What is the Soul?

by Nicolette Beard on November 3, 2009

in Broadening of Consciousness,Esoteric Psychology

Accord­ing to the Tibetan,

The soul can be spo­ken of as the Son of the Father and the Mother (Spirit-Matter) and is there­fore the embod­ied life of God, com­ing into incar­na­tion in order to reveal the qual­ity of the nature of God, which is essen­tial love.

The form life nur­tures the qual­ity of love within all forms, and ulti­mately reveals the pur­pose of all creation.

This is nec­es­sar­ily vague until you are no longer deluded by appear­ance (or the form life), have freed your­self from illu­sion and you under­stand the qual­ity of God’s con­scious­ness and the pur­pose which it is revealing.

This you do in three ways:

  1. By uni­fy­ing Spirit and Mat­ter and express­ing through your per­son­al­ity, you dis­cover the qual­ity of your own soul and pur­pose of your life;
  2. By dis­cov­er­ing that your soul is col­ored by one of the seven ray qual­i­ties, iden­ti­fy­ing with your ray pur­pose and express­ing a par­tic­u­lar type of divine energy;
  3. By rec­og­niz­ing the seven aspects (or rays) which per­me­ate all of Cos­mos and gain­ing a glimpse of Unity.

The soul is the prin­ci­ple of intel­li­gence: mind and men­tal awareness.

Until man dis-identifies with appear­ances and form life, he will con­tinue to sep­a­rate, dis­crim­i­nate and reject with his mind, pro­duc­ing in him the “great heresy of separateness.”

This iden­ti­fi­ca­tion with the form now turns to insa­tiable desire: appetites, moods, feel­ings. Whether he veers out­ward in the direc­tion of the mate­r­ial world or inward toward the world of thought or of the soul, it mat­ters not.

He is now torn by the sense of duality.

Then he becomes iden­ti­fied with the mind nature, the tan­gi­ble thought world, which sways and influ­ences him. To the world of great Illu­sion is added the world of thought forms.

Now sub­jected to a triple illu­sion, he, the con­scious life behind the illu­sion, begins to unify the forms in order to bet­ter con­trol them.

When this hap­pens, the Per­son­al­ity of the soul is born and the man stands on the verge of the pro­ba­tion­ary path. Con­scious­ness is not iden­ti­fied with itself (or its ray) nor with its phe­nom­e­nal appearance.

The per­son­al­ity of the soul is intended to be an embod­i­ment of love, applied with intel­li­gence and pro­duc­ing those “attrac­tive” forms which will serve to express that lov­ing intelligence.

The soul,  in its turn, is intended to be the embod­i­ment of the divine pur­pose or will, intel­li­gently applied in the great cre­ative work, which is pro­duced through the cre­ative power of love.

Thus, we have the three Rays of Deity:

Ray I — Will, dynam­i­cally applied, man­i­fests as power. Here sit the Lords of Cease­less Devo­tion through which the dynamic, per­sis­tent will of the Solar Logos expresses.

Ray II — Love, mag­net­i­cally func­tion­ing, pro­duces wis­dom. Here sit the Lords of Love.

Ray III — Intel­li­gence, poten­tially found in sub­stance, causes activ­ity. Here sit the Lords of Knowledge.

By “sit” I do not mean to imply pas­sive­ness or inac­tiv­ity. All three rays ener­gize the world of appear­ance (or form) and vibrate to the world of qual­i­ties (or val­ues) through the potency of Cos­mic fire.

As stated in The Secret Doc­trine and in A Trea­tise on Cos­mic Fire, the elec­tric fire of will, and the solar fire of love, in coop­er­a­tion with  fire by fric­tion, pro­duce the world of cre­ated and cre­ative forms.

Ref­er­ences:

Bai­ley, Alice A. Lucis Trust (1962), A Trea­tise on the Seven Rays: Eso­teric Psy­chol­ogy, Vol I, (pp. 36–48)

A Trea­tise on Cos­mic Fire, Alice A. Bailey

The Secret Doc­trine, H.P. Blavatsky

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