Martin Luther King, Jr: Prophet of Racial Transcendence

In everything that has preceded in this set of essays, the effort has been made to draw the reader's attention to the quality of purity possible in this new age, the age of the Parousia.

When we think of "purity", we may, if we belong to the community of souls who frequently find their comrades in thought and feeling in poltical life on what is referred to in that life as the "Left", be tempted to identify the concept with something preached as a necessity by representatives of "Puritanism" or "Victorianism."

If, on the other hand, we belong to the community of souls who frequently experience the deepest kind of soul-unity with those who embody the thought and feeling in political life referred to as "right-wing", we may experience, in the concept of "purity", the clarion-call of our own guiding Genius.

In everything that has preceded in this set of essays, the effort has been made to suggest a quality of brotherhood possible in this new age, the age of the Parousia.

When we think of "brotherhood", we may, if we belong to the community of souls who frequently find their comrades in thought and feeling in political life in what is referred to in that life as the "Right", be tempted to identify the concept with something preached as a necessity by representatives of "socialism" or "communism."

If, on the other hand, we belong to the community of souls who frequently experience the deepest kind of soul-unity with those who embody the thought and feeling in political life referred to as "left-wing", we may experience, in the concept of "brotherhood", the impulse that moves us most profoundly.

Purity in the spiritual-cultural life, and brotherhood in the economic life, are the impulses of "Right" and "Left," respectively. A new level of each has become possible for humanity with Christ's return. It is a corruption of the impulse for purity to identify it, however, with "no sex before marriage"; and a corruption of the impulse for brotherhood in the economic life to feel that it justifies using law to impose economic change. (Of course, there are those on both sides of the political divide that prevails in civilization who have missed the central impulse of these "parties" and think of themselves as on the "Right" fundamentally due to their pursuit of economic freedom, and as on the "Left" fundamentally due to their rebellion against the imposition of sexual mores.) The corruption of these two impulses is due to the influence upon them of legalistic conceptions.

From the standpoint of the powers that know the word "purity" in human language to be the expression of an impulse for the advancement of human spiritual evolution, the phenomenon referred to by that word pertains purely to what the adverb applied eight words ago in this sentence seeks to convey: unadulteratedness, the quality of being utterly sincere (sincere: without separation, without division).

From the standpoint of the powers that know the word "brotherhood" in human language to be the expression of an impulse for the advancement of human spiritual evolution, the phenomenon referred to by that word pertains solely to what arises spontaneously among pure human beings--i.e, to nothing that can, in its nature, be imposed by law.

No greater embodiment, in mainstream civilization, of the qualities of purity and brotherhood that are possible in this age was able to arise in the twentieth century than the incarnation of the soul known to humanity in that century by the name "Martin Luther King, Jr." As the ultimate embodiment for mainstream civilization of these qualities in that time, everything this man said and did from the time of his emergence as a public figure in 1955, from an occult scientific standpoint, must be seen in light of his true mission, regardless of the perfectly justifiable perspectives that could be held about him as a person and his work from any other standpoint: Martin Luther King, Jr's words and deeds must be evaluated from the perspective of his mission to represent to humanity a quality of transcendence of race that is the hallmark of Consciousness Soul evolution.

Sexual activity results, when it bears fruit in conception and birth, in bloodlines. These bloodlines are experienced outwardly in their expression as cultures and their attendant languages, and, in the past, as connected to certain forms of religious expression. The Christ impulse moves in such a way as, over time, to bring about the transcendence of the outer earmarks of bloodline, in service to the purpose of Earth evolution that a race of one humanity will emerge. In this spirit, Emerson concluded his eulogy for Abraham Lincoln by saying:

"[Providence] has given every race its own talent, and ordains that only that race which combines perfectly with the virtues of all shall endure."


When one grasps the Christ impulse as the one that seeks to unify mankind as individual representatives, acting consciously, of an impulse to love that does not see outer manifestations of blood as significant, one may begin to hear in every word and see in every deed of King, from the time of his installment as pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, the expression of this impulse in the most radiant form possible in the context of mainstream civilization as it had evolved by the midpoint of the twentieth century since Christ's incarnation in Jesus of Nazareth.

The relation of this individual's striving to that of the bodhisattva and of Christian Rosenkreuz will be addressed in the context of the final essays of this set of seven.

 

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