The Will of God

Alphonse Mucha 

The ultimate outcome of Spiritual Science is that there rings out like a prayer:

May God's protecting ray of blessing,

Pervade my growing soul,

That it may everywhere lay hold,

of strength bestowing forces.

My soul shall vow,

To waken in itself,

Life-giving might of love,

To spread God's strength

As seed along life's path,

And thus with all it owns,

To work God's will.

-Rudolf Steiner  

You will note in lecture four of Steiner's Macrocosm & Microcosm, the importance of the gift from the spiritual world of the higher forces of Cosmic Will, Cosmic thinking and feeling. These are absorbed during the night in sleep-

"for what we ourselves are able to develop consciously during the life of day would not take us very far."

Part of the Cosmic Will we bring with us is "transformed into the force which enables us to move about, to have mobile limbs."

Quote:

"Then throughout the day we use up this Cosmic Will."

At the moment our wills are only paltry compared with the Divine Will. At the moment we should be thankful for what is offered and has been offered.

As my Teachers have said:

"But indeed, calling upon the Higher Will immediately invokes a yet much higher activity which within itself has an empowerment to do absolutely anything."

And it is not like possession.

Quote:

If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.

-Matthew 17:20

Is "God's Will" directly transmitted to the earth? Well obviously it's not here or we wouldn't have to petition it.

"All life is compelled and driven by His Will. When we invite His Will we invite Life to us." And no one can live without it.

Always with the proviso: Thy Will be done.