- From Dawning Consciousness to Ascended Master-
Part I - Creation
For centuries human beings across all divides of religious doctrine and theology, from uncountable cultures and ethnicities, have struggled with the same question. Some of the greatest intellectual minds today come up short in search of the answer. It has been contemplated by the guy changing the oil in your car to the CEO responsible for the success of a huge corporation. The question nearly everyone has asked themselves at one point or another in their life, “Why do I exist?”
To answer this age old question, we must first answer two other ancient mysteries, “What am I?” and, “How did I come to be?”
Most people, either through their childhood religious upbringing, or through their own spiritual experience (or lack there of) have come to one of two conclusions:
1.They believe they are Spirit which has evolved into Physical Form either through the creative power of an Omnipotent God or by the Divine Design of an unseen cosmic force.
Or
2. They believe they are Physical Matter evolved over time. The end result millennia after millennia of physical evolution and biochemical accidents.
For the latter group, who believe that nothing exists beyond the physical existence, all three questions become moot. The answers do not make any difference, because after their physical existence terminates, there is quite simply, nothing left.
But for those in the first group, those who believe they are Spirit evolved into a physical existence, the questions remain an unanswered mystery. “What are we?” “How did we come to be?” And most important, “Why are we here?”
Let’s take a quick look at the first question, “What are we?” As a member of the later group, I contend that we are indeed Spirit in Physical form.
The second question; “How did we come to be?” is a bit more complicated. Because we always were. We have always been. We have never, not existed. Then, through Spiritual Evolution we became AWARE that we existed, and that one moment of realization is when our individual Soul was born. We essentially created our individual self by the simple act of Self Realization. This is known as the Dawning of Consciousness. Sounds easy huh? But it was, in truth, an enormous step that took an immeasurable amount of focused energy to accomplish. Through this process we became individual souls, each having created itself by its own will.
And, finally, we find ourselves standing before the final and most difficult question, Why are we here? What is our existence all about? What is our purpose? I contend that our purpose and the totality of the reason we exist is to expand that which we have born ourselves from. Rejoining ourselves to the cosmic origin from whence we came.
And thus begins the Journey of the Soul.
From the Dawning of Consciousness of a soul to the Ascension of a Master, how do we come to the fullness of our being?
In the beginning; which always was and always will be in the State of Infinity; all things came from Nothing (No-Thing); which has always been and will always be without beginning or end. This No-Thing is a vast and immeasurable energy source. This No-Thing, being without form or structure and while not self aware, was in the condition of absolute peace.
I believe that creation began when God became conscious of himself. Though God always has been and always will be, it was Consciousness that was the first Cause. God, became self aware. Through Consciousness, the Light became manifest. And this is the meaning of “And God said, let there be Light.” The Light, is Consciousness.
When God became self aware in the First Cause of Consciousness, Thought was born. “And God saw that the Light was Good”. Thought then manifested Desire. Through Desire came Will and through Will came the beginning of the Manifestation Of Creation.
Creation brings us to our second question. How did we come to be? Kabbalah teaches us that God was vast and infinite, without beginning or end. So the first thing God had to do was to create a Place for Creation. Because God currently occupied Infinity, he choose to contract himself, and thus, God focused upon the center point of himself and from that point, he withdrew his energy from his center, creating a place within the center of his being which was in a state of Chaos, without form. This is the meaning of “And God separated the Light from the Darkness. And Darkness was over Creation. (Correct Hebrew translation here is NOT ‘and darkness was over the face of the earth, for the earth had not yet been created.)
Within the Darkness, Chaos existed, for in Gods act of creating a place for creation, he had ‘rent’ himself. The result of which was a massive explosion. (Yes, think Big Bang here.)
The result of the Big Bang created a series of vibrations which emanated from the point of origin and extended in waves through the dark space within God. These vibrations were fierce and violent, and resulted in a state of Chaos within the space which had been prepared for Creation. This dark space, is the Cosmic Womb, and all things which exist, or have ever existed, were born within this space. All the galaxies, universes, planets, stars and suns have all occupied, lived and died in this space.
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Journey of the Soul Part 2 - Ascention and the Kabbalah Tree of Life
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