ARE HUMANS THE CROWN OF CREATION?

The humanity we know is in no way made in the image and likeness of God," to which Genesis refers. One cannot see in humans, the "crown of creation" - in this slightly intellectualized biped animal, whose intelligence made them the most dangerous animal on the planet, for the vast majority of them, are still crawling along the barren plains of mediocrity. The intellectualization of instinct made of them a monster of greed and aggressiveness, whose claws and teeth were perfected in the form of weapons of mass destruction; this intellectualization has made humans a disgusting caricature of libertine sexuality and a hell of physical and mental illnesses that no other living being knows or has experienced.

From time to time, there appear some human beings who resemble a reflection of Divinity - but these beings represent an infinitesimal portion of humanity.

Should we then admit that the Cosmic Powers, the Universe’s creators of all beings, failed when they said: "Let us make man in our image and likeness?" Shall we suppose that such an astute serpent has defeated these Cosmic Powers? And who has frustrated the works of Christlike humans who came to reintegrate humanity into their great destiny?

If we cannot see in the man the crown of creation, and if, on the other hand, we cannot admit the failure of the Deities and the Christs, we have only to resort to a third alternative, that: "God created man as little as possible, so that man can create himself as much as possible."

This means that the Cosmic Powers, to which Genesis refers, did not at first have the intention of placing here on Earth a divinely perfect creature, but they place a kind of human seed endowed with unprecedented creativity, which could, through future millennia, develop into a creature different from and superior to all existing creatures.

Every time Genesis narrates the end of one of the six periods of creation, it says: "And the Elohim (Cosmic Powers) saw that it was good." But when they close the last creative period, which refers to man, it says: "And the Elohim saw that it was very good."

Good is the world of created creatures; very good is the world of the creative creature, the man, although he can be evil. And ingenious would be an architect who could inspire in the raw material the possibility of producing a machine of high perfection by an impulse of its own nature. And this is the paradoxical wisdom of these Powers...

In creating man, the Cosmic Powers endowed him with a portion of the creative genius coming from the Divinity itself, so that, under that creativity, he could become better and more evolved each time.

In this indirect creation, the Creator revealed itself greater than all its direct creations. All creations were good - very good, though, is the creation of man.

But if the man can do better, he also has the possibility of doing worse. If there were no two opposing alternatives, there would be no free will.

A single self-realized creature represents the greatest glory to the Creator than millions of creatures who are still facing realization or are only realized in their egos.

So, the project of the Cosmic Powers was not thwarted by an adverse power (the serpent). This adverse power was necessary for man to make of himself something greater than the Creator had done for him because, without resistance, there is no evolution. The apparent adverse character of the serpent was a complementary factor to energize the creative power of the embryonic man. This apparent paradox of the Elohim, who use the darkness to affirm the light and share their creativity with the man to become greater, reveals the greatest creative genius, which delegated a portion of the human creature its divine creativity.

Paul of Tarsus seems to have also glimpsed this truth when he wrote: "Where sin abounded, grace abounded." And the paschal hymn of exaltation praises "blameless guilt" and "necessary sin" that culminated in so "glorious redeemer." And Jesus himself warned: "By Moses, the law was given, but through Christ came truth and grace." The law is the imperfection of the Adamic ego; truth and grace are the perfections of the Christlike Self.

Exoteric interpreters cannot comprehend the esoteric genius of the Creator; their one-sided view erroneously interprets the total vision of the Cosmic Powers, who know how to write right on crooked lines. Man, of myopic vision, sees only the crooked lines of humanity and does not see the right intention of the cosmoramic view of the Divinity.

Evolution, especially that of man, goes with minimal steps into maximum spaces, and cosmic laws are essentially elitist and have no intention to become massified. They are not interested in perpetuating quantitative masses but aim only at the achievement of a qualitative elite. The Verse (the creatures) of the Universe are at the service of the One (the Creator); the quantitative masses converge to a qualitative elite; the horizontalities culminate in a verticality. The cosmic laws are not meant to "save" humanity but "to realize" man. The whole tendency of the Universe is ascensional, evolutionary and hierarchical.

All sacred books, from Genesis to Revelation are esoteric, which cannot be comprehended by the profane exoteric but only by the initiate esoteric.

The more man concentrates on the Creator of the intuitive implosions, the more he comprehends the creatures of the analytic explosion of the Universe - whether the sidereal macrocosm or the human microcosm.

The humanity of the future, after expelling itself from the scum of present humanity, through millennia of light and darkness, of ups and downs, of truth and falsehood, of right and wrong, will return to its original habitat, to the most beautiful of the planets of our solar system wrapped in this dazzling blue seen from space.

And only after a "new heaven" has formed will there also be a "new earth," where harmony will be proclaimed.

No one can imagine what will become of a block of marble, while some Michelangelo sculpts it with hammer and chisel; only the sculptor itself knows the final result - some Moses, some Pietá - because that idea already exists in the mind of the artist before it exists in the raw matter.

In today's humanity, there is the image and likeness of God, not dynamically but potentially. Many hammerings are still necessary until the man of the new humanity appears in all his glory.

Socrates, the great philosopher who never wrote philosophy, was also a great sculptor; he was once invited by the mayor of Athens to carve a nymph from an amorphous block of white marble from Paros. After finishing it, everyone congratulated Socrates on his masterpiece. The philosopher, however, refused the compliments, saying that it was not he who carved the nymph, but that it was hidden within the block of marble; he only removed with chisel and hammer what prevented the public from viewing it. Socrates already intuitively saw the nymph before it was visible to the eyes of the people.