Soul what is it ???

What is the Soul ?
 focusing on DNA and more and more articles and comments quoting from The Bible and referencing a belief in God, I went back and read the words I wrote, as I read it I realized it was a good basis for the articles I have in preparation , a wonderful platform for my latest thoughts.

Religions are one of the great sources of ancient knowledge.

Please read the following

Provided, that is, you are a person who asks questions, and, if you are, then the minute you start asking questions about life you begin to stumble into a whole series of answers which lead you to other questions, and then more answers until finally you initiate yourself.

This text asks some of those questions and proposes some answers.

All over the world, on all continents, separated by vast oceans in almost all societies in the ancient and modern world there are stories of ghosts, spirits and the like, almost all languages have a word for the underworld, in the dictionary, a ghost is defined as the spirit or soul of a dead person.

I am developing a thought/ theory, I am asking myself, what is the soul and what does it mean, what is the importance of the soul? And why was it so important in the ancient texts?

In almost all ancient societies we have people searching for some form of after life, resurrection, eternal life, contact with the dead.



Most of the religions of our society have a concept that if you follow their rules there will be some sort of reward in heaven or some afterlife, they require that if you attend prayer meetings at their, church, temple, mosque, synagogue etc you will be saved.

Christians think that if you follow Jesus he will save you, Buddhists search for enlightenment, in Islam there is a promise of paradise, in Judaism all are the chosen people,they preach that their doctrine is the only way to salvation and that people who follow other doctrines will not be saved, where is the logic in this?

Is this in line with the wishes of the Lord God, The Creator God, Supreme Deity, “Who dare name His Name? Asked Goethe.

Every person who has ever lived was born with a physical body and as we grow up we develop the ability to judge between good and evil, every thought and every action we take in life, we can take a decision as to whether it is correct or not, but what are the standards we judge against? Are they human or divine? Are they given to us by religion our parents or the society we live in? or should they come from within?
In Genesis, Chapter 3 we have the story of how humankind was given the ability to judge between good and evil, the Serpent tempted Eve into giving Adam and eating herself the forbidden fruit, afterwards they knew that they were naked and tried to hide from the Lord God, the Lord God gave them tunics of skin to clothe them, were they the first humanoids to wear clothes? But more important to my theory, were they the first to have a soul? A soul that could be either good or bad because now they had the ability to judge everything they thought, said or did - as to if it was good or evil.

John, Chapter 5.29 “And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

This introduces the concept of “ Moral Law “ an absolute principle defining the criteria of right action, whether conceived as a divine ordinance or a truth of reason
What is good and what is evil?

The Ten Commandments given to Moses by the Lord God are split into what we should do, and what we shouldn't do.



A summarized version is
You shall have no other gods before me.
You shall not make for yourself a carved image.
You shall not take the name of the Lord God in vain.
Remember the Sabbath, work six days and rest on the seventh.
Honor your mother and father.
You shall not murder.
You shall not commit adultery
You shall not steal.
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor.

The bad side of human standards or what we shouldn't do are given to us in the seven deadly sins:

pride
covetousness
lust
anger
gluttony
envy
sloth.

Lets us look at the meaning of these words
Pride- the quality of having an excessively high opinion of ones importance.
Covetousness- having or showing a great desire to possess something belonging to someone else.
Lust- a passionate desire for something, often sexual.
Anger- a strong feeling of annoyance, displeasure or hostility.
Gluttony- habitual greed or excess in eating
Envy- a feeling of discontent or resentful longing aroused by someone else’s possessions or luck.
Sloth – reluctance to work or laziness.

Also in Ezekiel 18

4 “ Behold, all souls are Mine:
The soul of the father
As well as the soul of the son is Mine:
The soul who sins shall die.

5 But if man is just
And does what is lawful and right;

6 If he has not eaten on the mountains,
Nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel,
Nor defiled his neighbor’s wife,
Nor approached a woman during her impurity;

7 If he has not oppressed anyone,
But has restored to the debtor his pledge;
Has robbed no one by violence,
But has given bread to the hungry
And covered the naked with clothing;

8 If he has not extracted usury
Nor taken any increase,
But has withdrawn his hand from iniquity
And has executed true judgment between man and man;

9 If he has walked in My statutes
And kept My judgements faithfully–
He is just,
He shall surly live
Says the Lord God.

On the subject of the last commandment, the tenth, “you shall not covet,” perhaps the most difficult in our modern lives, I liked two statements that I learned in India a couple of years ago, “you should eliminate desire from your life”, and “do not want more than you need”, think carefully about these two statements.

One source of these statements came from The Bhagavad Gita

And when Arjuna asks:
” Master, Let me understand how wisdom is achieved,
” Sri Krishna says: My child, conquer your desires.

Quite clearly, if a person honors the Ten Commandments, the seven deadly sins and the message given to Ezekiel, they are well on the way to being a good person, is this locked or stored in some way?

In Christianity, the Holy Bible has many references to some sort of reincarnation which are brought to a climax in the last book, Revelations, which is the message given to John via an angel, from the Lord God and Jesus to give to the people of the world.

Some notes from Revelations that are relevant to this subject

1.18, And I have the keys of Hades and of death.

Chapters 2 & 3 give the messages to the Seven Churches, clearly a great reward for those that overcome.

2.7, To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life.

2.10, I will give you the crown of life.

2.17, To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna to eat.

2.26, And he who overcomes, and keeps my words to the end, to him I will give power over the nations. And I will give him the morning star.

3.5, He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book Of Life.

3.10, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come on the whole world, to test those that dwell on the earth.

3.21, To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with me on my throne.

6. 9 through 11, the souls of the already dead waiting for the judgement?

7.14, These are the ones who came out of the great tribulation, and washed their robes.

9.20, that they should not worship demons and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone and wood, which can neither see nor hear or walk.

11.18, And the time of the dead, that they should be judged.

12. 17, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

14.12, are those that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus

14, 13 through 20, the great reaper gathering the souls of men prior to the final judgement.

19.8, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

19.9, Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb

19.10, Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

20.4, Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God.

20.12, And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works.

20.13,The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them.

Chapters 21 and 22, describe the paradise that will be created when only those souls who are judged good and are living in the physical presence of the Lord God, in his city, the New Jerusalem.

Is the bible telling us that every soul of every person who has ever lived will be judged by the Lord God and those souls that are judged to be acceptable will be brought back to a physical life, with a body, a new one or our old one? and will live on planet Earth, the New Jerusalem, with him, in a beautiful world with no sin. Could this be the importance of the soul?


Could this be the meaning of life

Where are all these souls once the body has died and decomposed?

I start this with repeating quotation from Revelations Chapter 20, verse 13,

These gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them, And they were judged, each one according to his works.”

Dictionary definition of Hades, from Greek mythology:- the underworld, the abode of the spirits of the dead, the Greek God of the underworld was Pluto.

Could it be that the soul is in some sort of place in a multiverse?

I decided to study this thought, as I pondered over it, I thought of every possibility,one I thought of was, could there be information about every person that has ever lived, about how they lived their lives, locked up in DNA which is now in the soil, sand, rocks or even the water of the seas, that make up the substance of our earth, the underworld?

The first published results of research into DNA were made public in the early 1950s, today research into its role is extensive. It certainly is not my intention to give a lesson on biology, this is adequately covered by others, enough is available to everyone. I was however delighted when I read in Wikipedia, “the main role of DNA molecules is the long term storage of information.”

Also, DNA will last for about one million years, much longer than man has been on the planet earth.

As I was thinking about this, I was asking myself , as to how DNA was formed, my rough notes include the note “at the moment of conception a new DNA is created”.

The next day looked up DNA profiling and came across the following “During conception, the fathers sperm and the mother’s egg cell, each containing half the amount of DNA found in other body cells, meet and fuse to form a fertilized egg, called a zygote. The zygote contains a complete set of DNA molecules a unique combination of DNA from both parents. This zygote divides and multiplies into an embryo and latter a full human being.”

DNA profiling is now extensively used in criminal investigations, proving whether a person could have committed a crime.

Reading the texts on the subject, it seems possible that two or more people could have the same DNA, but this study is in its infancy, except for twins, even the likelihood of two people being born with the same physical features and personality is extremely remote.

In our modern world, in medicine, the transplanting of body parts has become an almost routine operation, hearts, livers etc, are being taken from a donor and being transplanted into the body of a recipient. One very interesting result of these operations is that when the recipient recovers from the operation and the new body part is accepted, he or she often develops some of the behavioral characteristics of the donor person, for example, if the donor person was a very aggressive or passive person, the recipient will often develop that characteristic.

What is happening here? Is the DNA of the two people mingling or mixing to form a modified DNA with some of the memory of the donor person in the recipient? I would like the opinion of the experts on this one, is this possible?

I think that I am correct in thinking that the DNA of all the people who have died, the people that you knew is still existing, perhaps your parents or friends, the DNA of their ancestors all the way back to Adam and Eve could be still somewhere in the infrastructure of our planet.

It is intriguing to think that, you could take one DNA strand of something that lived millions of years ago and create that living thing.

Now let me put together what I have found so far, every person who has ever lived or is living today has DNA, probably individual to that person, the DNA of people who have died is still on this earth, somewhere, the DNA is a record of that persons make up, the long term storage of information.

Now for a question, what is the information stored in the DNA? You can read what our scientists know on the subject but could the DNA also be a record of that persons personality and a record of the decisions and actions, a storage of the memory of the things he or she thought, said, did, or witnessed during their life, could this be the storage of the soul that could be brought back and judged? Is it possible that DNA stores information about what we thought, did, said and did during our lives, if so how does it receive it and does it also transmit it? Is DNA giving off signals? Downloading information and transmitting it?, could this explain the phenomena of ghosts.

I looked up ghost in Wikipedia, as usual, a lot of information but to sum up. It is the spirit or soul of a dead person, often after a violent or tragic death.
This is a diversion from my main theme but worth following up.
Is the soul more important than the physical body?

When you commit a sin should you apologize to your own soul?

As I am writing this, something in the back of my mind is telling me to look at the Holy Grail, the story of the cup or vessel that came out of the Holy Land to Europe, during the early stages of Christianity which had some sort of magic power or great gift for the finder. The Holy Bible came out of the Holy Land during the early stages of Christianity and my thoughts are leading me to think that it contains a message that is perhaps the greatest gift possible, eternal life, could this be the answer to the quest for the holy grail, the message that the soul will be judged by the Lord God and if it passes the test, that person will be given this great reward?

Was it intuition or something else that lead me to reading the Book of Isaiah, at the very end of Isaiah 66-24 we have

“ Upon the corpses of men who have transgressed against me. For their worm does not die.”

I looked up the word worm in the dictionary , definition three, “ a helical device or component” then I looked Worm Gear, it shows a picture of a worm gear with an helix very similar to the helix of DNA???

If the Lord God was describing DNA to Isaiah, how else would he describe it?

Also in Mark 9,44, “Their worm does not die And the fire is not quenched”

A few points before I conclude:

There is a doctrine in the main religions that the Supreme Deity, Jehovah, Lord God or Allah is everywhere, watching everything we do or say, I have searched and can find no justification for this belief, on the contrary, in Genesis, the Lord God is resting on the seventh day, which I believe we are in now. Perhaps someone can point me to a text that would help me in this.

Secondly, in the religions, we are taught to pray to the Supreme Deity, prayer has many forms, asking for guidance on how to live our lives is one of the main themes of prayer. You have this guidance in the ancient texts referenced in this study, most people ignore them, does your preacher guide you to goodness? If not, perhaps he or she in not preaching on behalf of the GOOD Deity.

Summary
Every person that has ever lived or is alive today has or has had a body and soul.
The DNA of every person that has lived could be still on this Earth.
Within the DNA there could be a record of how that person lived their lives.
The Lord God, Supreme Deity gave us rules to live by.
Every soul will be judged against the rules given us, those that pass the judgment will be rewarded.
The reward will be resurrection, to live with the Lord God in paradise.

The End.

I am missing something, something important, what is it? I have not yet fully seen the LIGHT.

Life’s Code

!.Life’s Code.!

When we shift our center from ego mind to spiritual mind. Our life is the unfolding curriculum of our Soul. The genetic code that contains the potential of the soul is embedded in life itself. The DNA is a facilitator of our soul matrix, psychological maturity, light nature, and physical body health. Life stimulates our encoded potential.

As we loosen the sedimentation of limiting beliefs and we transcend the ego mind into the spiritual or noetic mind. When this occurs, new understanding spontaneously unfolds, encoded consciousness activate, and perception shifts. In this process, we become experientially aware of the archetypal intentions and the soul essence, and our center shifts from the ego to the soul. The fabric of Soul is sustained by holiness, infusing all the realms of our expression.

We awaken, transform and metamorphose our spiritual genetics (and perhaps their physical counterparts) through focusing our will, opening our hearts, engaging life, reflecting on experience, and making choices. The keys to the mysteries are embedded in the structure of life. In the noegenetic school, the student develops the skill, understanding, and initiation to unlock the mysteries of life.

THE SOUL's radiating rays of Spirit

THE SOUL

It is unborn, though born in a body;
it is eternal, though its bodily dwelling is impermanent;
it is changeless, though it may experience change;
it is ever the same, though in the long pathway of reincarnation which ultimately leads to God,
the soul appears in countless forms;
the soul is not slain when the body dies; and even when the soul returns to Spirit, it does not lose its identity, but will exist unto everlastingness.

"A soul, being invisible by nature, can be distinguished only by the presence of its body or bodies."

The Reflection of Spirit

The soul, in essence the reflection of Spirit, never undergoes the pangs of birth nor the throes of death. Nor having once been projected from the womb of immortal Spirit will Prince Soul, on return to Spirit, lose its individuality; having entered the portals of nativity, its existence will never cease. In all its bodily births, the Spirit-soul never felt birth; it exists everlastingly, untouched by the maya-magic fingers of change. It is ever the same—now, past, future—as it has always been; ageless, unchanged, since its immemorial beginnings. The deathless soul dwelling in the destructible body is ever constant through all cycles of bodily disintegrations; it does not taste death even when the body quaffs that fatal cup of hemlock.

The difference between soul and Spirit is this: The Spirit is ever-existing, ever-conscious, ever-new omnipresent Joy; the soul is the individualized reflection of ever-existing, ever-conscious, ever-new Joy, confined within the body of each and every being.

Souls are the radiating rays of Spirit, individualized as formless, vibrationless "atoms" and "tissues" of Spirit. Hence, they are coexistent with Spirit and of the same essence, as the sun and its rays are one. Though incarnate, the soul belongs to the noumenal region, which changes not. All material forms belong to the regions of phenomena; their very nature being alienated from Spirit, they change constantly. Phenomena arise from and are inseparably linked with noumena; but the latter, being of Spirit, are immutable and transcendent. The outer surface of the soul's consciousness that is cloaked with the instrumentalities of the ego, mind, and senses undergoes the permutations of Nature, but the soul's essence remains inviolable. (...)

This Self is never born nor does it ever perish; nor having come into existence will it again cease to be. It is birthless, eternal, changeless, ever-same (unaffected by the usual processes associated with time). It is not slain when the body is killed.


Desirelessness Frees the Soul

"Man as an individualized soul is essentially causal-bodied,explained. "That body is a matrix of the thirty-five ideas required by God as the basic or causal thought forces from which He later formed the subtle astral body of nineteen elements and the gross physical body of sixteen elements.

The nineteen elements of the astral body are mental, emotional, and lifetronic. The nineteen components are intelligence; ego; feeling; mind (sense-consciousness); five instruments of knowledge, the subtle counterparts of the senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch; five instruments of action, the mental correspondence for the executive abilities to procreate, excrete, talk, walk, and exercise manual skill; and five instruments of life force, those empowered to perform the crystallizing, assimilating, eliminating, metabolizing, and circulating functions of the body. This subtle astral encasement of nineteen elements survives the death of the physical body, which is made of sixteen gross chemical elements."

The fleshly body is made of the fixed, objectified dreams of the Creator. The dualities are ever present on earth: disease and health, pain and pleasure, loss and gain. Human beings find limitation and resistance in three-dimensional matter. When man's desire to live is severely shaken by disease or other causes, death arrives; the heavy overcoat of the flesh is temporarily shed. The soul, however, remains encased in the astral and causal bodies. The cohesive force by which all three bodies are held together is desire. The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all of man's slavery.

Physical desires are rooted in egotism and sense pleasures. The compulsion or temptation of sensory experience is more powerful than the desire-force connected with astral attachments or causal perceptions."

A soul, being invisible by nature, can be distinguished only by the presence of its body or bodies. The mere presence of a body signifies that its existence is made possible by unfulfilled desires.*

And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together."—Luke 17:37. Wherever the soul is encased in the physical body or in the astral body or in the causal body, there the eagles of desires—which prey on human sense weaknesses, or on astral and causal attachments—will also gather to keep the soul a prisoner.

So long as the soul of man is encased in one, two, or three body-containers, sealed tightly with the corks of ignorance and desires he cannot merge with the sea of Spirit. When the gross physical receptacle is destroyed by the hammer of death, the other two coverings—astral and causal—still remain to prevent the soul from consciously joining the Omnipresent Life. When desirelessness is attained through wisdom, its power disintegrates the two remaining vessels. The tiny human soul emerges, free at last; it is one with the Measureless Amplitude.

Man Has Three Bodies

God originated, in the form of the causal body, thirty-five ideas as the matrix of human creation. These ideas are the basic or thought forces required to create the astral and physical body. Nineteen of these ideas were manifested as the subtle astral body, which contains the ten senses; the five life forces; and the ego, feeling, mind, and intelligence. The remaining sixteen ideas were converted into the gross physical body of sixteen basic elements. In other words, before God created the physical body consisting of iron, phosphorous, calcium, and so forth, and the subtle astral body of lifetronic composition, He had first to project them as ideas, the constituents of the causal body. Each of the three bodies has its distinguishing qualities. The dense physical body is the result of solidified vibrations, the astral body of energy and mind vibrations, and the causal body of nearly pure vibrations of Cosmic Consciousness.

The physical body may be said to be dependent on food; the astral body is dependent on energy, will, and evolution of thought; the causal body is dependent on the ambrosia of wisdom and bliss. The soul is encased in these three bodies. At death the physical body is destroyed. The other two bodies, astral and causal, are still held together by desires and by unworked-out karma. The soul, wearing these two bodies, repeatedly reincarnates in new physical forms. When all desires are conquered by meditation, the three body-prisons are dissolved; the soul becomes Spirit.

Silent Witness

He who sees that all actions are performed in their entirety by Prakriti alone, and not by the Self, is indeed a beholder of truth.

The true seer perceives his soul as the silent witness, aloof from the body—the microcosm created by the cosmic vibratory force, Prakriti or Mother Nature. She alone is the performer of all physical and mental activities. The soul is actionless, the reflection of the transcendental, nonvibrational God the Father beyond creation.

Reincarnation

According to the law of cause and effect, the soul is destined to change its mortal residences. Once the soul has been caught by maya, or delusion, it must occupy a series of prison houses of births and deaths to fulfill its desires and pay to the Justice of Cause and Effect the debts incurred by its own actions. There is no use in lamenting! Rather, man should take practical steps to try in every way to extricate himself from all earthly attachments and bodily identification by tuning in with Spirit in meditation and thus parole himself from the mortal prison into the free world of immortality.

Do Souls Reincarnate?

There must be some justice in the law that creates the infinite differences among human beings. Is there any clue? We find it in the law of reincarnation, with its corollary of karma, the principle of cause and effect. God at some time started all souls in a fairly uniform way. We all had equal goodness and potential within us; but owing to the misuse of our intelligence and free will, we have created terrible disorder and lack of equality, lack of uniformity, in life.

You can't generalize about people, because God has given every individual freedom to make his own choices. No matter who we are or what we are—and even though we are somewhat bound by circumstances of our karma, the effects of our past actions—we can do anything we want to in our minds. In the vault of the mind lies all the chains of bondage, as well as the keys to freedom. All actions originate in the mind. Trouble comes because people have so many crazy thoughts, and wrong thoughts lead to wrong actions. In this country, everyone wants to be or to have something different from everyone else. People do whatever comes into their minds. They get married and divorced as often as they wish; they do just as they please without any thought for their fellow beings, or even for their own highest welfare. We stagger at the wild way the world is moving — so many different ideals held by so many millions of people, contradicting and conflicting with one another. One person or group wants one thing, and another person or group wants the opposite. There are so many customs to bind us, so many philosophies to confuse us. I often say that we are all a little bit crazy and we don't know it, because people of the same craziness mix with their own kind. It is only when people differently crazy come together that they find out their own craziness. God wants to make something beautiful out of this earth, but there are lots of things that have gone out of control because we have misused the freedom He gave us. It is we who have made a mess of this world; and it is we, through opportunities in this life and in new incarnations, who must better our own lot as well as that of the world we live in.
Bud