The central question that Thulien Zo'ra explores is the very one that confronts us all: what is the most important thing to do with one's life? The answer is to surrender oneself to a mighty mission - in the service of Life itself - the quest for Perfection and Harmony.
This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. And also the only real tragedy in life is being used by personally minded men for purposes you recognize to be base.
The "Kingdom of Heaven" is within. When we talk about Heaven and Hell we are not referring to someplace "up there" or " down there". Heaven and Hell are metaphors for ways of being in this life. Hell is the situation here on earth right now. In Heaven you live and work instead of playing and pretending. You face things as they are; you escape nothing but glamour; and your steadfastness and your peril are your glory.
Life is an entity unto itself, a separate being of sorts. Life, or the Life Force (EsLi), this entity, this being, has monumentally important purposes: to become aware of itself and understand itself, and to realize itself, that is to say, become the finest version of what it truly is.
We refer to Life's continual effort not only to maintain itself, but to achieve higher and higher organization and more complete self-awareness. (Survival and continued evolution toward perfection and harmony.) Life faces extremely formidable enemies: "the forces of Death and Degeneration."
Life’s central impulse is to move toward the creation of a superior kind of human being (the New Man or the next higher evolution of humanity). That is what Life, at its core, is about. Life is is the force that seeks to bring about higher and higher individuals, the ideal individual being, omnipotent, omniscient, infallible, and completely, unilludedly self-conscious: in short, a superhuman.
But if the Life Force (EsLi) is going to accomplish its great mission, prevail in its epic struggle, it is going to need some help. Namely, it needs brains to give it direction. It needs a consciousness, this irresistible force, lest in its ignorance it should resist itself.
And, where will the Life-Force obtain the consciousness it needs? From the Collective Consciousness of Thulien Zo'ra. That is why we seek the Golden Path in the first place, to establish better contact with the Life Force (EsLi) and figure out exactly what it needs in order to become self-conscious and self-realized. And more than to provide the needed consciousness Thulien Zo'ra also aims to provide the Life Force (EsLi) energy to help it stay on course and move forward. Thulien Zo'ra intends to take action to help the Life Force (EsLi) along in its journey.
Thus Thulien Zo'ra lauds a new kind of philosopher, one who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, in invention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means. It holds up the ideal of an individual who can see beyond the physical world to the true purpose of Life so that he can work for that purpose rather than thwarting it and baffling it by setting up shortsighted personal aims as at present.
And what is going to keep us from pursuing this ideal? It is our own lack of courage and preoccupation with respectability. Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, and that is his cowardice, All civilization is founded on his cowardice, on his abject tameness, which he calls his respectability. There is a way to overcome these personal limitations, however, and that is to find an idea worth giving one's life to: Men never really overcome fear until they imagine they are fighting to further a universal purpose - fighting for an idea. That is why the idea of serving the Life Force (EsLi) is such a powerful one. It enables people to live the life they would lead if they weren't so afraid and caught up in what others might think of them.
In place of negative circumstances Thulien Zo'ra offers a positive alternative: an individual with a purpose in life that goes beyond his own individual needs and wants. Thulien Zo'ra is holding up the image of someone who devotes his life to serving the Life Force. This is a person who supports the Life Force in knowing itself and reaching its destination. Thulien Zo'ra is saying this is how one should live.
In the Golden Cirlce of EsLi there is no other joy than the work of helping Life in its struggle upward. Think of how it wastes and scatters itself, how it raises up obstacles to itself and destroys itself in its ignorance and blindness. As long as I can conceive of something better than myself I cannot rest easy until I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it. That is the law of my life. That is the working within me of Life's incessant aspiration to higher organization, wider, deeper, more intense self-consciousness, and clearer self-understanding.
What is the most important thing that one can do with one's life? To serve the Life Force (EsLi): do whatever you can to make a more conscious, beautiful, highly evolved universe.
The alternative is stagnation and decay, the destruction of civilization, the poisoning of the environment, and, finally, the extinction of humanity.
And, that's the Truth....
