How does the soul attain its evolution?

How does the soul attain its ultimate evolution?

Your soul is eternal, being part of the divine essence. For reasons known to Him who is over all, it is deemed essential that the soul should be passed through the training of physical life. It is part of the process by which the soul attains its ultimate evolution.

Hubble captures the supernova remnant 1E 0102.2-7219 | NASA/ESA/J. Banovetz and D. Milisavljevic (Purdue University)

Your life is open to the eyes of invisible spirits.

Remember; your life is open to the eyes of those invisible spirits who are permitted to see what you think and hear what you say. You are encompassed about by a far greater company of witnesses than you imagine.

A view of NGC 6826 | Bruce Balick (University of Washington)/Jason Alexander (University of Washington)/Arsen Hajian (U.S. Naval Observatory)/Yervant Terzian (Cornell University)/Mario Perinotto (University of Florence, Italy)/Patrizio Patriarchi (Arcetri Observatory, Italy)/NASA/ESA

Where I am there is life!

Where I am, there is life and a life that has love as its vital breath.

—Spirit Julia

NGC 595—a diffuse nebula in the Triangulum Galaxy | NASA/ESA/M. Durbin, J. Dalcanton and B. F. Williams (University of Washington)

What ought you to do?

What ought I to do?

After your meditation, jot down, for your guidance, any suggestions that may have occurred to you.

You will find this exercise very helpful.

Hubble and Chandra spot a celestial bauble | NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)/CXC/SAO/J. Hughes

What can I do about this?

What can I do about this?

After your meditation, jot down, for your guidance, any suggestions that may have occurred to you.

You will find this exercise very helpful.

A dying star’s final moments are captured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope | ESA/Hubble & NASA/Acknowledgement—M. Novak

They are a part of your life.

All those who have, in any way, by sympathy or antipathy, come into direct personal contact with you, in a very real sense, are a part of your life. Remember that.

Cosmic Fireworks in Ultraviolet | NASA/ESA/N. Smith (University of Arizona, Tucson)/J. Morse (BoldlyGo Institute, New York)

Flood your life with loving thoughts.

Flood your life with loving thoughts—it is the heart's blood of divine love in you. If you can do nothing else, think of those who have mingled their lives with yours. Feel in every nerve, the quickening stimulus of sympathy and affection. After all, who can estimate the means of grace which thereby would be opened to your fellow beings?

Sunset glow in Orion | ESA/Hubble & NASA

What is the cause of most of the sadness in the world?

What is the cause of most of the sadness in the world?

Not poverty of this world's wealth, but the poverty of loving thought. If you can do nothing else, think of your duties to your friends; think of them lovingly, for the loving thought of a friend is an angel of God sent to carry a benediction to the soul.

—Spirit Julia

A piercing eye in the sky (NGC 3918) | ESA/Hubble and NASA

I commend her message.

I commend her message concerning your duty to your friends.

Not poverty of this world's wealth, but the poverty of loving thought. If you can do nothing else, think of your duties to your friends; think of them lovingly, for the loving thought of a friend is an angel of God sent to carry a benediction to the soul.

—Spirit Julia

Hubble spies eight green filaments lit up by past quasar blasts | NASA/ESA/Galaxy Zoo Team and W. Keel (University of Alabama, USA)

What is the reign of law?

The will of God, which is deciphered here and in the world of spirits as law, stretches unbroken from this side to the other side. 

You will find that spirits who have been able to see and feel and know that God is love will also tell you that love, no more on this side than the other side, precludes pain and suffering and the phenomena of imperfection. 

Spirits have not attained. 

They press forward to the mark of their high calling in the spirit world as on earth.

IC 4406 | NASA/ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI)

When the earthly garment decays you remain.

Do you think that spirits are transfigured into the fullness of His glory because the earthly house of their tabernacle is dissolved? No; truly. They are as they are.

When the earthly garment decays, you remain; you are as you are.

NGC 2346 | NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI)

You make your next life.

Yes, you are a manufactured article, so to speak. You are, in the loom of time, weaving the fabric of your life in eternity.

Live life in eternity now.

Dying star creates a fantasy-like sculpture of gas and dust | ESA/NASA/HEIC/Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

You are as you are.

You do not realise it—you often deny it—there is, in the next life, no sudden transformation. You are as you were. There is no break in continuity. You start where you left off. 

What you are you remain.

NGC 3132 | Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA/NASA/ESA)

Are you conscious of the responsibility of life?

You are never—for one moment—idle from influencing eternity. This is not a figure of speech. You are, far more really than you imagine, weaving the fabric of your next life. 

You make your own next life. 

You do it day by day, you do it hour by hour. 

You make your next life. 

A maelstrom of star birth | NASA/ESA/C.R. O'Dell and S.K. Wong (Rice University)

Disbelief in hell?

People do not believe in the hell of fire anymore, but they have—by their recoil—forgotten that there is a real hell. It is we who populate hell on earth and in heaven.

Hubble Space Telescope (visible) Image of the Crab Nebula | NASA, ESA/Hubble

What makes the world in which you live?

Thought makes the world in which you live.

The iridescent glory of a nearby planetary nebula, Helix Nebula | NASA/NOAO/ESA/Hubble Helix Nebula Team/M. Meixner (STScI)/T.A. Rector (NRAO)

You have no time to pray?

You have no time to pray? 

Think—a loving thought is prayer. 

Then make time to think of those you love. It may be a smile, it may be a word, it may be a letter, it may be praise; whatever it is, it is due from you to each of these.

Probing the tattered remains of the supernova remnant N132D | NASA, ESA and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team

What is the cause of most of the sadness?

What is the excuse for half the unkindness in the world? 

What is the cause of most of the sadness? 

Not poverty of this world's wealth, but the poverty of loving thought.

Stingray Nebula and SAO 244567 | ESA/Hubble & NASA

How do you fulfil your own prayers?

How do you fulfil your own prayers? 

Think with real feeling and earnestness of another's welfare; long to help him and you do help him. Here is, as it were, the secret source whereby the fire is fed which would else have flickered out and died.

NGC 6741 (Phantom Streak Nebula) | ESA/Hubble and NASA

What is the supreme need of the soul?

The supreme need of your soul is to realise the power of your thoughts.

The supreme need of your soul is to think, think, think!

The supreme need of your soul is time to think, which means time to love, that is, time to live.