Dear Friends,
This week's quote is from spiritual awareness class CL 12, which was published in Volume 9 of The Living Light Dialogue. This quote is part of a response to a question from the congregation regarding what Mr. Goodwin said about a soul making choices.
"The power that is, is what we understand to be truth. We also understand that soul is not spirit, but it is the covering of spirit. And that that is covering is form and therefore it must respond to the laws of form, which are duality or choice. We understand that God—call it what you will—Infinite Intelligence does not choose. That it just is. That it always has been. That it always will be. That choice exists in what we understand to be form. For God is one, not two, and, therefore, is beyond choice. Choice exists in soul. Choice exists in body. Choice exists in creation, for choice is the Law of Creation. It has been often stated that God’s manifestation is variety, and look at nature. And indeed it is.
So in reference to your question, Did we choose soul? I can only say that that which is beyond soul, known as Spirit, is not choice. It just is. Our soul chooses, in a sense, its incarnation. It chooses it like we choose anything. We make a decision, which is a choice, but once having made that decision, we cannot escape the laws governing the decision that we have made.
There is not, to my understanding, a haphazard choosing of incarnation on the evolutionary scale. It is a matter of moment-to-moment choosing. And once making that choice, we are guaranteed, our soul, to incarnate into certain bodies, certain circumstances, at certain times. But man is never left without his choice. He must fulfill what he chose yesterday, but he has this moment of eternity to set into motion new choices, new sets of circumstances, new laws. But he is ever governed by the laws that he set into motion yesterday and the day before."
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Sincerely yours,
Russell Fitzgerald
Vice President
Serenity Association
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