The Soul

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Eupsychia Institute
PO Box 151960
Austin, TX 78715-1960

(800) 546-2795
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The Soul emanates from the formless world of the Absolute. For it to enter into existence and be expressive, it must take form in the concrete life that we call ordinary reality. To achieve this aim, our Soul created a psyche as its double, or mirrored image, so it could see and feel itself as human. [excerpt from EMBODYING SPIRIT, pg. 33-34]

Both the ego and the soul must undergo sacrifice to become one Self. But let's remember that the word sacrifice means "to make holy." It is not the awful thing we've made it out to be from our ego's point of view. As our soul-consciousness enters into our awareness, the ego loses its hardened opinions and begins to feel less in charge. This is terribly frightening at first and causes many a person to bolt, or to become more rigid. Eventually, however, as the Great Work proceeds within us, the soul melts down, giving up its definition, indeed, its very life, to be absorbed into our personalities. This is the work of Self-Creation. Though our willingness to consciously merge the ego and the soul, we will have created a vehicle that is ready and willing to manifest Spirit on Earth. The transpersonal Self can walk into our bodies, our hearts and our minds.

Soul-Work (activates from the top down)		Ego-Work (activates from the bottom up)
Responds		Abstracts and Ascends
Descends		Death/Rebirth ("cooks", "transforms")
Dissolves		Substance in the "waters" (makes pliable)
Surrenders		Extracts "the Gold" (molds, sculpts into Ideal)
Invokes		Embodies Looks Upward

In metaphysics, it is understood that we undergo this stage in our evolution where the soul disappears, having released all its qualities into our concretized nature, becoming now the Self (a materialized entity who can exist in the world of form). And the soul is no longer a mediator between spirit and matter. It has given us its life. Now, we are a being in the world who "goes to the Father," as Jesus did. We are in touch with Spirit directly through our bodies. Or, again, in classical metaphysics, the Monad (we, as individualized "sparks of the God-force") are communicating directly with our physical bodies. Spirit and matter have merged. This is the culmination of the journey of awakening to our true identities as spirit in form. [excerpt from EMBODYING SPIRIT, pg. 103-105]

Your soul is your link between the spiritual and the material kingdoms. Consequently, it can "think" in both directions, as a divine being and as a human one. The archetypal Soul takes form in each of us as the human psyche, which serves as its mirrored refection. When perceptually clear, our psyche's "step down" the wisdom of the spiritual realities into thought forms that we perceive through flashes of direct knowing and through images that appear in our minds. The stronger and more precise the image, the greater the likelihood that the image will "matter" and come true. [excerpt from BECOMING A PRACTICAL MYSTIC, pg. 135-136)

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