Chapter 10

Spiritual development of mankind

Development results from increasing knowledge and awareness of the current reality. This rule should theoretically also apply to the spiritual development of humanity. Unfortunately, this is not the case with it.

Essenceism by spiritual development means increasing the knowledge about the existence of God, the spiritual world and the eternity of man. This applies first of all to the laws resulting from the relationship: Creator - man - all-creation. They include the laws of love, beauty, goodness and all others, which are based on the Creator's concept of harmony between these three subjects. This development, therefore, does not result from the intellectual state of people. Also, the concept of spiritual development is not connected with the development of civilization related to technology, economy, and even culture and science. It is an area parallel to all the others mentioned previously. Therefore, in my system, I decided to focus only on understanding the concepts of the possible existence of God, the spiritual world and eternity in man.

It cannot be denied that human civilization has made tremendous progress in all areas of life, especially in the last four thousand years. Surprisingly, however, there was no parallel spiritual development at that time. This development seemed to have stopped quite a long time ago, probably at the very beginning of our civilization; and still shows no significant progress. In my system, I examined this initial moment and describe the results in many studies. In general, these studies show that our spiritual development is more like "trotting in place", that is, consolidating ancient concepts inherited from an undefined past. Even the serious efforts of figures such as Moses, Confucius, Buddha and Muhammad did not significantly raise the level of spiritual knowledge of the followers of the religions they started. The content of the teaching of Jesus Christ is somewhat different from this pattern. However, the very quick removal of Him from the public space, i.e. murdering Him, closed the possibility of making a significant progress in spiritual development for the first time in human history. His words: "I have much more to tell you ..." (John 16:12) really gave this hope. Unfortunately, the phenomenon of strange, even hostile resistance from the people of his time destroyed the chance for a possible development proposed by Him.

Essenceism, by definition, studies the phenomenon of spiritual stagnation of humanity. My system would like to change this state of affairs, especially since the first signs of change appeared five centuries ago. It is about the Religious Reformation initiated by Luther, Calvin and Zwingli. More recently in the twentieth century, there have been further signs of these changes. This is evidenced by the appearance of such works as "The Uranti Book", "In the Light of Truth", "God's Principles" and "The Book of Knowledge". Thanks to them, there was an opportunity for many people to open up to spiritual problems. Such signs also appeared in the development of democracy, when people stopped being persecuted for their views.

Still, there is no significant interest in the new knowledge contained in various religious studies. Not seeing the substantive reasons for this stagnation, I had to re-analyze all the causes of this state. I reached not only to the logical arguments used by science, but also to the "unscientific" ones. These are the causes that should be explained by the knowledge drawn from the various testimonies and vestiges in books used by different religions. They contain descriptions of extraordinary events and teachings carried out by people considered saints today, prophets and visionaries who seem to come from a different reality. I have quite a lot of respect for these people. Unlike their successors, they were relatively reliable. In addition, there are the development of new theological and philosophical theories created by famous theologians and philosophers. Unfortunately, many of these religious doctrines were commercially adapted, then dogmas and devoid of developmental power. For example, all that remains of Jesus' teaching is the awareness that God is our Heavenly Father and that we will be resurrected. Most of the others, such as love for others and unconditional forgiveness, remained only in the form of slogans. For this reason, and because of the later distortions, His teaching did not get the proper results.

So what can change this situation?

The first association seems very simple. Considering that humanity learns from mistakes (!?), it can be assumed that if someone like Jesus Christ reappeared on Earth and if he was given more time than before, he could pass on to us a great deal of knowledge about the phenomena we have about such a miserable concept. Perhaps he could explain how God - the Creator of the universe exists, what means that He is the Father of every human being, and how we will live eternally in His reality as perfectly human beings. Although this solution is easy to understand, many may regard it as an activity of only one of many religions, and therefore refuse to accept the teaching of the Son of God.

Essenceism in previous studies suggested a slightly more difficult solution, although more realistic. It was about religious beliefs abandoning the wrong attitude of waiting for God to save mankind from its bad condition, for example in the form of the end of the world or the so-called Last Judgment. Therefore, essenceism tries to make all religious denominations and all mankind aware that it must lead to the birth of the Son of God on Earth. This is exactly what happened before our era, when the activities of many mission-conscious figures of that time led to the birth of Jesus Christ. It was he who initiated the proper spiritual development, unfortunately only for a short time. Today, the Son of God might not look like Jesus portrayed in artistic visions, but be above all someone devoid of fallen nature. He would be the guide of humanity during its spiritual development. It is also He, supported by us, who could lead to the rebirth of the initial state of humanity in the form of the perfect Adam (Son of God) and perfect Eve (Daughter of God) and restore a permanent relationship with God.

Changing the views and attitudes of religious denominations, as well as people themselves, would require a lot of work supported by the authority of science. It should not be disturbed by politicians and businessmen. One could then count on the so-called globetrotters, the appearance of which suggests essenceism. All this could be a transformation not treated as a miracle, although for now all this remains in theory.

Summarizing the above, one should be aware that the level of spiritual development of humanity is still very low, many times lower than the development in all other areas of our civilization. The average person on Earth does not really know who God is, how He works and where He is. We are actually in the dark in this regard. Religious denominations represent so-called imaginary gods and cannot answer these questions by themselves. Our life after physical death is also completely unknown. The story of the resurrected Jesus, who appeared in the physical world for forty days, is information that, due to the fact that he was treated as God, did not explain to people their eternity.

Essenceism adds a certain amount of new knowledge to the poor development of human spirituality, although it is a very small contribution to the extent of neglect in this area. One of the main steps in this field is to show that God, or the Original Being, is a fundamental necessity if we want to understand the meaning of the existence of the universe and humanity. However, He cannot indwell us in the universe. The "area" of space should be managed by humanity. The Original Being resides infinitely and absolutely beyond the cosmos, that is, in the sphere beyond time and space. It has been waiting for us there for a long time.