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Introduction This book is somewhat of a departure from what I, Jesus the Christ, have been writing and speaking about through this channel, but it seems important to flesh out more fully the larger context in which your human life unfolds. As most of you reading this already know, at least intellectually, you are not human at all but spiritual beings who’ve taken on a human life—indeed, many human lifetimes—for a relatively brief time in your soul’s existence as a means of exploration and spiritual advancement. No matter how often you are told this, however, it bears repeating and further explanation because, to all but very advanced spiritual practitioners, it really seems that what you are is a human being.
Human beings are but one form of humanoid life in your universe. There are endless universes in which human-like and other intelligent forms of life exist. This is not meant to make you feel small or unimportant, for you are anything but that. You are the created and the Creator! You are the Creator made manifest in human form—for the time being.
Before taking on a human life, you existed as an energy being, as pure love and ecstatic beingness. And then you chose to experience being human. Once you did, you became embroiled in the cycle of lifetimes that hone and shape a human being and bring you back to your original state of love and peace—but with much more experience, compassion, and wisdom than you had before these incarnations. You chose to leave perfection for a state of imperfection and immeasurable challenges and growth. What courage! What a journey!
Chapter 1 In the Beginning The Soul
I will attempt to define the soul, but please understand that language is inadequate because your human form limits your ability to comprehend the greater mysteries of life. This is as it is meant to be.
Every human being is saddled with essentially the same faults and limitations, although over the course of your many lifetimes, these lessen, since that’s one of the purposes of your many lifetimes, as we will see. Your soul is perfect and complete—always—before your human incarnations and after. Your soul is unharmed and unstained by any experience you might have during your sojourns on earth or elsewhere.
There is no judgment from the soul or any other being guiding your soul’s evolution and no punishment as the result of any of your choices except the natural cause and effect of the Law of Karma, whose purpose is always to teach, not punish. It is so important for you to understand that whatever challenges karma brings into your life are ones your soul agreed to take on. No one is forced into a life situation or circumstance that is not of one’s soul’s choosing.
When you’re on the other side, in touch with your soul, you are very courageous and embrace the unique opportunity for growth the earth plane provides. I should also add that there are other vastly different reincarnational systems that a soul might become involved in besides yours that provide very different experiences than your reincarnational system.
Your soul also has the option to not be involved in any reincarnational system and remain free and unlimited. Angels are an example of this. However, most beings do choose to experience limitation and challenge at some point, because such experiences are interesting and stimulating. And if you are eternal, why not challenge yourself?
Like a spark, your soul is the same essence as God, not less than or different in any way. It just isn’t the totality of God. So, when I say that you are God, I mean that you and every other soul are of the same essence as God, and that essence is love. Your true nature is love.
AI Summary
Cycles of the Soul by Gina Lake presents key insights from the Christian Mysticism tradition. The 10 passages above capture the essential teachings.
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Key Passages: Highlights 1, 3, and 10 are particularly representative.
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