Now that religion gives place to science the paradisical future of the soul fades before the Utopian future of the species, and still the future rules. Desire, the strongest thing in the world, is itself all future, and it is not for nothing that in all the religions the motive is always forwards to an endless futurity of bliss or annihilation. There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them. This means a tide of unifying life of such power that one cannot now vision it, but which-in a thousand years-will have welded all mankind into a perfect brotherhood. men into a new coherency, into a brotherhood of humanity which will ignore all racial and national differences and will carry the life of men forward into synthesis and unity. will (through the effect of its potent force) stimulate. Alice Bailey, The Reappearance of the Christ (1947).This sharing, beginning on the physical plane, will prove equally true of all human relations and this will be the great gift of the Aquarian Age to humanity. Preparations for that shared feast (symbolically speaking) are on their way, and those preparations are being made by the masses of men themselves, as they fight and struggle and legislate for the economic sustenance of their nations, and as the theme of food occupies the attention of legislators everywhere. and share the bread and wine (symbols of nourishment). The great spiritual achievement and evolutionary event of that age will be the communion and human relationships established among all peoples, enabling men everywhere to sit down together. This passing of the Sun into the sign Aquarius is an astronomical fact. The ancient symbol for the sign Aquarius (into which our Sun is now entering) is that of the Water-carrier, the man with a pitcher of water.Alice Bailey, The Rays & the Initiations (1960).Selfishness, as we now understand it, will gradually disappear, for the will of the individual will voluntarily be blended into the group will. This coming age will be as predominantly the age of group interplay, group idealism, and group consciousness, as the Piscean Age has been one of personality unfoldment and emphasis, personality focus, and personality consciousness. will inaugurate the framework, structure and fabric of the New Age, which will start with certain premises, which today are the dream of the more exalted dreamers, and which will develop the civilisatation. The generation which will come into active thought expression at the end of this century.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, Book VII, 8 (Penguin Classics edition of Meditations, translated by Maxwell Staniforth).You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. Nina Allan, The Common Tongue (2016), in Jonathan Strahan (ed.) Drowned Worlds (e-book edition, ISBN 978-1-84997-930-6).In the fable of the grasshopper and the ant, human beings are the most frivolous breed of grasshopper that ever was. The problem is that no one gives much of a shit about the future until it actually happens.Until now scientists have dealt with life as finite - is it not now their mission to see life as extending into Infinity? 553. Should not a true understanding of life promote care for the future along with the present? This is the immediate duty of every scientist.Ford Prefect in Mostly Harmless, novel by Douglas Adams.Just the same old stuff in faster cars and smellier air." "Don't tell me about the future." said Ford.The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.
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