Mediators between higher and lower entities
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- By John Eagles, October 19, 1998.
This page is part of an ERW course, Divine Principle.
There is a principle valid in the universe which says that each created entity can only fulfill its purpose of creation by keeping a good mediating relation with higher and lower entities. To make you more clear about this principle and what it means for each of us, let's look at the example of a cow.
A cow eats grass. A cow is an animal, and grass is a mixture of plants. An animal is created as a complexer organism than plants. It is one of the tasks or missions of a cow to keep a good relation to the grass. The cow eats the grass, but also gives its shit as fertilizer to the grass. The cow keeps a good relation to the grass. The grass serves the cow, but the cow will not destroy the grass, no, to the contrary, by eating the grass and fertilizing it, the cow is a good master over the grass. The cow is held by a farmer. The farmer milks the cow, and by giving milk the cow also serves a higher form of creation, that is man, who uses the cow's milk.
Another example: the grass. The grass, as just has been described, makes a good relation to the cow. The cow, an animal, eats the grass. The grass serves the animal. But the grass also keeps a good relation to the soil. The grass grows on the soil and covers it and keeps the soil together. The soil needs the grass, but, of course, the grass also needs the soil, because without the soil, the grass couldn't grow. The cow is a good mediator between man and grass. The grass is a good mediator between grass and soil.
You could study every aspect of nature and see that this principle is valid everywhere. We can draw the conclusion that God created the universe in such a way that each created entity can only exist by serving both higher and lower creations, by being a good mediator between higher and lower creations.
When we have seen how this principle works for cows and grass, we can apply this principle to the world of God, man and angels. It is everyone's task to be good mediators between higher and lower creations of God, between more developed or elder and less developed or younger creations of God.
This is also true for man's relationship to God. When we have experiences with God, we come in the position to mediate between God and other humans, who may not have had these experiences, and all other beings and creations in the universe. God is the higher Being who relates to man, and man has the task to be a good mediator between God and all the rest of God's creations.
It is the Messiah's task to be such a mediator between God and man, but it also the task of every human being to do the same. And when we know someone who has a deep relationship to God, we come in the position to mediate between this person and other humans. The person with the Messiah's task has the task to serve the followers, and the followers have the task to serve their leader. It is very much like the cow has to serve the grass, and the grass has to serve the cow. Could there be anything wrong with this situation?
What happens to a cow that doesn't want to relate right to the grass? Suppose the cow says that the farmer should take the grass and transform it into milk? In that case the farmer won't have milk, but the cow will die.
