Anarchistbanjo's World

This entire series of posts will contain new and perhaps difficult information that must have time to be slowly digested and appreciated. So I’m just going to take baby steps here as we talk more about the seven-fold soul and the physical body. Just to be clear the personality is tied to the physical body we currently inhabit and is discarded with the death of the physical body itself.

But the seven-fold soul carries the sense of self or identity that exists from life time to life time and this sense of self or identity, this soul, grows more complex and sensitive as it gains lifetimes of experience. We are not the same in the sense that some of us have only a few lifetimes here on earth and others have millenniums of experience here on earth that include lifetimes as other living species.

Our physical bodies are male or female according to our gender at birth, but our soul remains equally balanced between male and female although polarity still exists at the soul level. We can have a male/female soul or a female/male soul and which one will determine the nature of our soul growth and its development from life time to life time. It will also determine which type of soul we are attracted to.

There is a strong energetic attraction between a soul that is male/female and one that is female/male. These opposites are drawn together in what are often termed love relationships. The exchange of energies between these opposites create the energy and catalyst for further soul growth for both individuals. Roughly speaking there is a spark, there is attraction and a sense of becoming more complete through the dynamics of that relationship. Then the spark is gone and there is no further catalytic effect. No more growth, at least not the type of growth that marked the intense beginning of the love relationship.

Now life evolved from the cellular upwards into more highly evolved and complex life forms. We will find humans at all levels of evolution and we will find animals and other species at all levels of evolution. The youngest and least experienced souls will be drawn together at the lower and most primitive levels. Only the more advanced and more complex souls will be drawn together at the highest levels.

But we all forget from life time to life time and must relearn the lessons of the soul from the ground up beginning with raw sexuality and physical attraction. So we teach each other and help each other on the slow path of soul development. From the perspective of the mystery schools this process could be called a type of serial monogamy even though physical sex is not required for the energy exchange between the romantic couple.

The natural cycle of falling in love, growth of the soul and then falling out of love, only to find a new and more evolved partner to fall in love with needs to be understood and recognized. for what it is. Moving step by step up the evolutionary ladder of the soul. It is only when the seven-fold layers of the soul have been developed that we can even begin to consider permanent or long lasting soulmate or divine counterpart relationships.

The critical factor to be avoided here from the perspective of the mystery schools is the falling into debauchery and indiscriminate physical sexual relationships that actually harm the soul and cause it to lose its way. For this reason and others a distinction has always been made between chaste relationships (serial monogamy) and indiscriminate sexuality. There should never be a rush toward physical consummation of the spiritual relationship, but a savoring of it while it lasts, knowing that you may both quite likely be evolving in different directions. (at least until all seven astral bodies have been permanently activated)