{Separation [continued (3)]}[27th March 1987

[Redbook3:45-46][19870327:2157f]{Separation [continued (3)]}[27^th March 1987]

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We are all separated to a degree from God; but we are all free to choose the extent and the intensity of our adoption of separation. Separation has consequences for the Soul, which is our hope of immortality. Simply, Separation is not capable of Union with God, which is Immortality for the Soul; but the pure, unstained Soul and certain types of impression on it, arising out of the Separation tending towards God, are capable of Union with God. The stains of Separation vanish in the Clear Light of the Spirit.

If you are all Stain of Separation: if the way you see yourself*, the things that matter, are things of the Separation, staining the Soul – you (as you see yourself) will not achieve immortality. But if you see “yourself” as the impressions on the Soul tending towards God, and develop these and reduce the things of the Separation, you (as you see you) may achieve immortality in Union with God. The Soul is the vehicle: the Spirit is the Driver: you are the passenger, not the driver!

Inward separation is reflected in outward separation: separation from spouse, from children (or parents), from neighbours, all tend to reflect inward separation. I am not necessarily talking about geographical outward separation: time in the wilderness may be essential. We are often most intensely separated from those to whom we are geographically closest.

All separations are part of the Great Separation. This is why the state of society is worrying: not just because of the suffering inflicted by crime, exploitation, and other anti-social behaviour, and the danger to useful organisation; but because of the extreme danger to the prospects of 'personal' immortality of those perpetrators who, by living out the Separation so intensely in their own persons, make their own persons incapable of immortality through Union with God. As below, so above.

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*This is not a subjective test: you have to see yourself as you really are. It is what you are that counts. <890925>

[But (having read this several times) I think the point of it is that each Individual's concept of himself is the way he sees himself, the things in him that he thinks matter in defining his identity; what happens to these, which is indeed terrifyingly objective, defines how he sees what happens to him. Concepts such as “God”, “Spirit” and “Soul” are defined elsewhere.

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