Loom of Creation

by Dennis Milner & Edward Smart

Chapter XII – Conclusion

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The phenomena, statements and viewpoints arising from any scientific investigation can only be regarded as tentative until they have been confirmed by other workers and have been built up into a substantial body of data and understanding. Such understanding must then be clearly perceived to conform tc1 the facts and to give rise to working knowledge. The majority of contemporary scientific researches are building on well established structures of knowledge, and can be: correlated with other related investigations to generate confidence in the conclusions and viewpoints that are being proposed. In an experimental research of the nature of that on which we have been engaged there is as yet no established structure of working knowledge, and comparatively few other investigations have been made with which we can seek a correlation. We have many times obtained results which we thought to indicate one thing, only to find with further work that something else was being shown instead. Thus, at this stage, this work can be regarded only as highly tentative. We do not claim to have evaluated clearly any aspect of the field of study, we have sought only to determine whether there is such a field to be evaluated.

As outlined in the Introduction, our primary objective in this book has been to seek for a skeletal framework running through and integ1rating the various aspects of human existence that we have been studying and researching into. The experimental investigation has been complementary to the search for a framework of understanding. To try to understand the experimental results it has been necessary to strive to formulate as clearly as possible the significance andl nature of the etheric forces. Conversely, seeking to formulate a framework of understanding has given a sense of direction and continuity to the experimental research and thereby made it more fruitful, where previously it had followed a random, chaotic and nebulous path.

However, the skeletal framework off forces, pattern and purpose to human existence which has arisen from our studies has considerable importance in its own right. We have had to seek in many fields and we have doubtless made many mistakes. This is of secondary importance, for such mistakes can easily be put right. What is of primary importance is that the evidence would seem to suggest that man can come to an objective understanding of the nature, pattern and purpose of his existence and to a working knowledge of the forces that are active in it. It does not matter to what extent we may have got such a pattern right or wrong, the important point is the possibility that such
a pattern could exist and could, in time, be found.

When we seek understanding of the mineral world, or of the plant and animal kingdoms, and even of the more complex world of humanity, we inherently assume that there are underlying patterns of behaviour and laws of Nature at work. If we did not think this to be so, and if we thought that the phenomena of existence occurred in chaotic and unrelated ways, there would be no point in embarking on any search for a pattern of understanding. However, it is usually assumed that there is no total pattern, or if there is, that it cannot be found by man and that it becomes a matter of ‘beliefs’ or ‘faith’. For example1 some people have strong feelings, beliefs or opinions about such matters as whether or not there is a life after death, and of the form which such a life takes. But whether or not there is a life after death, the nature of this ‘life’ is only a matter of the inexorable facts of the situation and is not decided by our beliefs or opinions, however strongly these may be held. There are many other matters, for or against which strong beliefs are often held, such as reincarnation, spiritual healing, the existence of a soul and/ or spirit sepa1rate from the brain, whether ‘God’ exists, whether evolution is purposeful or a chance phenomenon etc., etc. However, our beliefs and opinions only tell us something about ourselves, about our backgrounds and our insecurities and prejudices. They tell us little about the reality of the situation.

The pattern of understanding of human existence that comes out of these studies is that man possesses, and is developing, definable and recognisable spiritual qualities. He is doing this in recognisable and observable ways in relation to the world in which he exists. This world is a manifestation of four basic etheric forces. These forces possess clearly definable properties and work in the solar system in determinable ways to achieve specific ends. This is entirely a pattern of determinable facts, forces and qualities of existence; it is a pattern which in its principles is beyond human argument or belief. As mankind continues to study the nature of the mineral world, the life cycles of plants, animals and man, the inner experiences of man in psychology, the phenomena of parapsychology etc., etc., then the understanding that emerges will substantiate, develop, modify or negate this pattern.

As a result of our studies and researches we form the following picture of the human situation. Man was born on the top of a high mountain, at a lofty height of creation achieved by the strivings of his progenitors, the gods or Father-Son stream of evolution. At this height man and his Creators existed above the clouds in the full light of the glory of creation. From this peak of attainment it could be seen that there was a yet higher summit, of New Creation, to be scaled. For the sake of his own development, and to make his own specific contribution to Creation, it became man’s task to climb to this new height.

However, man has firstly had to descend through the clouds into the depths of the valley below, into a land where the light of creation shines but bleakly. From their prior experience the progenitors of man have been able to guide man down into the valley and to set him at the point where he can commence his task of climbing to the peak of New Creation. But only man himself, by developing the necessary inner resources,
can make the ascent. We, the members of humanity, are as a mountain climbing team. Sometimes one group are leaders, sometimes another, some are followers and some lag behind. Yet we are all roped together, so that each person plays his part in determining the rate of progress of the whole.

On the lower slopes ofb.is climb man has had to develop his inner creative powers by mastering, and finding a path through, the dark and rocky world of substance. For this part of the climb the material scientists have been in the lead. At first the creativity of material science served main very well. But some time ago the terrain that man has to traverse changed, and material science is, on its own, no longer sufficient to carry him on to new heights of creativity. It is as though the path that first led man upwards through the rocky world of substance has now passed into a region of increasingly difficult and insurmountable rock faces. However, from the greater height that has
been achieved it is possible: to perceive that if some distance back a different path had been followed man could now have been in a country of more open, sunlit and fertile slopes on his ascent upwards to higher levels of New Creation.

This means that man has first to retrace his steps for some distance and then to regain the lost height along a more rewarding route. Thus while, on his path to becoming a creator, man had first to master the nature of the substances with which he has to work, now he has to become more aware of the forces which create and which induce form and function in substances. The immediate task confronting man is thus to reconstruct the understanding gained by the materialist, substance, viewpoint of modern science in terms of the broader and more basic concepts of etheric forces and spiritual objectives. Then, instead of running into an impasse in which the origin and behaviour of substances and organisms become increasingly more elusive, and in which evolution has to be attributed to chance happenings, an ever expanding purposeful vista will open up, offering increasingly abundant opportunity for man to develop his creative powers. But even more important, man bas to become aware of the task which confronts him, so that he can direct his efforts, and make his contribution to the goal for which his evolution was ordained.

If the compilation and interpretation of the evidence leading to the pattern of human existence presented in this book has any validity, then the past scientific era of three hundred or so years, in which man has learned to look objectively at his experiences of the material world, is leading into a new era in which the underlying forces and purpose will become increasingly apparent. This will give rise to an objective and
integrated working knowledge of spiritual, etheric and material forces at work in evolution, in relation to a total pattern of understanding of human existence. From this knowledge man will rise to as yet undreamed of heights of New Creation.

 

‘The final conclusion is that we know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much,
and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.’*
– Bertrand Russell.

* From ‘ABC of Relativity’ by Bertrand Russell, reproduced by courtesy of the publishers, George Allen and Unwin Ltd