Theos-Talk Archives (September 1999 Message tt00181)

As we live we either improve or delay our own progress. We are, each one of us, a "spark" of the ONE DEITY. We are immortal Souls. We are always progressing towards a goal of WISDOM -- that leads to an understanding of the ONE DIVINITY -- which is present in all things. It is present as the eternal living "Life-Atoms." Each is a Soul, Man's Soul is a SELF-CONSCIOUS Soul. It can understand the Universal PRESENCE of the DEITY.

Our whole environment and Universe is the ONE DEITY. And the Laws of living are the same for all. We cannot break them or mend them as we please. But we can affect them, and the effect will make our own lives pleasant or difficult. The DEITY does not break its own universal Laws. it is always honest, fair, and true to all its many living "sparks" and "agents." "Evil" is the breaking of UNIVERSAL LAW.

At the end of each life a balance is struck of unfinished business and the balance carried by the immortal "spark"-Soul, forward, determines how our next incarnation starts.

This is an honest Universe and the ONE DEITY is honest and true to each of its uncountable "sparks." It shows no favors or special concessions to any one of them. It expects each to discover its own true DUTY and then to follow that voluntarily. If does not coerce or force anyone to do anything. But it eternally adjusts, so that the final balance is UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD or HARMONY.

The concept of Karma -- or the law that balances all causes to their effects -- is based on the fact of the UNIVERSAL LAWS of the ONE DEITY that pervades the whole Universe.

Every atom, stone, plant, animal, man is full of that great and fundamental urge. Manifestation is therefore the great Law of Progress for all beings. Every being comes into existence from the beginning of the Universe, as soon as the DEITY desires that manifestation and evolution should take place.

They live in those, and when the time for their physical death occurs, the inner SPIRITUAL ESSENCE -- which is the immortal part, a "spark" of the ONE DEITY -- leaves, rests, meditates on the experiences of the last embodiment, and then reincarnates.

In the Holy Bible you will remember that Jesus, the illumined Son of God taught this in several places, one of them is the statement that He made that St. John the Baptist, was the prophet Elijah who had been destined to "return."

As to how Karma works. As we feel about things, as we think about them and as we plan our actions, we direct an energy into making decisions. Those plans affect all the sensitive and immortal beings (or "divine sparks") around us. They impact first of all on our brains and our physical form. Every "spark-atom" that makes up our body at that time records it. The environment also records it as the radiation of thought has no limits.

It is now important to see that there are two very different forces or energy that we can develop (or "create") when we feel, think and act. The MOTIVE makes the difference between "good," and "evil." If our plans are directed towards the cooperation of the Life that Deity has given to all things in nature, as He propels them forward on their individual evolutionary path, we call them "good." We are then, in harmony with Deity and its purposes.

If our plans are selfish, directed only towards our personal benefit, towards our isolated ease and happiness; if they are careless and forgetful of the rest of the beings that are also "God's sons and daughters" in their immortal essence, we create "evil."

So the essential difference between "good," and "evil" is the fact that the choices made by us will either assist the DEITY in its original plan of allowing all beings without exception to learn the Nature of DEITY, or, they will slow down, obstruct, or pervert that great purpose.

If the whole of the DEIFIC LAW of good and progress is hurt and distorted by selfish motives, the evil so generated (whether known by others or unknown to them) reacts through the beings that are affected. The Karma (or the combined result) that is ours comes as an exact response from and through those Deity-living-sparks of LIFE.

If the ONE DEITY is omnipresent, as we started out saying, then it is also Omniscient. It KNOWS everything that happens. Not even a sparrow falls, but that fall is noted.

Everything is adjusted, so that any harmony that is disturbed raises those forces of the ONE DEITY that will restore balance. Since the UNIVERSE is indeed vast, we can understand that the enactment of the GREAT LAWS is supervised by trusted "agents:" These have been called the Archangels, Angels, Saints, Prophets, and other supervising Presences that have become perfect in their knowledge of DEITY so as to be trusted to act impartially and universally in all cases. But mankind in general does not always understand this.

This Goal of perfect fitting into the Laws of the One Deity has already been stated above. so Karma is that aspect of the ONE LAW which acts on behalf of the ONE DEITY with each of its many "sparks" and detached -- even the "least of things."

This also gives us a clue to the nature of the third aspect of DEITY Omnipotence. It is active and aware everywhere and always takes steps to see that all its many "children" receive an honest and fair reward for actions that they perform (including thoughts and feelings) and any actions that they enjoy or suffer through the agency of others.

This is the broad scope that is offered to us. We should think of it as always active. It is the closest attribute of the Universal Deity. Karma is the Life in our own "Heart."

As to its operation in future lives. The Immortal "spark" -- which is our true "Heart-Soul" inside us, the "presence of God within" -- always carries with it a record of its good and bad actions. When any one life comes to a close, the Ledger of good and evil is brought to a balance.

When that balance is not settled, it is then carried by the immortal Soul forward to its next incarnation. It determines the parents, the education, the country, and the beginning of the new life that will follow the old one.

It is only natural to suppose that many of the persons and beings with whom it has lived and formed close bonds of affection, love or hate will be reincarnated along with it, and it will find (in its new life) an environment that will be similar to the present one -- it will not be an exact continuation of the present, but will be a natural and lawful extension of it.

The process of reincarnation comes to a close when the Soul is able to balance all the disharmonies of its past and make of itself a true "Son of God". This is because it has eliminated all selfishness and separation from its mind and concepts. It has transformed itself into a Saint, and thinks and behaves like a Saint. As such, it is not capable of hurting or harming any other of God's many beings. It has become WISE in the Wisdom of God. It has become automatically harmonious and trustworthy. It is honest and true to all things and through all those things that it lives and acts with, it is honest and true to the ONE DEITY. This would be the summation of all learning. The "detached Spark" has returned to the ONE DEITY through the eternal pilgrimage of earth-life, and is now "perfected."

We always are building and controlling our own future. It is part of the responsibility of the "spark" of the DIVINITY to learn to act as an "honest and loyal and true agent" of God and do godly, honest and true things. We all control our "destiny." Our future incarnations will be shaped by the actions we do now.

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