Article January 4, 1999 Issue

A new year, and the real journey continues

Human consciousness advances spiritually.

By Jon Harder

AS THE THIRD MILLENNIUM dawns on the Common Era calendar, all of humanity continues a journey that started when time began. The coming of the millennium isn't only about the world turning a large page in history. It's a journey in and of consciousness itself.

The true millennium is an advancement of thought. It requires us to advance beyond and out of a life-view centered on matter, to the discovery that life is something else entirely. Life's center is, in fact, pure divine Spirit, God, revealing its all-inclusive and constant presence in all historical eras and circumstances. You and I have a part in the discovery and living of this fact. The discovery of Spirit has consequences for each and all as this transformation of consciousness and life continues.

The onward journey of consciousness involves the spiritualization of thought, feeling, motivation, action. It requires fundamental change. The great command, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind" (Matt. 22:37), involves the end of all self-centeredness for the sake of full God-centeredness. Orienting ourselves toward God changes the entire basis and tendency of perception and thought from a matter-based outlook to actual understanding of Life as Spirit. This is a process of yielding that goes on in everyone. It is also our most basic role in the spiritual millennium, and it is quite independent of dates on a calendar.

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