The Sabbath Life
Seeing a reader’s post on his struggle with his illness touched my heart. I’m glad my advice was of some assistance and wish I could do more. I would like to reach out and touch his beautiful soul and make him whole.
This earth is a tough school we are in, especially at certain stages of our journey. There are certain lessons that are painful to learn but that which has been learned through painful experience, when following the highest one knows, will be indelibly impressed upon the soul so the pilgrim will be a master of that lesson for his lifetimes of struggle to come.
I’m familiar with struggles of a number of people in this group and my heart also goes out to them. One odd thing that seems to help somehow is that none of us struggle or suffers alone. Each of us has six lives where we have all the struggle and problems we can handle which is generally followed by a seventh life that is fairly easy. For some the struggle is illness, others depression and still others just face a mountain of problems demanding a solution. Sometimes we look at carefree successful people and wish our lives were like there’s, but often we do not realize the inner struggles they face. Take one of my favorite actors, Owen Wilson. You can’t find a happier go lucky person who is also very successful, but seemingly, out of the blue, he tried to kill himself. I never did find out what his problem was but obviously he had a big one.
Six out of seven of us have all the problems we can handle. Some just handle the problems a little better than others. Then one life out of seven we have a Sabbath of rest where we live a life that is relatively free from trouble. Even here we sometimes are so programmed to have trouble that we may sabotage this life of rest. If therefore you sense that you are on your Sabbath life take advantage of it. Have fun and rest and get ready for the lives to come.
Question: Could you give us more information on the Sabbath life or direct us to a source with more information?
As far as I know there is no other teachings on this subject as I did not draw it from any outside source.
When you think of it this doctrine certainly follows the Law of Correspondences and this explains why it registers with the soul, or at least seems to be right. When you look around you it does seem that around six out of seven have all on their plate they can handle. It even seems more so when you reflect on all the people you have come close to throughout your life. Many who seem carefree have many more problems than is obvious when you get to know them. Owen Wilson, that I mentioned, earlier is a great example. He appeared to be one of the most carefree people in the universe, but then tried to commit suicide.
The people on their Sabbath life usually don’t speak up much about their lack of struggle. Everyone around them is grumbling about how difficult life is and they do not like to make others feel bad that life is going good for them. They tend to sympathize with their friends’ problems without saying anything positive or negative about their own. They do not want to rub their good fortune in the face of others. This is the reason that those taking a Sabbath may be hard to spot until you get to know them.
Now even though a person may be working under the heat of the day in one of his lives of labor — this does not mean he will not have good times, or rest or play. Look at our six days of general life. Some of us relax on Saturday or may do other labors around the house. Maybe Friday night you decide to kick back and party or relax. Even on regular nights most have a few hours to kick back and relax.
Even so, during a life of labor there will still be time to relax and play. Disciples must search their souls and sense their needs for relaxation and take what is needed.
Question: Does karma or soul progression take a break during a Sabbath life?
The soul will not only delay difficult karma during the Sabbath lives, but also during some other lives. Sometimes the debt we have to pay is beyond our psychological ability to handle. In this case the soul will often delay the debt, or lesson, until we develop the inner strength necessary to deal with it. Thus you are not always working on the negative karma you created from the previous life, but you may be working on a problem from several lives back as a main focus.
Some karma is handled during the Sabbath life, but it will not be of the nature that will create great pain or stress for the pilgrim. He may find himself having more abundance than his neighbors and use his good fortune to help others in need.
As far as the unfolding of the energy pedals goes, this moves ahead in normal progression during the Sabbath though a major surge is unlikely as this would disturb his rest.
Question: How can one recognize whether or not he is on a Sabbath life?
The Sabbath life is not problem free as no matter what advantage we may have human ingenuity always manages to complicate things and can sabotage a good situation. Even so, the person experiencing the life of rest will sense that life is easier for him than most of his friends. He will usually have fewer financial problems and when they come others will assist him. He will not get the marriage partner from hell that many laborers experience and his/her kids will provide a more positive than a negative experience.
Each of us needs circumstances a little different to have an enjoyable rest. If two people are told to take the day off and enjoy yourselves one may kick back and do nothing, but the other may go boating and water skiing. Even so, our Higher Self plans on a life of rest geared to helping us rejuvenate and ready ourselves for the six labors to come.
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success. -James Cameron
May 28, 2008
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