The Architecture of the Soul #1

We begin the blog with some critical aspects surrounding the soul. 

Apologies to the Creator, the Ancestors and other ancient wisdoms for my attempts to describe and simplify some of these mystical concepts. The Ancestors say that our mission is not to explain the mystery but to be in awe and in joy of the mystery. This first blog is more of a meditation with music to help. The words are from the Ancestors, as are all quotes with no name behind them.

The "Table of Contents" for this series are as follows

THE SOUL AND ITS BREATH ARE PURE

THE SOUL AND DESTINY

THE SENSES

THE HEART AND LOVE

KARMA

THE FIVE LEVELS OF THE SOUL

“The soul emanates from the Infinite One, … descends through the worlds leaving a root in each of the worlds, until it is clothed in a physical body. Thus, there are five levels of the soul or levels of God -consciousness, corresponding to the various planes of reality. 

Unity, Intellect, Mind, Energy and the Physical.

These five levels will be discussed in the final blogs 

according to Kabbalah and also to some extent, Patanjali.

Everyone will ultimately achieve the spiritual perfection for which we are created. This may take many lifetimes because of free will.

The search for the Soul, the Self, or the True or real Self is at the core of human motivation whether we know it or not or whether we believe it or try to achieve it or not. We could also call it the Buddha or Christ Self or that part of us made in the image of the Divine. 

The Creator does not micromanage and there are many polarities designed in a mysterious way in the soul's architecture that we need to master in order to allow us to reach this stage of "perfection." Without this tension there would be no challenge. 

"Kabir says, friend, there are very few who find the way."

The gates are wide but few will enter.

The fallacy of perfection is in thinking there is a point of such completeness beyond which there is no place to go, improve, strive for. This differs from excellence which is achievable, always desirable and often necessary but in varying degrees for varying tasks and purposes. 

One could also call "perfection" a certain level of excellence because spiritual perfection is a state of impossibility. Hence the Ancestors prefer the word "Becoming" to that of Self-Realization or Enlightenment which may assume a fixed point - there is always another level of vibration to realize above the one that we have attained. However, once a certain level of excellence is fulfilled, we are no longer required to continue on the journey of "samsara," the cycle of death, reincarnation, mundane existence, suffering and rebirth.

 

"Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.” S. Kierkegaard

In spite of this we are told to savor each moment of existence between the polarities of light and dark, good and evil, the sacred and the profane. They are all part of the conundrum that gives us the qualities required to test our resilience on the road to Becoming.

In a sense this divine light may be the same light that we again experience when we pass on to the other side and the one folks who have had a life changing Near Death Experience also enjoy.

These four "Worlds" correspond to the Four Trees of Life through which the universe was created. 

Emanation - in the beginning was the Word (or the Song as we discussed in another blog.) 

Creation - the design. 

Formation - the components required to assemble the structure. 

Actualization - the structure coming into being. 

If we think of anything that we create ourselves, it follows these four stages. For instance an architect designing a building. 

Intention. The Plan. The Components required for the construction of the plan. And finally the Making of it. 

And it all begins in the imagination.

To think like God is to think with imagination.

Whatever cannot be imagined, cannot be fulfilled.

THE SOUL AND THE BREATH ARE PURE

“The soul is pure …” Rev Nachman

 

BREATH

 

Source of my power,

 the breath you have given me, the breath you have given me is pure.

Flame of the Infinite One is the Soul Breath of the human.

Click, meditate and play

06_Soul_Breath.mp3

 

The life breath of the human is the Flame of the Infinite One searching through the chambers of our core. 

Click, play and meditate

04_Life_Breath.mp3

“…What is God? The breath inside the breath.” Kabir

A river arose out of Eden forming Four Rivers and Four Winds   which animate all of creation. The Zohar

 Four Directions and the Four Winds 

 The Four Breaths of the Infinite one.

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01 Four Directions.mp3

 The Zohar maintains that the Breath of the Creator is constantly animating all of creation - the Still Beings, the Growing or Sprouting Beings, the Wild (and the domestic) Beings and the Talking Beings. All the other Beings are doing exactly what they we were intended to do by their Creator except for most of us. Our souls' architecture appears to be a unique burden of the Talking Beings by which we all have the potential to attain liberation.