What does it mean to be a human?

• Posted by Minister Kate February 25, 2013 - #  - 785 views

  "Matter has been created for consciousness, the body for the soul. Consciousness is the aim of this organization and it is also the aim of this enormous system of Sea and Earth, Air and Sky.

  This is infinite creation has not been built for the simple goal of nourishing and dressing the body; it was mainly created to awaken the soul, to nourish it and provide the circumstances needed to unfold.

  The majority of sciences, arts and professions have our relationship to the material world as a basis.  But we have not been put into this creation, to be its slaves, but in order to master it and transform it into a tool for our highest possibilities.

  -W. Ellery Channing – (English Philosopher and theologian, 1780 – 1842)