Vapaa tahto
Vapaa tahto tarkoittaa vapautta luoda, mahdollisuutta valita oikean- tai vasemmanpuoleinen polku, Elämä tai Kuolema, myönteinen tai kielteinen tietoisuuden kierre.
Koska sielulla on vapaan tahdon lahja, se voi valita asua suhteellisuuden tasolla, jossa hyvä ja paha ovat suhteellisia suhteessa omaan näkökulmaan ajassa ja paikassa; tai se voi valita Absoluutin tason, jossa Hyvä on todellista ja Paha epätodellista ja sielu näkee "kasvotusten" Jumalan elävänä Totuutena. Vapaa tahto tarkoittaa sitä, että yksilö voi hyväksyä tai hylätä jumalallisen suunnitelman, Jumalan lait ja mahdollisuuden elää Rakkauden tietoisuudessa.
Jumalan antama vapaan tahdon lahja tuo mukanaan tietyn tietoisuuskauden, joka tunnetaan nimellä elinkaari, sarjan ruumiillistumisia ja "ihmisen asuma-alueiden rajat."[1] Sielua ei siis rajoita vapaan tahdon kokeilun aikana vain aika ja paikka vaan myös tietty määrä elinaikoja. Tämän (päiviin, vuosiin ja ulottuvuuksiin lokeroidun) tilaisuuden lopussa se, miten sielu on käyttänyt vapaan tahdon lahjaa, määrää sen kohtalon.
The soul that has chosen to glorify the Divine Ego (Reality) ascends into the Presence of the I AM THAT I AM. The soul that has chosen to glorify the human ego (unreality) passes through the second death,[2] her Self-denying consciousness permanently self-canceled; and all of her energies, simultaneously passed through the sacred fire, are returned to the Great Central Sun for repolarization.
Free will and karma
Without free will there can be no karma, whether in God or in man. Free will is the crux of the law of integration. Only God and man make karma, for only God and God in man have free will. All other creatures—including elemental life, the devic evolution and the angelic evolution—are the instruments of God’s will and man’s will. Hence they are the instruments of the karma of God and man.
The free will of angels is the free will of God. Angels are required to fulfill God’s will, for unlike man, they are not given the liberty to experiment with God’s energy. Although angels do make mistakes that produce results which are contrary to God’s will, they can later rectify their mistakes and realign that energy with God’s will.
Angelic rebellion against God’s will is of a different order than the karma-making exercise of free will in man. Free will is central to man’s expanding God-identity within the framework of the Great Law. Man is given the liberty to experiment with his free will, for he is a god in the making.
On the other hand, angels, who partake only of the free will of God, remove themselves from their lofty estate if they rebel against the will of God that they are charged to carry out. Thus, if an angel chooses to act against God’s will, he must be banished from the angelic realm to the footstool kingdom and embody in the kingdom of man.
Man, who is made a little lower than the angels, is already confined to the lower spheres of relativity. So when he creates negative karma, he simply remains at his own level while he balances it. But an angel who rebels against God’s will is removed from his high estate of complete identification with God and is relegated to the lower spheres of man’s habitation to balance the energy of God that he has misqualified.
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Sources
Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Saint Germain On Alchemy: Formulas for Self-Transformation.
Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, The Path of Self-Transformation.