THE SOUL

The soul is a spark of divine fire, being the essence of God and expressing all of the divine attributes, qualities, and principles that were described in the first chapter. The soul is eternal, infinite, perfect, etc. Individual souls are formed out of the divine essence, are one with God, and can return and merge again with God by dissolving their individuality. The soul can express itself in an infinite number of ways. I will try to conceptualize and describe, in ways that we can relate to our experience, some of the vehicles and faculties of consciousness that the soul uses when it incarnates in the human form on earth.Perhaps one of the greatest exercises of its free will is when the soul decides to enter a physical body for the first time. The soul knows that to be born in an earthly body can be the beginning of a cycle of karma and reincarnation that may involve it for eons of time. Yet this involution offers the opportunity for the evolution of consciousness through the gaining of diverse experience.The soul is assisted in selecting a suitable body by "heavenly counselors" who are masters of consciousness in charge of facilitating the entry of souls into human forms, their departure at death, and their education in between death and birth as well as between birth and death. They could be thought of as angels of God, divine administration, or a karmic board.

by beck
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