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from Jesus:
I understand that you have
difficulty with these concepts. As I said in my answer to the original
question, this is a complex topic that is difficult to explain to people
who are still in embodiment and therefore naturally tend to think in
linear terms. When you are in a physical body, you experience, through
that body, that you are separated from other physical bodies. This makes
it easy to reason that your soul is also separated from a larger whole.
As Kim will readily attest, he was well aware that there is much more
to be said about the soul than what was given in the answer to the previous
question, and he also realized it was difficult for him to grasp my
teachings on this topic. When answering a question, there is always
a fine line between giving too much teaching and giving too little teaching.
Because people are in such different states of consciousness, it is
virtually impossible to give a teaching that is optimal for everyone.
Let me explain a little further about the reality of the soul. The first
thing we need to clarify is that the word “soul” is often
used to describe more than one thing. I readily admit that on this website
and in the books I sometimes use the word soul in a way that is not
completely precise. The reason being that many people see the soul as
that part of their beings which inhabits the physical body but is beyond
the body. They do not recognize any individual parts of the soul.
If you want to be more precise, the term soul should be used only to
refer to that part of your being which descends into the material universe
and takes on a physical body. As explained in many places throughout
this website, there is more to your being than just the soul. The core
of your identity is your I AM Presence. This is where your unique individuality
as a spiritual being is anchored. You also have a Christ self which
serves as a mediator between your I AM Presence and your soul. So one
might say that the totality of your being includes your soul, your Christ
self and your I AM Presence. I would like to refer to the totality of
your being as your lifestream.
When your lifestream first came into being, it was created by your spiritual
parents. They created your I AM Presence which is a spiritual being
that allows you to experience and act in the higher vibrations of the
spiritual realm. Your I AM Presence is not something that is completely
separate from or independent of your spiritual parents. Your spiritual
parents literally created your I AM Presence out of their own beings.
Therefore, your I AM Presence has many of the characteristics of your
spiritual parents but in a unique combination that makes you an individual
lifestream.
As you grow on the spiritual path, it is important to contemplate that
your Presence is not separated from your spiritual parents. You exist
within their sphere of consciousness, and they exist within a larger
sphere. Ultimately all lifestreams exist within the sphere of the Atman.
In other words, a new lifestream is not separated from the Atman; it
exists within the Atman. When your lifestream was created, the Atman
literally became more through you. Therefore, God becomes more, God
transcends himself, when you are created and when you grow and transcend
yourself.
You are still a part of the greater whole of your spiritual parents,
who can trace their origin back to the Atman. In Vedic literature, the
Atman is called the universal soul. This is no longer the best term
in the Western world, where the soul has become known as that part of
you which inhabits the body. The Atman really is the universal presence
of God, which divided itself into two original lifestreams, the Father/Mother
God. These then divided themselves into others and so forth until you
had a multitude of lifestreams. You might say that these lifestreams
form a kind of pyramid that goes all the way back to the original presence
of God at the very top. However, the Presence of God encompasses the
totality of the pyramid, and it grows when new lifestreams are added
to the pyramid.
Your lifestream has free will and can decide that it wants to experience
the material universe and help co-create this world. Your I AM Presence
is made of energies that vibrate at such high frequencies that it cannot
descend into the material universe. So your Presence creates the soul
out of its own substance and being. In other words, your soul is not
technically created by your spiritual parents. Your soul was created
by your I AM Presence as a vehicle for descending into the material
universe.
As explained in my answer to the question on schizophrenia,
your soul is created with a crystalline structure of electronic energy.
I compared that structure to a metal cage. When your soul is created,
the structure is filled with energy, or soul substance. This energy
fills the structure so that there is no void in the structure. However,
this energy is not very dense or intense. When the soul descends into
a physical body, it has the opportunity to increase the density or intensity
within its structure. As you wisely use the energies that stream from
your I AM Presence, and as you learn from your experiences in the material
world, you strengthen the substance contained in the structure of your
soul. This makes your soul stronger and more impenetrable, so that it
is not as easily affected by the denser energies of the material universe.
Your soul literally becomes so filled with light that it becomes like
a sun that radiates light without taking in any lower energies.
Because of the unfortunate conditions currently found on planet Earth,
it is quite common that many souls fragment or divide before they have
a chance to grow strong enough to avoid losing some of their soul substance.
In my answer to the question on schizophrenia, I attempted to explain
this in a very basic manner by saying that when the soul experiences
trauma or shock, it can lose some of the soul substance contained in
the crystalline structure. If the soul fragments into smaller pieces,
this is all that happens. Some of the energy inside the soul is forced
out in many tiny fragments.
However, if the soul divides into two larger parts, the picture is a
bit more complex. What actually happens in this situation is that the
soul part that splits off has enough substance or mass that it takes
with it a replica of the crystalline structure of the soul. This does
not mean that the crystalline structure itself is broken up. It means
that a copy of the crystalline structure is created. You have no doubt
heard about the concept of a hologram, in which each part of the hologram
has a replica of the entire hologram. This is similar to what happens
when the soul divides. Each part of the soul has a replica of the crystalline
structure of the soul, only the structures of both parts have now become
weakened in their intensity.
So what you see now is that instead of one soul, you have two weaker
replicas. Yet because each replica still contains the entire crystalline
structure, it is possible that each of them can continue to gather enough
soul substance that they eventually can again become whole souls. Obviously,
these two soul parts still share the same I AM Presence.
You say that the two parts of the soul still contain the consciousness
and feelings of the original soul. This is not correct. The consciousness,
feelings and memories of the soul are contained or stored in the soul
substance inside the crystalline structure. When a part of the soul
splits off, it takes with it some of the soul’s consciousness,
feelings and even memories. This partly explains why some people cannot
remember a traumatic experience. The reason being that the memory of
the experience is stored in a soul part that split off. If that soul
part is returned, then the memory will return with it.
However, some soul memories, especially from past lives, are stored
in the I AM Presence (technically speaking the storage place of such
memories is sometimes called the Causal Body), and they can therefore
be accessed by both soul parts. You see, the connection to the I AM
Presence is maintained through the crystalline structure. That is why
smaller soul fragments have no such connection, and therefore they cannot
grow on their own. Such fragments must me rescued by the soul.
Let me comment on the following remark:
The Atman is an aspect of God, and it is God's nature to expand.
It is correct that the Atman
is an aspect of God, but so is your soul. Everything that was ever created,
everything that exists, is an aspect of God. It is God's nature to expand,
and therefore it is also the nature of each soul to expand. It is only
the fall into a lower state of consciousness that makes souls see themselves
as being separated from God. This is also the illusion that makes it
difficult for them to understand the true nature of the soul as being
part of a larger whole. As explained in The Inner Path of Light,
this sense of separation is anchored in the human ego, and to overcome
it, you must let go of the ego and unite with your Christ self, which
sees its connection to God.
When a soul first descends into the material universe, it is given certain
talents from the I AM Presence. This is the energy or substance that
fills the crystalline structure of the soul. As I tried to explain in
my parable about the talents, every soul is intended to multiply its
talents. As you keep multiplying the energy, you eventually fill the
crystalline structure of the soul to a critical level of intensity.
If you compare this to my discourse on the levels of spiritual
attainment, you might say that as a soul ascends to higher levels,
the underlying mechanism is that the crystalline structure of the soul
becomes filled with a higher intensity of spiritual energy. The structure
itself also becomes strengthened in this process, and this allows more
light from the Presence to flow through the soul.
The highest level of spiritual development that I describe is that of
a master. This represents a soul who actually radiates energy and therefore
is the open door between Heaven and Earth. This then relates to your
remark that an unascended soul does not divide when things are going
well. The simple fact is that when the soul has attained mastery, the
next logical step is that the soul transcends itself. As a result of
this self-transcendence, the soul can choose to create an extension
of itself. This can be done while the soul is still in a physical body
or after it ascends. The critical distinction here is not whether the
soul is ascended but whether the soul has attained spiritual mastery.
It is, however, by far the most common that souls do not divide themselves
until they have ascended.
Perhaps it would be helpful here to add the distinction that when the
soul divides of its own free will and as the result of spiritual mastery,
we should call it soul creation instead of soul division. We could then
say that soul creation is the result of a voluntary process based on
wholeness and mastery. The soul that is created is a whole soul, although
it does not have the intensity of energy of the original soul. Soul
division is an involuntary process that fragments the soul and creates
two wounded souls, meaning that they both have voids that make them
vulnerable to the invasion of lower energies.
Question: According
to the following teaching, a soul is always created by spiritual parents
and given by them an I AM Presence:
"When your spiritual parents created your lifestream,
they created your I AM Presence. This is the part of you that anchors
the unique individuality with which you were endowed by your spiritual
parents. It is called the I AM Presence because it anchors your individuality
and makes you who you are. It gives you the ability to say, "I
AM!"
How does this correlate with the teaching that a soul can be created
simply by dividing--in a kind of cloning process--out from an unascended
soul? How does the second soul experience the joy and love of having
been begotten by its twin flame parents?
Jesus: As
explained above, I am not here saying that your spiritual parents created
your soul. I am saying that they created your lifestream.
The image that the soul divides in a cloning process is not the best
image to use because cloning implies the creation of a carbon copy.
This is not the case. Even if the soul divides as the result of trauma,
each soul part will share the original crystalline structure, but they
will have different contents. Therefore, they are slightly different
to begin with. As they have different experiences in the material world,
they become even more different.
This is why I used the image of one cell growing and becoming a complete
human body. The cells that are created from the original cell have different
functions, and therefore they are not clones of the original cell. If
they were, the cells could not have the many different functions that
are necessary for a complete body.
Because each soul part has a replica of the crystalline structure, it
has a connection to the I AM Presence. The memories of the lifestream
being created by its spiritual parents are stored in the Presence and
can therefore be accessed by each soul part.
Question: According to the teachings through the Summit Lighthouse,
all souls are created out of the great ovoid with a counterpart of
opposite polarity. How does a soul that has separated out from another
soul acquire a twin flame in the process?
Jesus: As
I attempt to explain on this website, and especially in Save Yourself,
a spiritual teaching is always a reflection of the state of consciousness
of the people who are the recipients of that teaching. When a teaching
is released, we also consider the level of consciousness of humankind
as a whole. When the teaching about twin flames was released through
the Summit Lighthouse, it was determined that humankind was still so
deeply affected by a linear way of thinking that we could release only
a basic understanding of the concept of twin flames.
That is why we presented a very linear concept with a one-on-one relationship
between to twin flames and one I AM Presence. In reality, the picture
is more complex, or rather less linear. For example, it is quite possible
that one I AM Presence can create more than one set of twin flame souls.
A particular lifestream might choose to have many souls in embodiment
at the same time in order to accelerate its learning process or its
service to life. When you are in physical embodiment, this can be difficult
to fathom, but the I AM Presence does not have the mental limitations
of a soul in embodiment, and it has no problem working through multiple
souls at the same time.
Let us look at a scenario in which an I AM Presence creates a set of
twin flames that take embodiment on Earth. One of these souls holds
the masculine polarity, and the other holds the feminine polarity. Yet
each soul has both masculine and feminine qualities, and therefore each
soul has the potential to become complete in and of itself by attaining
spiritual mastery. The consequence is that one of the souls can ascend
before the other soul has attained mastery. In fact, it is possible
that one twin flame can go through the second death after its twin flame
has ascended.
Before it ascends, the soul is not yet permanent or immortal. That is
why an unascended soul can eventually run out of time and be erased
through the second death. Let us now imagine that to twin flames attain
mastery and ascend back to God. These souls will naturally follow their
divine nature and expand or self-transcend. They can therefore create
a new lifestream, a new I AM Presence, out of their own substance and
being. This new Presence can then create one or several souls that descend
to the material universe.
Now let us imagine that one of the embodied twin flame souls is divided
through trauma. When a soul is still unascended and is divided through
an involuntary process, a new soul is not created. The soul is divided,
and because both soul parts contain a replica of the crystalline structure
of the original soul, there is no need for a new I AM Presence. In other
words, the soul part that splits off does not acquire a new I AM Presence;
it is still tied to the original Presence. Likewise, the soul part is
still tied to the same twin flame. I realize this runs contrary to a
linear view of twin flames, yet I must, once again, emphasize that reality
is spherical and not linear.
Because each soul part contains a replica of the crystalline structure,
it is possible that each part can eventually acquire enough soul substance
that it becomes whole and attains mastery. It is therefore possible
that the two soul parts can ascend separately or that one soul part
ascends and the other continues to reembody. However, the most common
scenario is that as one soul part attains mastery, it will attract the
other soul part to it and the two parts will then become integrated
into a whole soul.
The next logical question is what happens if two soul parts continue
to evolve separately and ascend as whole souls. In that case, you have
two ascended souls that share the same I AM Presence. Even though the
souls share the same crystalline structure, they have had different
experiences in the world, and therefore the soul substance within the
structure is different for each soul. After the souls ascend, there
are several possible scenarios. One scenario is that one or both souls
can merge completely with the Presence and give up a separate sense
of identity. The souls can also merge into one soul. Another scenario
is that the souls can maintain a separate sense of identity.
To understand this, you might need to contemplate that it is only the
human ego that gives a soul the sense of being separated from the I
AM Presence. As the soul attains mastery, it lets go of the ego and
the ego finally dies. When the soul ascends, it literally becomes one
with the I AM Presence, but it can choose to maintain the sense of identity
that was built during its many lifetimes in the material universe. One
might say that the ascended soul becomes a separate I AM Presence -
a separate sense of identity - within the original I AM Presence. This
explains why some ascended masters can appear to people as separate
masters, even though they are actually part of the same larger whole.
There is a threshold between the material world and the spiritual world.
While you are below that threshold, you think in linear terms and see
everything in terms of separation. As you rise above that threshold,
the sense of separation fades away, and the linear way of thinking goes
with it. Instead, you now think spherically, and you see that even though
there are many individual lifestreams, they are all connected in the
grand web of life. I and my Father are one, I and my Mother are one.
Obviously, there is more to be said about this topic, and it will come
forth as people make themselves ready by stretching their minds with
the new concepts.
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