Chapter 13
Meaning of the existence of a spiritual person
Essenceism is a system that has sufficiently well-prepared research instruments to specifically answer one of the most important questions about the meaning of human life. It is a spiritual person of man, because it is it who gives us the direction of development as an eternally existing being. Its existence, in particular, may explain why we are so different from the rest of the universe.
It is worth realizing that only we humans show an interest in asking questions about the meaning of our existence, searching for God, and deciding whether He exists or not. Animals, not even the most highly developed animals, do not. This is because there is in us this "part" additional to nature in the form of a spiritual person, which comes directly from the Creator Personality. Hence, from the very beginning of our civilization, people look for the One they come from. Not from protozoa, not from monkeys, but from Someone we don't know, and whom we really want to meet.
From the beginning of the Creator's plans, a perfect man was destined to be His partner. It is more than just a child of God. The Original Being needs the greatest level of love and can live it only with perfect beings like Him. The spiritual person of a perfect man must therefore be the pinnacle of the activity of the Creator of the universe. Every perfect human should be the most precious of all imaginable. A perfect man is a masterpiece of the Creator, someone to whom He can entrust the entire universe and be sure that he will become a good administrator of what He has accomplished.
So what is a man to do if he knows that he will live forever? First of all, he should use his physical life to the full, even every minute of it, to reach the level expected by the Creator. This level means maturity to begin the eternal, most important period in our lives. After reaching perfection, an eternal future awaits us, which is now difficult to understand. Therefore, essenceism wants to present two possible scenarios for humans who are beings who live forever in the infinitely vast cosmos. One of them is more passive. It makes people eternal beings traversing various places in the cosmos and admiring its richness. The second, more active scenario makes humans creators of new civilizations in the same eternal, grand and infinite universe. For us now living on a tiny planet, lost somewhere in space, both of these scenarios are utter fantasy.
The passive scenario is based on a logical understanding of the Creator's activities, as a result of which the cosmos is not some gigantic void devoid of life. Since there are billions of galaxies in the universe, with billions of stars in each of them, the probability of having planets adapted to life is enormous. It can be assumed that on these planets the Creator has realized his plans to create people in His image and likeness. This means that the universe could be inhabited by countless civilizations inhabited by people just like us. Our hope should be that they have perfect worlds, which are not like we on Earth. Evil could never appear on these planets and therefore they are a kind of realized Kingdom of Heaven. That would be good news for us about our future after the end of our physical life. Our spiritual people could move around the entire universe without losing time and become physical on any already inhabited planet. My previous books on essenceism explained the concept of physicalization of spiritual persons in the physical world and showed the possibility of spiritual persons moving anywhere in the universe without wasting time. This is due to the rules of the state beyond time and space. Hence, if there were numerous inhabited planets, it would be an endless "sightseeing trip" or "planetary study" intended for spiritual persons mature for eternal life. This could be our further life in the universe, albeit more passive than active.
The second scenario, the more active one, assumes that perhaps all of these billions of galaxies and their stars are still in a phase of transformation leading to the formation of planets adapted to the life of human beings on them. Such a scenario would make the Earth a "producing" planet of the Creator's representatives prepared to create human civilizations in countless places in the universe. We would be a kind of "breeding ground" of perfect educators of future civilizations. Scientists have calculated that there are more than one hundred billion of those who have died on Earth so far. If they were all eternal beings in the form of perfect spiritual persons, they would be for the Creator wonderful emissaries preparing new human civilizations. For them, time and space would not be any obstacle, so they could share the tasks of creating human worlds in different places in the cosmos. Such human educators, perfect themselves, after having established themselves on a given planet, would be the guides of parents bringing up their children there. The only question is whether they would do it in the form of becoming physical, or could they invisibly replace the angels in their educational mission.
By the way, it is worth drawing the conclusion that there is no point in trying to prepare our exodus to some other habitable planet with the increasing number of humanity. The distances in the universe and the relatively short physical life of a human make these plans impossible to implement. It would be much wiser to make people aware that they are eternal as spiritual persons and that physical life is only a preparation for this eternity. They could then maintain the population on Earth in such numbers that our planet would enable everyone to live in dignity. Of course, such a state would require no evil on our planet and treating humanity as one big family. Perhaps it will happen someday.
The Original Being should have perfect partners or representatives present "everywhere", just like Him. This is probably His plan, though it is beyond my ability to check it out. The above description results primarily from the need to outline a specific solution for humanity. This is the mission of essenceism in relation to all the topics discussed by this system.