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Old 05-04-2021, 01:52 PM
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Considerations 66 …

Grow into LIFE …

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Reading through various posts on this forum board displays a wide variety of questions and answers from all levels. It is fascinating to read through the postings that people offer.

One factor that I mentioned little of concerning Divine Spirit IT-self might shed some light on a number of personal wonderings.

Besides the one and only source of all of LIFE and Existence … providing substance, subsistence, consciousness, and more … a prime feature of Divine Spirit is that IT grows. IT’s movement radiates from the Center and expands. An endeavor of Divine Spirit is to grow from less to more … or the unknown to the known … or from darkness to light … or from untruth to truth … all of these … and however else one might wish to word this.

Another way to look at it is … Divine Spirit is not static or fixed at all. It moves … and is alive … or more that it is the basis of life itself.

So no one … or nothing … stays the same … for long. Yes … here in the psychical world … a rock might remain as a rock for quite some time … but those whose consciousness has developed enough to be a moving, conscious part of life will grow at a rate that is a combination of both Divine Spirit and the individual.

Where does “drive” come from … where does “inquiry” come from … where does “desire” come from … all of this. At any particular moment in time … in the psychic worlds of MEST … ( matter / energy / space / time ) … any individual is at a particular “stage” of development and Divine Spirit is providing the deep, subtle urge to go farther … to expand … to continue … to develop … again … however you wish to describe this. It is all built into the “system” … so to speak.

There is a factor poetically called the “Divine Discontent” … that causes a vague unease within the Self. It’s often a call to search … to explore … and again … to expand and grow. Most of us are way too busy to even allow ourselves to feel this … but it is alive and well nevertheless.

Don’t get me wrong … there are many, many lifetimes that we each live … and have lived … where we are thoroughly content with where we are … and though there will be daily struggles and issues to deal with … we are basically content. If and when you find yourself in such a lifetime … *live* it. Enjoy it. Just ride the contentment. It’s a blessing to be content with where you are. Divine Spirit is *not* asking you to constantly beat yourself up and question your values, ethics, and Self. There’s plenty of that without our seeking it. If you are living as such … you are truly fortunate. Be grateful.

But the air around us is constantly filled with the quests and issues of the world. Media pounds on us every moment of the day and night. Pressures from everywhere are constantly thrown in our way. Exactly where the intensity comes within Self to move … to change … to grow or resist … can be anywhere from old, old habits that still need to be addressed … subconscious remnants that are whispering faintly in ones ear … long-ago promises we made to Self that we haven’t even really considered … an article read online … a recently viewed movie … a phrase heard somewhere they sparks a distant memory … all of this … and much, much more.

How long has the question “What the heck is this all about?” plagued mankind? How is that even to be asked … and when?

Behind it all is the quest of Divine Spirit to grow from Truth … to Greater Truth. The individual interprets and explores this in their own way and time. What is right for a 9th grader is the wrong time for a primary student … and this applies to every feature and concern in LIFE … let along in understanding the depths and responsibilities of Self.

Each of us have lived hundreds of thousands of lifetimes … and their residue remain as shadows … sometimes identifiable … most of the time not. We can sense that some experiences are morally or ethically wrong but we can also sense that we have done them … somewhere … to some extent … at some time … long ago. There is a soft recognition … and an acknowledgment that it’s probably wise not to try it “that way” again. We do … learn … slowly.

We eventually find that life is not so easily explained as “either-or.” It doesn’t work that way … although mind would love to have it so regulated. If factors are to be either black-or-white … then the entire color spectrum between the two extremes has been denied and / or dismissed … and yet if we look … we find that the most experiences do indeed fall between the extremes. They are *all* … meaningful. Anything that adds to what you are … whether something to move into or something to avoid … is part of the adventure.

The drive forward … the passion to grow … the present into the greater … is built into the system … so to speak. Sometimes it’s strong … sometimes it’s barely a whisper. You have eternity to experience it all. To demand that it be defined often detracts from the possible overall experience. Just acknowledging whether it is a forward or backward tendency can assist in catering to or resisting the impulse … and just figuring *that* out is a huge issue to many.

As stated in previous posts … Divine Spirit in the Pure God Worlds is positive only. IT cannot work for anything other than positive growth and benefit. IT cannot work detrimentally of, for, or towards … anything.

After IT is “revised” into both a positive and negative structure … this aspect is over-ridden by the negative additional component. In the Lower Psychic Worlds … everything changes … most everything “dies” in one way or another … “growth” can certainly go downhill if that is the directive according to the individual attitude and focus … knowingly or otherwise. Positive Divine Spirit is out of IT’s realm here … so to speak.

I have tended to use the phrase Divine Spirit for Pure Spirit … and Spirit for Spirit in the Lower Psychic Worlds.

But remember this … IT is still the same Spirit … everything is of this same Spirit throughout Existence … save for the necessary structure of the Lower Psychic Worlds for the purposes of form, manifestation, and experience. Let’s just say … the generic Divine Spirit is “watered down” a touch … but it still very much the same Divine Spirit to the extent that IT can be expressed here in the Lower Psychic Worlds as opposed to IT’s generic pure form in the Pure God Worlds. There is a distinct line at the “bottom” of the 5th Plane … the true Home of Soul … and the top of the 4th Plane … the Etheric realm.

Again … we have forever to walk the Path.

More Thursday.

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Tidbit …

No individual can retain and maintain ones old habits and patterns and expect any “new ways” to have any real expression.


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