Meditative Contemplation on the Human Being
As Part of Divine Wholeness
by Cornelia Schaum

The individual human being enhances the whole; a whole that lives through the wholeness as well as through the part.

The part that is seemingly separated from the whole and from the other parts, weaves itself into the synthetic pattern of the wholeness. Thus the whole is created by the sum of its parts.

The whole perceives itself in its individual parts.

The part among parts learns with them by interacting with them. It gains experience and enriches the whole through its own growth, for the whole grows through the increasing experience of its parts.

The whole can flow into the part in order to weave a particular trend into the overall pattern that gives direction to the evolution of the whole. How much wholeness each part can absorb depends on its developmental stage. The parts that can absorb a high degree of assimilation between unity and diversity represent valves for the wisdom of the wholeness, because they infuse the inner quality of the wholeness into the woven pattern of its parts. Thus the whole takes on the direction of the wholeness. This shows the necessity for the individual parts to be flexible and to become increasingly susceptible for the impulses exuded by the wholeness.

Moving on one step, we can see the wholeness as the all-embracing Divine consciousness and activity. At the same time we can look at the part as the human being in his individual consciousness, seemingly separated from the wholeness.

The more the human being flows into the wholeness of God the more he moves from the transient to the eternal, because he weaves himself into the pattern of abstraction, into the high regions of the mental plane where coarse form has become redundant. These higher levels of abstraction increasingly lose substance and are less and less subject to the declining processes of time-bound matter.

This is a transformation process that the human being has to develop over long periods of time. It culminates in a progressive initiation – the initiation of the mortal into the immortal.