The Soul's Pilgrimage

In What Happens After Death, the author, Migene Gonzalez-Wippler, relates Kirkudian's [Astral Name] existences in physicality.

Kirkudian explains the soul's pilgrimage through matter—.

The Soul's Pilgrimage

Kirkudian explains that a soul's pilgrimage represents the sum of incarnations through which that soul must journey for its purification. When this forced exile ends, the soul is offered a choice—

A soul's pilgrimage represents the sum of incarnations through which that soul must journey for its purification.

When this forced exile ends, the soul is offered a choice—

It may remain in whatever level of the astral plane its evolutionary work has prepared it for, or it may return to the material world of its choice, as either a guide or protector of one of its inhabitants.

In certain cases, the soul may choose to become the guide to the collective soul of a race.

It may do so as valour, love, peace, faith, hope, compassion, or any of the many virtues that help material beings overcome their baser instincts.

A soul may always choose to accept or reject a mission, when offered by its guides, as this is part of its free will.

All new souls are innocent.

They arrive on the material plane with no concept of what life, and living are all about.

Their mission is to learn the lessons of the material world, to exist in matter, striving always to purify matter, without allowing themselves to be contaminated by its powerful emanations.

This is not an easy task, and very few souls are able to accomplish their missions in their first incarnations. The material world is dense, and its vibrations can be overwhelming.

Most incarnated souls are strongly influenced by matter, and wind up losing contact with the higher realms to which they really belong.

This is often inevitable because all souls must go through the physical experience, which, in turn, obliterates the astral echoes, making it difficult for the young soul to remember its mission and true origin.

At the end of each material existence, the soul has learned new lessons.

If it has allowed itself to be overpowered by the material world, and, in consequence, broken the cosmic laws, it must repeat the same experience repeatedly until it has learned its lessons without breaking the laws.

The first lesson all souls must learn is pain.

The soul is immune to pain because it is perfect.

Pain is an expression of the imperfection of the material world.

The soul knows this, but the body does not.

It may suspect the truth, but the power of matter, and the apparent evidence of the senses, fill it with confusion.

The body believes only what it sees—what it perceives to be reality—which is why it suffers pain, whether moral or physical.

All souls are required to undergo many lives, or incarnations, in their quest for spiritual purification.

This does not mean that they share the same number of experiences, or, for that matter, an equal amount of time in the material plane.

Certain souls may require more time and incarnations than others to complete their cycle of learning.

Failure to learn any one lesson may require the soul to relive similar existences many times until that particular lesson has been completely assimilated.

The Trianic Record

The Trianic Record is a list of the violations of the three major Cosmic Laws by a soul, whether free, or incarnated.

These three laws are simple.

The first says that a soul should never function, or act as One but as part of the All.

The second says that a soul should never forfeit its evolutionary advancement through the avoidance of experience.

And the third says that a vessel of experience—such as a physical form—should never be wilfully destroyed.

These three laws have three important codicils that are not laws in themselves, but seeds of enlightenment that lead to the return to the Force, which is the ultimate aim of evolution.

The Three Codicils

The first codicil says that self-sacrifice, for the sake of another, is a sign of approaching enlightenment, for the soul recognises at that point in its evolution that all others are parts of itself.

The second codicil says that acceptance, in all its forms, is the seed of humility—the most precious of all virtues—and leads to bliss.

The third codicil says that love leads to regeneration and total union, and is the source of the All.

The three laws, and three codicils, are encoded within a soul, as it emanates from The All, but the soul often forgets them when it is imprisoned in a physical form, pursuing its path of evolution.

The All—that is, the Creator, or Cosmic Oversoul—manifests its essence in the form of myriad souls, for the purpose of experiencing matter.

Each soul is a part of The Cosmic Oversoul, and it is to It that each soul must eventually return; each cycle of experiences completed, and the soul purified through the path of evolution.

Dual Energy

In the natural order of the Universe, everything has a dual nature—positive and negative, masculine and feminine.

From the heart of the atom, proton, and electron, to the most advanced beings, all that exists is formed of opposite charges in perfectly harmonious balance.

From this perfect union arose light and life.

Twin Souls or Soul Mates

Twin souls, or soul mates, united in love—like the atom, like God—are hermaphroditic in essence because their combined entity encompasses both the male and female. Therefore, in their natural state, two souls—positive and negative energies, male and female in the physical worlds—exist as one essence. But when this dual-energy vortex, that is the soul, manifests in the physical world, it is temporarily divided into two halves so that it may experience each individual trait and recognise the importance of union. It often happens that the female aspect of the soul is incarnated into a male physical body—and vice versa—which creates pain and confusion for the soul that knows its true gender.

Only after a series of incarnations, during which each half of the soul immerses itself in the material world, transcends it, and purifies itself, can the two halves meet again and reunite for eternity. But the material world is powerful, and eventually, each half of the incarnated soul becomes wrapped up in its new body and life, and forgets its true spiritual essence. Often this causes it to fail in the assimilation of the experiences of a lifetime.

The one thing a soul never forgets is that it is incomplete, that an intrinsic part of its essence is missing.

That is why, as long as it is incarnated in a physical body, the soul searches constantly, and unconsciously, for its missing half, and is often attracted to those beings who remind it, however faintly, of its true soul mate or twin soul.

This search is generally in vain, as it is very rare for twin souls to be incarnated in the same place at the same time.

When this happens, however, the attraction is immediate and all-encompassing, even though the two soul mates may not know the reason for its intensity.

But, for the most part, only one soul incarnates at a time while the other remains in the astral plane.

Purification

There is no punishment.

Each soul passes through several lives to experience matter, to learn new lessons, but because matter is dense and corruptive, purification is necessary in the measure in which the soul corrupts itself.

Souls interact and often act as each other's athanors to effect purification.

Some spirits advance more rapidly than others in their path of experiential search, but eventually, they all return to the Light whence they originated.

When a soul falls into the trap of identifying with the material world completely, breaking one or more of the Cosmic Laws in the process, it must be purified through sorrow and self-sacrifice in the course of many existences.

That is why sorrow and self-sacrifice are such important lessons. As long as you reject them, you reject purification.

Migene Gonzalez-Wippler, What Happens After Death, Scientific and Personal Evidence for Survival, Part Two, Chapter 1, Kirkudian, 127-128; Chapter Two, The First Lesson, 134; Chapter Three, Soul Mates, 143 - 144; Chapter Six, Purification, 194; Llewellyn Publications, Minnesota, United States, 1997