The Life of Abel, Transitoriness, the Son of Purpose

"Vanity of vanities . . . all is vanity" (Ecclesiastes 1: 2). The Hebrew word for vanity is 'abel', the same Abel murdered by Cain. It means waste, emptiness, unsatisfactory. Oddly the preferred sacrifice. Go figure.

I did. What I got was that everything is temporary, transitory, ultimately unsatisfactory. What we submit to God must be fresh day by day, for it quickly rots. Nothing is permanent except the No-thing -- the Ineffable -- Itself.

Seek His counsel everyday and in everything is the advice I gleaned from Setting a Trap For God (Rocco A. Errico, 1997, Unity House). I read it a few times before his message stuck. The idea is to attune our minds to receive or "trap" the thoughts and purpose of God that we might do His will. Not as thrilling initially as manifestation for unbridled greed, but ultimately more satisfying.

If you think of this course to Godhood realization as a flowing river like the expansion of the universe, you might see that it is flowing past us because we are not engaged with it. We imagine and causation works, indicating that God is there alright, but we are not necessarily moving toward maturity. Attunement unfurls our sail to trap the breeze toward final realization.