Perfect – Just Ignorant

There probably are not many times when you have heard someone claim that you are perfect. Consider all the baggage which needs to be overcome to make such a proclamation: personal judgment, societal norms, biases, and social customs. Yes, it is possible to make such a statement about someone, and yet, do they believe we mean it?

For me to proceed with this writing and ensure that you understand that I’m sincere it my acknowledgement of you, I would like you to hear something from Meister Eckhart, a 13-14th century German theologian and mystic, and an anonymous quote from Theologia Germanica, a mystical writing from the 14th century.

“To gauge the soul we must gauge it with God, for the Ground of God and the Ground of the Soul are one and the same.”

“Goodness needeth not to enter into the soul, for it is there already, only it is unperceived.”

Both of these passages speak to the nature of what I’m about to convey to you. You are perfect! Not only you, but everyone you know, everyone around you, even all the people on the entire planet! As a matter of fact, everyone who has ever walked upon this earth is good too! (Notice I didn’t use the past tense form here. More on that later.)

Now I recognize how my last claim there is going to send up alarms claiming that there have been people who committed such atrocities throughout history that to claim them being good is a sign of a deranged individual unworthy of giving any further attention. But if you can pause for a minute before you leave me and look at the title of this posting again, you might be able to proceed as I explore the “…Just Ignorant” portion of this writing.

I need to clarify something here as we proceed. Case matters. Upper case words represent divinely intuitive properties or entities. Lower case words represent sense-based (e.g. sight, sound, smell, taste, feeling) properties or entities.

The Beginning

Everything has a beginning, a starting point, a genesis moment. Every human begins at conception when a male sperm enters a female egg, and the creation event begins to unfold. At some point in this drama, the Soul enters the developing fetus. The Soul is the spiritual entity which is made “in the image and likeness” of God. It is the true you. It is eternal and divine. Your Soul is good, is love, is one with the Creator Spirit.

The “You” as the Soul never dies. Yes, it inhabits a mortal shell which travels the time spectrum from birth through childhood, into adulthood, the blossom of maturity, the decrepit march into old age until the final exhalation of life. While people mourn the passing of the shell, they remain ignorant of the upward return journey of the Soul to its divine home.

The Evils of Ignorance

Just as people remain ignorant of the return journey of the Soul at death, they also remain ignorant of the return journey of the Soul at conception and subsequent fetal development. Yes, you read that correctly. This cycle is not just a one-off coincidence. The entire planet, even the galaxy, goes through the same cycle of birth, growth, maturity, decay only to begin it all over again.

It is ignorant to believe that mortal humans never follow the same cycle throughout time immemorial. Yet, it is also ignorant to believe that your soul is part and parcel of your mortal coil. Ignorance will claim that it is “my soul,” in the same way it will profession that it is good while someone else’s soul is evil. This is possible simply because we have never ventured into how our soul develops.

As I stated previously, everyone has a Soul. Everyone thinks they have a soul which is somehow “lost” when in reality they have a conscience construct created by their ego to justify their moral values. The development of our ego is similar to a protection device which helps us to navigate the world we are born into. It determines what is good or evil for us and then places us on the side which best suits our present condition.

The Soul only knows goodness, kindness, and love. The Soul can never be “lost” or unredeemable simple because it doesn’t originate from the earthly realm. Hence, It does not have an evil nature. What we might view as being evil is simply the matter of ignorance about the Soul and Its influence on our lives.

As we grow and our ego develops, the Soul is moved further and further from the interactions of our decision-making process until one day we proclaim we have a “good soul.” From that day onward we employ our soul’s moral authority during our daily activities never knowing that the Soul awaits our recognition of Its presence. The Soul will never interfere with the goings on in our lives. It understands that we are ignorant of Its presence and Its purpose within our body.

I have written previously how grace in the activating power of God’s love. When you bring into focus how we disregard our Soul in this present incarnation, you begin to recognize grace in a whole different manner. Grace is no longer a covering for sins as much as a divine acknowledgement of our ignorance of our true godlike Self in this material sense-based world.

The Soul needs to be perceived. You will not access It through reading about it or hearing someone talk about it. You can only come to It through deep meditation and contemplation. While this might seem doable for many people it regrettably is difficult because the ego does not want to give up any ground it has taken away from the Soul’s purpose. Your ego will create excuses and delays for you when you begin to meditate.

However, there is great reward for those who persevere in the meditative quest for Self-realization. Not only do you get to meet who you’ve always been, but you also begin to understand the true purpose of the Soul in this incarnation. The deeper you go into your Soul the more ignorance dissipates and the revealing of your divine nature manifests.

To discover your Self is a choice you will make sometime in the life cycle of your Soul. How about starting today?