What Ought To Be

Donna provides a useful guideline when she says: "Bridge building uses the shared truth of religions and hopes to offer what ought to be in place of what is when growth is needed.

I am reminded of what the UB tells us about Progress Angels:

P.1255 - §5 2. The progress angels. These seraphim are intrusted with the task of initiating the evolutionary progress of the successive social ages. They foster the development of the inherent progressive trend of evolutionary creatures; they labor incessantly to make things what they ought to be. The group now on duty is the second to be assigned to the planet.

We are told: P.1256 - §8 None of these angelic groups exercise direct or arbitrary control over the domains of their assignment. They cannot fully control the affairs of their respective realms of action, but they can and do so manipulate planetary conditions and so associate circumstances as favorably to influence the spheres of human activity to which they are attached.

And that: P.1256 - §9 The master seraphim of planetary supervision utilize many agencies for the prosecution of their missions. They function as ideational clearinghouses, mind focalizers, and project promoters. While unable to inject new and higher conceptions into human minds, they often act to intensify some higher ideal which has already appeared within a human intellect.

It's great to know that they can help us to focus our minds, and intensify our higher ideals--all the while promoting our worthwhile projects. Like this one, for instance.