Category: Religious Messages

“From Edgar Cayce’s perspective, too often we are out of touch with the intention (the why) behind our everyday actions. For this reason, he recommended that we establish a spiritual ideal to know and live by.

Then, the most important experience of this or any individual entity is to first know what is the ideal — spiritually.  — Edgar Cayce reading 357-13

To consciously establish a spiritual ideal–like love, forgiveness, compassion, and service to others– helps us accomplish a personal transformation in our soul development.

In part, ideals help to establish ‘why’ we do the things we do. Everyone is, in essence, working with an ideal in their lives. However, not everyone is consciously aware of it. Sometimes when life is at it’s most confusing, the lack of conscious ideal plays a role. Since ideals shape our very lives, our experiences, and even who we are in the process of becoming, setting a conscious ideal is singularly important to our soul’s development and growth. And the ideals that guide our lives will change over time as we learn, apply, and grow from each ideal that we’ve established. Choosing our ideal and then working with it to shape our life is a process that can help to awaken our soul’s purpose and foster soul growth.

Since our natural state is Spirit, reawakening to full spiritual awareness is one of the purposes we all have in common. In fact, in one reading (3357-2), Cayce stated that ‘Soul development should take precedence over all things.’ Cayce stated that soul development is not achieved through some great deed or act but is a gradual accomplishment that is attained ‘line upon line, precept upon precept.’

What appears to be most important is our application of the fruits of the Spirit in our interactions with others. In other words, acting with love, kindness, gentleness, and patience. According to Cayce, attunement and application are at the heart of spiritual growth. Attunement is the process of awakening to our spiritual nature and our true relationship with God. 

Then, just being kind, just being patient, just showing love for thy fellow man; that is the manner in which an individual works at becoming aware of the consciousness or the Christ Spirit. — Edgar Cayce Reading 272-9″

https://www.edgarcayce.org/the-readings/spirituality/

Everyone longs for peace in the world. They long to see humankind living in peace and harmony where there is no unrest or threats of riots, strikes, and war, and they long to do something to help bring this state about, but don’t know how to do it.

Realise that this state of peace and harmony starts with the individual and there is so much each individual can do to help bring it about.

First of all learn to go quietly about your daily business, silently blessing everyone and pouring out love to them. By doing this you bring peace and harmony all around you.

If you go around feeling annoyed with someone or are resentful and quarrelsome and are a troublemaker, you are helping to bring about war. Stop and consider this a moment and you will realize what a tremendous responsibility you hold in your hands, and how your individual behavior can tip the balance of the world situation. When you can really take this to heart and do something about it, you will be doing your part to bring about peace in the world. 

— Eileen Caddy,

“In Indian Hinduism, the soul has two parts.  One is called Jiva, which corresponds to the individual soul making its long journey through many lifetimes until it reaches the full realization of God.  When a child is taught that being good means your soul will go to heaven, it is Jiva that we are talking about.

Jiva is involved in action.  It is affected by our good and bad acts;  it rules our conscience. and all the seeds of karma are planted inside it.  The kind of person you turn out to be is rooted in Jiva, and the kind of life that you make for yourself will change Jiva day by day.

The second half of the soul, called Atman, does not accompany us on any journey.  It is pure spirit, made of the same essence as God.  Atman cannot change in any way.  It never reaches God because it never left in the first place.

No matter how good or bad your life, your Atman remains constant; in fact, the worst criminal and the holiest saint have the same quality of soul when it is this aspect that is in question.  There is no good approximation for Atman in the West (the Western continent that includes the U.S.), and many people might wonder why the soul has to be divided in this way.  the distinction between them is absolutely necessary (in the Eastern world), for otherwise the path back to God would break down.  The soul must be half-human and half-divine in order to give us a way to retain our identity in finding God.

You need Jiva to remember who you are personally.  You need Atman to remember yourself as pure spirit.

You need Jiva to have a reason to act, think, wish, and dream.  You need Atman for the peace beyond all action.

You need Jiva to journey through time and space.  You need Atman to live in the timeless.

You need Jiva to preserve personality and identity.  You need Atman to become universal, beyond identity.”

How To Know God – The Soul’s Journey Into The Mystery Of Mysteries, Deepak Chopra, p. 275 -276.

“I stand at the Door of your consciousness, knocking.  If you will only turn toward Me, emptying yourself out to receive my Spirit, I will pour so much Light into the reservoir of your heart that it will run over with goodness and mercy all the days of your eternal life.

By the power of this Light your subconscious reservoir of feeling can be lifted up to its original purity, thereby exalting your reactions, causing you to put on the living crown of life, to receive the face and the fashion of a new person, to open the Door in consciousness which has been closed to you.  When this happens the old order of life will pass away, and the sub-created web which seemed as invincible as enclosing bars of iron will melt and dissolve before you. This renovation does not depend on time or place but solely on your acceptance and application of the truth that you are really created to the image and likeness of your God.”

The Door Of Everything, Ruby Nelson, p. 21.