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The realization that my fraction of the Collective soul has been living through many successive generations. I knew it by my previously unexplained connection to people, events, and places that I have experienced in this current physical lifetime. I love that the one force acting on us all is predetermining the program that will cause the Point in the Heart to emerge and, when it does, the Creator has placed us in the environment where it can learn and grow. He tests our determination and resolve, but as we “choose” to study, pray, learn, and connect with the teachers, the fellow students, and the correct source books– we will encounter and overcome the Reshimot as we ascend the path we descended through. I also am blown away by the idea that every Mitzvah we perform with the intention to clothe our desire to receive with the desire to bestow and give pleasure to the Creator, we affect the Collective Soul’s path toward adherence to the Creator! I am ready and eager to continue the assent.
I have been waiting for this learning environment and opportunity all of my life. I am moved to tears by this message. I have always felt that I was present somehow in previous generations. Grasping that this fragment of the soul has a lifetime of thousands of years. When I have visited Europe and Great Britain–I felt so connected to the places that I cried upon return to the U.S. I couldn’t understand why, now I know. I have had a huge response to the injustices of the past, now I know why. I am grateful that the Creator has placed me in this learning environment at the appearance of my Point in the Heart. I am ready–studying and pleading with Ein Sof to continue with my spiritual development and soul transformation. Thank you Tony, for being our guide. The Creator placed me in the Seventh-day Adventist Church when I was 20, made me a teacher in its schools where I still work. I’ve been searching for the next step for a long time; but I know G-d has a reason for taking me where I’ve been and where I am going. His will is perfect–enhancing the soul.
Freedom is to realize there is no force that acts upon us but the Creator. His will is to bestow and for the creatures to enjoy the pleasure He bestows. Freedom comes when we desire to be in partnership, adherence with the Creator. He bestows, we receive and we bestow that which we receive. We love Him as He loves us and we love one another because we are all parts of the Shechina. She longs to have us all under her wings. If we are indeed connected, we will love one another as He loves us. We experience freedom to choose our environment to be one which nurtures this internal Spirituality. Our freedom is not in the corporeality of this world, it is in relationship with our Creator. As the Reforming Light’s presence within us is felt to increasing degrees, through prayer, connection, and study—our sense, feeling of connection with the Spiritual World grows.
Hi Seth,
My perceptions need to grow and change. I have always thought of the things that happen, that are by human perception “bad” events, as things that the Creator allows because we choose the path of pain —“the school of hard knocks”— because we are immature and our ego rules us. We know what God wants us to do, but we choose not to do it.
So, my question now is: if God is the only force acting in all of Creation, then we must think of Him as the Creator of all of man’s actions, and situations that man must face. He brings a Holocaust or any of the other atrocities we can see acting in the world. I know that God’s desire is to bring us back into adherence to Him, and being Omniscient, He knows what is required to make that happen. But, as one who has studied the scriptures for many years, the atrocities are difficult to attribute to our perfectly loving Father. In the book of Job, Satan is introduced as one who is allowed to “sift” Job. Is our Creator actually the force that performed this sifting?
P.S. How do I know when you have answered?
Sincerely,
Deborah — Truly Seeking — Calling Out to God to help me.
All that came into being came into being at His will, as a result of Him thinking and speaking. The Light entered the darkness and Creation began. From what I understand, the Creator restricted His infinite presence from a certain space and then He filled it with His Creation. He is omnipresent, both within us and surrounding us. He fills all things and surrounds all things. I focus on becoming more intensely aware of His presence working within and though me. My desire is to adhere to Him so fully so that I can lose my false sense of separation. I am His and He is mine — we should be so entangled that I have no desire to establish the self sought by the ego, but rather — in Him I live and move and have my being.
My best experience from the previous course was that I have found a course of study that is right for this time in my life. There have been points of light leading me to this knowledge for many years, but I knew to wait until the right time and the right way. This feels right. I expect to deepen my experience and awareness of connection with our Creator, His intention, and the souls I come in contact with every day.
