Alma

Deus é um Espírito e a alma é o potencial vivo de Deus. O requisito da alma pelo livre-arbítrio e o fato de se ter separado de Deus resultaram na descida desse potencial para o estado inferior da carne. Semeada na desonra, a alma está destinada a elevar-se em honra até à plenitude do estado divino, que é o Espírito de toda a Vida. A alma pode perder-se, o Espírito nunca morrerá.

A alma permanece como um potencial caído que deve ser imbuído com a realidade do Espírito, purificado por meio da prece e da súplica, e que retornará à glória da qual desceu e à unidade do Todo. Esta reunião da alma com o Espírito é o casamento alquímico que determina o destino do ser e o torna um só com a Verdade imortal. Quando esse ritual acontece, o Eu Superior é entronizado como o Senhor da Vida e o potencial de Deus, realizado no homem, é encontrado no Tudo-em-Todos.

O Mestre Morya descreve a origem da alma:

Let us ... see what portion of the Infinite One has been realized in the immediate forcefield of that which you call your self. The seed of this self, of course, had to come forth from the Great God Self, for there is no other source from whence it could come. Cycling through the spheres of the great Monad of Life, the seed of self-awareness gathers skeins of light—thread by thread, wound and woven, woven and wound about the point of awareness, building an energy field. And the seed becomes a soul born out of Spirit’s own union with life. And the soul is a miniature sun revolving about the central sun of Universal Being....

The sphere of God-being is a whirling atom that is called the Alpha-to-Omega. Out of the whirling of the polarity of the I AM THAT I AM, the seed of the soul is born. And as it moves through the cycles of the Monad, it forms a new polarity with the center. And the electron of selfhood, a new selfhood, is born....

As God multiplied himself over and over again in the I AM Presence (the individualized spark of being), the seeds that became souls—the souls that were thrust from the planes of Spirit—became living souls in the planes of Matter ... the emergent souls gathered skeins of Matter to form the vehicles of selfhood in time and space—the mind, the memory, the emotions tethered to the physical form. Thus veiled in flesh and blood, the soul was equipped to navigate in time and space.

The dwelling place of the soul is the seat-of-the-soul chakra. This chakra is located midpoint between the base-of-the-spine chakra and the solar-plexus chakra, which is located at the navel. The soul is called by God to mount the spiral staircase from the seat-of-the-soul chakra to the secret chamber of the heart, where she meets her beloved Holy Christ Self.

The ascended masters have referred to the soul as the child who lives inside of us. Psychologists have dubbed the soul “the inner child.” The soul by any other name is still the soul. And we are her parents and teachers, even as we are her students.

See also

Inner child

Reincarnation in Buddhism

For more information

Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, The Path of the Higher Self, volume 1 of the Climb the Highest Mountain® series, pp. 7–11.

Elizabeth Clare prophet, The Story of Your Soul: Recovering the Pearl of Identity.

Sources

Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, The Path of the Higher Self, volume 1 of the Climb the Highest Mountain® series, pp. 7, 8.

Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 35, no. 58, November 29, 1992.

Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 38, no. 29, July 2, 1995.