Man is higher than all animals, than all angels; none is greater than man. Even the Gods will have to come down again and attain to salvation through a human body as per legends. Man alone attains to perfection, not even the Gods. According to some other religions God created man after creating the angels and everything else, and after creating man, he asked the angels to come and salute him, and all did so except Iblis; so God cursed him and he became Satan. Though it is a story, behind this allegory is the great truth that this human birth is the the greatest birth we can have. The lower creation, the animal, is dull, and manufactured mostly out of dullness. Animals cannot have any high thoughts, nor can the angels, or Gods,  attain to direct freedom without human birth. In human society, in the same way, too much wealth or too much poverty is a great impediment to the higher development of the soul.  It is from the middle classes that the great ones of the world come.  Here the forces are very equally adjusted and balanced.  And actually the Human body has it’s own spiritual value. Read the rest of this entry →