Posted by psychicpatsy1
at 05:54 PM on June 10, 2008
What is the reason for earthly life?
Are we freak effects of natural causes? Or has a Master Architect designed a plan for His creation?
Is there a blueprint for each one of us to seek out, unfold and build, be it falsely or truly?
The object of all earthly existence is that the human spirit is to be quickened.
Earthly life has a purpose for all who dwell on your planet. It is sad
that there are millions who are unaware of the spiritual reality on
which their lives are based. Like troglodytes they live in a spiritual
gloom that is almost a vacuum.
Their perspective is wrong; their focus is wrong; their vision is
wrong. They have no idea of the vast richness that life has to offer
them. Once you are aware of spiritual truths you are transformed
because you know what it is you must achieve.
We are all human beings. Thus we have the flaws of imperfection within
us. If we were perfect, we would not be in your world or in ours. We
would have joined the Great Spirit, the only perfect power in the
universe.
We recognize the frailties of human nature. But you must regard every
problem as a challenge not only to be met and accepted, but to be
overcome so that the indwelling spirit, as a result, is more fortified,
grows, develops, unfolds, and you emerge stronger.
It is not possible for you who dwell in earthly surroundings not to be
confronted with heights and depths and the ups and downs of the varying
circumstances which pertain to your world.
It is why you are placed there so that you can, because of the variety
of circumstance, enable your spirit, the eternal you, to be able to
express latent qualities that can be manifested only when confronted
with difficulty and adversity.
It is not when the sun shines that the soul finds itself. It is not in
a bed of roses that the soul comes into its own. It is in the hazards
and challenges, the difficulties, the hurdles and the obstacles. These
provide the only means by which the soul can realize its latent
divinity.
This is the story of every pilgrim on the road to spiritual knowledge.
There has to be heartbreak, sorrow and suffering to appreciate fully
the compensations that will follow. The individuals who will give
service must be tried and tested, sometimes to their uttermost strength.
There is a plan for every child of the Great Spirit. Everything
operates according to natural law which knows nothing of miracles or
necessity for intervention. The natural law is perfect because it is
conceived by a perfect mind.
There are no exceptions to the natural law, which makes provisions for
all that exists, not only in the universe but even in the immeasurable
cosmos. Wherever you look, the natural law operates. Nothing is too
small to be ignored, and nothing too large to be outside the framework
of how the natural law operates. And it operates for you, as it does
for me and for everybody.
So you know that action and reaction are equal and opposite. You know
that you have to plumb the depths before you reach the heights. And you
know that you have plumbed the depths, but have not reached the
heights. That is why you have doubts about surviving.
But you will survive. I do not mean permanently in your world, because
immortality is not part of earthly existence. Everything material has a
period placed on it when it must finish its task. It must dissolve,
disintegrate and be resolved into the original constituents that made
its existence possible.
Your body will follow that pattern as part of a preordained course, but
you will survive because you have no alternative, because surviving is
part of the natural law.
In some religions they teach that there is survival for those who
believe in certain doctrines and creeds. But survival has nothing to do
with religion or with human beliefs, aspirations and hopes. Survival is
an inflexible law, automatic in its operation.
You will survive because the spirit comes to earth to develop, to grow,
to unfold and to prepare itself for its real home, not the transitory
abode which earth provides. You will come home where you began, and
continue to live after having left what earth has to offer, so that you
can play your part in the great universal scheme.
Every child of the Great Spirit has a part to play in the infinite
scheme. There will be difficulties, but these are the challenges that
have to be met, accepted and triumphed over. Handicaps and obstacles
are all part of the necessary preparation for an evolving, developing
spiritual nature.
Yours is a very dense, material world where the vibrations are heavy,
slow, sluggish, ponderous. The vibrations of the spirit are delicate,
sensitive, subtle, and to be expressed there has to be a catalyst for
the individual.
You will not find spiritual truths when the sun is shining, if you are
surrounded by riches, and wealth and possessions. You will not find
spiritual truths when you have no problems. The catalyst will work only
when you are in trouble.
A storm can often do more to help you to unfold spiritually than the
sun. It is in the fire that the steel is forged. It is in the crushing
process that the gold is refined and purified to emerge in all its
glistening colour. And it is similarly for the human spirit to be tried
and tested again and again, before it can emerge with a greater
divinity being expressed then had happened before.
The gold is there, but the ore has to be crushed before the purity of
the metal can be made visible. The steel has to be forged in the
crucible of fire. And so it is with all of you.
You would not be interested in the things of the spirit, which are your
eternal possessions, the only enduring and abiding realities, until you
are ready to receive them. So you have to be tried and tested, just as
the steel has to be tried and tested.
You have to suffer. You have to endure privation, perhaps ill-health,
some crisis that will touch your soul, that spark of the divine, and
begin to fan it into a beauteous flame. There is no other way. It is
only in the darkness that you will find the light, only in ignorance
that you will gain knowledge. Life must be a polarity, or if you like a
duality, in which it is said action and reaction are equal and opposite.
The soul cannot come into its own until it is touched. This usually
means when it seems to the individual there is no hope in this world,
no light, no guidance to be found. The abyss of despair has been
reached, the fear that he or she will be plunged into the depths and
not recover. It is at that moment that the soul can be awakened.
Thus we in our world have to wait patiently until your soul is ready.
You say in your world that you may lead a horse to water, but you
cannot make it drink. You have to be ready.
I have had a longer experience than all of you. It gives me a greater
appreciation of the perfection of the natural laws that encompass us
all and ensure that provision is made for everyone.
I am puzzled sometimes when I visit my friends on earth who have
knowledge, and I see them worried and anxious. The knowledge is their
foundation which should assure them that no harm or injury can befall
their eternal spirit. Those with knowledge should be living in the
light and never fear what the morrow will bring.
There is nothing in your world that you need worry about. You have
within you the armory of the spirit, the divine potential which you
can utilize to help in any emergency or crisis that comes your way.
There is no problem you cannot solve by calling on the power that is
within you and by appealing to the power that is without you.