one of the 18,000 planets worlds with human life, the other two branches (B and C), when combined, constitute the remainder of those 18,000, thus 18,000 minus one (A). A is our Earth. It is the central world of the three worlds, the other two being closely connected to it as all have human life and souls from B and C incarnate onto A. 

We can call these three worlds (which are all connected to one another in that they are all part of the 7^th evolutionary world, and thus have human life) the “three gross worlds.” In spite of how they are labeled, the C world is least evolved in spiritual maturity of the three, B a little more so, and A most evolved spiritually. 

1. C world (which includes thousands of planets with human life) is almost all mind, no heart.
2. B world (also thousands of planets with human life) is less mind and some heart.
3. A world (only our Earth) is where a balance between mind and heart is possible, and where evolution truly ends, and where the spiritual path begins and terminates in Realization.

Planets

We want to explain the formation of the planets with human life, stages of life they pass through, and what life is like on them. However, before any discussion of this is possible it is necessary to explain Meher Baba’s special use of certain terms. 

“world” “sphere” and “planet”

When Meher Baba speaks of planets and worlds, it can be confusing if one does not understand how He is using these words in varying contexts. At different times Baba means different things when he is speaking of a “world.” In the English language the word “world” has more than one sense. The most prominent and common is as Earth itself, along with the people, places, objects, and occurrences on it. Baba sometimes uses the word “world” in this most common way, but not when he is speaking about planets and galaxies. A second meaning, one Baba in fact uses frequently in this latter context, is as earth and other planets like it. 

Examples of this use in our language: the possibility of life on other worlds. Star Trek’s mission to seek out new worlds and new civilizations. 

Baba sometimes calls planets “Gross worlds.” A Gross world is for Baba a planet and its inhabitants, and he says there are numberless Gross worlds.

But there is a third sense of the word “world” that Baba uses, sometimes even in the same sentence with its other uses, and unless one understands it properly one will get confused by what Baba is saying. This third sense is as a range, i.e. a portion or segment of a larger spectrum along lines of some delineation, for Baba almost always in terms of degree of consciousness.

Examples of a use similar to this in our language: the plant world, the fashion world. 

When we speak of the “plant world,” we mean those species of living things that fall within a certain class or category of living things. What belong to the “stamp-collecting world” are those people and activities, a small portion of the broader spectrum of people and activities in the world, that share certain characteristics having to do with stamps, and so can be called a “world” within a world. 

Using the word “world” this way, yet almost always specifically for a class of consciousness, Baba makes innumerable subdivisions of worlds and worlds within worlds. In fact in one case, that being Earth, Baba uses the word “world” both as a planetary world and as a range of planets of a certain consciousness. For Baba tells us that the Earth is a world in itself in that it is the only planet where a balance of heart and mind is achieved, even though there is only a single planet (Earth) in this range. In other words, Earth is a “world” in both senses of the word, while all other worlds Baba describes contain thousands or even millions of worlds (planets). As said, this use of double meaning that Baba uses can make His teaching on the subject of planets and worlds difficult to understand initially. But soon one is acclimated.

Now Baba names certain ranges of worlds. In one case he numbers them 1 through 7, each comprising all those planets that have achieved a certain stage of physical evolution. For instance, Baba says, “World number 1 contains stones.” This means all of the planets that have evolution only up to the level of stone form, an early molten barren planet. This range of worlds would include all such planets regardless of where they may exist relative to one another in space. Likewise, when He says, “World number 5 contains stones, wind, metals, water and vegetables,” he refers to the gamut of planets anywhere in the universe where evolution has reached up to the plant form but no higher. 

In this way Baba describes seven ranges of Gross worlds (planets), the last (“World number 7”) encompasses all planets anywhere that have evolved up to the human form. Baba says there are 18,000 of such worlds that have reached the level of the human form, i.e. the terminus of the evolution of forms. 

Earth as Hub or Axis of the Universe

Our Earth, Baba says, is one of these 18,000 planets in the range of planets with human life. Yet Baba says that the Earth is unique among all of the 18,000 human-inhabited worlds in the universe for several reasons. The chief among these is that only on our Earth is it possible for human beings to achieve a perfect balance between intellect and love, or head and heart. This, he says, is the prerequisite for a soul to enter the spiritual path (subtle and mental inner planes that lead to God-realization). All other planets, Baba says, continue to have capacity for great intellect, yet have insufficient love for the path, which must be adequately matured before spiritual progress (on the planes) can begin. 

In addition, Baba says that our Earth is the only planet where the Avatar periodically takes birth, where at all times five God-realized incarnate Perfect Masters reside and can be approached, where the entire 7000 member spiritual hierarchy of incarnate (living) advanced souls work for God, and where God-realization (Self-realization) is possible. Thus spiritually speaking, though not materially speaking, Earth is the very hub or center or spiritual focal point of the universe, for all souls must eventually incarnate here for their spiritual emancipation (God-realization). Earth is thus the ultimate destination of all evolving souls in the universe, who must eventually take birth on the Earth to achieve realization. 

However, it is on these 18,000 other worlds where souls first take human birth and begin the process of evolving heart, first on worlds where heart is least, then on worlds where heart is more, and finally on Earth where heart is potentially greatest and realization possible. Thus all souls in the universe eventually take birth on Earth when heart is matured to a sufficient degree to take advantage of the presence of the Perfect Masters, the presence of the saints, and to begin the spiritual path. 

"There are other worlds where much mental development is marked. But spiritual progress really begins on this Earth.” 

This makes our Earth the final stop of all of evolution, the end of evolution and the start and end point of the path. Thus the ancient mystical belief once existed, and was understood, that Earth is the center of the universe only in the mystical sense. In the Kali Yuga age, when spiritual understanding is most diminished, this became misinterpreted to mean it was astronomically centered. Space of course is infinite, and thus there can be no literal center. To describe anything in space as center in the material sense would require edges to space from which to measure its location, which of course is meaningless. As Baba says, “In Infinity, you cannot have a point as center; otherwise, it is not Infinity.”  

However, there is a spiritual sense in which Baba says it is true that the Earth is the center of the universe. This is in the sense of its place in the Divine journey, which is a progression from God unconscious to God conscious, through the dream of Creation, as described in great detail in Baba’s book God Speaks. Because our Earth is the only planet where the Divine journey can ever be consummated by souls, it is in this deepest sense the true focus and world axis of the universe, for it is the ultimate destination of all souls making their spiritual journey in the countless galaxies at all stages of evolution. 

“Only on the planet Earth do human beings come here to reincarnate and begin the involutionary path to God-Realization. The Earth is at the center of the millions of universes, to which all souls must migrate to begin the Inward Journey. In Infinity, you cannot have a point as center; otherwise, it is not Infinity. And yet on the chart we have made the Earth the center of infinite space. Why? Because though there are many inhabited worlds in infinite space, human beings of those planets have to migrate eventually to the Earth. In some worlds, the people are very intelligent, much more so than on Earth; yet, they must come to this Earth-speck for the sake of the ‘heart,’ the involutionary journey.” 

“Earth is the centre of this infinite Gross sphere of millions of universes, inasmuch as it is the point to which all human-conscious souls must migrate in order to begin the involutionary Path.”  

Now obviously this one Earth-planet is neither the oldest planet, nor will it last forever. Like any body it will be dropped. What then is the center of the universe before the Earth and after its life is spent? To answer this we need to see that Baba uses the word “Earth” in a unique sense. He uses the name not simply as the name of this planet we now occupy, but as a kind of office that this planet of ours occupies. In other words Baba uses the name “Earth” as a title that is always held at any given time, and the planet that occupies this title and role is always called “The Earth.” Baba says there have been countless Earths in the past and there will continue to be countless more. If this Earth were destroyed, another would evolve to take its place.  

“Many a world has gone, and this too will go. To take its place, another world is being made ready.” 

“It is important for the world and the scientists to know, and therefore I have explained about cycles, the position of the earth for Realization, the earth dying and the simultaneous evolution of another earth – not any other planet.” 

“All this has been recurring since timeless ages in a neverending tide and ebb. Even this Earth expends itself in time, and another earth takes its place.” 

So if this planet-Earth burns out, another planet will take its title of Earth, a special planet that is formed especially for this purpose. This restores the true sense and meaning of God’s creation of Earth in genesis, the New Testament reference, “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away” as well as Christian mystic J. R. R. Tolkien’s use of the name “Middle Earth” in Lord of the Rings. From Baba we learn that these are spiritual, not material, senses.

A, B, and C worlds

Although Baba makes a division of evolving worlds into 7 stages, along the lines of the stages of increasing physical evolution, #7 being highest and with human life, he goes further and subdivides World # 7 into three sub-worlds. These are worlds A, B, and C, and we will now discuss these in some detail. 

To begin with, to understand how Baba sub-divides the 18,000 human-inhabited planets of the 7^th world, we need to look once again at one of His unique senses of the word “world.” So we begin with a lengthy examination of how Baba subdivides planes in God Speaks, so that we can better understand how he sub-divides and describes the Gross worlds. For Baba is doing much the same thing. 

In God Speaks, Baba divides the spiritual path into seven planes. One way to look upon planes is as seven ranges Baba divides involution into, along lines of spiritual progress of souls moving together on the inner path, each plane notable for a particular quality of experience and resultant powers unique to the souls of that stage. Thus these planes of involution can be said to designate ranges of consciousness rather than places. There are, however, heavens to the planes, which can be experienced as places, such as the heaven of the third heaven Baba describes that is the abode of the angels. However, most simply and fundamentally, for explanatory purposes, these planes are best looked upon as ranges of one long spectrum of spiritual development.

Now when Baba describes the planes in God Speaks, he describes not locations, but experiences and powers. It should be noted also that certain powers unique to lower planes are lost to souls that reach higher planes. For instance a person on the 6^th plane of involution no longer possesses the miraculous occult powers of a person on the 4^th plane, and so on. Thus while on the inner planes the spectrum of the progress toward Self-realization is continuous and unbroken, the outward occult manifestations or signs at these various stages are not. They are different. Some are gained, others lost, as focus shifts among the planes.

Now it is very important to notice that this gaining and losing of powers, even as progress is continuous on the path, is not unique to the spiritual path. We also find it in animal evolution. For instance, bats have the power to send and receive sonar (a type of gross energy), while animals of higher evolution, and thus more consciousness, lose this power. Yet in higher animals like gorillas and orangutans the spiritual evolution is higher, even though that particular power is yielded. This again is like the 6^th plane person who has lost the powers of the 4^th plane, yet has gained in spirituality.

So in God Speaks when Baba speaks of the gross, subtle, and mental “worlds” he is referring to stages in consciousness, not places. And he goes to some trouble to describe the kinds of experiences and powers unique to those worlds. What is unique to the planes of the subtle world is miraculous occult powers (by direct conscious use of energy), hearing of certain types of music, experience of certain fragrances, etc. What is unique to the planes of the mental world is direct concentration upon mind. Then Baba divides this world according to its unique experiences and powers also. The 5^th plane is focused on the inquiring or reflecting aspect of mind, with the power to control thoughts of others, while the 6^th plane is focused on the impressive or sympathetic aspect, and has the power to control the feelings of others.

Note one more thing about Baba’s use of the words “world” in regard to the planes in God Speaks, for this will also be of some help in understanding what he says about A, B, and C worlds. Each of these two involution worlds (subtle and mental) contains more than one plane, and each of these planes contains numerous souls. And the basis Baba uses to circumscribe these worlds and planes is the stage of advancement of the consciousness of the souls in those worlds. And He emphasizes the unique experiences or focus of the souls on those planes, as well as the unique powers that those types of consciousness make possible. 

Now all of this should remain closely in mind as the stages of the three worlds of human evolution are described. For we shall see the same pattern. 

 

All of this becomes pertinent now as we turn to understanding what Baba means by his discussion of planets. When Baba speaks of other ‘worlds’ he is sometimes referring to actual planets (e.g. “18,000 worlds”) and sometimes referring to a range of such planets along the lines of special affinities between souls, such as type of thinking.  He also speaks of the unique qualities and powers of souls on those planets in those ranges that are due to the type of thinking or degree of feeling. Note that we are not talking about spiritual progress in any sense like on the planes, but rather the maturation of heart quality, and diminution of intellect, of ordinary gross conscious human souls becoming ready to begin the spiritual path. 

Now Baba types of planet that he calls worlds, A, B, and C. These are delineated with respect to the degree of heart and mind on such worlds, highest heart being highest spiritual evolution, the highest (heart equal to mind) being unique to the Earth (World A).

• World C: This is the least evolved, spiritually most primitive human life, though it may be sophisticated technically. Average 100% mind, 0% heart. Containing thousands of planets.
• World B: This is more evolved, spiritually less primitive human life. Average 75% mind, 25% heart. Containing thousands of planets.
• World A: This is the most evolved, along with spiritually advanced human beings in involution, and the five Perfect Masters. Containing only a single planet, the Earth.

“But though A – our Earth – is inferior from the standpoint of intellect to both B and C, it is certainly superior to them from the standpoint of love and high emotions. Whereas the inhabitants of C have 100% intellect and 0% love, and those of B have 75% intelligence and 25% love, the people of our Earth have, on an average, intelligence and love in equal proportions. When one, subduing intellect, gets 100% love, one realises God.” 

  

Now if the Earth is unique for its spiritual position and has the potential for such maturation of heart, why is it that currently Earth is dominated by people exerting intellect with disregard for love, loveless science, anti-God feelings, and general lack of heart, love, compassion and what Baba calls higher emotions? Not only is this an important question but in fact it is to bring our attention to what is happening at this particular time that Baba raises this subject of planets, to let certain ones it concerns know what is happening on Earth at this unique period of the Kali Yuga. 

"There are 18,000 worlds in creation which are inhabited [by human beings], some by human beings with 100% intelligence, others with lesser and varying degrees of it. But the value of our Earth, where mind and heart balance, is inestimable. For it is here and here alone that one can go through the process of involution and experience the Subtle and Mental spheres, here alone that God- realisation can be attained. Thus it is that souls (jivatmas) from other inhabited worlds finally take birth on this earth for their emancipation, more so during the Avataric advent when the highest spiritual benefit is gained, and most so when the Avataric manifestation is greatest. Hence the present influx of population on earth is but the natural outcome of the rush of migration from other worlds, and the ones migrating from the worlds of highest intelligence are responsible for carrying science to the peak it has reached today." 

These percentages Baba gives are only averages of souls on those planets, the general affinity, given for purpose of illustration of the direction of evolutionary advancement. By this method he highlights the progression and direction of the evolution of consciousness among planets, pointing out the general trend upward by way of developing heart by stages and degrees. So these designations are for illustration of the process being pointed to. They are not separate races or types of people. They are all physically identical human beings. Also C and B are not to be misunderstood as worlds in any literal way, such as denoting partitions of space or alternative universes. They are designations of type only, along lines of evolutionary progress and not locations or dimensions.

Baba is not circumscribing worlds in space. Baba is showing the stages in the development in the maturation of ordinary gross human consciousness, from 0% heart (lowest human evolution) to 50% heart (highest human evolution). 

“When the atma leaves its highest form [i.e. human] in C, it takes the highest form [i.e. human] in B; and after giving it up in B, it incarnates in the highest form [i.e. human] on our Earth. Therefore evolution, strictly speaking, ends on our Earth.” 

Powers on Different Worlds

Now Baba divides these worlds A, B, and C according to stages of heart and mind, but also according to the powers and abilities congruous to those stages. 

"[People from certain of these planets] are extremely intelligent — far more intelligent than the human beings of our Earth; so much so that they are capable of expressing their thoughts without Gross means."  

"On one planet people have enlarged their intellects so much so that they can survive for hundreds of years. But the people there are 99% atheists. On all of these evolved planets, the mind predominates and the heart is totally undeveloped. On some planets, people are totally devoid of heart; there is not even 1% place for feeling love." 

This naming of abilities or powers concomitant with stages of development in human evolution is much like how in God Speaks Baba breaks the stages of involution of human consciousness into worlds and describes the powers and abilities natural to those worlds (meaning souls of that stage of development). Likewise Baba is equally thorough in describing the stages of Gross worlds, i.e. showing the direction of the progression of advancement of souls (increased maturation of the heart), accentuating the primary characteristic of experience at those stages (high intellect in B and C worlds), and naming any special abilities or powers that accompany that stage of development (telepathy in C, longevity on one planet with no heart at all).

 

Another parallel should be drawn with involution. Just as the powers of the planes are the direct result of the unique type of consciousness and focus on that plane, so also the unique powers of the gross beings on other worlds (C and B) are the direct result of their own unique, though not involutionary, stage of consciousness. And their unique qualities of experience and focus are in turn the direct result of the levels of heart and mind at those stages. So, for instance, souls of the C world, having in common an excess of mind yet absence of love, thus naturally develop their minds to the highest extent possible, having no interference of heart or higher emotions. So much so (having no heart to interfere with intellect) that they can in some instances, Baba tells us, develop their minds to the point of attaining certain gross powers (meaning physical powers). These gross powers as a result of intellect should not be confused with the genuine occult spiritual powers of the involutionary planes sometimes expressed by advanced pilgrims. 

And likewise, as already mentioned, like the powers of bats or dolphins that are lost to higher animals, the special gross powers of people of the C and B worlds, though formidable and impressive from the standpoint of a person of Earth, with less intellect but more heart, do not connote spiritual advancement. 

 

It is also good not to think of these worlds, such as C and B, as anything more than an average type of consciousness, grouped for purposes of explanation of a continuous process, a spectrum of development. Baba has simply drawn a clear circle around these three stages of human evolution (by way of this terminology) to make certain things clear to us that he deems to be important for some to know about. It should also be recognized that even when Baba means planets when uses the word “world,” the word "world" captures in addition to a planet, the sense that each planet is a kind of world unto itself. Each planet is for its inhabitants their whole world. Each atma on a planet looks up and sees the same sun, the same moon, same constellation, similar emotions, etc. So Baba uses his words carefully in this way, sometimes with double use, to make these subjects more thorough and interesting. 

Baba is clear that space travel between inhabited worlds is not possible for the distances between them are far too great. All of this migration is by reincarnation only.

“It is not possible to see all the universes and the worlds. They are not visible even with all the modern means. Nor will it be possible for man to reach them or contact them; yet, the scientists will come to know about them.” 

  

Wave Bubbles

Baba speaks of wave-bubbles (being worlds in themselves, yet each containing countless worlds). Here this will be explained.

Out from the Om point once surged the original whim of God.

“Thus it is, that the original infinite whim of God in the state of infinitude once surged; and it surged both spontaneously and all of a sudden in absolutely independent God... Hence this whim, which once surged, once began the Beginning of all things in Creation.” 

The original whim is likened to the question “Who am I.” Out of this first surge of the original whim to know, came out the original Creation. 

“Creation springs forth out of the infinite urge-to-know in the infinite, unconscious state A of God.” 

However, this Creation did not issue forth in reality, but in appearance only from the vantage of God entering into his dream to know Himself. 

“This Nothingness literally is nothing, although it appears to exist 

through Illusion (sometimes called Maya) as the Creation. Meher Baba has told us that there is no Creation in the literal sense of the word.” 

Thus Creation came forth in appearance only (not actually created), and went on appearing to the first atma to expand and evolve to form the universe (illusion). And yet long ago the original set of planets and suns that came forth in appearance from the original surge to know faded, cooled, died away, collapsed, and is forgotten.  

Yet, Out from the Om point there continuously surged again and again ever new waves of apparent Creation, that in turn go on evolving just as the first, each one containing countless evolving suns, galaxies, and planets containing living beings at various stages of evolution. This surging (or emanating) repeats endlessly after the original whim or surge, thus the worlds (or wave-bubbles) are endlessly coming forth, and obviously potentially infinite in their number. So now it is better understood what Baba means when Baba speaks of wave-bubbles (being worlds in themselves, yet each containing countless worlds). 

To use a figure we can say that these wave-bubbles move out from the Om point like ripples on a pond expand and repeat over and over long after a pebble is dropped. Since there is no resistance, since this is illusion, there is no stopping these emanations or repetitions of the original surge from continuing endlessly. This is why worlds are countless in number.

 

The Om point, from which these Creation surges occur, is not a literal point in space with a location like some scientists conceive of the Big Bang. It is more accurately conceived, if it were possible, as a point of perceptual vantage, God’s point of view in waking. Thus Baba likens it to the pupil of the eye, from which appearances go on apparently emanating and expanding outwardly into imagined infinity, and this vantage repeatedly adopted by each atma that in its turn repeats the original question, “Who am I?” In so doing, it too begins the process of taking on the impressions of perceiving the imagination. Thus each soul is creator in its turn, sustainer as it sees, and destroyer when it enters sleep or enters sleep permanently and consciously in Self-realization. 

Baba thus compares this Creation point to the pupil of an eye. Thus these apparent worlds, or surges of imagination from the vantage point of Reality, in the form of ever emerging atmas seeking their own Identity, appear to themselves to emanate from this apparent point. The very finiteness of the point (finiteness being the meaning of a point) is itself only apparent, because the Creation point only appears to be finite in comparison to its imagined percept (universe) apparently (but not really) emanating from it, which goes on apparently expanding outward ad infinitum into apparent infinite space, and apparently evolving. In truth this apparent most-finite point from which this apparent evolution is experienced (the atma itself) is the real Infinite,  and what is apparently emanating from Itself (i.e. shadow, universe, imagination, Creation) is in fact absolutely finite, nil, a point of Nothing. 

 

Now with these "wave-bubbles" (meaning surges of gases, suns, and subsequent evolving planets or worlds) there are "drop-bubbles." Here “drop” refers to the soul, and “bubble” refers to form taken on by the mould of the impressions, thus “drop-bubbles” refer to enformed or embodied souls. As souls (atmas) take on the gross covers of the various evolving forms in Creation, in order to evolve full consciousness, they experience themselves as playing the roles of the animate and inanimate objects and creatures evolving on the planets that begin to take shape in these expanding universes.

Baba calls all those planets and suns created during one of these surges a “wave-bubble.” Thus it is a world in itself. Thus it is that wave after wave of Creation appear, one after the other in turn, like ripples from a pebble that once dropped in a pond. Only, rather than ripples of water moving out in turn, whole worlds (whole universes with countless suns and planets evolving at various stages) are what come rippling out, each going on expanding and evolving in their turn. The ripples are like the reverberations of the original Whim, which first stirred in the Infinitely tranquil original state of God.

Now it obviously follows from this pattern of reverberations from the original whim, that ripples or waves (i.e. universes coming out and expanding in turn in cycles) that come out earlier will be found to be more evolved than those that came out more recently, simply as a result of having had more time to evolve. Thus consciousness too will be higher on older worlds than younger ones. And so of course newer worlds that have surged more recently will be less evolved. This emanation, expansion, and evolution goes on repeating endlessly, world after world following others like a conveyor, and souls that were once young and with low evolution and consciousness grow old, highly evolved, and with high consciousness. Thus, to use a figure, this is just like an endless conveyor in a giant consciousness factory, whereby the imagined worlds are the mere byproduct of this evolution of consciousness.

The evolution of gross forms is but a by-product in the universal factory of evolution of consciousness.” 

Now a point about the issue of time. Baba says that in reality there is no such thing as time or space.  The question may arise, then, of how all this creation and expansion takes place of there is no time or space for it to take place in. The answer simply is that it doesn’t really ever take place, but does so only in appearance within the dream, from the vantage point of the eternal soul entering into his own apparent dream, that never really enters into time or space, which are aspects of Its dream only. 

But then the question arises, how can we speak of multiple surges from the Om point if time is only apparent? The answer is that the appearance of time (the schema of experiencing in terms of time) first evolved in the imagination (of God as the first atma), as a result of the Original Eternal first movement of consciousness (for time is part and parcel or latent in that first move, and thus its appearance comes about as its result), and though this event itself occurred prior to time, it gave rise to the potential to thereafter experience time through which it continued to pass from Sub-State A to Sub-State B (God unconscious to God conscious) as described in some detail in “The Ten States of God” in God Speaks. This schema, the result of the Eternal Original Urge to Know, was thus created once at this original point, which as said is only a point from the vantage of a soul once it has emerged into and become immersed in the dream of illusory time. And thus every subsequent surge after the initial surge takes place in apparent sequence just like you would imagine it, because the Original Urge and subsequent illusion of time did not need to reoccur. 

The journey through illusion across the span of time is itself illusory. Its result (Self-realization), however, is real. The illusion is held together by time, which formed illusorily with the Eternal Original Whim. Thus it could be said that all surges after the original surge happen in time from the point of view of the dream. Time is re-experienced by each atma that emanates from the Om point into the dream to know itself with each subsequent surge. By way of this illusory experience of journey, which takes place in terms of the illusory factors of time and space, the apparently paradoxical fact remains that the soul acquires consciousness of Itself, by way of this dream. Thus Baba says it is a dream, yet it is a significant dream. 

Divisions of Gross Worlds

Baba subdivides what he calls worlds (evolving worlds according to type) according to fixed stages of physical evolution. Baba makes it clear that these divisions he makes are for purpose of illustration only, and there is no actual boundary in space. Nor do they emanate literally from a physical place in space. They do, however, emerge in time.

We have said that each wave-bubble is a world in itself, and that there are numberless worlds. But for the purpose of illustration, we shall divide them into seven ranges: E, F, G, H, I, J, and K. In each of these ranges there are a number of worlds. 

Here is how Baba subdivides the ranges of worlds he is discussing for illustrative purposes. Once again, these are types of planets at certain stages of their evolution, not places. Yet there are places (actual literal physical planets) at these stages. He is not implying anything metaphysical. These stages are gross. Thus by “world” in this case he means all planets that fall into a particular stage of their development.

These seven gross stages are worlds (planets) with:

1. stones. 

2. stones and wind. 

3. stones, wind, and metals. 

4. stones, wind, metals and water. 

5. stones, wind, metals, water and vegetables. 

6. stones, wind, metals, water, vegetables and animals. 

7. stones, wind, metals, water, vegetables, animals and human beings. 

Now the last range of worlds (# 7) is the range we want to talk about. This range is comprised of 18,000 worlds (planets) that include human life on them. Baba says there is no higher physical life form than the human form, and thus the human form marks the terminus of evolution. The reason for this is that the mind in a human being is perfectible in this form in order to achieve God-realization, which is the goal. Since the human form is suitable to reach the goal of the soul, there is no more need for further forms. Thus Baba says the human form is the “perfect form” (for perfection is achievable through it) and thus evolution from a physical standpoint ends. 

“In the human-form the evolving consciousness of the soul attains its full development. The process of evolution of consciousness has its terminus in the human form. Here consciousness is full and complete.” 

“God having now gained full consciousness in human form, the need no longer persists for additional or higher forms to evolve consciousness as this consciousness gained is full and complete.” 

However, although Baba says that physical evolution ends with the human form, and consciousness (awareness and self-awareness) is complete, the consciousness of the soul must still “mature.” This means it must develop sufficient heart (love and higher emotions) to enter the spiritual path, i.e. the inner planes of involution. Higher emotions include selfless love, compassion, empathy for the feelings of other beings, and yearning for Divine union. Such maturation of the heart necessarily requires a diminution of the mind, and takes many lifetimes. This means there must be a reduction of unrelenting rationality (cold and unfeeling calculation), which by way of heart is gradually transmuted into high intuition (spontaneous knowing).

Baba says that in the transition from animal to human, instinct evolves into reason. It is thus pure intellect, unmediated by higher emotions, that initially develops on new worlds. Such intellect naturally quickly evolves to a very high degree on those younger worlds where it predominates. However, the heart (love and higher emotions) is not yet sufficient for the path. Thus this process of maturation on other world requires millions of lives (reincarnations), in which the jivatma experiences opposites of weak and strong, man and woman, healthy and sick, etc. as it develops more spontaneous understanding and compassion. During this period on these other worlds higher emotions have a chance to develop. Once the heart is nearly sufficiently matured to take advantage of the presence of the saints and spiritual Masters, the soul takes birth on the Earth where it can begin the spiritual path. In this respect Meher Baba says, “Therefore evolution, strictly speaking, ends on our Earth, but the atma has to go on reincarnating in the human form till it knows itself, i.e., till God is realised.” 

Earth marks the final planet for human evolution in the fullest sense, for it is where a complete balance of head and heart is finally achieved and the spiritual path begins. It is also the only planet where the five Perfect Masters are found and where the Avatar (the original Perfect Master) takes birth every 700 to 1400 years. In addition it is the only planet where the entire 7000 members of the spiritual hierarchy live and function, and where God-realization is possible.

"There are other worlds where much mental development is marked. But spiritual progress really begins on this Earth.” 

There is only one Earth. Baba therefore Baba refers to Earth as a world in itself and calls this world “A.” The Earth is unique in that it is a “world” in both senses of the word. It is a literal physical planet, and at the same time it comprises all souls of a stage of consciousness (fully mature and spiritually advanced) and thus a world in this sense too. 

So Earth is world “A.” Baba has us conceive of “A” as central to the universe, and the two other worlds “B” and “C” (comprising the rest of the 18,000 planets with human life) he depicts as branches of “A.” Thus Earth is like a tree with two braches. For all three worlds comprise the 7^th world which, as explained, is comprised of all planets with human beings. Thus World 7 is identical with A, with its two sub-branches of B and C where evolution is still preparing for the path. These branches are comprised of all souls of lesser stages of spiritual human evolution, making their way toward Earth. Baba thus depicts the planets of the two stages of advancing human evolution less as worlds in themselves than branches or extensions of the one central human world, “A.” 

“The three worlds A, B, C in the central range, are to be regarded as only one world - the seventh, because they are so connected with one another as to form one world with two branches.” 

“In the gross sphere, the Earth is the last and nearest stepping stone to the Path. The two other worlds are most close to the Earth in the pattern of habitation. Altogether there are 18,000 worlds with life, but these two worlds and the Earth are akin to one another in the pattern of human life.” 

Souls from “B” and “C” migrate (by reincarnation, not space ships) to and from Earth during periods when it is possible to achieve a spiritual push, but do not settle there permanently until they have achieved adequate heart and diminution of mind to be able to commence the spiritual path (higher planes of consciousness possible only on the Earth due to the presence of the five living Perfect Masters and innumerable saints and advanced incarnate souls). 

Baba thus subdivides the 18,000 planets with human life into three “worlds” A, B, and C, B and C being closely tied to A since souls migrate (by reincarnation) between these worlds. Now we shall explain each in their turn. 

World A

The A world (the center of the branches) comprises the single planet we know as Earth. It is closest to the Om point and the only planet where the spiritual planes and God-realization are possible. It is the true terminus of evolution, the final stop for advancing souls. But at the same time it is also the closest to the beginning in another sense. Baba says the Earth is closest to the Om point. To understand the sense in which is possible, one must realize what the Om point actually means. The Om point is the creation point, as described the point of departure of the original atma and all subsequent atmas. When God-realization occurs, the destination is in fact a return to the point of origination. For the journey itself is but a dream through which the atma imagines itself to cross to achieve consciousness, and thereby move from God unconscious to God conscious. Thus in God Speaks we learn that the return to the creation point is in fact the goal and purpose of Creation. 

“He returns to the door from which he first came out, although in his journey he went from door to door.” — Maulana Shabistari 

We thus could even say that both the least evolved world (#1) where the journey begins and the most advanced world (Earth) where the spiritual journey ends, are both nearest the Om point in consciousness relative to other planets and worlds. But for Earth this nearness is conscious, and in the least evolved it is least conscious. Remember that these terms “nearness” and “farness” are not literal, but refer to consciousness. Thus one can imagine a circle or loop from God unconscious, through dream, and back to God consciously. This is God-realization. The Earth also contains the Perfect Masters (and the Avatar at intervals), is right there. So the closeness of the Earth to the Om point means closest in consciousness, not in space.

 

Baba uses the word “Earth” not to refer to this planet we are on alone, but more like the name of the station it occupies in the Divine Theme (evolution, reincarnation, involution). So when this “Earth” dies out, another “Earth” (being formed now) takes its place. Earth, then, for Baba, designates a spiritual status of one preeminent planet. 

 

Baba appears to imply that souls do not generally migrate from world to world, as they do to Earth, but it is the entire world that takes up a higher position.

About the time our Earth turns into a moon, it will slip aside from its present position, just as the preceding one did; and its place will be filled by the B part of the seventh world. C will take the place of B, and the world number six will take the place of C, and so on. 

Thus a stone world, becoming a plant world, is replaced by a new stone world, and so forth. So we can imagine a kind of evolutionary conveyor-belt of evolving planets with their concurrent evolving consciousnesses of atmas, coming out of the Om point and being prepared to take birth on the Earth for their ultimate emancipation.

 

It is not clear if the Earth is simply a previous B world planet or if it evolves from its inception for its particular purpose. Baba says each Earth, when it cools, becomes a moon of a future Earth, and that our Moon was once an Earth. Thus the idea of migration of souls may be unique to the Earth, for the Earth seems a unique planet entirely, as if its purpose is set from its inception, and it is not simply one of these ancient planets on the conveyor belt, though its position is pushed aside by it. It is not clear in what sense this pushing aside is, physical or metaphysical, or in consciousness of atmas. My sense is that an Earth (a planet where the Perfect Masters live for the emancipation of souls) evolves especially to play the role of Earth, and is unique in this sense, and I gather that there are at all times seven planets, in various stages of evolution, being prepared to take the place of Earth when it is worn out, to take its place as this uniquely spiritual epicenter and final destination of the Divine Theme. 

"Many a world has gone, and this too will go. To take its place, another world is being made ready. Three-fourths of it is already ready, one-fourth remains to be formed." (LM 4203)

I have explained about cycles, the position of the earth for Realization, the earth dying and the simultaneous evolution of another earth – not any other planet.” 

“All this has been recurring since timeless ages in a neverending tide and ebb. Even this Earth expends itself in time, and another earth takes its place.” 

And of course the Biblical passage is of interest as well. 

“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away.” 

Earth is the planet of highest spiritual evolution, and where the planes are crossed. It is the only planet where the spiritual hierarchy and saints dwell, the only planet where the Avatar takes birth, and the only planet where it is possible to attain 50% mind and 50% heart, the prerequisite for entering the planes, but also sufficient for liberation by the grace of a Perfect Master simply by way of love. Once on the planes, however, the scale of heart and mind tips in the opposite direction from which it began on C worlds, until there is fully 100% heart, and mind is wiped out in manonash (annihilation of mind) by way of the heart. 

When one, subduing intellect, gets 100% love, one realises God.” 

Although there are 18,000 planets with human life, all souls on those planets eventually migrate to Earth (by reincarnation) in order to attain 50% heart and 50% mind, and thereby begin the spiritual path or attain moksha (liberation from births and deaths in union with God). It is this spiritual status of the Earth and its spiritual proximity to the Om point (in consciousness) that Baba says was the ancient real intended meaning of the Earth being the center of the universe. Baba says that in the infinity of space there can obviously be no physical center, as it would have no meaning, and this was never the original meaning, now lost to modern people. Rather it meant that this was the spiritual epicenter of the world (where the perfect masters were) and that being the end-goal of all souls, for their emancipation, it is the spiritual center of the universe, its hub or axis in a spiritual sense only. This gives new flavor and meaning to the name in Lord of the Rings of saving "Middle Earth."

Baba says that souls from other planets continually come to Earth from planets in the B and C worlds for spiritual gain or to stay if they are ready, but most markedly so during Avataric periods, for they are subconsciously drawn to the spiritual atmosphere and the opportunity for advancement that is available at those special times. Baba says this surging of souls migrating here, seen as the rise of population on the Earth, is part of an endless ebb and flow and entirely natural. It is part of the rush of souls to be here on Earth during his advent.

“All this has been recurring since timeless ages in a neverending tide and ebb.” 

During a major advent like the one we are in, Baba says, many more souls migrate here, in multitudes even, for the great push that occurs at the end of a cycle of cycles. This, Baba says, accounts for the current rise in population we are seeing, and also the technological advances that are brought to the Earth by the most brainy (but lacking heart) of these in-migrating souls. 

 

A side note is interesting here. The way Baba explains the rise in population is reverse of how people currently think about the population boom. Clearly the rise of technology has occurred in tandem with the rise in technology. This would be consistent with what Baba says, “...the ones migrating from the worlds of highest intelligence are responsible for carrying science to the peak it has reached today.” But the way people look at it is the other way around, that technology is the cause of the rise rather than the rise the cause of the technology. We hear a gloomy story of how the population has to be addressed and dealt with as the unfortunate though unintended side effect of our otherwise marvelous advances, as if it were a kind of unintended disease. Such concerns have caused the call for the sterilization of the poor, handicapped, and undeveloped nations thought of as “useless eaters,” as if the theme purpose of life were reducible to food, and people a scourge upon “natural resources.” 

Baba allows us a much more enlightened and optimistic view. For Baba the souls being born are not the result of the technology, but the technology is the result of the souls being born now (he does not say as a result of all of those souls, but the ones from the most intelligent planets). What is most interesting is that Baba's explanation actually fits the realities better, when they are looked at calmly and impartially. Technology has brought more disease, starvation, and war than at any time. Consider the ailments that entered the Americas beginning with Columbus, how few diseases it had and what a rich diet in comparison to the habits of the arriving colonizers. Thus we would expect the population with all the forms of mass killing, division of rich and poor, increased starvation and diseases to fall, not grow, especially at the beginning as it began to swell (around 1500 AD). The Indians of the Americas (stable at around 20 million for over 10,000 years without need of sterilization programs or family planning) were healthier, had a much better diet and fewer diseases than Europeans, whose population was nonetheless growing thousands of miles away in spite of these causes of death, wars, plagues, and poverty. 

Thus relating population rise to the eradication of disease and better diet, which is what is currently most repeated, actually when examined honestly flies in the face of numerous facts. In addition, many places with the highest populations currently have virtually no useful access to modern equipment, medicine, or rich diet, while numerous places that do, like Canada, have relatively low populations. Baba thus seems correct. It does in fact appear that the rise in population has nothing to do with lack of contraception, too much food, or too much medicine, but rather as Baba says the rush of souls to Earth to receive a major spiritual push at the end of a vast cycle of time. 

Thus it is that souls (jivatmas) from other inhabited worlds finally take birth on this earth for their emancipation, more so during the Avataric advent when the highest spiritual benefit is gained, and most so when the Avataric manifestation is greatest. Hence the present influx of population on earth is but the natural outcome of the rush of migration from other worlds, and the ones migrating from the worlds of highest intelligence are responsible for carrying science to the peak it has reached today. All this has been recurring since timeless ages in a neverending tide and ebb.” 

Both these events of technology and population occurred in tandem, slowly at first, over the last 500 years. This period is known as the Age of Reason. Understanding that these souls come from more intelligent worlds, but with less heart development, we begin to understand why. 

 

Looking at the chart above, which depicts the rise of population since the beginning of the Age of Reason, we see that if Baba is taken in all seriousness, then it means that 90% of people currently living on the Earth are newly immigrated, and would naturally be in need of developing more love, for they have insufficient heart, which would account for the shocking speed of technological advance, but lack of compassion, and collision of types of people that we see. All of this would make Baba's emphasis upon people now developing love, even at expense of mind, make total sense. He is bringing the world into spiritual balance, while allowing Earth to the improvements made possible by scientific advances. It is bringing about a happy blend of materiality and spirituality, each playing its proper role in tandem, and we are now going through the rough phases of that difficult and sudden transition. 

Now we continue with the two lower types of worlds, from which people are migrating now to Earth. Because there is such a migration going on in our time, understand that we are not simply talking about planets when we speak of these ‘worlds,’ but rather stages of human progress toward God-realization, for many of these souls are here on Earth now.

World B

Baba says souls from planets of the B world on average are still relatively deficient in heart, and have too much mind. He describes these souls as having 75% mind and 25% heart. Baba says that their civilization and technology is like our own. “They resemble the Earth in culture, science and in every way materially...” Baba is of course referring to the time we are, for such souls have brought these patterns of civilization here only in very recent centuries. There are approximately 9,000 of these planets, since B and C planets comprise all but one (Earth) of the 18,000 planets with human life.

World C

This is the most interesting range of planets, and type of mind. Baba says a lot about the consciousness and abilities of souls that come from these planets, and it is of utmost significance to the time we live in. 

These souls are the least evolved from a spiritual point of view, yet are paradoxically the most brainy and intelligent. They have on average 100% mind, yet no love (empathy). Baba says souls from these planets are responsible for bringing the Earth to its technological heights it has reached today. Baba implies there is a limit to such technology and we are arriving now at it, in spite of what we companies like to advertise to drive stocks, etc. Baba says such jivatmas are mostly atheist, and they are almost certainly material realists (believing solid objects as the fundamental components of all reality).  While they are brilliant at math, they are metaphysically impaired. They have such high mental ability, through powerful intellect, that they can make themselves by exertion "capable of expressing their thoughts without Gross means.” This means they can send thoughts and images to others. This is a physical gross power, not telepathy in its occult sense, which will be described in a later chapter. Again there are approximately 9,000 planets with human life of this type, and many of them are on the Earth now.

Repeating the Pattern

Now I have to explain this again in reverse to show the evolutionary direction. Because this has to do with how human beings evolve, first intellectually, and then spiritually, and about how we think very differently at different stages of our human development on different worlds. In fact this is an important part of Meher Baba's Divine Theme, though not one that he emphasized because he wanted to emphasize the spiritual course and not the physical. But this physical earlier human evolution has its own importance to select people, especially future scientists who Baba said would come to know some of this from him, and need to know about it. 

“all this is not meant for you people. It is all useful though for posterity.” 

“Scientists will gradually come to know what I have been saying for many years and also today.” 

“It is important for the world and the scientists to know, and therefore I have explained about cycles, the position of the earth for Realization, the earth dying and the simultaneous evolution of another earth – not any other planet.” 

World # 6: Of the first six of the seven gross worlds (here referring to planets of sub-human evolution, such as those with plants, those with fish, those with birds, etc.) the most evolved are those that include mammals, and of mammals apes are the highest form. 

C world planets have humans and everything lower, but the humans have most recently evolved from apes. 

B world planets have humans and everything lower, like C world, but the humans have had a longer time to evolve some heart, and can be said to be mid-way in maturation of heart to come take births permanently on the Earth (of that time) and go onto the planes and find a master and so forth. 

A (Earth) is the height of not just evolution in the highest sense for it is where heart is in balance with mind. On Earth it is possible to lose sufficient mind and gain sufficient heart to take advantage of the unique presence of the Masters, saints, and so forth, and thus go onto the spiritual path, and it is the one planet where one can attain God-realization. Even if the planes are not embarked on, 50% mind and 50% heart are sufficient requirements for moksha (liberation) even if only gross plane, with the grace of a Perfect Master. So it is the requirement both of moksha and also the requirement for going onto the planes for those souls that do. But if you go onto the planes, before gaining moksha, the percentages of mind and heart continue to slide in the same direction toward heart. In the planes the goal is 100% heart and 0% mind (manonash), and thus you become the very reverse of the C world person who is 100% mind with 0% heart.

The C World Thinking

If one sees how a person in the C world thinks, that is different from a more spiritually evolved person who may quite frankly not be as intelligent, but has more love and in some cases more intuition, then it is easier to understand some of the apparently peculiar events that have been happening for the last few hundred years on earth, and even more so in the last century or two. For it is good to keep in mind that, regardless of whether such souls are on those planets where such thinking is customary and natural, or on the Earth, the thinking itself remains the same. Keep in mind this means the kind of thinking, not the thoughts. The thoughts may be different, but the kind of thinking is the same regardless if they are on distant planets or temporarily migrated to Earth as Baba says many now are. We should see fully not only how this mind works, but why exactly this is in regards to the stage of evolution. And this understanding will be of value to them as well, in better understanding their own intellects, useful gifts, and blinds spots that are best overcome. 

It is good to recall that these souls from the most intelligent of these worlds are responsible for the recent technological boom we have seen in the last centuries, and that this is no small gift to humanity, and they should be praised for their concern and dedication in lifting this world out of material darkness, giving us lights, wonderful forms of communication, medicine, etc. 

However, in spite of these great gifts in intellect, some of these souls have also been responsible for the worst in recent experiments in philosophy, such as eugenics, and the reasons for this have to be carefully explored, both for their elucidation as well as our own in making friends with them if they truly wish to. So in spite of these great gifts and potential for future gifts to the material improvement of humanity, especially through mathematics, it should be kept in mind that from a spiritual standpoint, from the perspective of the over-all Divine Theme as given by Meher Baba, these souls are least developed. How then could this be? Simply reference to degree of heart, through natural time-processes of countless reincarnations is not enough to account for the great gap in types of thinking. And it is this that we forthwith venture to explain. 

To describe the kind of thinking and how it developed, let us take a small tribe upon a natural C world planet, about the time that these people first evolved from apes. 

People of the C world were most recently animals – apes – though now they are fully evolved physically and intellectually in every way. Baba says these people are very smart, smarter than people of the Earth with their lesser mind and greater heart. I want to show why I think this happens, and then show and explain their resultant value system. 

Baba says in God Speaks that in animals the mental aspect is expressed as instinct. As the human stage of evolution is reached instinct gradually evolves into reason. Thus instinct evolves into the original form of reason. This is so important. For it explains the orientation of thinking among C world people that we see a prevalence of most especially in the last few hundred years that has so baffled some more advanced souls.

What had been instinct in the last most advanced apes becomes the original reasoning of the first people. Now reason (or we can say logic or inference) works in a particular way. Reason necessarily requires axioms in order to function, and in the absence of feeling or intuition or masters present, the most obvious axioms will be what simply feel most obviously axiomatic to the first people. And what assumptions might those be? Axioms are unquestioned assumptions, at the simplest level just those beliefs that are taken for granted and remain unexamined, socially or communally assumed, but not philosophically investigated, or not deeply. For the very definition of an axiom is a proposition that is not proven, but used as the basis of proving other propositions. It is where you begin your syllogisms, not arrived at by syllogism. 

What usually serves as axiomatic? To a person who is advanced, the heart informs him to take a master or spiritual scripture as axiomatic. But nothing like this exists in the feelings of a C world person. Thus without such feelings, far more course and physical desires and natural physical needs are taken for granted. Most simply put, those things for which we instinctually were driven to procure as animals become for the first people the very basis of all reason. Thus what had been instinctual drives become, when they become conscious, the very foundation of all further reason. 

So we must examine what these instincts experienced semi-consciously in higher evolutionary forms are which become at the start of human full consciousness the very corner stones of the original human logic system, the stage of thinking we might call heartless reason based on now conscious and articulated assumptions that had previously been instincts. What are for instance the instincts of higher animals such as the highly social gorillas and wolves? With highest most clear instincts.

1. To locate and retain sufficient food

2. To mate and procreate 

3. Survival of the species, band, flock or pack, collective survival (which in humans becomes the clan, nation, or race)

4. Protection from predators

5. Band under a male autocrat, most often chosen for cunning and or fierceness (in humans a Mussolini for instance)

6. Hierarchy. We see hierarchy in almost all higher mammals, with dominion of the strong over the weak.

7. Killing or pushing out of the weak in a litter, abandonment of the individual for the sake of the pack, race, species, gene flow.

8. Survival of the fittest to keep the species fit, so fighting and so forth, i.e. an instinct to protect the health of that animal form for subsequent jivatmas.

As higher animals these are instincts. They are not experienced by the mind discursively, nor can they be articulated, weighed against other concerns, analyzed, and so forth. They are biologically fixed to the awareness of those animals. They simply are done out of shear instinct. But the moment that the first human beings evolve, these exact same concerns, previously semi-conscious and unstated, become utterly conscious and stated with perfect clarity and assurance, as obvious, even as axiomatic. 

In logic we must begin upon premises. Many premises we glean from our observations, such as “The sky is blue.” However, premises we base our logic on axioms. An axiom is an assumption, one that is taken for granted, usually based on habit or human consensus, or previous reflection, but then no longer questioned. This is in fact necessary, for the purpose of axioms in logic is that they be used as the foundations upon which proofs of other propositions are based, especially those that cannot be answered any other way (such as through observation). Thus axioms are deliberately left unexamined, and assumed true. 

In day-to-day life we use axioms all the time without realizing it. They are usually beliefs we adopt by way of custom or from human consensus, or simply habit. While it is true that in the case of more spiritually advanced aspirants with greater feeling, intuition, and introspection, axioms are very often arrived at consciously and systematically, and are taken based on love or faith in a spiritual master, or intuition he is right, or for many from religious scriptures, such conscious systematic deliberation is rare among less evolved people. And they never do not to those men when they initially reach the highest human form on those planets Baba refers to as collectively belonging to the “C” world. To the contrary, the axioms of these earliest people are adopted without any thought about it at all, purely based upon what had in the previous instant been instincts. In other words instinct evolves into reason. 

In the worm-, bird- and fish-forms, this tendency of the finite mental form of the soul is translated gradually and steadily into the shape of instinct, until in the animal-form this instinct is fully manifested ... Gradually this instinct is further and completely transformed into intellect, this being the highest finite aspect of manifestation of the mental form in the human-form of the gross-conscious human soul experiencing the gross world. 

 

Note in the detail on the right from Chart X in God Speaks, that instinct becomes reason in the human form. And desires are felt rather than simply instinctually expressed. 

It follows that the very same instincts named above (e.g. to locate and retain food, to mate and procreate, etc.) become the articulated foundations (assumptions or beliefs) in the original thinking of the original people. And these pursuits are immediately and spontaneously taken to be the highest possible good. Thus in a sense, matter is the closest thing to God for such civilizations.

While such a logic based on carnal need alone lacks curiosity to try to look beyond the gross sphere, it remains a fact that it is a very natural, hearty, and robust logic. So, for instance, it would seem utterly, and given those axioms in fact be, the peak of logic that what comes in the way of a given tribe’s having its basic material requirements met, or anything that appeared to jeopardize or threaten acquisition of those things, be dealt with in the harshest manner possible. 

So, for instance, removal of any weak links in the tribe that might potentially obstruct the survival of the clan would be recognized unquestioningly be recognized as reasonable, with none of the hand wringing or feelings of guilt or remorse that higher souls experience when the weak, poor and underprivileged are harmed, even when it is done for their own sake. In other words this logic is powerful, but lacks compassion, empathy, and feeling or emotional concern. This is nicely expressed in the line from the TV show Star Trek in which Spock’s father, when asked why he married Spock’s mother, replies that it seemed to be the logical thing to do at the time. The line derives its sense of humor from the fact that most people would regard the choice of one’s wife as having something to do with love. 

There is nothing at all flawed in this logic or thinking, because logic is in fact based on axioms. It fails only in what it fails to fathom and recognize, that there are things that it does not yet experience. 

There is no heart yearning for anything beyond the material aspect of life, there is no higher aspiration. But these higher emotions are simply not experienced at this stage of human evolution. For they require the diminution of pure intellect to make space for the feelings of the heart, which have frankly not yet matured at this level. 

This does not pose any problem for the people on such worlds where this quality of thinking is natural, even though it does when souls migrate to the Earth during special Avataric periods at the end of a cycle of time, and it is good to recognize why this is. In their own habitat, in their own setting where such thinking is entirely predominant, even those who are culled or shed for the sake of the tribe, due to weakness or laziness, gluttony, superstition, or a slight excess of emotionality, would see the natural logic of their own sacrifice. One might imagine the Spartans of Greece, who when asked to make morbid sacrifices of themselves for the sake of their warring heritage, in the shadow of their warring gods, they would never have objected. It would have seemed natural and even a source of pride not to object. Thus laws and rules and customs run smoothly and without resistance or remorse on such worlds. 

It is only when such souls come to the Earth periodically, that problems begin to arise. For such souls are dumbfounded to find thinking qualities that don’t conform to their own, and from their vantage point find themselves surrounded by idiots and weaklings. We see this kind of thinking most pronounced in the fascists of the second world war who despised weakness. Adolf Hitler’s reference to a deceased friends “heart of iron” comes to mind. He meant it as a compliment. 

This is the sense in which it is a primitive stage of thinking, not in its lack of reasoning, which is often flawless, but in its lack of inquiry and introspection. In a sense it is, as Socrates said, “a life unexamined.” And this in turn is due to the fact that it is uninformed by higher emotions, which have not yet had a chance to evolve. 

Now you find this tendency to state very similar axioms as these, without any question or deep philosophical inquiry, not only in the fascists of yesterday, but today far more intelligently hidden in the high-sounding guises of “social engineering,” “carrying capacity,” “deep environmentalism,” “environmental sustainability,” “resource based economics” and “Earth survival.” These are in many cases merely window dressed incarnations of lebenraum,eugenics, and class division. The “living Earth” is a substitute for God, by which is meant matter is God.

Such a good job has been done of propaganda in recent years that these are now equated with the highest goods, just as they are on C worlds, and these forms of material dread are equated with real spirituality. Few recall that Jesus said about resources:

Look at the lilies of the field and how they grow. They don’t work or make their clothing, yet Solomon in all his glory was not dressed as beautifully as they are. And if God cares so wonderfully for wildflowers that are here today and thrown into the fire tomorrow, he will certainly care for you. Why do you have so little faith? So don’t worry about these things, saying, ‘What will we eat? What will we drink? What will we wear?’ These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your heavenly Father already knows all your needs. Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need. So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today. (Matthew 6:24-34)

Compare this to the maxim in Allan Kardec’s 1864 book on the rising modern “Spiritist” movement, The Gospel According to Spiritism.

"Help yourself and the Heavens will come to your aid... This then is what is meant by the words: Seek and ye shall find; knock and it shall be opened." 

These instincts, which had remained semi-conscious in higher animals just up to the point of human development, with its full consciousness, begin spontaneously to dominate the first human thinking, and become the primary concerns occupying their thoughts. Once these now consciously experienced instincts are given discursive expression by the mind, in the form of conscious human thinking, the mind naturally goes to work considering them exclusively. They then become the exclusive axioms of a primitive but potent logic, based exclusively on material concerns natural to animals. As metaphysical inquiry is not instinctual, nor self-sacrifice, nor seeking the slightest transcendental truth, these simple original drives become the entire concern of these people, and taken to be the ultimate and only form of good. The concerns that are natural to aspirants on higher worlds would be seen as indications of feeble mindedness or weakness in these first worlds. 

Having no saints or spiritual masters to give it clues, no access to higher intuitions, no pangs of longing for anything beyond the gross, this earliest gross thinking (entirely focused on the acquisition of resources with the least physical effort) is by its nature utterly divorced from anything transcendental, and metaphysics would not exist or at best be primitive. Questions, such as "why am I here," would either not arise in the minds of such people, since something like purpose has no tangible corollary in the physical world, and no corresponding instinct, would sound logically vacuous, or appear so unanswerable as to not be worthy of asking. Rather, concerns over such tangible realities such as “how many meals does my tribe require to survive to the next season?” or “how many bees live in a hive, and what kinds of wings do they have?” would feel to them somewhat profound. 

Also one would see an emphasis on strength. Strength would be measured by its application to remaining alive. The impulses toward self-denial and sacrifice, sometimes expressed by saints and people with heart, would be perceived as mere weak character, and inspire disgust.

This then explains many new ideas that began to appear on Earth a couple of centuries ago. In 1798 a British economist named Thomas Malthus had a peculiar concern. More astonishing than his concern was that it was actually taken quite seriously. He worried that if the population continued to rise, there would run out of food. In fact he predicted that by 1890 the entire world would be out of food. He of course was wrong. However, his idea gave birth to “Malthusian economics,” which swiftly brought with it the idea of a “carrying capacity” for the Earth, and more terms were added later such as and “useless eaters” and even “life unworthy of life.” Now referred to as “resource based economics” this type of thinking is what first gave rise to the notions of eugenics (control of the human species, population, breeding, etc.). Early terms like “eugenics,” “Arisosophy,” and “Theozoology” became unfashionable after the extermination of the “mongrel races” and “undesirables” by the Nazis under these terms during the Second World War, and so have since been replaced by the friendlier term "social engineering."

Lack of Love

Now Baba tells us a strange thing that would surprise any animal lover. Baba says that when people first evolve on C worlds, they have no love at all. What does Baba mean? Don't even the simplest animals have love? Animals have a form of love, and so do the first people of the C world. Everything has a kind of love, as Baba even explains that love is what drives the Universe. Baba even agreed with Aristotle (as he did on many things) that gravity is an early form of love in evolution, and that this simple form of love pervades the universe. The world is even thus held together by love. Thus in one sense, even on the most ordinary level, there is nothing but love. Thus in this context we can understand Baba to mean this word in a unique sense.

I believe Baba means the kind of love that we know as empathy or compassion, the deep consideration of the feelings of others, and even a sharing in the pain of others. As Baba says, "Love burns the lover." Certainly there is the acquisition form of love, and lust (which Baba acknowledges also as a primitive form of love) yet it is the highest form of human love, as empathy and compassion for the hurt of others, that Baba tells us is not yet evolved in such people, and that they begin with zero of. 

Nearly anyone loves his possessions, his land, his animals, and his own dearest ones. Even animals will sacrifice (by instinct) for their young. But this is not the love of empathy. 

Nazis so loved their country or their fuehrer they were willing to die for it. Yet in the bunker with Hitler at the end of the war, Goebbel's wife poisoned her own six children without any apparent emotion. Hitler, who so famously “loved” his dog, did the same with it. Joseph Kennedy was renowned for his love of his children (or perhaps his imagined dynasty), yet when his daughter Rosemary embarrassed him due to her retardation he had her lobotomized and sent to an asylum. 

From such harsh examples we can see that there are forms of love that are not empathetic, that have mind but not compassion. It is clear these people believed with their intellects this was the “kind” thing to do, but they did not feel within them the feelings of others. They saw them as possessions, and loved them as such, and in that remote and mental way. This is not the love that Baba means that must evolve in human beings before they can enter the spiritual path. 

When a man comes home his dog wags its tail to greet him, because the dog is happy to see his master. He loves his master. But what we really mean by saying that he loves his master is that he is most happy in the company of his master. Yet however strong this feeling of affinity is in the dog, it remains for the dog about its own feelings, not those of its master. The dog does not ponder over his master’s feelings when he is away. It never occurs to the dog to ponder in such a way. But even a dog has more love than a person of this stage, for if one examines Baba’s Theme carefully, he sees that the gross human form is actually the furthest point from God. See chart below. To read the chart properly it is to be read from bottom to top, first “downward,” and then “upward” in the spiritual sense of progression through the dream. Man is in the “valley.”

 

There is one sense in which animals are closer to Reality than human beings and thus in one sense closer to God in feeling. As seen in the chart above by Baba, man is, from Baba’s Divine point of view, deepest in the valley of Maya (walls of illusion). Compared to humans animals have less false thinking (for they have less thinking altogether), thus are less cloaked in Maya, and thus have less feeling of separation. Yet this is not conscious, as it must become in humans to count as spiritual development. A sign of a dog’s spirituality hides in its not considering its master separate enough from it to even ponder as a fully separate entity, not unlike a newborn baby with its mother that has not yet separated itself in thinking. Yet the goal of the path is to achieve this feeling of oneness consciously, and at its fullest measure, through development of love. 

Thus it is this sympathetic or empathic love, this sense of oneness and non-separation, experienced fully, that Baba encourages when speaking of evolution and involution. We find this highest kind of love fully manifested in the 6^th plane, which Baba describes in God Speaks as the plane of involution where the feeling or sympathetic aspect of the mental sphere is experienced. It is here on the 6^th plane that God is plainly seen with inner sight in all things, and thus this truest Divine human love is experienced most. 

So people of C world mentality lack and need to develop empathy, and thus no love in this highest sense is experienced yet. Thus while they have a nobility of their own, they cannot express the highest form of nobility available to those with advanced heart and feeling. This does not mean they are mean. On their own worlds, in their own settings and civilizations, they are certainly cooperative and refined. We find such noble cooperation even within bands of gorillas and between wolves, and this same refinement of cooperation naturally are carried over when man evolves, but only become fully conscious. 

Yet at the end of a cycle such as we are in approaching, confusion as a result of the intermixing of the multifarious types of people with different types of thinking and feeling who of course do not understand one another’s ways of seeing, wind up fighting over conflicting visions of what amounts to paradise, and so crimes and various forms of chaos occur that would never arise on the worlds of origin of those types of people. For on their own worlds they were among kindred spirits of like mind and temperament, so few quarrels occur because so many things are assumed in such an atmosphere of commonality. The kinds of conflicts we see occurring today arise when souls of different worlds, with different types of thinking, reincarnate simultaneously onto Earth, and find themselves opposed by different temperaments, which from each one’s perspective appears inferior to their own. We thus find ourselves at present in one of those rare periods when people of many types, at various stages of their evolution, have come together from all the 18,000 worlds with human life, where we are pressed together and mixed involuntarily, and forced to have to deal with one another, cooperate, and help each other evolve. Each type has much to learn from the other, and much to offer. Those from the worlds of highest intelligence bring science and material comforts. Those of the B worlds (which are intermediate between A and B) bring ideas on social justice, law, culture, and notions on psychology. And last, people natural to the Earth (A world) offer ancient insight into the mysteries of life.

As explained, in their own contexts, on their own planets, people of the C world would generally agree even on the harshest rules if such rules arose, for they would agree in their reasoning. And such souls in their own natural setting would even thrive under such strictures of living that would simply seem to be common sense to them. And if one were culled (killed or banished) for being weak, as already explained, or for hoarding more than his share or resources, growing fat for instance, and thus appearing to endanger the rest of his clan, he might even see the cruel execution as a having a queer beauty to it. He naturally agree to its benefit logical necessity, and pure reasoning, for the greater good of the preserving his race, as he would ask anyone else to do, highly honorable in his shared estimation. Thus following that rule he would see as in the best interest of the whole of which he saw himself an integral part. It might even have a kind of raw beautiful naturalness to it, a sense of oneness of its own type (though not the type that Baba wants us to feel), and very close to nature. Life there is efficient and disciplined and people are self-restrained, as they have fewer unnatural sanskaras to cope with. They are vegetarian, do not smoke or drink, and live a controlled, slightly dull, yet comfortable life. But when mixed with the strange other kinds of people of Earth, where other things are valued, misunderstanding, strife, and disharmony naturally quickly arise between types. 

Super Intelligence

Now why do people of the C world grow so smart so quickly if they were just animals recently, smarter than either people of the B or A world? The reason is that they have no interference in their thinking from strong emotions, such as feelings of empathy, guilt, flexible intuitions and doubts, etc. There is no dissonance. The mind is free and unbothered, and thus left entirely to itself to expand into this new arena of thought that has just opened itself with full consciousness. Describing this process of intellectual growth would be of great value, and thus will be discussed here, for it follows a definite logical pattern. 

Whenever a person focuses on a single thing he becomes a savant, a genius in that one area. And it is a natural characteristic of consciousness that it focuses on only one thing at a time. Thus whatever the mind focuses on it becomes adept in. This is true even of the higher planes. What happens in those higher states is that the focus is switched to a subtler layer of reality, less dense or course, and thus subtle sights, smells, and sounds become visible to them. Similarly, on the C world, when human thinking first begins, it is of course focused entirely upon material concerns. And thus it is only natural that it becomes a savant in this area. 

It would make perfect sense that they would apply all their focus in developing their minds because for them the intellect is still a new tool, thus entirely engrosses them. To them it is truly novel to do logic, and it must be a very satisfying power to unlock the first time. Think of the problems of bounty, comfort, and physical protection they could resolve solely with their minds, and relatively so little material effort. 

I think thinking begins in such worlds as follows. This is only one example, but it exemplifies the process by which the intellect, especially the mathematical brain, develops so quickly on such worlds as soon as the human state of full consciousness is reached.

Worrying about food, because the supreme goodness of gathering as much food as possible is axiomatic, since it is the residue of instinct, people on such worlds would quickly consider and implement the principle of fair distribution of food in order to prevent quarrels within the tribe. Imagine the issue then is gathering and distributing nuts among the tribe. In order to achieve fairness they would have to calculate how to divide so many nuts. This in turn requires the invention of counting (thus number), followed immediately by the mathematical invention of division, as they would need to divide the number of nuts by the number of people so each gets a fair share. But as the coming and going of seasons becomes consciously recognized, the natural movement of animals in search of food is naturally abandoned in preference for methods of putting back provisions of nuts for later growing seasons they come to name and anticipate. Thus they would need to calculate how many nuts to ration to each individual per day of the off-season to make it to the next harvest. This in turn would require a study of the seasons themselves in order to calculate the number of days between them. This of course would also be applicable to anticipating animal migrations and for various crop plantings and harvesting. Thus they would necessarily quite quickly create a sophisticated calendar, which in turn would require study of the stars and celestial bodies. And in so doing even these earliest steps they would without much effort develop advanced mathematics, initially only in pursuit of securing these practical needs. 

What is ironic then, is that the advanced aptitudes toward mathematics, calculations, and recording of data with number and writing would lead to the capacity to use these skills in higher order functions such as engineering, calculation of distance and speed, discovery of natural laws, and so forth. All of this by mathematical ability developed from pursuing the simplest needs with the least possible effort. Being focused on the material, these new functions would of course be applied to yet further more sophisticated material concerns and pleasures.

So what follows is a little ironic. All the mathematics we have witnessed so quickly developed on Earth in the last couple centuries in the form of engineering, rocketry, communications, computers, and so forth, so commonly perceived as the ultimate in intellectual depth and abstraction (which it is not) was originally conceived far more slowly on other worlds as a result of a complete fascination with the easiest procurement of the most modest of all material needs such as nuts. So overvalued is mathematics in this time, dominated as it is now by materialism, that it is even applied to attempting to calculate the very cause of Creation, all of which attempts wind up in absurdities. Here we refer to the experiments in what John Horgan calls “ironic science” such as wormholes and backward moving time.

It thus follows that once the mind is so strengthened from the effort of doing all the mathematical exercises required to perform these feats, that it begins next to apply this great intellectual strength toward engineering, so that skyscrapers can stand without falling and self-propelled locomotives are invented, and so forth. Once these come about computer programming becomes obvious, and so on and on until material civilization reaches its peak, and even surpasses it causing new previously unimagined headaches. So it is that these planets are in their own right highly advanced technologically and efficient places, well managed in every way. They would even be good stewards of their environment, identifying with nature since they are still close to it, and recognizing a healthy ecosystem as their source of bounty and continued health. 

Being 100% physically oriented, however, with the exception of mathematics and almost certainly music, they would in their own worlds be utterly unbothered by metaphysical concerns or curiosity beyond the realm of gross desires and needs. Such questions that absorb the thoughts of mystics on Earth would almost never occur to them, and if they by chance heard such concerns stated would almost certainly initially find them silly. They would say, “What is the use of a question that can’t help one live a healthy comfortable life, and besides that a question you could never know the answer to anyway?” So such issues would simply be left uninvestigated and unexamined if they were even thought of.

Baba said that one of the planets in the C world is 99% atheist, implying that some do have some concept of a higher power, great world spirit, or some transcendental notion. Yet its vast majority would simply not value this. 

If a person with 50% heart and 50% mind were to pay a visit to such a world, which is not physically possible, he would almost certainly find life there stiff, cold, rule-dominated, and boring. Yet at the same time he might marvel at the order, cleanliness, and efficiency of material life, along with great comfort and ease of labor. However, he would also find the use of slaves, occasional land skirmishes, and they would be very brutal in these regards, without regret, guilt, or mercy, for they would lack any empathy with those that are weak enough to be dominated. Those weak enough to be killed or enslaved are best not to breed naturally or freely, but to be dominated or extinguished for the sake of the species. But within their own clans, they would likely be well behaved and even nurturing. They likely would produce straight roads and tall buildings, using glass and metals, and would have a fondness both for machines and pastoral countryside as a backdrop. They would thus be pleasant and noble in their own world. 

But outside their context, mixed into a spiritual world too abruptly, not knowing what is going on, chaos, born of misapprehension of those around them, would be a disaster waiting to happen. 

As Baba taught us, what appears as evil is really just the relic of a past good. All things in nature, including snakes and wolves, are good when understood in their own context. A lovely harmless rabbit, in a farmer's backyard, can become the worst "pest," and enough of them could lead to famine. It is all a matter of context. And apparently at the end of a cycle of cycles, the ordinary contexts are all tossed together. I once thought that this is a little like New York in the turn of the 20th century, when otherwise peaceful Irish, Jews, Germans, and Italians would fight and create gangs that would rival any that would have appeared in their own nations, just out of the confusing blend of ways of seeing the world. Yet out of that also comes great spiritual potential. And that appears to be what is happening, from a spiritual point of view, in this new mixing of types of human beings on the Earth from so many other worlds. Earth is a bit right now like that space-tavern visited by Luke Skywalker in the first Star Wars. Anything could happen. It's a dangerous place, an explosive mix of potential misunderstandings.

Now when we get to B planets they would have developed quite a bit more heart, but not enough for the spiritual path or moksha, so usually they are not ready to migrate to Earth, but first must evolve still more heart, and lose yet more mind. But having at least some heart feeling (25% heart, but still 75% mind Baba tells us) they would have at least a bit more appreciation for philosophical or non-material interests, and I suspect art and culture would flourish and be valued on those worlds more than any other concern. These sort of stand as the threshold between material and metaphysical. So I picture modern European countries like France, Germany, and Sweden, as being very much like life and values on B world planets. So more emphasis would be placed on interests such as art, science, ecology, politics, economics, psychology, justice, etc. But still not so much on God in the fully transcendental sense. They might have religion on those worlds, but it would either have a concept so diaphanous and fuzzy as to lack much interest, or a form of spirituality that is sort of like Spinoza, a kind of advanced pantheism, where God is felt in nature in a sense, but more as the surface of nature (the percept of illusion), not so much grasped empathetically yet as its transcendental source, as Baba teaches it and I believe ancient people grasped it. Their pantheist religions would more likely worship nature as God or God as nature (as in the American deist Declaration of Independence, "Nature and Nature's God," or as I read so often these days, "God or Nature.") And emotionally it would involve not much more than getting a nice feeling from such thoughts, but not much desperation or taking it to great extremes of importance. Close to mysticism and divine longing, but not quite there. 

Now at last we come to the Earth, the sole A world, the spiritual hub of the universe to which all souls eventually come for their emancipation. 

Earth in very old times I believe was very different than it looks now, and the majority of people were a lot more like hobbits than men as we think of them now. It is hard to see clearly what an “Earthling” with 50% heart and 50% mind would be like because nearly all of history has occurred within the Kali Yuga, which even for Earthlings with ample heart has been a long string of suffering and loss of wisdom, fraught with problems and hardly inspiring. But if you go back to just before this age, to the end of the last Dvapara age, which I understand was up to about 3800-4000 years ago at the time of Krishna, and you look at the artifacts we have of those times, you see a very shamanistic, dream-like, incredibly sacred-oriented and symbolically obsessed society. Not at all materialistic.

I am especially thinking of mound builders from North America, England, and parts of Europe around the time of Stonehenge (5000 years ago). But also in Mesopotamia at that time, from what I have read. Examining ancient Indian sites, that were very pleasantly organized towns, you find that nearly every artifact they dig up has some religious images engraved on it and appears to have had some sacred significance and a double use, some prayer associated with it, or deity, etc. 

Even today in parts of India along the rivers, life continues much like this, giving us a final glimpse into our ancient past that I think once was to some extent all over the Earth, where nearly all of life was centered around religious experience, to the point where religion and life were so inseparable that the word “religion” would have had no meaning. The word “Hindu” was an invention by colonialists imposed upon the people beyond the Indus River. Indians up to that time, from what is known, had no name for themselves or this classification. What others termed “a religion” they simply experienced as the entirety of life. Like naming the ether. 

I get the picture that in very ancient times there was sacred meaning and thinking and ritual assigned to every phase of life, from birth, to naming, to cutting the hair, to marriage, to first sexual experience, everything. I also read that in Mesopotamia, if you go back far enough in the archaeological record, prior to something like 3,800 years ago, cities had no fortifications or defenses, and no artifacts of weapons of any kind are found. This is quite remarkable. In other words there was no fear of war at all. As I said this would be about the time of the end of the Dvapara Yuga. 

So the notion that we spiritual people are insane is a new idea and in need of psychotropic medicine to ease our irrational longings, the idea that reason and logic and machines and math skill are the highest philosophy, the invention of IQ as a way to rank souls based along left brained skills, the notion of the so-called “Enlightenment” (a term stolen from religion where it meant gnosis and applied to a period of heightened material focus) has in fact caused the precise opposite of its name, when things are looked at in long enough terms I think. Thus Baba's description only makes sense if we step back from our own age, and try to see the Earth’s history from a bird's eye view, as hard as that is.  We are so steeped in our age that much of its values have rubbed off on us, so that even I value myself for my brain more than my heart. 

Imagine what Pippin and Sam would think of me. They'd try to love me, but they'd intuitively know not to trust me too far. They'd band together. My image of A people (with 50% mind) is like hobbits, as I have said, in that what is emphasized is intuition, earnestness, sincere love and concern for one another, great loyalty and stoutness of heart, but not all that smart. The hobbits almost never use reason or logic, the way men and wizards do, but use almost all intuition to know anything. They act faster than you can stop them, nearly on impulse that is often right. In their world of the Shire they seem to have no need for more than a very low level of technology, seemingly not even having discovered the wheel, with no visible horses, they go about in bare feet, live in dirt holes nicely arrayed, and party under the party tree. They are simple, kind, and have magical beliefs.

 

To C and B people visiting the Earth 5000 years ago, we would have likely looked like a retarded race of inbreeds, who had lost our faculties of common sense and intelligence, a race of barbarically superstitious nincompoops in desperate need of some 'education' and material 'improvements' and 'discipline.' Metaphysics, if they came across any, would have sounded like mumbo jumbo, and poetry an exercise in sub-mental amusements. But these would have been our great interests.

Now there is one more important point I want to raise about the evolution of heart and devolution of mind. This interests me for I have wondered why people on the 5th plane, if they have less mind, have so much mental power. There is also a sense in which spiritual people simply grasp certain kinds of topics more easily than very brainy people with much more education. Then an interesting thought came to me. I have read a lot of material that leads me to believe that the people I think are from the C worlds currently on Earth are very bad at metaphysics, even though they are good at math, engineering, computing, economics, banking, supply chain management, and making machines in great numbers. 

I believe that one of the functions of what Baba calls “mind” in this particular context is the mind's propensity to objectify its ideas. The more mind you have the more helpless you are to objectify otherwise abstract ideas, and conceive of nearly everything as a 'thing' or 'stuff' in some sense analogous to something tangible or seen. With a surplus of mind you are very good at thinking about, counting, and managing material objects, yet you are seemingly incapable of not turning nearly anything into something analogous to beans and literal physical stuff or fabrics, etc. Thus the very person that is a giant at material concerns is a dwarf in the realm of subtler concepts that have no material corollary. This makes total sense evolutionarily, even from the standpoint of the evolution of perception, for this objectifying (imagining as a thing, reifying) is how the universe is created out of perception. It is the mind that forms substance where none exists, and it is this principle from which my book gets its subtitle: the cosmology of substance. The mind keeps objectifying the by-products of the schemata that it conceived through last, and this objectification of what is only conceptual is what produces the material world out of nothing. In fact it produces all three worlds. So when man finds himself in the world for the first time as a man, he has effectively objectified into concrete form all these things he sees like beans, which really speaking are merely the by-products of concepts he is unaware of. So the mind is this great reifier, this objectifying machine. Applied to beans, no problem arises. Applied to abstract ideas, such as Creation, it falls apart. For it applies the wrong kind of thinking, which is objectification due to too much mind.

Now on their own world C people would likely never give much thought to anything but these concrete objects they count and distribute and make, as these supply sustenance, survival, comfort, etc. which are the things that interest them and they value highest. 

But when these souls take a birth on the Earth, they are of course necessarily suddenly confronted with what appears to them initially as utter nonsense talk, insane people with stupid interests in non-existent principles. They must think spiritual people and metaphysicians are just insane. But then when they look closer at these problems, and the likelihood that at some point they would be forced to by mere virtue of the fact of their otherwise great intelligence, and because it is only natural that deep interests are just a bit contagious when you get around them and put your mind to them, that in time they would become curious to try it themselves. For while a harsh positivism (which refers to the view that all metaphysics is bunk) at first seems to work, greater minds have shown that this arrogance breaks down, and so they would recognize after a while that it is harder to think about these metaphysical questions than they had first supposed, before inquiring carefully enough. And when they try this, they ultimately wind up being very clumsy at it, which must be unsettling to them who otherwise see themselves as nearly godlike in intelligence. So, for instance, when they go to think about space and time and causality they can’t help but objectify these things into substances or places or things. It can’t occur to them (due to too much mind of the wrong sort, the objectifying sort) that these factors such as time and space are mere ways of psychically organizing experience into a cohesive gestalt, because terms like experience and psyche and gestalt are simply too immaterial and subtle for their kind of thinking, ironically because they think too much. So instead they wind up inventing “spacetime” and “dimensions” and "superstrings" and all this nonsense, out of purely abstract concepts that never needed objectification in this way, like beans. So by this strangely challenged way of thinking (objectifying their own ideas), they invent theoretical entities, and wind up creating a lot of metaphysical nonsense or pseudoscience that they become lost in, and others too who take them as smarter than they are in these areas. I have a book on some of the incredibly silly but honestly believed pseudoscience of the Third Reich. It included two hollow earth theories, one that we live inside rock, and there is no such thing as space, presumably (according to the author) because the concept of limitless empty space so frightened the Nazis mentally. Another theory of theirs was called the world ice theory. The world ice theory was taken so seriously that for certain jobs you had to sign an affidavit that you believed in it. It was the Nazi answer to Einstein, who had his own objectifications he was suffering with at Princeton. 

Now as mind diminishes or devolves, the person grows dumber in some ways, but ironically he becomes better at:

Feeling the intuitive sense there is something else here

• Thinking about abstract subjects without objectifying them so badly or even at all. 

So we could say this is the ‘genius’ of these little mental halflings of Earth in better times, with their 50% mind and 50% heart. Much like hobbits, they feel, have intuition, and they get it without explanation that not everything is a physical thing. They just get it through having less mind getting in the way. Another way to say this is they think more subtly. 

So while these C people are giants when it comes to mathematics and computing, when it comes to doing metaphysics they are like giants trying to dress tiny dolls, and their hands are too big to do it. It’s sort of sweet to think of them trying. It could make you weep if you think about it. 

It reminds me of a sad story I once heard about Neanderthals. They can time when Cromagnon men first arrived in Europe because they see both kinds of artifacts at that time. And then they see signs that the Neanderthals were trying to copy the Cromagnon spear tip technology, but couldn’t do it as well. I always found this moving, that they were trying to survive and keep up, but couldn’t. They soon disappeared and no one is sure why. But that last attempt to catch up always moved me. 

Let me review now the types of personality that are here on the Earth right now as a result of this migration, and the different levels of mind and heart and how these levels impact people’s thinking. 

C-people are mostly focused and interested in their axioms (previously instincts) like food, survival of the species, and racial hygiene (weeding out the weak).

B-people have developed more heart and can now allow their interests to expand from merely gross concerns toward cultural interests also.

A-people are most loving, but least intelligent, and are generally fascinated with the invisible, and are spiritually and metaphysically absorbed. While B-people might appreciate A-people if they met them, though not fully comprehend them, C-people would almost certainly view A-people as somehow mentally deranged, unintelligent, hysterical, and by virtue of these failures of character obviously either unevolved, inbred, or damaged by some kind of negative chemical influence such as a past trauma, radiation from some past nuclear war, inbreeding with sub-human races, or simply from not having had time to fully evolve. This becomes important, as we’ll later see.

Baba says that people are at all times migrating to Earth from other planets for emancipation, but that the number of in-flooding souls rises during advents, most especially major ones, in an ebb and tide cycle, and that the current sudden rise in population is due to one such very high tide. Thus this population boom has a spiritual purpose.

However, given the spiritual sense and meaning of this flow toward Earth and how it fits into the Divine Theme of constant progression toward emancipation, we can assume that in most ebb times, when this migration is very small relative to now, most that come would be those that are most ready to take advantage of the spiritual benefits of life on Earth, such as the presence of the masters, ability to reach 50% heart here, and the contact with spiritually advanced souls. Thus we could assume that this would mean those people from the B-worlds that have developed the most heart among their people, and are most ready to come and be an A-world person here on Earth and begin their own advancement toward the path. 

However, from certain remarks by Baba, it is clear that this is not the case always, for he has clearly said that our quick rise in technology now is due to the influx of souls from the most intelligent (thus meaning C) of these worlds. This is a little remarkable, for we would ordinary assume that C-people would be the least prepared to spiritually take advantage of Earth, for they have not yet developed enough heart. But we have from Baba that not only are many coming from these most intelligent planets (C-world planets) but that many are from the most intelligent (thus very least heart) among them. This of course makes Baba’s emphasis upon developing heart, at the exclusion of other yogas for the moment, for most souls on Earth. It is because, due to this great migration by reincarnation from more intelligent worlds with insufficient heart, there is a need for a period when these souls can catch up spiritually by developing heart. Obviously, due to the atmosphere of the Avatar’s recent presence, and also the mere proximity to more spiritual people even if they are few, the progress of these souls can potentially be very sped up, in comparison to other times. Thus while this Kali Yuga may be a dreadful time in some ways, it is a very good time from the perspective of potential for all to have speedy progress toward or on the path. So obviously all this is for a higher purpose that is fundamentally spiritual at its core. 

But Baba says something that is most perplexing. For I take the approach that nothing Baba says is trivial, or said for no reason, even if the meaning alludes us for a while or forever. Also, I would beware of the attitude that none of what Baba says can be understood, as some like to quip. Rather I think that some of what he says is meant for very few to eventually understand. Even in Baba's Clarification statement, speaking of the Final Declaration, Baba did not say that words in his language would never be understood, but that only the unfolding of events would make them clear. I also believe that Baba, like all Avatars, says things that are meant for “those who have ears to hear,” thus the Avatar is so clever he can speak of esoteric subjects in mixed company with none but the ones intended to grasp him having a clue what he is saying. 

I have said this in the past, that what may flummox others may not always flummox you, or that what flummoxed you yesterday in what Baba has said, may not flummox you tomorrow. So I consider Baba’s words boldly, though I try not to do so arrogantly or as if I am a master myself. 

Anyway, I digress. What Baba said that interests me is when he mentions a single planet where people have developed their minds to such an extent that they can prolong their life spans for up to hundreds of years. He goes on further and says more about this one planet. For some reason he wants us to know that those people on that particular planet are "99% atheist." In the very next line, though speaking now more generally yet by proximity of sentences in the short paragraph we can surmise it likely also applies to the single planet he just mentioned, the people there are “totally devoid of heart; there is not even 1% place for feeling love.” 

The reason I find this an important statement is that it is the single instance where Baba mentions life on one particular planet. And this raises the question of why he brought attention to this planet. I also find it interesting that Markar missed this statement by Baba in his list of such statements, so that it has never been broadly publicized or pointed out. It seems to me a hint, and that Baba is saying something to a very small number of those interested enough to try to get what he is saying. 

I believe that Baba is marking out the source of some mischief, mischief that he knows about and is not only allowing to happen, but is entrusting with a certain change in consciousness of everyone in a very round about and exotic way. 

Thus it is that I believe that at the heart of this conspiracy is a very tiny group of like-minded people living on Earth, partly or mostly composed of people originating from this one planet. And I have many reasons to think this.