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As I have already mentioned (or rather, as Edgar Cayce used to say), it is not success or failure that counts, but the trying. The soul wants to find its way back to God and it will try everything that will lead it there.
Helped by guides, the individual consciousness will invent (more or less) difficult life situations that the person (the soul which incarnates) will have to experience. The soul-person will often be placed in situations where s/he will have to decide and make choices. Let us not forget that the soul looks for trials. These experiences are not conceived so that man falls and hurts himself, but so that he may get up more capable than before.
So, every soul that comes to Earth voluntarily places itself in situations where the personality will be put to the test. It (the person) will be asked to act in all sorts of situations where s/he will have to test whether the will is stronger than the events presented. Each test is all about whether the will power is strong enough to overcome the events, or whether the events and tests are stronger than the Will of the individual.
So as to live events leading to actualization, a person is born with no memory of the mission to which s/he was assigned. During apprenticeship a person is subjected to the risks of the chosen education system. People may try to change them and lead them on different routes, trying to lead them away from the line of conduct the soul had agreed upon.
Every person is born with tastes, aptitudes and desires. Ask a child what he wants to do when he grows up and he will answer that he wants to be like his father or he may choose another pro-fession. The answer shows that he has already shown his soul's intention. Therefore, he must be encouraged on his way, even if it differs with what his parents had planned for him; for each person has his own way and his own job to do. Once the goal is more or less fixed and we have a fair idea of what we want, we usually choose to study in the chosen field. Then come the real tests.
People may contradict and influence us, or at least, try to. Others would like us to change our-selves, usually by adopting their ways. Everybody preaches in favour of his "nook of the woods". Throughout all this, one has to keep one's own counsel. Yet, for various reasons one may some-times change. Sometimes one will change for the sake of love or gain. If one is born poor and desires to be rich, it would be possible to influence him/her by words such as "you were born for a small portion, you will not enjoy much". If we are disturbed by words that degrade us in our own eyes, we will be willing to change our environment. It we let ourselves be convinced in any way, if we allow ourselves to be turned away from our vision, we give power to those who try to change us. We really must do research on what we want. We must develop the means to get there, scorning the opinions of other's while striding towards our destiny with confidence and faith.
When we make up our mind about what we want, and after we have studied and taken all the steps that would normally lead us to success in our chosen field, then we would have taken the first step towards our goal. The more we advance, the clearer our vision becomes and the more clearly we can mark out objections that our action may bring forth.
Will we be strong enough to vanquish the obstacles? Will we have enough faith to believe that our endeavour will ripen for our greatest good, and that of those we are trying to help? When the trials and tests start raining down on us or when we flinch for the first time when faced with obstacles, but still affirm that we will be stronger and make new resolutions, we reaffirm our intentions. Some will contradict or threaten us. Our will begins to bend a little each time we be-lieve that such and such a person is right and that we had not seen things that way. Gradually, without our being aware of it, our ideal jumps ship. We would like to be loved, but there are so many people to please. Of course, if we change a few things about ourselves, individually, we would please more people and so, be loved more. On the other hand, if we change our mind we will have to change other arguments too.
And doubts move in. "Maybe my vision was not that good", we say to ourselves! Doubts become stronger and stronger; they gain control. We refuse the idea that others control us. We state that we are masters of our destiny and know where we are going, and that everything is for the best.
But in truth, we perjure ourselves. We know it, but we do not want to lose face before others. What would they say if they knew I am a traitor to my own vision because I am afraid of what others would say? So, here we go, on the calvary of evasions, retractions, attempts like: "No, I did not say that." "What I meant was this or that." "You didn't catch my meaning!" A little at a time we become bogged down in the lies we invent, we try to forget our mission, our ideal.
If we go on with our lies, hoodwinking others, we risk developing a serious sickness such as can-cer, for example. What do cancer cells do? They grow on healthy cells. Our weakness grows on our ideal. We lose the power of our Will and in truth that is what kills us. Forgetting or rather disguising our mission by transforming it, by prostituting ourselves because we are afraid, we refuse to fulfil the ideal for which we are born. In effect, we kill ourselves when we kill our ideal.
However, the ideal comes from the soul, and our Will must be put in the service of Conscious-ness and not in that of our weaknesses. What the soul has decided in agreement with its guides must be fulfilled. Since we refuse to cooperate, we shall sooner or later be dismissed from our job. Surgery or other treatments can heal the developed sickness, but the stigma will remain on the soul. The soul will suffer from our desertion. Sometimes everything may appear to be well, on the surface, but the fact will remain that we have failed. Our own consciousness will not let us rest. As we got used to lies, so we shall rock ourselves to sleep with illusions. We will say to our-selves: "The time has not come, it was too soon, people were not ready." We will find every reason in the World not to look truth in the face, and soul will suffer. Then comes the death of the body and we'll find ourselves on the "other side". Helped by our guides, we will then start on a new apprenticeship and choose to come back again. Full of good intentions, with a clearer mind we will understand the reasons for our previous failure. Once more we will be born with all the tools that we need to accomplish the mission we are charged with, to forget it again and start a new life.
As I said earlier, all possible help has been placed on our road to aid us in fulfilling the desires of our soul. We have the choice of saying yes to soul and develop our willpower or fall back into the rut we dug so many times before. Since Consciousness has a Plan, a time will eventually come when we will have to choose between life and non-life. Mind you, I didn't say between 'life' and 'death': I said "non-life".
When the earthly personality of individuals gets to that point, Consciousness will gather those souls within Her womb and take them to another place, a dimension where no individual Con-sciousness exists.
These souls will be lovingly placed there with deep tenderness, for Consciousness is Love. These souls will sleep an incomprehensible night, without dream, without any consciousness whatso-ever, even without the consciousness of being. Then they will be washed, purified in depth of all souvenir, action and weakness. They will rest, without knowing. One day, Consciousness will remember that She has sleeping children. She will wake them up as if newly created and will invite them to experience the Universe. These "new' children will be as free as we have been. They will know their "first" Big Bang.
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