Way of The Seekers — Page 27
27 THE examples. In short the large field of human morals. shows on examination that human morals are a progressive. advanced and complicated manifestation of the preliminary. the primitive pattern of properties which manifest themselves at the lower levels. Their non-material and spiritual profile they owe to the progressive change they undergo. In some cases they become compounds, in other cases compounds of compounds. Human morals, therefore, are rooted deep in human nature; the physical, biological substratum of full-grown human beings. To demonstrate this is to demonstrate the important fact that morals by themselves are nothing. They are only a species of behavior which is neither intrinsically good nor intrinsically bad. It is the use made of them, the shape, the good style they assume, the total which they produce and in which they live and move which make them moral. All this demonstrates that the world is not without a Being like God. The powers and propensities of man are neither good nor evil. Without a Being like God, there can be no morals or dispositions so deeply rooted and designed and guided at every turn of the evolutionary process. Only a Being like God could have taken care of the roots aeons earlier, which eventually were to assume in man the form of a well established moral consciousness. It is impossible for man to release himself from such deep moorings. This could only have been the act of a Supreme Power with a Will. He alone could have created man with an innate moral consciousness in exact consonance with the purpose of his creation. That is why man is able to react to moral situations in all conditions and at all ages and has a built-in capability so to react. Motives to High Morals Having said something about the primitive roots of morals in general, I would turn to the question: Why go for and aspire