No one can be lost. All partake of the universal Divine. We are all ideas of the Supreme (including perhaps our temporary suffering in various purgatories for our chastening). But we do not belong to ourselves—we are not our own idea! The Lord has thought us up and will have to dispose of us in some fashion more appropriate than condemning us for playing the role assigned to us.
The scriptures are our highest literature. But how can we revere any scripture that propagates the idea that some will be saved and some will be lost? The whole notion that some are to be saved and some to be lost is pure egoism.
Since we ourselves can conceive of universal redemption—cannot God? Cannot the Supreme? Cannot Christ? To ask the question is to answer it.
Could we worship a God that condemned anyone—giving him no hope of ultimate salvation? That would be diabolism, not divinity.
For some, and perhaps for many at the end: There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. But only temporarily. All sorrow will eventually turn into joy as slowly each person, however long it takes, turns to the Light that is his/her truest happiness.
As we come to see that it is one energy diffused throughout humanity, driving some to be saints and others to be sinners, and one power, one life, one consciousness, one existence, one reality, operating through one and all, we shall not be able to exclude any from the divine mercy, or from our own.
The Prodigal Son
Christ’s views on this are clear in the parable of “The Prodigal Son” and others in the New Testament (Luke 15). For example, the parable of the lost sheep, in which the shepherd is searching anxiously for the one lost sheep out of the 100, rejoicing and celebrating when it is found. And the father of the prodigal son, while loving the virtuous son, loves the other equally. The father and the shepherd in these parables are meant to be allegories of the Lord, which represent Christ’s convictions. They should be ours, too. If they are not, let us cultivate them—ridding our minds of all vestiges of the old idea of exclusivism, rejection, selective salvation, and thus making ourselves worthy of our higher natures, the pure, compassionate, all-embracing Light flowing into our minds from our souls and from the beyond.
For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die,
we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die,
we are the Lord’s. (Romans 14: 7-8)
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