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The process in the third development channel is related to the heat of the day, defined as "divine Science understood and acknowledged." Elrond represents this process, a process that brings out the best in people, that builds on the divine nature of our humanity and affords healing.
Mary's fourth development process is related to the sunset, to the science of the divinity of man and its unfolding. Galadriel represents this process in which nothing needs to be told or taught. She tells no one what to do or what to think. And why would she? Why would she teach anything to a man who is a divine being?
Galadriel's process is echoed by Socrates in the Plato's Meno dialog. In this dialog Socrates proves to his friend Menon that no one needs to be taught. He guides an uneducated slave boy to solve a complex geometric puzzle on the strength of his own resources as a human being. Galadriel represents this vital process, and so does Mary Baker Eddy with her pedagogical structure that is not a thing, but is a process designed to facilitate the discovery and development of the profound riches of our humanity.
With the sunset process the circle is closed. Galadriel represents the complete opposite of Aristotle's theory of natural slavery. The mother of pigs is thereby unmasked as a strategic fabrication for the destruction of humanity. Aristotle's division of humanity into sub-human and superhuman beings is especially prevalent in the scholarly arena of elitist standpoints. There, people say, "my opinion" is supreme and everyone else's is not.
Tolkien's heaven
At the end of the saga of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien takes four of the main characters of the saga and sends them to heaven. These four are the same as those who represent the four processes: Galadriel, Elrond, Gandalf, and Frodo, not including Sam, Merry, and Pippin.
Prior to their departure for heaven, we are told that three of them are wearing the three rings which the Elf-lords had carefully hidden in the beginning, that had remained untouched and unsoiled by Sauron's corruption. They are now worn openly. Only Frodo, the original ring bearer, is shown not to wear a ring. Of course he couldn't. His ring-finger had been bitten off by the Gollum.
Still, the saga doesn't really end at this point? It continues to unfold in metaphor, since it is representing a time that has not yet been. The saga projects this time forward into a future that the heaven represents, which we have the capacity to make true.
In the dynamics of the saga the heavens represent not a static timeless end, but just another beginning. The "Third Age" is over, the days of the rings have passed, a new age is beginning.
Even in ordinary logic it makes no sense to speak of life after life. So, what unfolds with this new beginning?
Tolkien's concept of heaven lies evidently outside the sphere of ancient myths that promise life after death, since the death concept no longer applies. Gandalf had defeated humanity's fascination with death in his symbolic battle with the Balroc on the bridge of Khasad-dum. After that, death no longer had its dominion. With this the whole concept of life after death was symbolically defeated as well. In Tolkien's saga the concept of heaven represents a deathless continuation, an uninterrupted progression. With the "Third Age" closing, the Fourth Age begins that unfolds on a bright new stage. That gives the heavens a whole new meaning. Tolkien was evidently aware that we haven't seen anything yet in terms of the vast potential that lies in our humanity, the remains still to unfold.
In real terms, this means that we stand at the threshold today, to the grandest and richest future imaginable. All the resources for such a future exists, ready to be developed. The greatest resources in energy and materials, more than we can imagine, literally lie at our feet. The very hydrogen of the air and in the water, which is the most abundant element in the universe, hold the key to these energy resources that can never be exhausted, that we have utilized so far only for making hydrogen bombs. With these new energy resources we will have all the metals and minerals that are presently locked into the silicates of the rocks of the earth, available to us for building. The entire mantle of the earth, four-thousand kilometers deep, lies before us as an inexhaustible source for magnesium, nickel, and iron. We haven't even dreamed off what we can do with these kinds of rich resources. We can put agriculture into self-contained indoor facilities, fifty stories high; we can build mile wide floating bridges that span the oceans; we can take long distance transportation into vacuum tubes in which we can travel between the continents at speeds of fifteen-thousand miles an hour. And that's just the beginning. We can even create for ourselves all the financial credits that we need to do all of that, since money isn't a thing, but a process, an inexhaustible process.
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