Why Are We Here?

The purpose of being on Earth is to learn how to live ... not how to exist. Anyone can exist. Learning how to live is an art. You are a something! You are not a nothing! You are not a “wretched worm of the dust.” You are a beautiful child of an undying God, endowed with and inheriting the same undying principles.

Unbowed by the chilling concepts of sectarian theology, which would have us believe in eternal damnation and the long sleep of millenniums awaiting a Judgment Day, or would have us believe in a great nothingness following death, except an eternal and finally rather boring heaven, we cling to the undying Divine Spirit. As mystical seekers of all spiritual persuasions, we instead believe in the resurrection of the spirit and victory over the grave.

From the Book of Life 3rd Degree Lesson 13