All of life is governed by laws. One such law is the law of sacrifice. To have a healthy body, we have to „sacrifice“ unhealthy food. To have joy and happiness in our heart, we have to „sacrifice“ worry and despair. To have a fulfilling romantic relationship, we have to „sacrifice“ sexual licentiousness. To have a beautiful mind, we have to „sacrifice“ ugly thoughts. To have inspiring conversations, we have to „sacrifice“ grumbling and swearing. To step into our Higher Self, we have to „sacrifice“ our lower self.

I say „sacrifice“ (using quotation marks) because we are not really sacrificing anything at all. On the contrary! Whenever we let go anything of a lower nature, we gain something higher in return. We cannot move up the ladder of evolution with heaviness and grossness living in our electromagnetic field. To advance into the finer dimensions of reality, we have to let go of all the coarser parts in our nature. We cannot take our low-vibratory hate, anger, worries and fears with us into the finer high-vibratory dimensions of reality.

This is the reason why the law of sacrifice is an essential aspect of the Spiritual path, and why the notion of sacrifice is a central teaching in every religion on Earth. The word „sacrifice“ comes from „sacer“ (Latin: „to make holy“) and „facere“ (Latin:„to do“). To become whole and holy, we have to sacrifice the lower, separative, unholy aspects in our thinking, feeling, speaking and acting life. We cannot raise our vibration without „sacrificing“ all that which vibrates to the lower keys.

Now, in order to properly understand the idea of sacrifice, here is an important insight: Manifested life is active motion. Spirit and matter are the two poles of polarity. By receiving life impulses, matter is organized into forms. And as the life continues to evolve and express its evolution, the forms into which matter is organized continue to evolve and change as well. In other words: We cannot grow within and stand still without.

Form (matter) is the ever-changing vehicle of the evolving life.

And this is why every step on the ladder of evolution is accomplished by sacrifice. The life escapes the lower form in order to take birth in a higher form. As the life escapes, the lower form perishes (is sacrificed) while a new, higher form is born. The life evolves and persists while the form perishes. The life is eternal, the form is temporary. We are sacrificing the temporary form to enable the evolution of eternal life.

As such, the law of sacrifice is in reality the law of life-evolution. We climb the ladder of evolution – which leads out of matter towards Spirit – by sacrificing the lower in service of the higher. When we sacrifice the lower for the higher, we channel energy „upwards“ or evolution-wards, and in this way the energy is set free on a higher plane. Whenever we channel a lower force towards a higher purpose, we transmute the lower force into a higher spiritual energy by force of our motive and motivation. Thus, we evolve.