Letter: November 2010
One of the most difficult concepts to form is that of our being living souls. Our cognitive mind, the one with which we reason, began at birth, and has grown throughout our earthly experience. This part of our self has had no experience that is not material therefore it is unable to conceive of life in any other form. To the cognitive mind, it is matter, we are matter, and everything that exists is material. How then can matter conceive of that which it is not? One way is to observe how larger truths are expressed in materiality. To illustrate this point, we can simply examine the world around us.
A seed is planted in the ground, and within that kernel is the pattern for its ultimate physical form. When conditions are right, the seed becomes enlivened, it is absorbed by spirit and becomes a life form. Suddenly the seed lives and germination is its response. This is recognizable even to the casual observer who can see the life in a growing plant. As the ground is watered, the living seed absorbs the minerals that comprise matter, and this kernel shapes them into the form imprinted within it. Let us use a rose for example. As the living seed absorbs matter it forms first the roots, the branches, then the bud and finally the blossom. As long as the plant can continue to absorb the minerals, it will be nourished and grow. If, however, because of a happening, the plant can no longer absorb the minerals, the life within it will take its leave, and the plant will decay, returning the minerals to their original form. This is all easily observed in the physical world, a seed becomes alive, blossoms and seemingly dies. But what of the life it harbored? What of the life that kept it vibrant? Where did it come from, where did it go?
To answer these questions it would be helpful to consider this from a slightly different perspective. Let us first assume the life pre-existed the seed. The life absorbed the seed and it became a living kernel. Notice the subtle difference here, the seed did not become alive, but through absorption, life became a living seed. Life then became a shrub, a rose bud and ultimately a magnificent blossom. Finally, life extruded matter and the minerals it had used were ultimately returned to their original form. Nowhere in the living plant will we find its spirit, its soul force, because it is everywhere. It does not enter in or leave; spirit merely absorbs and releases matter. In a similar way, we inhabit our bodies as matter absorbed souls. Like the plant, our life force will eventually release the minerals that form matter which will then be restored to their original form. The soul will move on while matter will remain part of the material realm.
We are living souls, as such we have always existed, and we used the substance of whatever realm we found ourselves in the same way we use physical matter. We take incredibly rich experiences along with us on this voyage through eternity adding to the totality of whom and what we are. The point being made here is that we are grand, magnificent beings who have absorbed matter. We are eternal, we have always been, we will always be, but through experience we will grow. It is natural for us to put on matter and remove it again but we are not that which we use. At our core, at our center is a fragment of God, not a reflection, a shadow or even an echo, but an unadulterated portion of our God, and all else of which we consist, we have built through eternity. This is what we are while our experiences are who we are, and what can possibly threaten such perfection. As eternal living fragments of God what have we to fear? There is fear and doubt all around us and we often fall into its waiting embrace. We are indestructible, made in the image and likeness of our precious Lord, yet we fear those things that can never defeat us. Love, joy, kindness, tenderness, these are what we are, and nothing can change this. When next we see ourselves as less than we are let us look to our Lord as a reminder of our grandness; our holiness.
May God bless you and awaken within you a sense of your inherent divinity.
Harvey served as a member of the boards of trustees for 12 years and Chairman of the Board for 3 years for the Association for Research and Enlightenment, the Edgar Cayce Foundation and Atlantic University. Rotated off the boards because of term limits.
A spiritual healer, Harvey has been a member and Secretary of Ohana O Kokua (Family of Helpers) for the past 30 years.
Harvey is a longtime member, trustee and chairman of the boards of the Association for Research and Enlightenment, the Edgar Cayce Foundation and Atlantic University. An international lecturer Green has lectured and conducted workshops on religion, mysticism, and the paranormal for the past 25 years. He has appeared as a guest on numerous radio shows and at several universities. His LIFE AND DEATH; THE PILGRIMAGE OF THE SOUL is a ground breaking work on immortality.
Harvey is a spiritual healer and Secretary of Ohana O Kokua (Family of Helpers), a spiritual healing group. His LETTERS TO HIS BELOVED has grown out of his 30 year work with spiritual healing.
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