Soul Progress Through Understanding

A correct vision of the true nature of Life rests upon understanding Life itself; its greatness, its love, its gifts to all and the kindness behind every lesson learned through experience and soul growth.

Tolerance is not only a virtue but also a great necessity in life. It gives more scope and vision and allows us to grow by enabling us to see other things as they are in their own nature. We are here to learn to govern OUR OWN MIND and its vast powers, and to observe life in all its phases.

Life must flow constantly to express itself. Out from the Heart of the Giver of all, flows this Life Energy. Out from an Eternal Center to the surface of experience and sensation, as centrifugal energy, is Life manifested in infinite variety. Then it returns as a centripetal current, carrying with it the sensory impressions of pleasure and pain on the battlefield of life's experience as opposites or otherness from Unity.

It is all the play of the Infinite One, as the Grand Cinema of Life, staging the drama of the travel of the soul outward toward multiplicity, and downward into the density of matter called Creation. The Cabala (also Kabala) [Kabbalah] calls it an emanation or breathing forth of the Breath of Life from the Infinite Center, outward, into space.

The return flow in any part of it is the night of creation, called 'Pralaya' or Dissolution, the cessation of animation through the Central Outpouring of Life Energy. Death is the name for this phenomenon in connection with units and planets everywhere in Nature.

The entire secret of individuality and self-identity is concealed in this process of Radiant Life Energy. When we see Life as a Whole, from that viewpoint, it has a fuller meaning and opens a greater capacity of UNDERSTANDING IN LIFE. It automatically increases our scope of vision.

When we honestly face Life and all its problems with an open mind, we understand that whatever we are reaping in life we have sown sometime in the past, and whatever we are doing now will be harvested sometime in the future. Every thought, word and deed has to be accounted for and comes back to us in kind - sooner or later. Therefore, the more temper tantrums we have, the more difficult we make life for ourselves as well as those near and dear to us. There can be no blaming of others when we see energy flowing as cause and manifesting as effects everywhere.