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from Jesus:
When a soul makes right choices
and has positive experiences, the soul creates positive karma and positive
memories, which is what I referred to in the following saying, “But
lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust
doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal”
(Matthew 6:20).
The treasures you lay up in Heaven become part of your I AM Presence,
and therefore they will be used when your Presence designs another soul.
You see, the I AM Presence creates a soul in order to grow and become
more than it is. So it uses a soul’s positive experiences to learn
and develop its understanding of God's creation. So in a sense, it is
true that the soul’s experiences are not wasted.
Nevertheless, that should not be interpreted to mean that it doesn't
really matter whether a soul becomes an immortal spiritual being or
is erased through the second death. If that was the case, why would
we of the Ascended Host bother to stay with the Earth and help our unascended
brothers and sisters? We could simply go on with our own growth and
let unascended souls sink or swim.
We are seeking to help our unascended brothers and sisters because they
are precisely that—our brothers and sisters, and we love you with
an unconditional love. Therefore, we desire to see you make it all the
way home and become immortal spiritual beings as we are. Therefore,
we do feel sorrow and a sense of loss when a soul goes to the second
death. This is no different than when you lose a member of your earthly
family. Although our feelings are not exactly the same as human feelings,
we still do have feelings, and we would love to see every soul on Earth
become an immortal spiritual being through the ritual of the ascension.
Concerning the second part of the question, it is not difficult to explain
why the original souls chose to descend to planet Earth. Before the
Fall of Man, this planet was an incredibly beautiful and harmonious
platform for soul growth. The soul was born out of the desire of the
I AM Presence to become more than it was, and this desire is born out
of love, which is the very love that caused the Creator himself to create
this universe. There is nothing illusory about this, and it was not
the result of a temporary insanity. It was the result of the very force
that drives creation.
One might say that the gradual process that caused the soul to fall
into a lower state of consciousness, and therefore build a sense of
identity as being separated from the I AM Presence, was and is the result
of an illusion and a form of temporary insanity. One might also say
that souls are here on Earth – on the imperfect planet they have
helped create – in order to overcome that insanity and heal the
mistake.
So the I AM Presence did not create souls because it wanted to experience
the sense of separation. The soul was never created to be separated
from the I AM Presence; it was created to continually grow in awareness
until it attained the full God consciousness and saw itself as one with,
yet as an individualization of, the I AM Presence.
When God started the process of creation, there was nothing but God.
So God created everything out of his own substance and Being. Without
him was not anything made that was made. So in order to create anything
that had form, God had to take a part of his unlimited Being and "imprison"
it in a limited form. When God created self-conscious beings, he embedded
a part of his own Being and consciousness within them. That is why they
have the potentiual to self-transcend and attain full God-awareness.
Only in doing so, they do not simply merge back into the all and are
erased—as some religions claim. instead, they win full God awareness
as individual, God-free beings who have the same creative powers as
the God who created them. This is the ongoing chain of creation, and
I described in when I said, "Ye are Gods."
When the soul is in alignment
with its I AM Presence, it is not simply co-creating for the sake of
it. It is co-creating for the joy and the love of being a part of God’s
magnificent plan and expressing its individuality and creative abilities.
I can assure you that the true feeling of co-creation is the highest
form of what so many people call bliss, yet it is beyond what any human
being can experience as bliss.
I can understand that while people are burdened by their own past choices,
they might feel like it wasn't worth the risk. Yet as soon as you start
climbing the spiritual path and reconnect to your soul, you know with
absolute certainty that it was well worth the risk. Nothing ventured,
nothing gained. "The trek upward is always worth the inconvenience,"
as one of my beloved colleagues is fond of saying.
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