For me the soul is existential, that being what God’s Soul is all about. That God (and the same being for us) is first and foremost SOUL. And that our whole life in Creation is to grow in truth through personality experience, which really means, helps us to understand the soul that we are. So soul, His and our souls, exist in ‘existential land’ wherever that might be. But it is not in Creation, not in time and space which is ‘experiential land’, the place where our existential soul expresses its two experiential personalities. And the incredible thing about Paradise as I understand is it being something of a manifestation of the existential Soul that is God. So that’s why it’s such a big deal being there in our Father’s ‘House’, as you said, being face to face with Him. So I see God (our Mother and Father), created our souls – the souls of all Their children. And then bestow two personalities on them in our ascending soul status. And when the time is right, the soul ‘incarnates’, which means, it starts expressing its personalities in Creation. The soul stays where it is in soul-land, with Creation being, the creation of Soul, so all our souls from God’s through to ours, are Creating – expressing personalities in all the different ways we do. The soul expressing its personalities is creative, it has an impact on Creation, as we all do by simply living. So the idea of soul being somehow with us and which follows us or is the part of us that survives physical death to wake up in spirit, is simply confusing the spirit-body and spirit part of us with the soul. And that because the soul is the cause of Creation, so the soul doesn’t need to go anywhere as it is already everywhere and in any time. However still I feel our souls have a defined ‘space’ within soul-land. And I even think they are ‘created’, ‘bought into being’, ‘made’, in batches by our Heavenly Soul Parents as the Feelings, move Them. So for me the soul is expressing itself in Creation through its two personalities right from conception, and even possibly before that on other higher levels; and then within the soul is coded all our life’s experiences for eternity, with the pattern simply unfolding as required by its personality expression. So the soul is seeking self-realisation through its personalities in life, just as we being focused on the personality part are trying to also express ourselves truly and lovingly, which in turn is leading us in truth to understand what our own soul is all about. So our ascension is the first leg of our journey in understanding, not only our own soul, but the Soul that created us. So by focusing on our feelings and thoughts and trying to understand the truth of them – why we have them, is helping us to get to know the truth of ourselves, which is the truth of soul. And as we come to understand the truth of our soul, so we are also coming to understand the truth of Soul. And I wonder, can’t you sense or perceive or feel that your soul has been in existence before your adjuster arrived, and that your soul is something far more than just an experientially evolving part of yourself? Don’t have a longing to be with another person so you can experience all of this together? Don’t you want to have that other persons indwelling spirit speaking to you through them, knowing it is are helping you become unified in your relationship together? And conversely knowing your indwelling spirit is inspiring your thoughts so as to communicate your feelings across to them? And can’t you see within your own life that everything is meticulously planned – even pre-planned, even taking into consideration your free will and every decision and act of will? That our free will pertains to our personality expression to some small degree, whereas underlying it all is absolute perfection and no freedom whatsoever. And that the existential needs the experiential so as to experience its existentialism. Which is why the Soul of God set the whole Creation in motion. I think the animals and the plants, all of nature is perfect in its Natural love, and it’s created. I think we too are perfect, yet it’s owing to the Rebellion and Default that we’ve become imperfect. I see perfect as being a relative term. Sure those humans before the Rebellion were not as ‘perfect’ as more truth-evolved humans are, but they are still perfect in their ‘imperfection’ because they were untainted by Rebellion. I see imperfection so far as it concerns us humans on Earth is ONLY caused by rebellion, with the Default adding to our woes. And that at some point we are to no longer want to live in our wrongness, we will want to stop being evil and rebellious, and want to deal with our imperfection, which is what I call doing my Healing, by looking to my feelings for the truth of my problems.
Zuimon wrote: “For me the soul is existential, that being what God’s Soul is all about. That God (and the same being for us) is first and foremost SOUL”
The revelation tells us that the soul is morontial, not existential. Because God the Father is existential, he does not have a soul. Existential means without beginning or end. Souls have beginnings; they are brand new realities on the experiential level. Existential beings are perfect; they do not require experience for perfection, whereas the soul is an experiential acquirement.
0:5.10 Soul. The soul of man is an experiential acquirement. As a mortal creature chooses to “do the will of the Father in heaven,” so the indwelling spirit becomes the father of a new reality in human experience. The mortal and material mind is the mother of this same emerging reality. The substance of this new reality is neither material nor spiritual–it is morontial. This is the emerging and immortal soul which is destined to survive mortal death and begin the Paradise ascension.
Zuimon wrote: “And that our whole life in Creation is to grow in truth through personality experience, which really means, helps us to understand the soul that we are.”
This is not too far from the truth. However, growing in truth and personality experience does not mean “help us understand the soul that we are,” it means: help us realize the personality that we are. The seven psychic circles of personality realization are circles of soul growth as well.
110:6.1 The sum total of personality realization on a material world is contained within the successive conquest of the seven psychic circles of mortal potentiality. Entrance upon the seventh circle marks the beginning of true human personality function. Completion of the first circle denotes the relative maturity of the mortal being. Though the traversal of the seven circles of cosmic growth does not equal fusion with the Adjuster, the mastery of these circles marks the attainment of those steps which are preliminary to Adjuster fusion.
110:6.3 The psychic circles are not exclusively intellectual, neither are they wholly morontial; they have to do with personality status, mind attainment, soul growth, and Adjuster attunement. The successful traversal of these levels demands the harmonious functioning of the entire personality, not merely of some one phase thereof. The growth of the parts does not equal the true maturation of the whole; the parts really grow in proportion to the expansion of the entire self — the whole self — material, intellectual, and spiritual.
Zuimon wrote: “So soul, His and our souls, exist in ‘existential land’ wherever that might be. But it is not in Creation, not in time and space which is ‘experiential land’, the place where our existential soul expresses its two experiential personalities.”
To reiterate, God does not have a soul, but he does have a personality. The two, soul and personality, should not be confused with one another; they are two entirely different entities. Yes, God does exist in “existential land,” it is called Paradise. Eventually morontia souls will reach a level of spirit perfection and also exist on Paradise before embarking on new careers as finaliters. The soul does not have any personality at all initially. The mother of the soul is the human mind dominated by one single and unique personality with free will. The father of the soul is the Adjuster, a fragment of God’s personality who leaves “existential land” as a PRE-personality. Prepersonal Adjusters are impersonal until they fuse with a personality and become a part of it, but the free will of the single and unique personality continues to reign because the individual is now wholly unwilling to do anything other than God’s will.
0:5.9 Spirit. The divine spirit that indwells the mind of man — the Thought Adjuster. This immortal spirit is prepersonal — not a personality, though destined to become a part of the personality of the surviving mortal creature.
I think that’s enough for a first post. I’ll address the rest in subsequent posts and welcome any other comments.
