WILL POWER + INTELLIGENCE = LOVE

 

 

Minutes and hours are just like centavos and pesos.  A father gives his son money to invest or to splurge.  He is given the full discretion on the use of the money.  Now, the son can go on nightclubbing, entertaining friends till the money is no more.  On the other hand, the son, using will power to ward off these Earthly pleasures might invest it in a business establishment that not only will earn him more pesos and centavos but also will do good to his neighbors, provide them with employment, and give quality goods and services to the community.  So his money is invested wisely and the money keeps on earning money, and the Father seeing the responsibility of his son promotes him in his vast kingdom.

 

On the other hand, the son might embark on a business venture alright. But somewhere at the point when the business is already earning money, he keeps on drawing money away from the business and spends these on things that do not enhance the business like going out with friends at night till the wee hours of the morning, drinking, gambling, and womanizing.  The money lost will be lost forever.  It cannot be recovered by the business enterprise.  Soon his source of pesos and centavos is drained.  The business collapses.

 

The Father calls him and reprimands him.  If he says, sorry, he is given another chance but he has to wait as other sons are scheduled to test their mettle.  If he does not say sorry and is unrepentant, then the Father calls one of his secretaries who was created specifically for that job, the left-left spirit, to amuse and humor him, entertain him with all Earthly things he so badly wanted to the detriment of his business.  They proceed to the center of Earth.  He smiles and is thankful to the Father.  He got what he wanted on Earth.  He is happy in his myopic way.  He is satisfied although he is imprisoned by his Earthly desires in the center of Earth.  His desires are so strong that Earth magnetizes him and he can no longer leave the place to go to the vast expanse of the heavens above.  His other brothers roam in the vastness of the universe enjoying the ultimate happiness ---freedom.  They see him and pity him.  But they cannot do anything nor can their Father. The free choice was left to their hapless brother to make.  This is God's sense of justice and mercy.

 

When God the Father gives you the hours and minutes, you are supposed to spend them wisely and not splurge them in mundane things.  Now and then, you spend some for Earthly pleasures.  He understands.  But to spend all these hours and minutes carelessly, He cannot tolerate.  If you are so attached to these Earthly things and in the process are endangering His other sons, then He might get back some of the hours and minutes given to you.  The poor fellow dies in a violent way.  On the other hand, if you spend them wisely, then the hours and minutes will grow and you live a longer and happier life.

 

The question now is how do you spend your hours and minutes wisely?  For one purpose: the perfection of man, materially and spiritually.

 

As discussed earlier, you increase Will Power when you overcome little trials.  You become more determined when you solve little problems.   These little trials and little problems, once overcome, toughen your Will Power and make it stronger.  When big trials come, you can easily subdue them . This Will Power is enhanced when you work, pray, meditate, and fast.  It is softened when you get drunk, eat too much, indulge in excessive sex, or when you spend too much time in rest, sleep, or leisure.

 

The building up of Will Power is one aspect of the business enterprise the son embarks on.  When the hours and minutes are spent wisely, the earnings are reinvested in the business and it grows.  Will power will become stronger.  But if the earnings including the capital are splurged on trivial things, soon the business will collapse.  When one is fully concentrated, he can easily overcome the problems the business will encounter.  He can even foresee them.  So he has to be mentally and physically alert all the time.  But if he spends too much of his hours and minutes in enjoying Earthly pleasures, business problems will come.  If he is not prepared for them, the business eventually collapses.

 

Another aspect of his business is Intelligence.  The more knowledge a businessman has the more chances of his succeeding in business.  The businessman has to know his strengths and weaknesses and the resources at his disposal.  He has to study his customers' preferences, the activities of his competitors, and the quality of his products or services.  In other words, he has to study the internal and external factors.  There are factors which he cannot change . But there are things under his control, like the quality of his product.

 

So knowledge is important in going into business.  It cannot be a hit and miss proposition.  For the first time, it might be a hit, but when the next time comes it will be misses throughout.  Simple knowledge is not enough.  He has to learn the ethical principles and face the moral issues.  Is your product or service helpful to your customers in general?  Do they advance their attainment of goal perfection or do they pull them down to Earthly pleasures?  If it pulls them down then you have to look for another business.  Is your product of the desired quality?  If not, then you have to study further how to make it more perfect.

 

So before using your Will Power to embark on the allocation of hours and minutes, you should spend some of it on research.  You should study.

 

First, you study your weakness:  You are a spirit trapped in a material body.  As such you are naturally inclined to material things and desires like hunger for food, drinks, clothes, and sex.  You are naturally desirous of honor and power and are envious when others attain these ahead of you.  When satiated for the time being, you love to be inactive; i.e., sleep, daydream, or go on a vacation, picnic, or simply "stand by."  You sometimes love to talk, talk about the inadequacies of others as it is a way to make you feel higher and better.

 

Then, you study your strengths.  You have the power to decide.  You have free will.  Few predestiny are strong enough to withstand the power of your will.  Also, you have a hotline direct to God.  Your Guardian Angel, or his representative is always around to send your messages to God.  The only problem is it is normally a one-way hotline.  When you pray God grants it to you immediately if you are prepared for the grace or power.  Otherwise, you have to wait and it will be given at such a time when you attain a certain level of perfection.  Or God denies your petition when He sees it will be detrimental to you in the long run.

 

 For example, you ask for riches, say P1, 000,000.  From the giant computer God learns that with the money you plan to spend for the pursuit of pleasure and in the process neglect your spiritual duties.  So the petition is not granted.  But suppose you ask for money for the tuition fee of a studious son.  Then God commands your Guardian Angel to do something.  Your Guardian Angel looks for a kind soul and brings this fellow in contact with you.   The kind fellow might be your relative, friend, or neighbor.  When you ask help from the fellow, it is readily granted.  Little do you realize that it is God's answer to your prayers.  That's why Jesus Christ himself enjoins you to "Love thy neighbor as thyself."  It makes it easier for God to help you in the material realm.

 

Just imagine if, under the circumstance above, you are not in good terms with your relatives, friends, or neighbors.  God would then have to look for other people with whom to channel his blessings.

 

If the world is full of Love for each other, God is in a much better position to answer the prayers of mankind.  And he who loves his fellow men is dear to God as God can easily show His Love for men through him.  Priests and ministers have special places reserved by God in heaven.  Charitable persons, persons who help his fellow men, make God smile in heaven.

 

There are privileged people who can communicate directly with God and his spirits.  Like the prophets in the Old Testament.  In modem times, there are mediums who can channel messages from the spiritual world.  But people use these for material satisfaction like the digging for gold, or solving material problems, problems of the heart, etc.  They are not used for the purpose of elevating the spiritual level of man.  Those who are not imprisoned by material wants are encouraged and inspired to set up religions to contribute in their little limited way to the perfection of man.

 

One higher step for man in the ladder of spiritual evolution is a giant leap for mankind.  This is what Jesus Christ did.  Through his conquest of his Earthly desires through prayer, meditation, fasting, and suffering;  through his wanderings around the world and enriching his Intelligence with the knowledge all mystics have discovered by then;  through his subsequent preaching and elevating the spiritual level of the people all around him;  even today you reap the fruits of His labor.  Certainly man is more refined than before.  Christianity is at the forefront.  Percentage-wise in terms of population, there are fewer tensions today than before.  The enemy of man today is more himself.  He is being unduly magnetized by the material abundance brought about by the application of his Intelligence.

 

What is needed is for his Intelligence to evolve more to discover and enjoy the spiritual abundance that is the true heritage of mankind.

 

Another Christ is needed.  When the people are prepared, God will send Him to the world to further uplift man to higher spiritual levels so that it will not be a mere step by step process for each one of you but a giant leap for mankind in general.

 

.As in business, you realize your strengths and weaknesses by looking outside you, at the things you cannot change, and the things you can change for the better. For example, it would be very hard for you to change outright your political and economic systems.  But you can change the outlook of people in contact with you.  Your product might not be acceptable at first but with persistence and knowledge of market conditions, you can advertise, package your product nicely, and get market acceptance.

 

Going back to the allegory, minutes and hours are like centavos and pesos a father gives to his son to invest in business or to splurge.  When invested, he is engaged in the building of Will Power.  Intelligence tells him the right allocation of his hours and minutes.  Intelligence tells him the product he has to produce, the service he has to render.  Intelligence tells him the weaknesses he has to overcome to avoid business bankruptcy such as the pull of material things.  With the right approach and determination and persistency, he is on the right track of business.

 

What then is his product or service?  It is Love.  For Love is the result of judicious allocation of one's hours and minutes brought about by one's using Intelligence and Will Power.  Love is the product that will make himself and his fellow men spiritually better.  Any product the business produces and markets that improves the spiritual level of the consumer is Love.  It cannot be otherwise.  For Intelligence opens up the intellectual horizon the businessman and shows him the right course.  Will power enables him to reach his destination.  Love is at the destination.  The rough seas are the impediments like hunger for food, wine, sex, honor, etc.  When Will Power is strong and when Intelligence is sharp the obstacles can easily be overcome and the destination, Love, is reached.  Once Love is attained, it will set him free, free from petty bickering with his fellow men, free from hunger for material things; free from envy of the success of others, free from the pull of Earth.  Free!  He is no longer bound by Earth's time and space.  He is free because Love makes himself identify with humanity.  He leaves his selfish identity and unites and works with humanity to free itself from the prison of the material world.  Eventually, he unites with God.

 

Love means freedom.  Love means happiness.  When you love humanity in general, when you love your neighbors, the persons you come in contact with, you are not displeased when they believe in things different from what you believe in.  You understand.  When you see your neighbors wearing splendid clothes, riding in flashy cars, living in beautiful houses, you are not envious and therefore not unhappy.  Your riches are different.  It is in you.  They may enjoy material contentment but you are happier.  Peace reigns in your heart. The problems that beset you are mere trials to toughen you for work ahead --- to elevate humanity in general.

 

When you reach your middle life and look back, you will see how you have spent your hours and minutes.  If you spent all of them in the attainment of personal goals only, true happiness is not attained.  If you devoted all your time to the search of truth, to the development of your Intelligence, true happiness is still not attained.  But when you learned Love, all aspects of Love, from the Love for parents, Love of your brothers and sisters, Love of friends, Love of your neighbors, Love of friends outside neighborhood, Love of one's fellowmen, Love of humanity in general, Love of God, then you attain peace in your heart --- pure happiness.  It is not strange then that from brotherly love, one learns to love his friends.  It is not strange then that love for one's spouse ten years later loses much of the romance of courtship.  It is to prepare the individual to love his fellowmen in general.  Otherwise his love for his spouse will imprison him and he then loses his main purpose in life -- to lose his selfish identity and be magnetized by the power of God through Love.

 

It is no wonder then that people who retire instinctively go on with apostolic work. After spending their hours and minutes in earning a living, in work, and in the learning process, they now embark on learning Love.

 

But it need not be instinctive.  He must learn the true meaning of life, its purpose, his destiny, the fleeting hours and minutes he was given to spend and spend wisely.  Then man can chart his course correctly.  He will be able to spend his hours and minutes in the most efficient way for the betterment of mankind.  And when he does this,  God will reward him with heaven.  Automatically he will attain pure happiness and freedom.  All the result of Love..

 

Thus, when Will Power is combined with Intelligence for the uplift of fellowmen it produces Love.  And he who does this will open the gates of heaven because Love is the key to heaven.