1999-6-6 09:38:00
Good to hear from you again Twin Storms. Your posting contains some excellent advice.
Jennifer had several questions I will comment on. I'm sorry I do not have time to answer every question. Fortunately others on the list make very wise comments that are very helpful.
She says:
"I am a bit confused about Being and Becoming. Becoming sounds like moving from one point forward, which is a linear process and therefore limiting, whereas I saw Being as encompassing all, including Becoming. Is this the case, but it is really only practical to talk about Becoming in our limited state of consciousness on earth because Being relates to the formless, or non-physical, worlds? Or have I got this mixed up?"
I would say you have this reversed. When you are in the process of BECOMING, that part of you which has BEING is coexisting with you as you BECOME. But those lives who have not chosen to BECOME, are in a state of BEING only. Thus becoming embraces the state of being and becoming, as cooperating states, but those in a state of being alone have nothing to do with becoming.
BECOMING is more like circular expansion in all directions (as someone mentioned) than a straight line. As you progress your ring-pass-not expands as an expanding atom or solar system.
In actuality you are a circular being. The physical body is merely a nucleus as the center of an atom. Your astral and mental bodies circulate around you making the whole you like a globe or great ball of fire, if we could see the whole. As you become, your subtle bodies grow and expand, but even this is only one of the expansions incorporated in the process of becoming.
Jennifer continues: "Another thing that surprised me was when you said that love only exists where there are two, implying that love must be for something or someone. While I see the kind of love you are referring to there (a personal kind), cannot Love be a state of being entire unto itself? Hence we say God is Love (and that is my experience)."
To talk about love with any degree of understanding we need to define it.
"Love is the magnetic attractive force that pulls the many into harmonic Oneness, yet allowing for individual identity and free will."
If there is only one of something there is nothing to attract.
Love is not the fullness of God but one of the three main aspects which are:
Power
Love-Wisdom
Active Intelligence
These three correspond to:
Father/Mother
Son/Daughter
Holy Spirit
God had to reflect himself into a Trinity and then to infinity before Love could manifest.
To say that Love is a state of being that can be experienced, while you are completely alone, is to theorize about a state that no one in the flesh has ever experienced because it is impossible to ever be alone and have life.
I believe it was BJ who mentioned about being alone with her animals and garden, but these are life forms that enhance Love through their magnetic power.
You are not even alone in your body for there are millions of tiny lives there who are capable of receiving the energy of Love from you. Every cell in your body and every atom is a lower life form.
True spiritual love could be said to be a state of BEING actively engaged in service of others, service to the whole or bringing the many into united service.
When one experiences higher spiritual contact, he or she will have a wonderful feeling of Love, but still we have two or more involved. There is you and there is the Holy Spirit that is contacted.
Jennifer mentions the Noble Emotions of Love, Joy, Peace, and Purity.
These certainly do go together
Xavier asks:
Well, well isn't the spirit consciousness (atma) *like* returning home? (Of course you can easily say that I don't have the slightest idea of what Atma really is :-)
Aren't many accomplishments of evolution *like* "returning home"? I guess that one that overcomes death must resolve and get free from many old fears and illusions.
"And being united in consciousness with brothers of light, I have a feeling that it feels like being at home too, no?"
Answer: There are many wonderful feelings that are either an integral part of us or remind us of feelings from past lives that we can associate with "coming home."
When high spiritual contact is made for the first time in any one life, it seems very familiar because our essential livingness is a reflection of God. As we go through the process of becoming we experience many wonderful feelings that seem familiar, like coming home, but we never really get home because each new expansion of your consciousness, livingness and ring-pass-not puts you in a place, or mansion of God, that you have never been in before.
Think of it. Which would you rather do? Go back to your old home and your old school of your youth? Or have a home that evolves and improves as you do, so each time you return for repose the rest is more glorious?
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