Higher Objectives
The Purpose of Life is HARMONY within and between the four Planes of Life and
achieving the corresponding Higher Objectives of Mankind:-
Peace, Culture, Perfection and Faith.
Harmony is not a constant state of life where everything functions like a “Perpetuum
Mobile”. Moreover it is not a phenomenon like a building out of similar bricks, with every bit
of them fitting to each other and every section of life to be uniform to function like those
parades of masses of people on big celebrations of former communist countries or sport
opening ceremonies, to demonstrate in vain some sort of art. On the contrary, Man is by far
beyond this state of intellectual abyss and with reason and logic reigning on the human mind
today, the nature of harmony is the opposite, demanding diversity and even quantum
complexity as its prerequisite to be real in life.
And above all, harmony is a state of existence highly embedded in the factor of time, reaching
out for eternity and longing for infinity. Do we like to imagine where the limits of the
universe are? Is the Mind ready to contemplate on how abstract the quantum dimension is,
that holds us together or what the ultimate force behind all this matter, conscious or
unconscious, visible, dark or whatever else could be?.... For instance just a newly discovered
one galaxy, out of innumerable others, which is much bigger than our milky way, contains
billions of stars…cosmologists speculate even on the existence of a multiple of similar
universes like ours….etc. …etc.. Can we easily accommodate such facts in our minds?
Therefore harmony is not a state of tranquility and rest but full of all the moments and
vectors of life conceived in space and time. Harmony is an art and state of equilibrium
constituting and allowing the existence of all its elements at a time always moving towards a
still higher purpose; which is again nothing other than harmony itself. With this in mind
harmony is thus necessarily embedded in a fundament of higher objectives, which could
always be formulated for the various sections of harmony in particular or higher objectives
inherently related to the four planes of life in general, which provide the big purpose of life its
concrete nature.
These higher objectives are: PEACE, High CULTURE, PERFECTION and FAITH
I. Peace for the social plane
The concrete purpose of any state form (e.g. Democracy), the community and the family can
be nothing less than peace. If we want to save ourselves from further calamities, wars, and all
sorts of inhuman social conflicts, as witnessed in our recent history (WWII etc.), this higher
objective can only be attained through an appropriate social justice and welfare. Otherwise,
we are driving towards what a wise Ethiopian may call “Eያወቁ Aለቁ፤” (“a conscious self
destruction”) – another form of destruction. Irrespective of the insanity of the actors, in the
name of “enduring freedom” or the promise of the “heaven beyond”, the “cultural conflict”,
which is hovering today over the world around the question of “Atomic Energy and the dream
or the nightmare of a religious National superiority” is not accidental and has its social
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