Chapter 9: The Western Way The Ritual of
Incarnation The meaning or purpose of individual human existence is
not evident in the bare fact of birth and experience.
Rather, the meaning and purpose of individual human
existence is Man, or the ultimate ritual of Incarnation. The test of human existence is in our confrontation with
frustration and fear. We are not born merely to exist and to
experience. We are not born for our own sake. We are born in
God and for the purposes of God, Who is the Living One, the
Radiant Being in Whom all beings and things are arising and
changing. We are born to transcend ourselves in ecstatic
Love-Communion with the Present Divine. Those who are overcome by frustration and fear recoil or
turn back upon themselves, and they are moved to exploit
existence for their own sake and to experience for its own
sake. Such individuals embrace the usual paths-oriental and
occidental. They either become inverted upon their own
subjective selves, and thus struggle to escape the body,
this world, and the Present Divine in the search for higher
or less threatening planes of experience-or else they become
extroverted through all the patterns of self-indulgence in
the evident scheme of mechanical or “material” Nature. But
neither of those paths is true to Man, since both are done
in reaction to the Present Play of God, and each is done for
the sake of self rather than for the sake of God. The Way of Life is demonstrated only in the truly human
“ritual” of Incarnation, or total psycho-physical surrender
to the Present God. The Way of Life is a matter of Ecstasy,
or self-transcendence in Love-Communion with the Living
Being, the Universal Identity. The Way of Life is
demonstrated in the transcendence of frustration, fear,
self-possession, and the self-defining or separative power
of experience. The Way of Life is demonstrated in freedom
from the motive to avoid the relational conditions into
which we are born, and in freedom from the tendency to
recoil from the mood of ecstatic inherence in the Living
Divine. The Way of Life is demonstrated in freedom from all
the conditions of attention. The Paradox of the Way of Life
is that it depends upon the transcendence of mere
experiential attention, whereas it is demonstrated as the
Transfigured Incarnation of the Radiant Being, or of
Love. We must surrender to and into the Present God. God is not
elsewhere in relation to us now. God is always Present,
Alive as all beings, Manifest as the total world. Our
obligation is not to invert and go elsewhere to God, nor to
extrovert and exploit ourselves in the self-possessed or
anti-ecstatic mood that presumes God to be absent or
non-existent. Our obligation is to Awaken beyond our selves,
beyond the phenomena of body and mind, into That in which
body and mind inhere. When we are thus Awakened, our lives
become the Incarnation Ritual of Man, whereby only God is
evident and only God is the Process of the present and the
future. That Way of Life is not bound to this world or any
other world, nor to any form of attention in body or mind.
Rather, the Way of Life is Ecstatic, God-Made, Free,
Radiant, and always already Happy.
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