Post by WalksInSpirit on Dec 3, 2007 22:38:59 GMT -5
No Soul Left Behind: 12-03-07
(09:00:43) (@autogreeter) Good Evening. The Red Path Chat Room welcomes you to No Soul Left Behind Study, Hosted By GG (Lory).
(09:19:33) (@host-GG) We will finish up Chapter XIV tonight. I shall start with the last Q and A from last week, so as not to lose the continuity.
(09:19:57) (@blubearwoman) OK Lory
(09:20:33) (@host-GG) Q: Everyone's personality is different, some more rebellious or willful than others ~~ is this an expression of the soul?
(09:21:00) (@host-GG) A: "Personality is what you wish others to think and see. Individuality is what your soul prays, your soul hopes for, desires. 5246-1 The individuality is that with which you live yourself, your inner self.
(09:21:56) (@host-GG) Q: That's a fascinating distinction, that our individuality comes from our soul. What determines whether the soul makes any progress?
(09:22:43) (@host-GG) A: "Know that it is this will ~~ the birthright of each soul ~~ that makes for growth or retardment in any given experience or activity." 1992-1
(09:23:41) (@host-GG) Q: But exercising this birthright is often considered rebellion ~~ rebellion against parents initially, or social customs, civil authority, and even against religious teachings. Why is that?
(09:25:10) (@host-GG) A: "As soon as man contemplates his free will he thinks of it as a means of doing the opposite of God's will, although he finds that only by doing God's will does he find happiness. Yet the notion of serving doesn't sit well with him, for he sees it as a sacrifice of his will.
(09:25:41) (@host-GG) Only in disillusion and suffering, in time, space, and patience, does he come to the wisdom that his real will is the will of God, and its practice is happiness and Heaven." 2537-1
(09:26:00) (@host-GG) Q: So you believe that sooner or later we all learn this lesson and get right with God?
(09:26:31) (@host-GG) A: "Can the will of man continue to defy its Maker?" 826-8
(09:27:24) (@host-GG) Q: It sounds like most of us are capable of such defiance, some of us for a lifetime. What happens when we see the light?
(09:27:53) (@host-GG) A: "The soul, then, must return ~~ Will return ~~ to its Maker. It is a portion of the Creative Forces, which is energized into activity even in materiality, in the flesh." 272-9
(09:28:19) (@host-GG) Q: So, we really have no choice?
(09:28:42) (@host-GG) A: "God Himself knows not what man will decide to do with himself . . . He has given man free will. Man destines the body." 262-82
(09:29:13) (@host-GG) Q: And yet you say it is the destiny of each of us ultimately to become one with God?
(09:29:34) (@host-GG) A: "Unless the entity wills its [own] banishment." 900-20
(09:30:01) (@host-GG) Q: Banishment is a scary word. And some Christians are scared to death that they might be banished or denied union with God. They have been taught that only a privileged few will ascent to a heavenly reward, and all others will be left behind at the end of time, to face destruction in the apocalypse.
(09:30:23) (@host-GG) You come from a fundamentalist Christian background, and you read the Bible every day, so what is your opinion of this belief?
(09:30:57) (@host-GG) A: "God has not willed that any soul should perish. 900-20 When opportunities are presented, it is the entity's own will force that must be exercised . . . Hence, as for the entity's fulfilling its destiny, it is ever on the road." 903-23
(09:31:22) (@host-GG) Q: So none of us needs to worry about being left behind, as some preachers claim?
(09:31:47) (@host-GG) Does anyone have a guess as to what this answer will be?
(09:32:31) (@host-GG) A: "God has not willed that any soul should perish but has with every temptation, with every condition prepared an association, an activity, a manner, a way for the regeneration of those influences or forces that may cause the overcoming of fear or any of those things that would separate a soul from the Creative Forces." 1646-1
(09:32:34) (maybelle) no souls left behind??
(09:33:04) (@host-GG) In short maybelle. That is correct.
(09:33:22) (@blubearwoman) I don't believe, I know we will all go home
(09:33:25) (@host-GG) Q: You mean there is always a chance for us to redeem ourselves no matter what condition we have created in our rebellion?
(09:34:06) (@host-GG) A: "With each condition that has arisen within the experience of the soul [He has] prepared a way, and these are a constant change being wrought. Not that through activities ~~ of course, the time and the place and the position ~~ but it is ever the choice of the individual.
(09:34:28) (@host-GG) It is that which makes or is the godly force within an individual, or an entity or a soul, that makes it seek its level. 1602-3 Each soul is destined to become a portion of the First Cause, or back to its Maker." 987-2
(09:35:04) (@host-GG) Q: How can we assure people that they will not be left behind?
(09:35:25) (@host-GG) A: "In your activities, then, make the way known that the Christ loves every soul ~~ and wills that none shall be lost." 281-19
(09:35:57) (@host-GG) Q: Since the soul of each individual is part of the One Soul, the Great Soul, or what Ralph Waldo Emerson called the "Over-soul", what is meant by the phrase "a soul lesson", as if the soul instead of being our guide and destiny, needs to learn some lessons?
(09:36:32) (@host-GG) A: "If the soul were at all periods, all manifestations, to keep in that perfect accord, or law, with the "Over-soul", or the First Cause, or the Soul from which it comes, then there would be only a continuous at-onement with the First Cause.
(09:37:07) (@host-GG) But when an entity, a soul, uses a period of manifestation ~~ in whatever realm of consciousness ~~ to its own indulgencies, then there is need for the lesson, or for the soul understanding or interpreting, or to become aware of the error of its way." 815-7
(09:37:43) (@host-GG) Q: In one of your readings, you said that a client (815) was selfish in his relations with a woman (2700). What did you advise him?
(09:38:07) (@host-GG) A: "In your own experiences in the earth, in relationships with this entity, you possessed the body without regard to the unfoldment of the soul of this entity, in its relationships to the First Cause.
(09:38:38) (@host-GG) Now: The lesson is, though in the mind, there are the needs for encouragement, love, the associations for the better activity of the body. Are these to be in mind or in reality, reality meaning soul? Hence a lesson becomes necessary." 815-7
(09:39:13) (@host-GG) Q: Could he redeem himself?
(09:39:56) (@host-GG) A: "As to whether it is to be rectified in this present experience depends upon choices taken in relationships to mental and material activities. As is oft expressed, the spirit is willing, the motivating force of a soul-entity is willing, but the body, ego, mind, the impelling force to or through which consciousness arises and makes the entity aware through the emotions of mind and body, has its lesson to gain." 815-7
(09:40:43) (@host-GG) Are there any comments or questions?
(09:40:53) (@blubearwoman) no
(09:41:49) (@host-GG) Q: Many people are preoccupied with themselves or with their own concerns. Is this wrong?
(09:42:24) (@host-GG) A: "Self-glory, self-exaltation, self-indulgence or influences that become abominations to the divinity in each soul, and separate them from a knowledge of Him. For you are persuaded, for you know from your experience, nothing may separate the soul of man from its Maker but desires and lusts!" 1293-1
(09:42:50) (@host-GG) Q: How do we decide what is selfish and what is appropriate self-concern?
(09:43:20) (@host-GG) A: "[When] the entity allows self to be drawn away from the first principles; so that it is self that wants to do something! This rather indicates the selfish nature, that is innate in an entity."
(09:43:49) (@host-GG) "While each soul, each associate, each acquaintance is an obligation, a duty ~~ all of these must cooperate, unless it cooperates, coordinates each portion with the other, there is not the well-rounded, the well balance individual nor the better and the bet reactions from same . . ."
(09:44:24) (@host-GG) "The spirit is the life. Then each phase of the experience of the entity must be of the spiritual import in its very nature, if it is to live, to be the fulfilling of its purpose ~~ to bring peace and harmony, for which purpose it is in existence!
(09:44:53) (@host-GG) It must be constructive in the very nature and the very desires, without thought of self being the one glorified in or my same! Rather the glory is to the influence or force what prompts same!"
(09:45:36) (@host-GG) "If even filial or martial or soul love seeks the exalting of self, then it is not fulfilling its purpose from the spiritual import. God is love! The influence or force that motivates the life of each soul is love!
(09:46:22) (@host-GG) But it may be love of self, of fame, of fortune, of glory, of beauty, or of self-indulgence, self-aggrandizement, or the satisfaction to the ego! These are the conditions [or choices one makes] that must be in every phase of the experience analyzed . . ."
(09:46:47) (@host-GG) "Thus, whether it brings material hardships, material problems or not, such an ideal is to be held to; and the problems will be dissipated by the very influence and force of the love and the desire that is purposeful but selfless in its nature, in its activity!"
(09:47:13) (@host-GG) "And when this is applied, when this is done, when the activities are in that direction, we will find the channels for the abilities ~~ the connections, the associations ~~ will be as it were creative in themselves.
(09:47:56) (@host-GG) Not as show, but rather as what there may be the magnifying of brotherly love and hope and promise and faith in a creative force and influence!" 1579-1
(09:48:27) (@host-GG) Q: But we are born pretty self-centered creatures, perhaps necessarily so as a matter of self-preservation. But how do we transform ourselves from self-centered to God-centered souls?
(09:48:57) (@host-GG) A: "We grow [gradually] in grace, in knowledge, [and] in understanding." 349-12
(09:49:14) (@blubearwoman) line upon line
(09:49:33) (@host-GG) Q: Are we condemned or doomed by d**nation or destruction if we don't grow to Heaven by the time we die?
(09:49:59) (@host-GG) Yes, Blu, day by day!
(09:50:10) (merlin22) that's why reincarnation
(09:50:19) (@ron1) The devil starts to play his fiddle...:)
(09:50:26) (@host-GG) A: "The Father has not willed that any soul should perish, and is mindful that each soul has again ~~ and yet again ~~ the opportunity for making its paths straight." 2021-1
(09:51:01) (@host-GG) Merlin is correct as you can see, and yet again the opportunity for making its paths straight.
(09:51:22) (@host-GG) Q: What happens to the soul if it fails to show the requisite development at the end of the life cycle?
(09:51:46) (@host-GG) A: "It reincarnates, that it may have the opportunity [to improve]. 126-8 The soul is not lost; the individuality of the soul that separated itself [from God] is lost. The reincarnation or the opportunities are continuous until the soul has of itself become an entity in its whole." 826-8
(09:52:23) (@host-GG) Q: If we live only one lifetime, does that mean we were really good in God's eyes?
(09:52:35) (@host-GG) Anyone with an answer?
(09:52:43) (@blubearwoman) LOL
(09:52:49) (@blubearwoman) I would like to meet that person!
(09:52:58) (@host-GG) Me too, Blu.
(09:53:07) (merlin22) jesus the man , christ the pattern
(09:53:17) (@blubearwoman) and he did in 33
(09:53:33) (@host-GG) A: "To find that you only lived [once], died, and were buried under the cherry tree . . . does not make you one whit better than neighbor, citizen, mother, or father. But to know you spoke unkindly and suffered for it, and in the present [life] may correct it by being righteous, that is worth while." 5753-2
(09:54:15) (@host-GG) Q: How often do we reincarnate before we achieve perfection?
(09:54:38) (@host-GG) A: "Perfection is not possible in a material body until you have at least entered some thirty times." 2982-2
(09:54:42) (merlin22) as long as it takes
(09:55:04) (merlin22) to become perfect in his eyes
(09:55:13) (@host-GG) Q: Is all of our soul growth dependent upon what we learn or how we behave toward others on earth, or does the soul develop in the afterlife as well?
(09:55:43) (@host-GG) A: "Often the longer the periods between the earthly sojourns the greater has been ~~ or may be ~~ the development of the soul entity to that which each soul is to attain through its appearances [on earth]." 486-1
(09:56:09) (@host-GG) (Footnote: An extended time gap between incarnations usually gives the soul an opportunity to mature before entering another incarnation on earth.)
(09:56:41) (@host-GG) Q: When we return for another life on earth, you say we may change gender or race?
(09:57:00) (@host-GG) A: "At times." 36-27
(09:57:18) (@host-GG) "This depends upon that experience necessary for the completion, for the building up of the purposes for which each and every soul manifests in the material experience . . . The experiences of a soul entity in materiality . . . are as lessons or studies in that particular phase of the entity's soul development." 294-189
(09:57:48) (@host-GG) Q: Some people have strong differences about when the mother's fertilized egg becomes a baby, a new human being. When does the soul enter the body of the child, at conception, or at birth, or when?
(09:58:07) (@host-GG) Anyone with an educated guess?
(09:58:13) (@blubearwoman) gradually
(09:58:17) (@ron1) breath
(09:58:19) (@blubearwoman) as the soul wills
(09:58:36) (@blubearwoman) and not completely till 21 years of age
(09:58:54) (@host-GG) A: "It may be at the first moment of breath [after the baby is delivered]; it may [be] some hours before birth; or many hours after birth." 457-10
(09:58:58) (merri) as much as 3 months after birth in some cases, I think
(09:59:28) (@cris7) I think some babies try to make up their minds for the first year
(09:59:30) (@host-GG) Q: In other words, it does not happen at the moment of conception. What keeps the baby living until the soul enters?
(10:00:08) (@host-GG) A: "Spirit! For, the spirit of matter ~~ its source if life, of God." 2390-2
(10:00:35) (@host-GG) Q: Is there always a soul available when a new baby is delivered?
(10:01:00) (@host-GG) A: "Many souls are seeking to enter, but not all are attracted. Some may be repelled [by the difficulties they perceive]. Some are attracted and then suddenly repelled, so that their life in the earth is only a few days [possibly resulting in infant death]." 281-53
(10:01:07) (merlin22) i think that crib death answers this
(10:01:42) (@host-GG) Q: So the life cycle of the soul continues on into eternity?
(10:02:07) (@host-GG) A: "Life and death are one, and only those who will consider the experience as one may come to understand or comprehend what peace indeed means. 1977-1 One is the birth of the other when viewed from the whole or the center." 369-3
(10:03:15) (@cris7) I think some of those souls look at the families and decide they might be challenged a little too much
(10:03:23) (@host-GG) And that concludes this chapter. Next week we shall cover a chapter called, 'A Path to Peace'.
(10:03:37) (@cris7) This is interesting material Lory
(10:03:44) (@ron1) Another very helpful session Lory...:)
(10:03:47) (@host-GG) It is now open chat. Are there any comments?
(10:03:53) (maybelle) es Lory thank you
(10:03:57) (merlin22) quite so lory
(10:04:16) (merri) I thought the soul mapped out a plan before entering the earth
(10:04:25) (@cris7) I've always felt that death is a birth in to our true home
(10:04:35) (@blubearwoman) and if the parents screw up the plan, they they bolt
(10:04:53) (merlin22) the true birth cris 7
(10:04:56) (merri) LOL
(10:05:18) (@host-GG) Perhaps it does, Merri. We have often read in some of Cayce's answers that the soul chooses when and with whom it wishes to live in a particular incarnation.
(10:05:20) (merri) as in the case of Cayce's sister?
(10:05:34) (@blubearwoman) right Merri
(10:05:42) (@walksinspirit) Thank you so much, Grandmother! I really enjoyed tonight's study. It answered some big questions I had.
(10:05:49) (@blubearwoman) Apparent;y I was not that choosey!
(10:06:00) (merri) LOL
(10:06:13) (@host-GG) I doubt that Blu. There had to be some lessons the soul wished to learn
(10:06:33) (@blubearwoman) yep
(10:06:49) (@blubearwoman) mission to complete
(10:06:51) (merlin22) gosh sakes guys.... i came into the exact opposite on the zodiac /to my mother
(10:07:07) (@host-GG) But aren't we all glad it was now. I am.
(10:07:13) (merlin22) cancer to capricorn
(10:07:18) (@host-GG) What does that mean, merlin?
(10:08:00) (merri) so am I and my sister is a capricorn
(10:08:15) (merlin22) on the zodiac cancer is opposite to capricorn making the relationship a lot tougher than one may imagine
(10:08:17) (@host-GG) And I am right next door, Cris. I am on the cusp of Taurus and Gemini.
(10:08:19) (@blubearwoman) I think many of us area here because of the earth changes
(10:08:43) (@host-GG) A lot of lessons to learn then merlin? Have you recognized them consciously?
(10:08:58) (merlin22) yes some of them.
(10:09:05) (@host-GG) Great.
(10:32:59) (merlin22) namaste' everyone , great chat
(10:35:00) (@host-GG) Sweet Dreams everyone. Will see you next week. LOVE to all.
(09:19:33) (@host-GG) We will finish up Chapter XIV tonight. I shall start with the last Q and A from last week, so as not to lose the continuity.
(09:19:57) (@blubearwoman) OK Lory
(09:20:33) (@host-GG) Q: Everyone's personality is different, some more rebellious or willful than others ~~ is this an expression of the soul?
(09:21:00) (@host-GG) A: "Personality is what you wish others to think and see. Individuality is what your soul prays, your soul hopes for, desires. 5246-1 The individuality is that with which you live yourself, your inner self.
(09:21:56) (@host-GG) Q: That's a fascinating distinction, that our individuality comes from our soul. What determines whether the soul makes any progress?
(09:22:43) (@host-GG) A: "Know that it is this will ~~ the birthright of each soul ~~ that makes for growth or retardment in any given experience or activity." 1992-1
(09:23:41) (@host-GG) Q: But exercising this birthright is often considered rebellion ~~ rebellion against parents initially, or social customs, civil authority, and even against religious teachings. Why is that?
(09:25:10) (@host-GG) A: "As soon as man contemplates his free will he thinks of it as a means of doing the opposite of God's will, although he finds that only by doing God's will does he find happiness. Yet the notion of serving doesn't sit well with him, for he sees it as a sacrifice of his will.
(09:25:41) (@host-GG) Only in disillusion and suffering, in time, space, and patience, does he come to the wisdom that his real will is the will of God, and its practice is happiness and Heaven." 2537-1
(09:26:00) (@host-GG) Q: So you believe that sooner or later we all learn this lesson and get right with God?
(09:26:31) (@host-GG) A: "Can the will of man continue to defy its Maker?" 826-8
(09:27:24) (@host-GG) Q: It sounds like most of us are capable of such defiance, some of us for a lifetime. What happens when we see the light?
(09:27:53) (@host-GG) A: "The soul, then, must return ~~ Will return ~~ to its Maker. It is a portion of the Creative Forces, which is energized into activity even in materiality, in the flesh." 272-9
(09:28:19) (@host-GG) Q: So, we really have no choice?
(09:28:42) (@host-GG) A: "God Himself knows not what man will decide to do with himself . . . He has given man free will. Man destines the body." 262-82
(09:29:13) (@host-GG) Q: And yet you say it is the destiny of each of us ultimately to become one with God?
(09:29:34) (@host-GG) A: "Unless the entity wills its [own] banishment." 900-20
(09:30:01) (@host-GG) Q: Banishment is a scary word. And some Christians are scared to death that they might be banished or denied union with God. They have been taught that only a privileged few will ascent to a heavenly reward, and all others will be left behind at the end of time, to face destruction in the apocalypse.
(09:30:23) (@host-GG) You come from a fundamentalist Christian background, and you read the Bible every day, so what is your opinion of this belief?
(09:30:57) (@host-GG) A: "God has not willed that any soul should perish. 900-20 When opportunities are presented, it is the entity's own will force that must be exercised . . . Hence, as for the entity's fulfilling its destiny, it is ever on the road." 903-23
(09:31:22) (@host-GG) Q: So none of us needs to worry about being left behind, as some preachers claim?
(09:31:47) (@host-GG) Does anyone have a guess as to what this answer will be?
(09:32:31) (@host-GG) A: "God has not willed that any soul should perish but has with every temptation, with every condition prepared an association, an activity, a manner, a way for the regeneration of those influences or forces that may cause the overcoming of fear or any of those things that would separate a soul from the Creative Forces." 1646-1
(09:32:34) (maybelle) no souls left behind??
(09:33:04) (@host-GG) In short maybelle. That is correct.
(09:33:22) (@blubearwoman) I don't believe, I know we will all go home
(09:33:25) (@host-GG) Q: You mean there is always a chance for us to redeem ourselves no matter what condition we have created in our rebellion?
(09:34:06) (@host-GG) A: "With each condition that has arisen within the experience of the soul [He has] prepared a way, and these are a constant change being wrought. Not that through activities ~~ of course, the time and the place and the position ~~ but it is ever the choice of the individual.
(09:34:28) (@host-GG) It is that which makes or is the godly force within an individual, or an entity or a soul, that makes it seek its level. 1602-3 Each soul is destined to become a portion of the First Cause, or back to its Maker." 987-2
(09:35:04) (@host-GG) Q: How can we assure people that they will not be left behind?
(09:35:25) (@host-GG) A: "In your activities, then, make the way known that the Christ loves every soul ~~ and wills that none shall be lost." 281-19
(09:35:57) (@host-GG) Q: Since the soul of each individual is part of the One Soul, the Great Soul, or what Ralph Waldo Emerson called the "Over-soul", what is meant by the phrase "a soul lesson", as if the soul instead of being our guide and destiny, needs to learn some lessons?
(09:36:32) (@host-GG) A: "If the soul were at all periods, all manifestations, to keep in that perfect accord, or law, with the "Over-soul", or the First Cause, or the Soul from which it comes, then there would be only a continuous at-onement with the First Cause.
(09:37:07) (@host-GG) But when an entity, a soul, uses a period of manifestation ~~ in whatever realm of consciousness ~~ to its own indulgencies, then there is need for the lesson, or for the soul understanding or interpreting, or to become aware of the error of its way." 815-7
(09:37:43) (@host-GG) Q: In one of your readings, you said that a client (815) was selfish in his relations with a woman (2700). What did you advise him?
(09:38:07) (@host-GG) A: "In your own experiences in the earth, in relationships with this entity, you possessed the body without regard to the unfoldment of the soul of this entity, in its relationships to the First Cause.
(09:38:38) (@host-GG) Now: The lesson is, though in the mind, there are the needs for encouragement, love, the associations for the better activity of the body. Are these to be in mind or in reality, reality meaning soul? Hence a lesson becomes necessary." 815-7
(09:39:13) (@host-GG) Q: Could he redeem himself?
(09:39:56) (@host-GG) A: "As to whether it is to be rectified in this present experience depends upon choices taken in relationships to mental and material activities. As is oft expressed, the spirit is willing, the motivating force of a soul-entity is willing, but the body, ego, mind, the impelling force to or through which consciousness arises and makes the entity aware through the emotions of mind and body, has its lesson to gain." 815-7
(09:40:43) (@host-GG) Are there any comments or questions?
(09:40:53) (@blubearwoman) no
(09:41:49) (@host-GG) Q: Many people are preoccupied with themselves or with their own concerns. Is this wrong?
(09:42:24) (@host-GG) A: "Self-glory, self-exaltation, self-indulgence or influences that become abominations to the divinity in each soul, and separate them from a knowledge of Him. For you are persuaded, for you know from your experience, nothing may separate the soul of man from its Maker but desires and lusts!" 1293-1
(09:42:50) (@host-GG) Q: How do we decide what is selfish and what is appropriate self-concern?
(09:43:20) (@host-GG) A: "[When] the entity allows self to be drawn away from the first principles; so that it is self that wants to do something! This rather indicates the selfish nature, that is innate in an entity."
(09:43:49) (@host-GG) "While each soul, each associate, each acquaintance is an obligation, a duty ~~ all of these must cooperate, unless it cooperates, coordinates each portion with the other, there is not the well-rounded, the well balance individual nor the better and the bet reactions from same . . ."
(09:44:24) (@host-GG) "The spirit is the life. Then each phase of the experience of the entity must be of the spiritual import in its very nature, if it is to live, to be the fulfilling of its purpose ~~ to bring peace and harmony, for which purpose it is in existence!
(09:44:53) (@host-GG) It must be constructive in the very nature and the very desires, without thought of self being the one glorified in or my same! Rather the glory is to the influence or force what prompts same!"
(09:45:36) (@host-GG) "If even filial or martial or soul love seeks the exalting of self, then it is not fulfilling its purpose from the spiritual import. God is love! The influence or force that motivates the life of each soul is love!
(09:46:22) (@host-GG) But it may be love of self, of fame, of fortune, of glory, of beauty, or of self-indulgence, self-aggrandizement, or the satisfaction to the ego! These are the conditions [or choices one makes] that must be in every phase of the experience analyzed . . ."
(09:46:47) (@host-GG) "Thus, whether it brings material hardships, material problems or not, such an ideal is to be held to; and the problems will be dissipated by the very influence and force of the love and the desire that is purposeful but selfless in its nature, in its activity!"
(09:47:13) (@host-GG) "And when this is applied, when this is done, when the activities are in that direction, we will find the channels for the abilities ~~ the connections, the associations ~~ will be as it were creative in themselves.
(09:47:56) (@host-GG) Not as show, but rather as what there may be the magnifying of brotherly love and hope and promise and faith in a creative force and influence!" 1579-1
(09:48:27) (@host-GG) Q: But we are born pretty self-centered creatures, perhaps necessarily so as a matter of self-preservation. But how do we transform ourselves from self-centered to God-centered souls?
(09:48:57) (@host-GG) A: "We grow [gradually] in grace, in knowledge, [and] in understanding." 349-12
(09:49:14) (@blubearwoman) line upon line
(09:49:33) (@host-GG) Q: Are we condemned or doomed by d**nation or destruction if we don't grow to Heaven by the time we die?
(09:49:59) (@host-GG) Yes, Blu, day by day!
(09:50:10) (merlin22) that's why reincarnation
(09:50:19) (@ron1) The devil starts to play his fiddle...:)
(09:50:26) (@host-GG) A: "The Father has not willed that any soul should perish, and is mindful that each soul has again ~~ and yet again ~~ the opportunity for making its paths straight." 2021-1
(09:51:01) (@host-GG) Merlin is correct as you can see, and yet again the opportunity for making its paths straight.
(09:51:22) (@host-GG) Q: What happens to the soul if it fails to show the requisite development at the end of the life cycle?
(09:51:46) (@host-GG) A: "It reincarnates, that it may have the opportunity [to improve]. 126-8 The soul is not lost; the individuality of the soul that separated itself [from God] is lost. The reincarnation or the opportunities are continuous until the soul has of itself become an entity in its whole." 826-8
(09:52:23) (@host-GG) Q: If we live only one lifetime, does that mean we were really good in God's eyes?
(09:52:35) (@host-GG) Anyone with an answer?
(09:52:43) (@blubearwoman) LOL
(09:52:49) (@blubearwoman) I would like to meet that person!
(09:52:58) (@host-GG) Me too, Blu.
(09:53:07) (merlin22) jesus the man , christ the pattern
(09:53:17) (@blubearwoman) and he did in 33
(09:53:33) (@host-GG) A: "To find that you only lived [once], died, and were buried under the cherry tree . . . does not make you one whit better than neighbor, citizen, mother, or father. But to know you spoke unkindly and suffered for it, and in the present [life] may correct it by being righteous, that is worth while." 5753-2
(09:54:15) (@host-GG) Q: How often do we reincarnate before we achieve perfection?
(09:54:38) (@host-GG) A: "Perfection is not possible in a material body until you have at least entered some thirty times." 2982-2
(09:54:42) (merlin22) as long as it takes
(09:55:04) (merlin22) to become perfect in his eyes
(09:55:13) (@host-GG) Q: Is all of our soul growth dependent upon what we learn or how we behave toward others on earth, or does the soul develop in the afterlife as well?
(09:55:43) (@host-GG) A: "Often the longer the periods between the earthly sojourns the greater has been ~~ or may be ~~ the development of the soul entity to that which each soul is to attain through its appearances [on earth]." 486-1
(09:56:09) (@host-GG) (Footnote: An extended time gap between incarnations usually gives the soul an opportunity to mature before entering another incarnation on earth.)
(09:56:41) (@host-GG) Q: When we return for another life on earth, you say we may change gender or race?
(09:57:00) (@host-GG) A: "At times." 36-27
(09:57:18) (@host-GG) "This depends upon that experience necessary for the completion, for the building up of the purposes for which each and every soul manifests in the material experience . . . The experiences of a soul entity in materiality . . . are as lessons or studies in that particular phase of the entity's soul development." 294-189
(09:57:48) (@host-GG) Q: Some people have strong differences about when the mother's fertilized egg becomes a baby, a new human being. When does the soul enter the body of the child, at conception, or at birth, or when?
(09:58:07) (@host-GG) Anyone with an educated guess?
(09:58:13) (@blubearwoman) gradually
(09:58:17) (@ron1) breath
(09:58:19) (@blubearwoman) as the soul wills
(09:58:36) (@blubearwoman) and not completely till 21 years of age
(09:58:54) (@host-GG) A: "It may be at the first moment of breath [after the baby is delivered]; it may [be] some hours before birth; or many hours after birth." 457-10
(09:58:58) (merri) as much as 3 months after birth in some cases, I think
(09:59:28) (@cris7) I think some babies try to make up their minds for the first year
(09:59:30) (@host-GG) Q: In other words, it does not happen at the moment of conception. What keeps the baby living until the soul enters?
(10:00:08) (@host-GG) A: "Spirit! For, the spirit of matter ~~ its source if life, of God." 2390-2
(10:00:35) (@host-GG) Q: Is there always a soul available when a new baby is delivered?
(10:01:00) (@host-GG) A: "Many souls are seeking to enter, but not all are attracted. Some may be repelled [by the difficulties they perceive]. Some are attracted and then suddenly repelled, so that their life in the earth is only a few days [possibly resulting in infant death]." 281-53
(10:01:07) (merlin22) i think that crib death answers this
(10:01:42) (@host-GG) Q: So the life cycle of the soul continues on into eternity?
(10:02:07) (@host-GG) A: "Life and death are one, and only those who will consider the experience as one may come to understand or comprehend what peace indeed means. 1977-1 One is the birth of the other when viewed from the whole or the center." 369-3
(10:03:15) (@cris7) I think some of those souls look at the families and decide they might be challenged a little too much
(10:03:23) (@host-GG) And that concludes this chapter. Next week we shall cover a chapter called, 'A Path to Peace'.
(10:03:37) (@cris7) This is interesting material Lory
(10:03:44) (@ron1) Another very helpful session Lory...:)
(10:03:47) (@host-GG) It is now open chat. Are there any comments?
(10:03:53) (maybelle) es Lory thank you
(10:03:57) (merlin22) quite so lory
(10:04:16) (merri) I thought the soul mapped out a plan before entering the earth
(10:04:25) (@cris7) I've always felt that death is a birth in to our true home
(10:04:35) (@blubearwoman) and if the parents screw up the plan, they they bolt
(10:04:53) (merlin22) the true birth cris 7
(10:04:56) (merri) LOL
(10:05:18) (@host-GG) Perhaps it does, Merri. We have often read in some of Cayce's answers that the soul chooses when and with whom it wishes to live in a particular incarnation.
(10:05:20) (merri) as in the case of Cayce's sister?
(10:05:34) (@blubearwoman) right Merri
(10:05:42) (@walksinspirit) Thank you so much, Grandmother! I really enjoyed tonight's study. It answered some big questions I had.
(10:05:49) (@blubearwoman) Apparent;y I was not that choosey!
(10:06:00) (merri) LOL
(10:06:13) (@host-GG) I doubt that Blu. There had to be some lessons the soul wished to learn
(10:06:33) (@blubearwoman) yep
(10:06:49) (@blubearwoman) mission to complete
(10:06:51) (merlin22) gosh sakes guys.... i came into the exact opposite on the zodiac /to my mother
(10:07:07) (@host-GG) But aren't we all glad it was now. I am.
(10:07:13) (merlin22) cancer to capricorn
(10:07:18) (@host-GG) What does that mean, merlin?
(10:08:00) (merri) so am I and my sister is a capricorn
(10:08:15) (merlin22) on the zodiac cancer is opposite to capricorn making the relationship a lot tougher than one may imagine
(10:08:17) (@host-GG) And I am right next door, Cris. I am on the cusp of Taurus and Gemini.
(10:08:19) (@blubearwoman) I think many of us area here because of the earth changes
(10:08:43) (@host-GG) A lot of lessons to learn then merlin? Have you recognized them consciously?
(10:08:58) (merlin22) yes some of them.
(10:09:05) (@host-GG) Great.
(10:32:59) (merlin22) namaste' everyone , great chat
(10:35:00) (@host-GG) Sweet Dreams everyone. Will see you next week. LOVE to all.
