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Considerations Sixty-Eight …
Divine Spirit vs Soul vs Spirit …
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There continues to be some wonderment about the “differences” between Spirit and Soul. I have offered more detailed information in Considerations 63 and 66 … Post no. 217 and 223 … but I will attempt to summarize here.
Admittedly … this is *not* widely taught. Whether you consider it … let alone accept it … perhaps believe it … and then build upon it … is decidedly up to you.
Much of the dilemma comes from the unawareness of the state or condition or the level of Divine Spirit. The position of Divine Spirit … ( I shudder using such words as position and condition and such … but … there are no good generic words for such facets of LIFE ) … is that unqualified Divine Spirit is just that … a purity … not yet designated into anything in particular … but ITs sole function ( if you will ) is to provide the *Life Force* and substance behind and of everything that exists … within all levels … save for the Core Center Creator that sets IT into motion.
The Core Center sets the generic Force into motion through exuding the initial Sound of LIFE. Divine Spirit then radiates out from the Center … setting IT-self up to be the life and substance of everything from the Center on out … or down … or however you wish to term it. There is no “brain” running this design of Divine Spirit. It is an unformed, all-inclusive, unfocused, un-differentiated Force … undesignated energy so to speak … but yet not quite that either … not energy as we know it in these Lower Psychic Worlds. IT is the foundation of consciousness … yet the various “states” or “levels” of consciousness have yet to be designed. This is a pure … undirected Force … simply put into Existence and Motion by the Core Creator Center.
In a sense … as an example … this would be like the initial issuance of electrical energy from a hydroelectric dam … or any major power plant that is set up to just put out energy. This electrical energy is doing nothing but leaving the power plant. There is no controlling distribution into designated areas as of yet … such as to city centers … house … lights … televisions … whatever. The generic energy is simply leaving the power plant. The same set-up is exemplified by Divine Spirit issuing from the Core Center.
Even at this very center existence … there is a “need” for an ability to begin to design or designate or specialize or refine Divine Spirit into … features. This … is the prime purpose and function of Soul. Soul … is the entity which can eventually learn to be consciously aware of Itself. Divine Spirit is not consciously aware of IT-self but is the Force behind it all … or “pre-specifically conscious” but is the Force behind it all.
Soul then … is the designator. Soul … as It grows … becomes aware of this ability and begins to design Its life and of everything around Its primary life. Soul … is conscious enough to learn of this ability. Soul … begins to be aware of what It is.
Yet Soul is certainly “made” out of this Divine Spirit but Soul has the added ability to become aware of Itself. They are the same in substance … if you will … but Soul has this added distinction.
If you consider Divine Spirit as an ocean … and you take a drop out of the ocean and give that drop the added ability to become aware that it is a single drop from the greater ocean and to continue to develop this awareness limitlessly as an animating principle of the Whole … that would be a close example.
Neither Divine Spirit nor Soul really have any “form.” In the Pure God Worlds … all is formless until one gets to the development … designed border … level where the negative element is created … which gives the negative aspect to the atom as we know it … which then gives rise to energy as we know it … which continues to be developed into forms, actions, and conditions.
Experience.
Spirit … as distinguished from Divine Spirit … is of a positive / negative state … so that it can be used to form the entire schoolroom of the Lower Psychic Worlds. This is all that most orthodox religions know of and teach. Mind is used to conjure up anything and everything to describe and deal with life here in the Lower Psychic Worlds … and this is NOT easy … the emotions give power to the mental thoughts … brought all together into the human condition … by which we eventually learn what we each must learn to become a knowing, responsible facet in creation.
Soul eventually learns that It lives in two existences … a lower and an upper … if you will … an energetic and at a pure Force level … learns to interact with both … learning what is appropriate and when … and as long as a physical presence / body is the vehicle of ones present lifetime … one cannot totally live in the Pure God Worlds even if that individual Soul can go there any time It wishes. There is a constant interaction between the two “levels” of Life or Existence … and learning when and how to do this is an advanced part of the schoolroom.
Soul cannot get into the Pure God Worlds by will power alone. It cannot simply “believe” It to be “there.” It cannot simply “demand” that It is there. There are distinguishing features and abilities learned by the individual Soul to be able to set foot … so to speak … into the Pure God Worlds. It is designed this way for a reason … and … this entire upper / lower / schoolroom has been designed as it is … because it works … and has … for beyond eternity.
One can accept all of this and begin to let it work for him / her … or not. That too … is part of the schoolroom and the training of Soul.
More Thursday.
On we go.
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Tidbit …
Those who “believe” tend to gather into groups for support. Those who seek beyond tend to be loners.
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