Inheritance through love between parents and children and vice versa
Underlying topic(s):
- This page is part of an ERW course: Internal Guidance, section Human relationships.
- By John Eagles, September 5, 2009.
Everything of value can be inherited in the parent-child relationship. Children learn from their parents and inherit many qualities based on the merit built up by their parents.
This relationship is similar to that between humans and God. We can learn so much from God in a direct relationship. The more we love God, the wider the channel becomes through that the endowment flows. It's all done in the complete love between God the Creator and we the children.
The principle of bestowal from parents to children also works in horizontal relationships. The more that we can see others while either having a parental heart or a children's heart, the more that blessings flow in either direction.
We inherit from our ancestors and also from those whom we adopted as parents and whom we call 'Father' and 'Mother.' Of course, I know... Some of my readers may say that children don't adopt their parents. But in a sense, I think it is right to say that parents not only can adopt children, but children also give their love in adopting those people who are models of love as parents.
We are all evolving. Mankind as a whole is developing and children who inherited much from their parents start off from a better base. Would it be strange to think that parents who gave many blessings to their children will also receive many blessings in return? Would it not be so that we have so much to give to our ancestors, just as they have given much to us? Our ancestors, even the most elevated among them, can also inherit because of what we build up. Because we are connected with our ancestors, both with those whom we adopted as our spiritual models and with those from whom our bodies are descending, they can also inherit from us and grow because of our efforts and advancement.
What responsibility and joy does this realization give us in our relationship with the Creator and with all of our ancestors, be they original or newly given to us?
