"As
the spark of life starts its immense journey through aeons of time, it is an
individual thought, an individual Ray, an individual vibration, an individual
breath of Spirit. To this individuality, by the Law of Love, it holds fast.
All its functionings, all its tuning-in with the Rays, all its efforts, by
reason of its make-up are individual. It becomes more and more individual,
more and more different. Like a snowball, again, it rolls through life, making
of itself more and more and more, and holding on to that which it has picked
up on its way. That which it has picked up on its way becomes incorporate
within the whole - which is itself.
As
the God Ray-vibrations, which are Spirit, are indestructible, so is the
individual Entity which is an aggregate of those God-rays, indestructible, It
holds within itself all that it ever has been. That which is permanent is the
aggregate of Love-ray-vibration, in other words - Spirit substance.
But
vibrations are invisible to this world of matter. For all that matter knows
they do not exist. Why? Because God, which is Love, which is Giving, in order
to create out of His own substance individuals who are built up of His very
Self-ingredients, who are therefore potentially miniature Gods as he is God
... in order to do this those individuals must (being of Him and like Him) by
their own Effort and choice create themselves.
Potentially
Gods they must be creative. Made of God they cannot help being creative. Made
of Spirit they must think, made of God-power they must be strong. Made
individually, by choice must they build themselves into separate individuals.
How
achieve this, you ask?
By
Experience.
By
Trial and Error.
By
Learning Cause and Effect.
By
continued and continual Experience.
Experience
is using life to teach life. So by Experience the individual Entity learns,
builds itself up.
As
we have seen that the indidvidual, being made of God-substance, is
indestructable, and as we have seen that through continued experience the
individual grows, therefore we can see why it is that the Entity has taken on
this immense journey through a million forms of matter.
This
earth plane must serve its purpose in the grand scheme of things. It is a
plane of Experience, a school, if you like. And guided by the outside Wisdom
of the Spirit so does the individual entity take on first one form and then
another, and then another, growing in value as it learns, as it strives, as it
turns this way and that in its struggle to live, to find out for itself
first how best to remain alive, then later: how best to live. It lives a
million lives perhaps. The journey is a long one. The individual has much to
learn before it has created of itself a being that can drive a car or compose
a symphony.
It
is born, it lives, perhaps it opens itself to a fraction more God-ray or
God-power in that life. Then it dies, as we say; or rather it is withdrawn
from matter for awhile. Then it is directed again into a new form, a new body.
It goes through the same process, - all through experience, through Effort ...
And so on, again and again. And so up the scale of life."
~
The Wisdom of the Spirit ~
