Life is manifested by varying degrees of intelligence. The more intelligent something is, the more life and freedom it has. Inanimate or mineral life represents the lower forms of intelligence while a higher degree of intelligence can be recognized in plant life. When you look at a flower, do you consider it beautiful? It is a greater expression of the infinite intelligence which is expressing itself as beauty, form, color and above all, joy. When more life is manifested, the more intelligence and joy there is.

In the animal kingdom, you can recognize a quality of life and intelligence that is greatly advanced than that manifested in the flower. When there is greater intelligence, there is greater range of mental, emotional and physical phenomena capable of being experienced by the life form. The highest expression of intelligence and life is human as it has the power of freewill and choice. The inanimate, plant, animal and human are expressions of the one universal life differing only in varying degrees of intelligence.

You express a very high degree of intelligence in desiring to understand the laws of life. When you discover some part of these laws, you’ll ascend the scale of intelligence as you make use of your knowledge. A person who perseveres through difficulties and emerges successful, manifests higher form of intelligence than the one who gives up and lives a miserable existence. Intelligence is present in all human beings but it can only increase by being used. A developed will is the tool for manifesting intelligence.
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The greater your intelligence, the more easily you can call into action the highest order of creative energy. The more highly you develop your intelligence through self education, the more you will find your old limited ideas of what you are not, cannot be, do, or have, subliminally fading away. By using your intelligence and resting upon it to guide you towards ultimate reality of all, you will come to recognize that you are as much a part of the very highest Intelligence as a drop of water in a part of the ocean.

Degrees of intelligence prove man’s place in the universe. Human life is the highest form of intelligence in the physical dimension, which is why man is the apex of life. But varying degrees of intelligence also results in varying positions of man in society. The ones with higher intelligence are in positions of power, leadership and influence. In warfare, you never see the general putting his life at the front. It is usually the lower masses of soldiers sacrificing themselves in the fray. This is the natural order of things.

Higher intelligence and higher life are meant to be preserved and sustained usually by lower life. Plants absorb minerals from the soil while they themselves are food for animal life. Animals are killed and eaten by human beings. People who are enlightened about the divine order of the universe would understand that this is perfectly alright. Only the half enlightened would fight against the natural order. In humanity, the less intelligent are meant to serve the more intelligent whether be it in business or politics.

If you want to rise in position and power, you must rise in intelligence and wisdom. It is not fitting for a fool to be a prince. Many people want material abundance, success and power in life without first acquiring the character qualities that qualify them for such things. That is why those who chase the outer things without building on the inner qualities end up with neither part in their lives. If you want success, you must have the qualities of success. If you want wealth, you must be wealth. Being leads to having.

A lower degree of intelligence is one that is unable to recognize itself as being one of the highest forms of life. The highest degree of intelligence is that form of life which is able to recognize itself as related to all existing Intelligence. When you are convinced that every physical circumstances or thing has its origin in corresponding activities of the mind, you are able to conquer adversity in any form, because you know you can always control your thoughts. You must always be willing to do your own thinking.

You are not a victim, you are a part of the universe. Those with victim mentality express lower level of intelligence and life. Plants have no choice in being eaten by animals, and animals have no choice in being eaten by humans. Less intelligent humans have no choice in being controlled by adverse circumstances and other humans. The more you know how your thoughts create reality, the more of a conscious and powerful creator of your reality you become. One must choose to have a choice, to have a choice.

We inherit a certain amount of our thoughts just as we inherit a certain amount of physical traits. We inherit those qualities from the DNA and collective consciousness of our ancestral link. If you want greater freedom and life, you must think for yourself, and in your own way, irrespective of what your ancestors thought, even though some of them might have brought desired results. This is to exercise intelligence and freewill. It is to be a leader instead of a follower, and a creator of your reality instead of a victim.

Infinite intelligence expresses itself as all things but most of all as joy. We are all here to experience the joy of living. Joy is the happiness of love. The more intelligence you have, the more freedom, power and joyful state of life you would experience. One’s efforts therefore should be wholly directed to the attainment of a higher degree of intelligence, rather than to the acquiring of material things. When you increase in intelligence, you can get all you want in greater quality and quantity through better ways.

Life manifests by different degrees of intelligence. How deeply one thinks depends on one’s level of intelligence. A dog can be trained to jump through hoops, but a human operates on an entirely different level altogether. A dog jumps through hoops because it is looking to be rewarded with a treat. It does not think about jumping through hoops as a way to express its ability or to present art. A human has fuller understanding about its actions and how it fits into the overall scheme of things. Of course some humans still operate like dogs or robots. There would be no need to train someone like a dog when they can think like a human. A dog and a human life are not worth the same. All human lives are not equal either. Otherwise God will not have chosen a group of humans to be in a higher position than the rest. This group is meant to put the world in order and transform the rest. A dog can never become a human and possess its level of intelligence in this life. All humans are not born with the same potential for the same degree of intelligence either. A person who is born in very poor circumstances that severely limit their mental development will not have the same potential to achieve the level of a intelligence that someone who is born in adequately decent circumstances is able to achieve. Intelligence on earth depends on intelligence before earth. Everyone incarnates into physicality depending on the intelligence of their soul and its decisions. Soul intelligence is not the same for all beings. God created each intelligence to be at its level. A dog is a dog and a human is a human.

You have to distinguish different levels of philosophy as well. A dog philosophy written by a dog for dogs should not be used by a human. One such philosophy is that all life is equal when the truth is it is not. You choose what you learn from nature by what you observe in nature. You will get a very different philosophy by observing a docile herbivore compared to a hyper intelligent apex predator. Some dogs may not understand that a human is higher than itself and may try to bring it down. What do you do as a human when a dog is barking at you? You can either kick its ass or ignore it. Many humans think that money is a main measure of success in life. There are dogs that have amassed lots of bones. Imagine that bones are a resource. A human would know that bones are not everything, and if they were to live their life at the human level, they would pursue human level of achievements rather than just dog level of achievements. But sometimes a human may decide that it is more fun to just go along and play this dog game of accumulating bones in this dog predominated world and wait until they are in a human world to focus more on human things instead. A human treats the life of a dog with regard, but it knows it is above a dog.
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