Spiritual Evolution | Steve Beckow

By Steve Beckow, February 21, 2025

(Golden Age of Gaia)

We talked last time of devolution. (1) Let’s talk this time about spiritual evolution. (2)

I mentioned that I was shown the purpose of life in a vision I had in 1987. In fact at the end of it, I heard the very words, “The purpose of life is enlightenment.” (3)

The purpose of life is that the One, who is everything, can have an experience of itself: O Thou I! (4)

Evolution is everything that carries us nearer to our goal of, it turns out, Self-Realization.  As the Arcturian Group tells us: “Spiritual evolution is simply the process of remembering who you are.” (5)

I’m not talking about Brahmajnana (God-Realization) or any other 3rd-Dimensional unveiling. I’m not talking about a meeting that takes place in the dimensional world at all. Michael once told me that angels come from Source. (6) If the angelics do, and they still have individuation, then how sublime must be the yielding of individuality itself in the Supreme Realization?

Evolution means we got closer. We removed a veil. Or we realized a truth. Or we saw something we’re not or something we consider ourselves to be. Or we took a stand (See g*****c above.) . Or we birthed a new life. Or we gave up something we’d long considered was valuable, realizing it was not.

Whatever the event that propels us into bliss and realization, it’s an event in evolution. It brought us “closer” to realizing God.

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Allow me to insert here a number of points made in an earlier, 2011 paper on spiritual evolution. I’d make changes in some names and relationships, but the changes are not major.

Spiritual Evolution: The Divine Plan for Life

1. Every man, woman, and child on this planet is God. Every man, woman, and child lives forever, through countless physical lives.

2. The purpose of life is enlightenment. The purpose of life is that God should meet God in a moment of our enlightenment and, in that meeting, taste Her own bliss. For that purpose was all of life made.

3. All of us have journeyed out from God, by Her command, and will be liberated from the cycle of physical birth and d***h the moment we know that everything in this world, including us, is God. Hindu sages call this level of enlightenment vijnana (perfect wisdom) and sahaja (or natural, permanent) nirvikalpa samadhi.

4. The Father created the domain of the Mother (mater, matter) as the setting for our spiritual journey and education. We wander in this material realm lifetime after lifetime, constantly learning.

5. The Father made the material domain lawful. The most important law for us to know is the Law of Karma, which requires that what we do unto others shall be done unto us as well.

6. The form of our total journey is a sacred arc, like Jacob’s Ladder, away from and back to God. But, day by day, we also follow a spiritual spiral, returning to the same karmic lessons repeatedly until we learn them.

7. From one day to the next, we may expand or contract, but all the while we’re cosmically drawn back to Her by a sub-sensible, eternal longing, planted there by Her, for Her: a longing for liberation. (1)

8. In the cosmic Drama, there are three Actors we must realize: God the Father, God the Mother, and God the Child. These are the Transcendental, the Phenomenal, and the Transcendental in the Phenomenal. Christians call them (note the change in order) the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Hindus call them Brahman, Atman, and Shakti. The Formless became two Forms. The One made trillions of forms through the agency of the Two and then mysteriously entered into them. We are required to know that Trinity.

9. Everyone will reach Her – some in the morning; some in the afternoon; and some in the evening. Experiences will vary, but all will eventually know God.

10. Every genuine path will work. God plays all roles and observes all actions. She has become many; next to Her, there is none.

11. In Her love, She is universal, impartial, and supreme. What She wills must happen. She decreed this Drama for Her own Pleasure. Each time someone knows its Self — “Oh Thou I!” — God meets God.

Footnotes

(1) For more on this, see “The Longing for Liberation” at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Longing-for-Liberation-3.pdf).

This discussion was written in 2011, from the vantage point of the vision rather than Ascension.  Moreover discussions with the Divine Mother have changed my view of some things (her relationship to Shakti and the Holy Spirit, for example).

If I had time, I’d update it. But that doesn’t look likely to happen!

Footnotes

(1) “What is Devolution?” February 20, 2025, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/?p=363282.

(2) For a more detailed treatment of the subject, see “Spiritual Evolution: The Divine Plan for Life (Repost),” December 28, 2021 at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2021/12/28/spiritual-evolution-the-divine-plan-for-life-repost-2/

(3) The vision itself is described here: “Chapter 13. Epilogue” in The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Purpose-of-Life-is-Enlightenment-5.pdf

The vision resulted in the creation of the database From Darkness Unto Light (https://goldengaiadb.com/index.php?title=From_Darkness_to_Light) and the book The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Purpose-of-Life-is-Enlightenment-5.pdf.

(4) Bayazid of Bistun: “I went from God to God, until they cried from me in me, ‘O thou I!’” (In Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy. New York, etc.: Harper and Row, 1970; c1944, 12.)

(5)  “The Arcturian Group via Marilyn Raffaele, Feb. 26, 2013,” at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2023/02/26/the-arcturian-group-via-marilyn-raffaele-feb-26-2013/.

(6) Archangel Michael: We come from Source.

Steve:  Right. Wow! … All angels?

AAM: Yes, it is bigger than you think. ‘ …

We are being fueled by the infinite Source, the eternal Source.  And so are you. (“Archangel Michael on the Angelic Kingdom,” June 13, 2014, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2014/06/13/archangel-michael-on-the-angelic-kingdom/.)