I 'view' this (
our 'world'ly environment) as a kind of (albeit sometimes quite tough!
) 'love' nursery/hatchery wherein and whereby 'new' (previously non-existent) souls
may,
if they develop to maturity (not all do!),
become functionally
full-fledged '
partners' in said One Self's 'business' (which is Love creating and enjoying
more Love - why? for the Joy of it!
methinks).
Inasmuch as the 'new' souls are offshoots of the One Self, they
have said One Self's 'nature'
embedded within them, albeit they start out being '
unconscious' as to the 'greatness' of its 'power' and 'glory' (for want of better words). Hence the
idea of our playing a hide-and-seek 'game' in which the 'goal' of said 'new' souls is to
progressively (by way of learning from experience over the course of our incarnations) 'find', or dis
cover, what/who we
really soulfully are.
There is
much more to the 'game' than this, however.
Becoming what we
choose to be, like college students
choosing a 'major', is an important aspect of the 'game'. The
idea of
just losing or 'giving up'
all sense of having a
unique (special?) 'i'dentity is just a shilly-shally boondoggle which peeps who wish to shirk personal response-ability get caught up in - for a while, that is - IMO.
Every 'leaf', 'flower' and 'fruit' on the 'tree' of Life is
functionally important!