Yep, I get it.HopefulChild wrote:It is a simple distinction.
I just feel that it has significant and far reaching implications when there is a distinction made between a human spirit and an animal spirit. i see humans as animals.
I apologize if I wasn't clear that I was literally discussing animals. I hold the view that the tree of life is literally a family tree. I don't think I could look at my human family tree and begin to pick and choose which relatives are beneath me or have a different kind of soul than the one I have.
That is why I feel it is arrogant. And I don't intend the word arrogant to have any insult, It's just a state of consideration.
I see and this is where we differ because I believe all our actions (mundane and magickal) affect not just my habits, values and destiny but also the different planes and the cosmos. Perhaps an analogy may illustrate the concept of correspondence: A person is hungry and weak. He needs something to eat. To get them, he must perform certain actions. He goes to the fridge, opens the door, takes out the milk a food, closes the fridge, takes a plate, put some food in his plate, take a spoonful of that food, lifts it to his lips, opens his mouth, bites and swallows.I don't believe that either. In doing magic I don't feel my responsibility is to the cosmos. My decisions and actions will affect my soul. And that is a lesson or understanding that each person needs to take seriously in my opinion. But I don't think there is a form of judgement or measurement after we move into the next phase.
Intentional harm and cruelty can't be good for you. The evidence and historical precedent is overwhelmingly in favor of this. Cruelty to yourself and others affects your brain patterns, changes your thinking and so on.
Most of these actions are crucial to achieve desired purpose and so is the order in which they're performed. Opening a different door, getting something inside it and raising it to his mouth may result in his swallowing poison instead of food. Doing everything correctly and in the proper order with proper tool, but neglecting to bite will just make him choke. Getting the food but refusing to open his mouth makes the whole exercise futile. Even changing the utensil like instead using a spoon, he use knife would slow the process of eating. Each action, tools and the order in which it is performed make a difference.
To an observer, the whole process of this action is very fathomable. However, envision watching not the person, but rather his shadow on the floor and walls. You can't easily grasp what's being done. A distorted human shape would extend his arm towards a strange form (the shadow of the fridge), cause both the shadow of the person and the fridge to change shape (by opening the door), pull something out, move it in a very strange way and so on and so forth. All actions would be quite incomprehensible. The purpose of the actions wouldn't be discernible; the food might add nothing to the shadow, you can't even distinguish and identify it as a food or perhaps essentially invisible to the observer.
We live in a physical plane which is really just a shadow of reality: the cosmos. We're given the ability to manipulate the cosmos and to utilize its elements through our action and thought. Living in the shadows as we do, we can't always understand what the purpose of our shadow actions is. However, they very important to achieve the purpose we desire to fulfill as to the wellbeing of the cosmos: only our soul can comprehend their meaning and essence.
And I believe these shadows are recorded in Akashic Record. The Akasha is the substratum of all matter. It is even more basic or fundamental than what the Western physicists call the quantum level of matter. Everything that transpires on earth, every thought, every feeling or action we have experienced is recorded in akasha. I believe I create my own akashic record at the time of my birth and will end at the time of my death. This record is permanent and cannot be erased or modified even a bit.
This Akasha I believe is what my soul will examine when I died. And based on what the record reveals, I'm going to judge my Self, my soul.
By the way, the Akashic record is also what makes psychometry and retrocognition possible. When we hold an object, we leave something of ourselves in that object and it will be gradually recorded in the object's akashic record. This doesn't take place on the physical level but on the energy level.
When I studied and accepted this esoteric eastern teaching that every shadow is indelibly and permanently stored in Akasha, then most paranormal phenomenon becomes reasonable and no longer mystifying . Even western science claims that nothing on earth is ever destroyed, but merely transmuted or changed. The Akasha is the movie camera of the astral, mental and spiritual world. It records and preserves literally everything that happens in the universe.
To Yoruba, evolution and change is achieve through death. In words of Arthur Peacocke:How does Yoruba address Soul Evolution? Or does it. You mentioned "elevated spiritual state" but what does that mean?
The elevated spiritual state I'm speaking of is actually a Kabbalistic point of view but interestingly, Yoruba tradition also believe that through death, soul change its state and also its abode. The Yoruba believe that there is a state, attainable by human soul, beyond the limits of our understanding. And this is attested to by the beliefs and practices of Yoruba people such as veneration of the ancestors, ancestral altars and shrine, funerary rituals, reincarnation, etc.Evolution can operate only through the death of individuals, New forms of matter arise only through the dissolution of the old; new life only through death of the old. We as individuals would not be here at all, as members of the species. Homo Saphiens if our forerunners in the evolutionary process had not died. Biological death was present on the earth long before human beings arrived on the scene, and is the prerequisite of our coming into existence through the processes of biological evolution whereby God, thesist must assume, creates new species including Home Sapiens.
Yes as animal soul doesn't have physical form, I believe.Once elevated is the cow no longer a cow?
I would just want to clarify and distinguish that it is self-reflection and judgement rather than someone greater is judging my soul. And not heavenly court but otherwordly court as I want to make it distinct with the Christian view of heavens which is just located above the clouds where souls of the departed ones are kneeling before God, talking to the elders or judges, weeping, confessing, accounting, recounting, and being judged.And his tradition does require judgement for elevation. It's very plainly written by him that a Heavenly Court makes an accounting, and then the soul makes a self evaluation of "right and wrong" actions, and he states that in applying ourselves to strive for improvement we make a pact with the cosmos that there is a right and wrong way to advance our standard. That's a simplified summation of his words, but certainly his words.
...and I just ran out of time because I need to sleep. Its 2:17 AM here.
I have more to say but I better say it later! Oops...