Mansions of the Soul: The Cosmic Conception (Rosicrucian Order AMORC Kindle Editions) by H. Spencer Lewis

Author:H. Spencer Lewis [Lewis, H. Spencer]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Publisher: Rosicrucian Order, AMORC
Published: 2015-02-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

THE OVERSOUL AND CYCLES OF INCARNATIONS

IT HAS BEEN intimated in the preceding pages of this book that there is but one soul existing throughout the entire universe and this soul is the consciousness and divine essence of God. It has also been intimated that the so-called individual souls of human beings are not separate and independent souls, but unseparated segments of the Universal Soul, never losing their association or contact with this consciousness of God and the divine essence which constitutes the vital life force. Because these facts may be new to a great many Western minds it seems appropriate at this moment to augment these statements with the use of schematic diagrams and symbols, and make plain the beautiful fundamental laws which are involved in the principles set forth in this book.

That there is one soul in the universe, and that this soul is the consciousness and vital essence of God should not be surprising to any devoted student of sacred literature; nor will it be surprising to those who have made a careful study of the fundamental laws of biology and ontology.

If God is the creator of all things, and from his consciousness and divine essence emanates all consciousness and all vitality, then all consciousness throughout the universe and all vital energy of a living, creative nature must have one central, divine source, and must be continuous and uniform throughout the universe.

Even a moment’s reflection will reveal that it is far more difficult to think of God having created out of his consciousness and essence millions upon millions of individual souls,each retaining its distinct individuality and separateness, than it is to think of one universal essence and one universal soul. To conceive of any means of maintaining individual entities of the same soul essence and same divine consciousness, without a tendency on their part to unite and blend into one essence and one consciousness, is a difficult thing indeed.

God, the creator of all things, is the Father of all images created by him in his likeness. We cannot conceive of the human children of one earthly father as being of a vital essence or blood energy so separated that the same essence is not in each of them. With the soul essence, however, we are dealing with a subtle and transcendental energy that pervades all space and which cannot be isolated or confined in any enclosure, and we cannot conceive of this essence as being in a human form without at the same time extending beyond that form and contacting the same essence resident in all other human forms.

When the sacred writings of the Orientals and even of the Christians speak of the soul in man, they do not necessarily imply an individualized and separated soul, but the soul essence and soul consciousness of God that is resident in man. Each of us has soul, but not a soul in the sense that it is a thing apart from every other soul in human beings.

To illustrate the

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