Soul is the essence of one’s Self. It has never ceased to exist. It is both masculine-active, feminine-receptive, and completely neutral. It can support several lifetimes at the same time because it is inquisitive and a seeker, but not yet willing to lend itself into participation with anything except the ideal situation. As such it is the silent watcher of one’s lives. It never interferes, but watches with scientific scrutiny the successes and failures of its experiments and takes notes. It is the eternal Alchemist with eternity and infinity on its hands.
Much of its scientific concern is how it is related to by sentient beings. Soul is composed of consciousness. Its concern, therefore, is in consciousness. Consciousness is the process by which one can extend into an event and therein have an experience of that event. The event is intriguing to Soul. The event reduces eternity and infinity into the moment. Soul recognizes the moment as a ground upon which to consolidate its expansiveness into something finite, thus giving it ground upon which to experience something in numerous ways instead of only one way. This is how Soul Feeds. It feeds through a process of consciousness becoming experience of an event.
It does this through the principles of extension and intention. In the process of extending and intending itself into images, it loses a part of itself. In extension, it projects its consciousness into an image from its formless realm of eternity and infinity. By intention, it transforms that image composed of the stuff of imagination into something concrete. The Alchemical elements of air, fire, earth, and water, of which all images are composed, eventually settle into the normal fabric of reality-illusion that makes up the mundane world by these two processes.
In the process of extension Soul, progressively limits itself so that it can fit its eternity and infinity into a moment. It does this by creating considerations. Each consideration it creates is a limited way an experience can be perceived much in alignment with its scientific method. From it own vantage point in eternity and infinity it can see or form an image as a speck of dust in a great desert. Upon further examination, it perceives that this image is unique and offers different possibilities and opportunities of experience. Thus a spiritual body is created in this first extension. Noticing the uniqueness, Soul intends significance to the image, and thereupon, forms a bridge upon which to participate in it. Upon further examination, Soul notices that the image is predisposed to certain laws of cause and effect, and can be manipulated in different ways from the inside and outside of the image. Thus the creation of an etheric body. Soul notices that it feels certain ways as a result of being the cause and the effect. Thus the creation of an emotional body. It forms opinions of the quality and quantity of these feelings and sensations. Thus the creation of a mental body. It stores away these sensations and opinions for future use. Thus the creation of a subconscious. It notices that within the image there are crossovers of energy going between the internal world of the personal and the impersonal world of the external. Thus the creation of a vibrational or intuitive body. It limits its attention to one experience at a time in order to fully understand and savor the event at hand without interference in a very personal way. Thus the creation of an ego. As a result of experience, Soul develops a like or dislike for certain
experiences and would thus seek to limit the intensity or intensify them. Thus the creation of the ego defense mechanisms.
When this is all concretely formed, Soul takes on a particular identity in terms of all the limitations it has placed upon itself to fully experience consciousness in a particular way. Thus the creation of an astral body. Whereas, the etheric body is the yin-amalgam of all the other
bodies or what is an ethereal contraction of the psychic structure, the astral body is the yang- amalgam into a physical expansion of the psychic structure. It is a composite body through which the other singular bodies operate and can express themselves in a functional way. When this composite body is contracted it is an astral body, and when it is expanded it is an etheric body. This is so that Soul can delineate the different levels without changing its totality or entering into one of the particular bodies of consideration.
In the devising of all these bodies, each body takes upon itself a particular dimension peculiar to itself. These dimensions incorporate all the structures, facilities, and considerations that maintain that particular body plus any peculiarities it takes upon itself in its particular realm for its own comfort and recreation. Each plane incorporates the inventiveness of Soul with the consequence of its creation. Soul invents and utilizes the Devas to maintain and facilitate each body upon its own personal disposition while it is both aware and unaware of their activities in doing so. Thus Soul allows the Devas free disposition to maintain and facilitate each body within certain pre-defined limitations so that it can lend to its work in experience and not worry about the mechanics of the operation.
This entire operation is structured in the formless universe of eternity and infinity within the storm of the Unconditional and is still there. What one is experiencing at this moment is one such creation in that storm. That storm is filled with such creations.
When creating a physical body, Soul must create new considerations. In the astral and etheric worlds, experience is personal. Even the experience of other Souls can become
temporarily personal. The astral and etheric dimensions are Soul’s sensory realms. Experiences can be recorded and shared. So if you are a male and wanted to experience being a female, you could mold that experience out of astral-etheric substance on a temporary basis.
The bridge to the creation of a physical body is in the addition of impersonality. Soul chooses an experience in which to indulge to the exclusion of other beings. This is the creation of individuality. Individuality is formed as an experiment so that an event can be experienced in a unique way yet still have room to move and grow. Each individual is a unique way of
experiencing an event. Individuality is created upon the principle of the privacy of experience. Though it is personal, it is also impersonal. One experiences the event in a particular way to the exclusion of others. This exclusiveness of experience fosters a gulf between beings. Personal space is created. The factor of exclusion that isolates one individual’s experience from another also changes the substance of reality-illusion from the substance of image to the substance of particular objects. This is the energy that maintains and facilitates experience in the physical world. The only problem is that at this point Soul is forgotten.
On the etheric-astral planes, objects are symbols. They have a universal significance to all that experience them. In the physical world symbols are objects. They can become symbols again when one implants arbitrary significance or discovers the original meaning. Thus, in the physical world, there is no particular value or meaning to anything until the individual places value or meaning there. Then the same object can be used again and again to derive a similar experience in accordance to the disposition of that individual.
The individual has a tendency to collect symbols and also collects the memories associated with the experience of these symbols. Although they are only memories on the physical plane, on the etheric-astral planes, they are actual experiences that have lost none of their impact or primacy. Symbols become symbols rather than merely objects because there is a stronger and more extreme reaction to them. Objects that one is neutral to may have significance on the etheric-astral planes, but in the realm of personal space, one has no relation with it until
some significance is ascribed to it. How one associates objects into symbols is by associating its existence with some extreme sensation. The extremes of sensation that are universally
understood by sentient beings in the unique way of personal space are pleasure and pain. When an object becomes associated with pleasure or pain, it becomes significant to the individual and invites further examination. If an object increasingly causes a pleasurable sensation, the
individual will welcome it as valuable and use it in that association. When an object increasingly causes painful sensation, the individual will reject its use and stamp it with an undesirable label limiting association. When an object causes both pleasurable and painful sensation, the
individual develops a dilemma. Thus objects and events can cause states of value, fear, and confusion.
The problem with the privacy of personal space is that the content of objects and events can no longer be controlled. On the etheric-astral plane, all objects and events have significant symbolic value, and whether they are positive or negative, pleasurable or painful, they lead to some sort of meaningful experience. In the physical, all one notices is the surface experience of pleasure and/or pain. The symbolic significance of essential nature is lost in the analysis of basic causes and effects when considering it in terms of pleasure and pain.
The Warrior’s inventory does not make pleasure and pain the primary consideration in its analysis of causes and effects. The Warrior considers strength and weakness as primary in the analysis of basic needs. Thus there is room to examine objects and events beyond the mere sensation of pleasure and pain. This brings the Warrior out of the physical world of perception and into the etheric-astral point of view. The etheric-astral dimension is the mid-point of
experience, for as it is still absorbed in understanding the cause and effect of sensation, it is also concerned with the cause and effect of specific molecular structures upon the Will. Will becomes the central issue rather than pleasure and pain. Also, rather than perceiving one object or event as significant, perception shifts to the relation of objects and events. In these chains, one can see the Big Picture. You see the Formless-Form from which all forms come from and have their
existence in. This in Alchemy is called Ether. Ether is the environment of substance and contains the substance that different substances have in common. Out of Ether, all objects, events and the vehicles through which they are perceived, are made and have their being. It is truly a marvelous experience to behold the shift of ascending and descending orders of substance from one to the other going from the potential of the Formless-Form and eventually becoming flesh.
The whole process has been for Soul to reconcile objects of perception in different ways; first, as an innocent, in its own creation learning about its abilities of extension and intention, then, focusing upon sensory cause and effect to learn the fundamentals of experience, and by growing in this process, focusing upon the functional utilization of the environment to acquire power in order to return to the Source of Creation as a Master and perceiver of its own grand plan in the Big Picture. The whole point has been to transform Soul from an amorphous, unknowing spark into an individualized, knowing flame.
For all the souls that have gone through this process there are still unmanifested Souls whose only purpose is to supply the shape and form of manifested reality although being dormant-in-themselves. The material of the substance of images are these unmanifested Souls. This is why the laws of imagination work. Even so, when one of these unmanifested Souls begins the process of consciousness, it is born out of the realm of time and space in the realm of eternity and infinity, and thus can begin its sojourn at any point of reference. Past and future are meaningless concepts until one becomes involved in the processes of time and space, extension and intention.
Images from the Source of Creation eventually become physical matter. That is the whole purpose of creation. The differences in substance are merely unmanifested, unconscious Souls identifying with one of the four elements: air, fire, earth and water. It is these unmanifested Souls utilized by manifested Souls through the Deva kingdom that create the various kingdoms you know as the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms. Manifested Souls hold a very important position in the Universes upon Universes. With that conscious creative potential they unify all the kingdoms. Their spirit extends and intends from the Source of Creation to the point of final physical manifestation.
So every time you get down on yourself and are depressed, you are not seeing the Big Picture. This is a result of associating the objects of perception with pleasure and pain. You have every right to get depressed, diseased, distressed and to die, but you only have yourself to blame. You have come to the realm of the Test of Power as the blind Buddha, the heartless Christ, the impotent Wizard, and the Wounded Warrior surrounded by others of like ilk. What you hate or love most about them is what you hate or love most about yourself. It is in the identity of Self that you most naturally identify objects and events. They may seem different but you cannot escape the role as creator and mirror of the world.
The difference between manifested and unmanifested Soul is Will and initiation. The bequeathal of Will upon anything is the initiation that transforms Soul from its unmanifested state to its manifested state. The bequeathal of Will transforms the spark into the flame. Initiation is the beginning. The spark is allowed to ignite and catch on to some object or event just as a spark ignites wood turning it to fire. This fire must be fed. The purpose of the fire is to continually and constantly reassemble the instance in which the spark turns into a flame. The flame develops a voracious appetite for the creation of experience creating a fire that leaves ashes and smoke.
The point at which Will is bequeathed is never really known until its rediscovers it beginning beyond time and space in the realm of eternity and infinity. This is called Adi Karma or the first cause and effect. All that is really known is that in the process of reassembling the instance of Will, one creates Self, or who one is. This can eventually lead one back to the experience of the first cause and effect.
The flame that is not fed eventually consumes itself and returns to being just short of a spark. The very nature of returning to the sparkedness of oneself can feed the fire in ways no particular object or event can, but the whole idea is to return to the Source of Creation as a regenerating force, not a degenerating force. Most return in this degenerating force, but with enough regenerative force to make the trip worthwhile it is possible to rejuvenate. This is a new beginning, this is the initiation. Thus the individual is the only perpetual motion machine. You are essentially Self-initiating once the spark becomes the flame and you can solve the riddle of your own fire.
The problem comes when one forgets this process or sets up defense mechanisms towards it, and becomes stagnant as a result. Then the individual can be awakened by someone who is awake in the process. What you are learning in this New Age is basically initiatory since it is trying to awaken that process. By studying and applying the principles in one’s life
experience, one can go through various mini-initiations, but when events begin to fit together and principles align with Will and they work in phenomenal ways, then one is on the threshold of a significant initiation by the effects of your own causality. You may meet someone on the physical or astral dimensions who will complete the chains of causes and effects you have created. What is revealed at the time of initiation is how you are self-initiating in a particular
way. Then if one practices what is revealed at the time of initiation, one can expect greater experience, understanding, and regeneration.
The concentration could be on a particular part of the initiation or upon the whole. It is also possible that the individual who underwent the initiation could dismiss or forget the experience. Then one just goes back to the usual state of affairs temporarily until the remembrance is rekindled and practiced. Thus, one could have had initiations in previous lifetimes and as a part of the transition through the Dead Zone, forget what took place.
Eventually, the initiate will reassemble the information in bits and pieces or in sudden bursts of illumination. Whatever degree one reaches is never really lost or gone.
Initiations have always been a test of life and death situations. In the Native American tradition the Warrior, after ceremonial cleansing, will subject oneself to poisonous snakes or being hung from ropes attached to bear claws through the chest. This will release the Warrior out of the body where information important to the initiate is revealed by Spirit Teachers and
Ancestors. Usually the information is in visions pertaining to the future or vocation, or it is a time when powers are passed on. If there is success, the initiate faces the test of getting back into the physical body. The real test is whether the initiate can transmute the snake venom or
withstand the intense pain and return to the physical body where the visions must be fulfilled. In ancient Atlantis, the final initiation would be to seal the initiate into a crystal
sarcophagus with only a sample of cellular material outside. The test was to see whether or not the initiate would be able to reassemble the physical organism by creating another physical body from the cellular material outside the sarcophagus. If the initiate failed, then the only solution would be to try in another lifetime. If the initiate succeeded, then mastery over the forces of life and death, consciousness and unconsciousness was demonstrated and the initiate became the Master. Whichever occurred, the residual energy of the encased initiate’s physical body would