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The I AM, Soul and Personality

In this realm of perfection, many beings have always abided. Some never chose physical embodiment. They developed there, not desiring manifestation in the world of form. Some did choose incarnation on earth. These were brave spirits who had passed through the seven spheres and wanted to experiment with the use of life in its fullness; developing greater dexterity by the drawing of the powers of creation through the thought and feeling centers into the lower atmosphere where it required more energy to mold substance into forms. Some applied for the opportunity to embody here on earth. The closer you are to the heart of God, the more quickly does light substance respond to thought and feeling and the easier it is to create. As you pass outward through the Seven Spheres, the vibrations of the electronic substance which is obedient to thought and feeling becomes slower and it takes more energy and more endeavor to create manifestations of a definite constructive design.

Therefore, it was the bold and the strong who descended through the seven spheres, developing the powers of conscious thought and feeling and resultant precipitation through free will. These, then, who chose to embody on earth waited with their manu until the earth was habitable, to further develop the power of using thought to make a mold; using feeling to vitalize that mold and using the medium of a physical body to lower that mold into physical form. They asked that they might descend into a beautiful and refined earth body and complete the cycle of externalization by molding earth’s substance into the pattern and form of the divine ideas received from God. Thus the Manu of the First Root Race and its seven sub-races came forth together with his pupils.

The earth was created beautifully by the seven Elohim; the sun of even pressure in its center sent forth a radiation that was visible as a soft glow beneath the grass, the flowers and the sea. The flowers were like flames and there was no decay. At the end of its season of expression, each manifestation just disappeared. Beloved Amaryllis, Virgo and beloved Neptune, Aries and all the beings of nature had created such a magnificent earth that when humankind first embodied upon it, there was little difference between the earth and the beautiful heavens. As the builders of form completed the formation of the earth, lovely beings using the I AM Consciousness, took primal life and, holding up the cup of their minds to their own Presence, received the Will of God in the form of ideas. Then they were able to mold those ideas into definite patterns and fill them with the feeling of love. Then, using the flesh body, they externalized them in the physical appearance world by the power of precipitation. They built on earth even as they had built in heaven. The first Golden Age manifested the same temples, the same exquisite perfection that these beings knew at inner levels. There was not one in that earth cycle who did not complete the course of evolution in perfect harmony.

The second cycle was the same. Follow me closely, for I am telling you scientific facts which apply to the conditions in which you stand today and it can raise you out of limitation! The blessed beings of the third cycle then came forth. In the use of the I AM Consciousness, the natural activity of each day was to tune into the Presence, because the outer self and the Presence were one. Each individual 'tuned into' his own Presence and the divine ideas for that day flowed into his mind. So many magnificent ideas poured forth in one day that the outer self could not fulfill them all. The outer self chose those ideas which would be of the greatest blessing to the universe and each day the outer self was about the Father's Business! It was very beautiful. Then came the human consciousness, that in which you live today and which I AM trying to redeem, transmuting it back into your I AM self again.

Then the earth offered to accept certain lifestreams who had not attained the development required to progress with their planets and systems. Those systems had to move on in a great forward push, something like what the earth is going to do within the next eighteen year period. The whole creative scheme had been delayed because of these 'laggards'. The earth and her evolutions, being of a more condensed and therefore slower vibratory action than the successive systems, offered to take on these laggards, hoping by contagion and by the pressure of purity within the earth's people and their guardian spirits, to redeem the laggards quickly. For a hundred years the priests and priestesses in the temples made continuous application for the protection of the consciousness of the masses of earth's people against contagion through proximity, by which imperfect forms might register within their consciousness. Up to this time earth's people had seen nothing less than perfection. How did those laggards get into the evolutions of earth? They came through the pure bodies of women belonging to this perfect, harmonious, innocent evolution, who offered to give them the opportunity for incarnation on the earth. These women were chosen because of their tremendous spiritual strength, so that the body elemental might have all the assistance possible and the heritage of good and evil in the consciousness of these egos might be mitigated, you might say, by the pressures of light in the consciousness of the mother during the period of gestation and the early earth life.

These individuals were born. The parents of these laggards performed one of the greatest sacrifices know in any galaxy, taking into their physical bodies, consciousness and homes, these individuals whose radiation was such that it has drawn the earth to this present condition today. Now, what happened? Here is the point where you left the I AM Consciousness, beloved ones. After birth, when these egos grew to a certain age, the Holy Christ Self had to release a certain amount of karma, with opportunity for redemption. However, instead of redeeming it, they yielded to its malign influences and began to create secretly in thought and in feeling forms of an impure and distorted nature. These began to spread into the atmosphere, just like a smog over a city and were picked up by the sensitive consciousnesses of the race. Previously these were used to draw only beauty from the Presence and externalize divine perfection. While the temptation could have been repelled and the mind not allowed to accept or entertain those thought patterns and feelings, some among the race, in secret, opened their consciousness to those thought patterns and played with their feelings until finally there began to be externalized imperfections of form.

... The first thought a man had that was imperfect and impure, energized by a secret feeling, was a cause and that, sent out into the atmosphere created an effect. Like a boomerang, the effect came back into the consciousness and made a record. That record was the beginning of an impression. Energy sent out in a certain manner, returned to affect the lifestream who had sent if forth and there began to be created a shadow between the I AM Presence and the human consciousness. Endeavoring to contact the Presence, the individual would find these 'tramp' thoughts and feelings flowing through that line of contact until more and more imperfect was the conscious use of them. Finally, those centers got completely away from the control of the ego and acted independently. Anything the individual saw, registered on the mind, was energized by feelings and manifested. Acting independent of the Presence, thought and feeling created most of the conditions in which you are functioning today.

Through the ages, blessed children, the creation of thoughtforms and the energizing of those forms by feeling as well as the action that follows through the flesh, has built an etheric consciousness. The soul is the accumulated consciousness resulting from your experimental use of life, action and reaction. The tendencies, habits and nature of your soul are determined by the ways in which you have used life through the centuries and what life has returned to you age after age. Your soul endures in embodiment and between embodiment. Your soul will continue to live until it is transmuted by the flame in your heart and there is no longer this shadow self that thinks and feels apart from the Christ. Your soul lives through every personality (embodiment) that you use. Today you have a name; you were born into a family; you live, if fortunate, approximately threescore and ten years and then you 'pass away' as a personality. That personality is no more, but the soul of you in the etheric garment, influences each personality which you become in each succeeding incarnation. If you were to look at an unbroken stream of one hundred of your earth lives, you would find that the soul was more or less the same through each personality.

Now we have to undo the effect of millions and millions of these embodiments in the matter of a few short years! We are endeavoring to teach you to enter again into the authority of your own I AM Consciousness, drawing primal life and getting directions from your Presence. You must learn to silence the cravings of your lower bodies; the etheric rumblings; the human tendencies. Then, in the mastery and control of your own life, you must begin to build anew as your God Self would have you do, until there is not two- the soul and God-but God alone. Thus are you re-instated as the I AM Consciousness; master of thought, feeling and action; absolutely non-recordant to the impressions of the human selves of others...

Beloved ones, contagion caused the fall of this earth. Contagion of doubts, fears, impurity.... is a force which you must diligently prevent, if you intend to be master by the power of your Godhead. You are in a constant sea of moving energy, besides your own accumulation of the soul. Every paper you read; every piece of music you hear; every picture you look upon that registers in the mind and which the feeling animates, adds to the accumulation of your limitations...

What is the greatest avenue of teaching? Example! You are the guardians who offered to protect those who 'fell from grace', not only did they 'fall' but you have gone after them! Therefore, it is to you we come with this explanation. It is not enough to enjoy it. Oh, I implore you with all the love of my heart to do something about it! This simple sincere call for the purifying of your soul, oh, that does more than you can know. As those mighty currents of purifying energy surge through the etheric body in answer to your call, I tell you blessed ones, I have watched the benefits to your soul. The souls of men are weighted down with all manner of human distress.

Now it is your souls to which I speak: The I AM of you is happy; the I AM of you is God-Free; the I AM of you has never known limitations. I AM the servant of the soul of you, that part of you which seeks redemption; that consciousness which is the thinking, feeling self of you and I shall not let you go until that soul is pure as snow, until the hour comes when, in great relief, you can say, "the Father and I are one"! It will come! It must come! For love, the greatest activity in the universe, cannot be denied! I embody love and I AM one with the Christ and you.

Speaking now through the soul's self asking for release; asking for authority; asking for redemption; asking for freedom; I AM the Christ in you come again! I AM the Christ come again! All the earth hears me! I AM the Christ come again! The 'second coming' is not a mystery. It is the reinstatement of your Godhood upon its throne of authority, accepting the reins of your thought and feeling and again moving as the majestic embodied God, which you really are, that I AM, and that you shall become!