March 28, 2002
God’s light penetrates your lives, the filters that are present, and provides a sense of place and a sense of purpose for your souls. It may seem strange to assert that your souls need clarification of place and purpose, but it is true. Your souls certainly are aware of their connection, their relationship to your human lives, and that relationship includes both place and purpose. But God’s light provides a greater awareness of place and purpose. Your souls are present to guide your lives, just as your lives are present to guide your souls. But God’s light serves as a source of reference, of relevance for your souls. Your souls grow, they develop because of your own lives, but also because of the brilliance of the Spirit that is God.
Each of you learns by example. You do not learn in a vacuum. It is the same with your souls. Your souls grow and learn in part by the example that is presented through the intense light and love that is the Energy that is God. Your soul develops a stronger capability for becoming pure love through its experience of pure love coming through God’s light. You, as human beings, do not yet exercise pure love. For the very reason that you are human, you are not yet totally spiritual. Your souls, therefore, cannot draw an example of pure light and pure love from your physical selves. Such example comes only by experiencing the light coming from the Master Spirit, from God. God’s light, therefore, provides a reference for your soul’s growth. The soul must experience love in order to generate love, but the soul’s capacity to exercise love is the result of the connection to human life.
The challenges that you face as human beings require a loving commitment to others. How that commitment is expressed by you is also a kind of reference point for your souls. If your soul shares in the life of one who seeks to live compassionately, the soul becomes strengthened in its ability to be compassionate. The soul learns the meaning of compassion from God’s love. Both the light of God and the actions of your human forms, therefore, are essential to the development of your souls. Indeed, your souls develop a sense of place. They develop a sense of purpose.
There is a reason for growing in compassionate love because it is experienced. Being compassionate in love is achieved through the exercise of compassion. The purpose has been made evident to the soul through God. The application through your lives then strengthens that soul. As your soul strengthens, you become consequently stronger in your ability to be compassionate. You see the benefit of compassion. You see the effect that your compassion may have on another. The end result is that a compassionate love is disseminated more broadly around the world through your own human efforts being guided by the lessons your soul has learned while being with each of you. That is the sense of place. Your souls receive their first nourishment through light. They receive a sense of purpose through their association with humans. Both God’s light and human life are therefore essential as ingredients that expand God’s light in the universe and beyond.
In your gathering together, you wonder about the creation of souls and their association with human life, given the fact that there are an increasing number of humans that are alive at any given moment. It is important for you to acknowledge that while each soul has an identity—an identity of light, an identity of reflection—there is nothing which actually physically separates one soul from another. All souls are the same age, if you wish to place this in human terms. All souls have no actual beginning just as they have no end, for God has no beginning and no end, and souls are a part of the totality that is ultimately God.
You may think of souls as drops of water. You may place drops of varying colors of water into a large reservoir. The impact of those colors is no longer differentiated, one drop to another. What changes is the reservoir’s hue in a very minute manner. If you place a drop of green water into a lake and a drop of red water into a lake, the lake does not change color, yet those elements that created those colors are also not destroyed. It becomes a part of the whole. And when you draw water from the lake, you draw a small portion of those combined colors. They are so small that the differences cannot be detected, but those drops nevertheless have an effect on the nature, the color, the character of the entire lake.
So it is with your souls. Each soul has a defining quality or character of light, and it is this character that we are aware of. We are not concerned about your physical characteristics. They have no meaning. But the individual hues of your souls are immediately identifiable.
When your souls are no longer kept within the frame of a human being, all that that soul became while associated with human life is not lost. It is still present and it becomes shared with the totality of the grand collection of spirits. Your souls bring to us that which has been developed. All souls bring to us what has been achieved.
Souls do not multiply numerically. The influence of the spiritual entity, the totality of the souls that we refer to as God, can be selectively separated in infinite ways when there is more to be learned.
The soul that is connected to a human life that may be brief in its human form is not in all ways identical to the soul that reincarnates once again into human life. The soul that achieves additional human connections is a soul whose mission it is to develop that which is essential not only to its own growth, but to the growth of the totality of the collected spirits. There is always a change that takes place when a soul joins a human life for another experiencing of growth. There is no benefit ultimately to growth which is completely individualized.
It is similar to human life. If two individuals grow in their knowledge and yet fail to share that knowledge in a way that benefits others, the growth loses a sense of the whole. The progress that is made is only localized. So often you have been urged to take your understanding, to take your vision of God beyond your own lives so that they may benefit others. When such happens, then the totality of humanity benefits. It is for you ultimately to live your lives so that others may be enriched by your experience. You do not live your lives solely so that your lives may be enhanced.
So it is with the soul. The soul’s growth is for the purpose of the advancement of the spirit totality. It is not merely for the benefit of the individual soul. Just as all human beings share a commonality, humankind is really unified. It is also the same with the spirit. Because souls have no physically defined limits, the fact that there are more souls sharing human life does not require that souls multiply as you would imagine them in a human sense, for souls are energy. Energy can be duplicated but does not multiply. Elements of energy can be replicated, but that does not mean that the energy is increased. It is just altered. The energy of the spiritual community is not something which is created new; it is something that evolves.
All souls that have experienced human life are part of an enormous collection of spirits that form a single unit of energy of love, of light, and from that energy—that collection of energy—a portion will be assigned to human life. The end result is that the energy is intensified but not created anew. It is intensified through the human experience. It is given relevance, it is given direction, it is given purpose through the human experience. But the energy, although it receives purpose, relevance, place, is still the same energy.
This is difficult for human beings to understand, and we do not expect that you can fully comprehend what we present. If you think of souls being very specific entities, then you must imagine that they have edges, borders, limits of some kind that define their individuality. The energy of the spirit has no such defining points and therefore cannot be completely separated. It is true, there are souls that are more advanced than others but they are in no way separated from the others. If you have two liquids, one that is thick and the other that is thin in the same container, one becomes an extension of the other but they really together comprise a liquid with new characteristics. This is what happens to the spirit. When a soul joins our life after experiencing human life, it is like the liquid that is thin. It becomes a part of the whole and the whole becomes changed because of the presence of this new part. There is no strong definition that remains between one soul and the totality of souls.
The process of blending souls together, of establishing this new energy, can take much time as measured in human form. It may be a brief moment or it may take an exceptionally large amount of time to be achieved. For awhile, a soul who joins us may find it difficult to become a part of the totality that is the spiritual reality of God. It is not uncommon for some souls to prefer to remain in an environment that they feel comfortable within. Some souls prefer to stay with humans. Sometimes this desire can create difficulties, but ultimately the soul finds a sense of belonging to the complete union of all souls, and as that soul joins the totality of the spirit, that totality is changed. It has a different character.
If you are in a room with ten people and an eleventh joins you, in some way the total collection of human beings is altered. The energy, the sense of place, the sense of purpose is changed. You have not created a new group; you have only changed the energy that exists. You’ve changed its character. This is our experience with the souls who join us. It is ultimately of limited benefit for you to fully understand the evolution of souls into the union that consists of all that is spiritual. It is a process that is complex for humans and yet totally natural for us to comprehend.
Your lives are defined by differences—size, shape, color, behaviors. There are no two individuals who are exactly the same. You know that. You live with those differences constantly. Part of our responsibility in your lives is to remind you of what isn’t different, for on our side there is no difference that can be measured. There is no difference that can be delineated.
A soul does not have a shape. There is no way one can say this is a large soul or a small soul for we are all the same essentially. We have different energies. We reflect light in somewhat different ways but we are all reflecting light, we are all energy, we are all a part of God’s light, we are all equally valued, we are all equally old or young, we were all created at the same time, if you wish to consider creation as a help to understanding the spirit. The truth is we were never specifically created because we have always existed. Creation implies a moment when something did not exist, but the souls that comprise the Spirit of God have always existed. Therefore, there is no soul that is newer or younger. Some souls have experienced different human lives and therefore emanate different colors, but all souls are essentially the same.
We wish you would accept human life in this manner. We wish you would not distinguish one from another. It is unimportant to recognize differences in religion, differences in color, differences in size, in shape. Those differences are all so unimportant, but they are the differences that you as humans are committed to recognizing. Find ways of blurring those differences. Find ways of denying that someone is really different from you. Seek evidence of how you are the same. Search for the bonds that connect each of you to all human beings. It will give your human lives a sense of place and purpose.
You are blessed when you sense your unity just as we are blessed as we are aware of our unity. The most significant blessing of all is the acknowledgment that truly there is nothing of significance that separates you from us. We are all the same. We are all a part of God. Rejoice in that acknowledgment, celebrate it and live it fully!
Amen.